Research Popular Camera Angles and Shots

One of my roles in my group was to research into conventional camera shots and angles used in British Film Dramas. Here is what I found:

Location Moodboard

Production Schedule

Storyboards of our Trailer

After discussing what narrative we would use for our film, comparing each of our individual narratives and combining ideas that we thought were quite good, we than started to create a storyboard around it showing camera shots, angles, editing and the types of lighting we would use. It is imperative that we follow this order when filming as the trailer will be laid out in non chronological order, and if we make one  mistake it could confuse our audience.

Change of BBFC rating for our film

Initially we had decided that the rating of our film would be 18, due to it being a popular BBFC rating for films in the Britsh Film Drama genre, however we have decided to change this to an age 15 rating instead. The reason for this is that we would like to reach a wider audience, and a lower rating will allow this and since more and more youths are exposed to adult material at a younger age the majority of the viewers will understand and relate to the content in our trailer. Also, we have chnaged this due to the ages of members in our group not being that of the 18 rating themself , which goes against the purpose of the rating itself.

Group Roles

To make the production process a lot easier on our group  we have delegated certain jobs we must each complete, to gather the knowledge we need to create a trailer of high quality.

Me: camera shots & editing

James Scott: Props & lighting

Sam Warren: Location & Costume

I will be looking at past British film Dramas and the popular shots and camera angels used in them to give me and my group an idea if what we could include in our trailer, whether we should follow all of the conventions or not. I will take some test shots that could potentially be used in our trailer and discuss the usefulness of them in the type of trailer we wish to do, whether it is in chronological order or not. For the edititing, I will look over the texts I have already analysed again and list the transitions used and the effectiveness of suitable ones for our narrative.

By spreading out the responsibilities this will make the workload more manageable and less stressful as we all have a clear idea of what we are supposed to be doing. This will also make our ideas more coordinated and aimed when it comes to sharing ideas and creating the trailer.

Production Company

We have decided upon Film4 as our production company due to their past success with low budget films, specifically British Film Dramas like: East is East, London Kills Me, Nowhere Boy.

Since most of the films produced by this company go unknown and are created with very little money, it makes them ideal for our film, with it being independently made. By choosing a more low key production company it gives us the ability to entice the viewers that have more respect for quality films produced using short cuts or alternative creative methods whilst maintaining the appearance of professionalism.



Background of Film 4

It is a British television channel only available in the United Kingdom, owned by the Channel Four TV corporations. The channel was created in 1982 but has been off and on in past years. It is available on Freeview for 'free', meaning it reaches a larger quantity of the population than say films on Sky Movies. This extremely beneficial as some people may be restricted to watching films on this channel and come across our film by accident, find out that they like it and then spread the word of it to friends, expanding our audience. There is also a high definition version of the channel that viewers must pay for improving the reputation of our film, making it seem more prestigious as well as generating more money for the film as people who have the channel are paying more to see it. This channel is also available in Republic of Ireland and in Switzerland further broadening our films reach. The channel frequently has themed nights based around specific actors or genres and this could be very beneficial to us of we release the film when one of these nights or weeks occur that are relevant to the British Film Drama genre.