preliminary - little red riding hood
For a preliminary task we made a trailer for the storyline of Little Red Riding Hood. We had to decide the genre we were going to use, make storyboards, film it and edit it all within the time space of a week. Furthermore, we had to make sure our trailer incorporated at least two theory's of the 4 theorists we had studied. Below you can see our progression and our work towards the final trailer, as well as being able to view the final product.
Planning
Members of Group:
Rachel Langford
Annie Bachman
Mikail Parmak
Emily Cropley
Brief:
Rachel Langford
Annie Bachman
Mikail Parmak
Emily Cropley
Brief:
- Create a trailer for a fairy tale with a specific genre.
- The trailer has to be 1 minute long.
- Has to include the top 5 ingredients for a trailer and have a USP.
- Has to involve Todorov and The Binary Opposition Theory.
Initial thoughts
- Draft Storyboard (Annie)
- Add shot types and length of shots (Annie)
- Draft script (Emily, Mikail)
- Link script to storyboard (Emily, Mikail)
- Find music and add to storyboard (Rachel)
- Call list - when, where, props, actors, camera, scripts, directing, filming (Rachel)
Basic idea - protagonist wolf
Genre - Rom-Con
Basic storyline - Wolf (nickname, really an outcast not an actual wolf, similar idea to the Grinch), falls in love with Little Red Riding Hood and follows her around. POV from Wolf.
Ideas for the trailer:
- See wolf watching Red Riding Hood
- Twilight cliché wood
scene? - See Red bumping into wolf
- Red Riding
Hood - popular friend - Wolf - not an actual wolf, his nickname,
he's an outcast, 'Grinch' theme, to reflect his difference to others not how he
looks - Red walking to grandma through the
woods
Storyboard
call list
Filming Locations:
Filming Times:
Props:
Equipment:
Scripts:
Roles:
- Woods - Horton Country Park
- Kingston - Reds popular scene
- House - Friends house
Filming Times:
- Woods - Wednesday 2nd July
- House - Wednesday 2nd July
- Kingston - Thursday 3rd July
Props:
- Red dress x2
- Basket/ case
- T-shirt and Jeans
Equipment:
- Camera
- Stand
- Microphone
- Camera Case
- Memory Card
- Camera/ Microphone Battery
Scripts:
- Copies of script
- Storyboard
Roles:
- Little Red Riding Hood - Rachel Langford
- Wolf - Mikail
Parmak - Red's Friends - Luisa Horton, Samantha Soale and Hannah
Jordan - Red's Mum - Emily Cropley
- Camera - Annie
Bachman - Microphone - Annie Bachman
- Make Up - Samantha
Soale - Face Paint - Emily Cropley, Annie Bachman, Rachel
Langford - Editing - Emily Cropley, Annie Bachman, Rachel
Langford, Mikail Parmak
Final product
Evaluation
- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products? - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
- What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
- Our media product uses the conventions of a rom-com, for example the
cheesy slo-mo hair flick and soundtrack. Our product develops conventions by
having it from the perspective of the wolf. We challenged conventions by
painting on a wolf's face, even though in this adaptation the wolf isn't
physically a wolf but that is just his nickname. It was used to emphasize him
being an outcast (similar to the Grinch). - We decided to do a teen rom-com, so we represent that social group by using that particular age group and using the storyline of a boy chasing a girl which always interests the girl gender.
- TV channels and social networks as this is where our audience will be found. It is also the most appropriate place to show our trailer.
WWW
- the filming -> having the right equipment, actors, costumes, props in the right places for filming
- sticking to a good time schedule
- working well as a group, having everyone contribute
EBI
- the editing to be completed only once, look after our product, not to lose parts
- make sure the whole group makes decisions about certain things
- decide before we film on the specific locations, for example, the benches by the church in Kingston rather than just Kingston so we use our time more efficiently on the day
What have you learnt from this experience?
How to use the equipment correctly, how the technologies work such as Premiere Pro, and how to transfer files from a camera to a computer.