Title Attempt #4

Our fourth attempt at titles was what we deemed to be the most successful out of our titles. We liked the bold styling of the title as it is eye-catching to the audience, simple but effective as a whole. We decided that an animation would be ideal as the bullet holes we incorporated add to the action element of the film as the audience can automatically assume its genre and so would be more intrigued to watch it.

Title Attempt #3

The third attempt at a movie title involved the prominence of the title as the main feature of the title. The styling was more of a western style which we believed would not suit the conventions of the action spy genre. Ultimately we liked the bold style of the writing but not the elements which cut into the words so we would have to conform to the expectations of our designated genre.

Title Attempt #2

Our second attempt at a title mainly revolved around the idea that we would focus heavily on technological aspects of the trailer. This included the idea of a cyber battle or some sort of cyber attack to our supposed spy organisation through the use of a computer, phone or other such device. The end of the title was influenced by bitcoin; the online currency which was a primary idea for our trailer as an incentive to the bad guys. The title was going to dissolve into the many circles to help highlight the prominent role of technology in the trailer.

Primary Shots Used in the Syndicate

establishing shot - of London and Dubai in the beginning
shot - reverse shot - between bill and conor as well as bill and matt
vertical panning - of Dubai in the establishing shot
horizontal panning - of the chase scene
long shot - of the major characters
medium shot - of the characters portrayed
close up - of bill in the buildup
over the shoulder shot - of matt in the beginning
low angle shot - of zoey in the montage
high angle shot - of bill and matt in the fight scene
arc shot - between matt and bill in their fight scene
birds eye view - of bill at times

Production Company Logo

Triptic Films is the made up production company that we created for our AS production and we thought it was appropriate to use it again for our A2 production.
The image is of the houses of Parliament with the Big Ben clock tower at the end. I have made the image darker and almost black and white to suite the action genre as it is a well known location and the darker image could suggest it could be in danger which conforms to the action/thriller genre.

Influences on Production

We had various influences on our trailer as we wanted to incorporate the necessary elements you would expect to see in an action or thriller movie trailer to help. At the start of our trailer we want the main feature to help portray the plot of our movie and you would often assume a strong masculine voice to be incorporated  into an action movie. We want to ensure that we increase the pace of the trailer accordingly to help fit the mood and the tension should increase as the trailer develops to add emphasis onto the plot.

One of the major features in our trailer will be the character portrayals and relationships they have with eachother. We want to ensure that through relevant dialogue the audience can relate to the characters and their individual stories. You can see these relations between characters in movies like mission impossible or skyfall where you know who the characters are but they represent both the good and bad sides and contrasts the characteristics of the characters against eachother.

Sound Research

Music isn't the only copyright free sound we will need for our film; we will also need sound effects. Like the music, we want the sound effects to be subtle and not immediately noticeable.

The first sound effect we want is a quiet ambient noise that plays during the 'IFM Studios' image.This is simply to add sound to an otherwise needlessly silent part, and also makes it seem more professional.

Even though this year we have changed the logo of our production company to better suit the interests of the group we are still looking for some sort of background sound to make sure the opening to the trailer isn't silent. This is essential in a trailer as there needs to be constant sound whether or not that is music or other non diagetic sound such as the implementation of a sound such as a gunshot after the trailer has been filmed. This sort of sound is essential in the editing part of the trailer, we want the trailer to attract maximum attention and in order to do this we need there to be a constant running theme or sound.

End credit research

We are looking to include these sort of end credits in our trailer, we want it to look professional like these trailers have but keeps the simplicity it needs as many people aren't really interested in who the film is made by

This end credit is very much what we are looking for, it is plain and simple and the black is perfect to not draw attention away from the rest of the credits, the white credits contradict the black background well in order to bring attention to the people who made the film.

The Godzilla trailer is less like what we want as the red background grabs the attention really well, the fact that the movie is to do with radioactivity helps the red to blend in really well, As for our film it is not about anything associated with the colour red and therefore we would look for something more plain

These credits are also like the one we are looking for, they are basic but yet the most important people involved are highlighted in bold,the positions of the most important people are also highlighted but are not as eye catching as the names are what can drag people in, for example the name of a director can draw an audience.