'Dreamz in the Hood' Trailer: Final Draft

DREAMZ IN THE HOOD draft 3 from Media @ St. Bons on Vimeo.

Dreamz in the Hood: Draft 4

Dreamz in the Hood Trailer: Draft 3

final final dreamz of the hood trailer redone from Media @ St. Bons on Vimeo.

Voice Over Edit

In some of our scenes especially at the start of our trailers where we have one of our characters hurt after being attacked, there was a problem because we had dialogue and the trailer introduction track playing at the same time. We used a programme called 'Audacity' which allows you to lower or increase the voices of your characters. In our situation we increases the voices of our characters and then decreased the introduction track while on after effects.

Colour Pallet Process

Once you see the trailer, you will notice the black and white colour pallet in the first few shots. This was done to portray all the times our protagonist, Remel, has bad intentions or to show his troubled environment.

1.Go to edit > Preference > General

2.Check 'use system colour picker' option

3.Now you will get a selection of colour pallets as you can see on the final image.

Introduction Origin and Development

The original logo we had chosen was still the logo we wanted to keep however the logo itself wasn't big enough so we had to think of a plan B. We decided to surf the internet and look for a wheel and use photoshop to change it to the colour black which is what you see in image 2. Image 3 was basically the animation process on the left using after effects. This was vital to the introduction of our trailer. By using the search bar you can find and apply effects and presets. Then you go to effects and select an effect you like via the various features available in After Effects. Although the rendering process took really long once we had finished the animation process, the end product was worthwhile. This was largely based to getting key frames and timing to perfection.

Brick Wall Origin

There's a sequence in the trailer whereby the audience will encounter a brick wall with the cast names on it. We chose a brick wall to represent the hood and usually brick walls are used in the hood for graffiti so our names was basically the graffiti. We got the image from the internet and we just did a few size changes and slanted the image a bit using photoshop cs4.

Dreamz in the Hood Trailer: Draft 2

TRAILER HALF WAY from Media @ St. Bons on Vimeo.

Here we are at the half way stage of our trailer, Just needs a little editing here and there in terms of more dialog footage but at this stage, we are track on what we are trying to portray.

Dreamz in the Hood Trailer: Draft 1

Realist productions from Media @ St. Bons on Vimeo.

This is the first draft of our trailer, which we intend to use as a guideline in further production of our actual trailer. We will collect feedback and try and improve on areas we lacked in.

Casting

Ramel, played by Sean Okpa – Protagonist - Perfect actor for the main role has good knowledge of the social realism genre conventions. He has a big decision to make, go to the talent show or go and back his boys that need his help. What does he chose? His hood reputation or his passion.

Femi, played by Solomon Ssenyonga & Keiron, played by Kortney Hudson – Boy with no ambition. Dragging Seans character into the wrong path. Back Sean’s character with his music but they are also heavily involved in the hood life and not intentionally knock Sean off the right path, or does he?

Stacey, played by Abena Amoako – 'Ramels' girlfriend who wants him to leave the life he lives and focus on his dream to become a rapper so that they both have a good future

Adam Deacon – A well known British actor; mainly known for his roles in British social realism films such as Kidulthood, Adulthood and Shank. Adam is very experienced in playing these particular roles because he himself came from urban London; he is a young actor and can act out various roles.

Ashley Walters – Known for his roles in Bullet Boy, Top Boy and even 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. Ashley also came from Hackney which is known for being a rough area. So Ashley finds joy in acting in social realism films which explore themes of his past.

Noel Clark – Noel Clark would be a great asset to our cast as we would get a three in one man who directs acts and writes scripts. Noel is most known for his roles in ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Adulthood’. Noel also known for his roles in 'Auf Wiedersehen', Pet and well-loved British Drama ‘Doctor Who’.

We have been inspired by these actors and wish to portray similar characterizations when acting in our trailer.

Script & Voice Over Treatment

*Sound track plays*

*After Kieron has been stabbed* 

Femi: Ay Kieron are you alright?

Kieron: Yeah bro I'm fine, go catch  Rymel, go catch Rymel.

*sound fades to silence*

*New soundtrack plays in background*

Kia: Rymel are you alright?

Rymel: How can I  be alright when them paigons touched Kieron?

Kia: Are you still going to do the talent show?

Rymel: I'm not trying to hear the talent show right now, I want revenge.

Possible Voice over..

From where they never make it, Realist Productions brings you the hard hitting, controversy riddled, drama of three friends, two paths and one girlfriend. Who are all Dreaming beyond the hood but in different ways..

Dreamz In The Hood, coming to a Cinema near you!

Importing of Footage

We imported the footage on After Effects and worked on constructing our trailer. After importing our footage, we consulted our animated story board to make our trailer as best and as structured as possible.
Importing our footage was simple enough as we filmed using a digital camera and through the advances in technology we were able to move the footage from the camera using a single wire.

Created by Kortney Hudson

Working Titles in Trailers

Here we see a mixture of working titles from social realist film trailers below. The use of different fonts and sizes which really do come out towards the screen is something the group will try to do. The first picture is a sneak preview of the trailer being made and how the group has tried to add working titles.
Created by Solomon Ssenyonga

These are all examples of working titles in Social Realism films we felt would be beneficial to analyse in order to develop our own. From these selected titles, it can be detected that the background in which they are displayed are of a plain and dark colour palette. I assume this is to enhance the effect of the title and to make sure that this stands out to the audience rather than being distracted from other features such as busy backgrounds.

We are also created our trailer on a low production budget, as of many other social realism films and so it is not necessarily expected of us to create an exaggerated title which wont particularly suit our genre.

Created by Abena Amoako

Animated Story Board Feedback

We gained some feedback from our draft of the animated story board our feedback included things such as:

• The changing between the two sound tracks we used - Class mates advised us to try and create a blend between the two which will make the change in tune less obvious to the audience and generally make it sound much smoother.

• Another point given to us was to alter the pace and timing on some of the images included on our story board - This was because it seemed as if some of our images were crammed in and did not give the audience enough time to view, understand and follow the narrative of our trailer.

• We were advised to add some sound effects if possible - which would help the audience understand the narrative and what is going on within the trailer.

• We were complimented on our use of titles, at the beginning middle and end of our trailer - this also helped establish the genre, narrative and characters within the trailer. Titles are also a common theme within the Social Realism film genre.

• We were also complimented on the narrative of our trailer - as it was put across clearly to our audience through the use a variety of images.

Call Sheet

SHOOTING SCHEDULE:

Saturday 30th  November 

10:00-12:00

Shoot opening scene including:

• Ramel on the balcony of his estate
• Additional establishing shots of his estate
• 'Drug Deal' with extra Salliah
• Passing of the bag with Femi and Ramel
• Ramel on train

Saturday 7th December

• Shooting Motorway Scene
• Car scene including Ramel and Kieron

Saturday 28th Decemeber

• Shooting Estate deal with extras

Saturday 4th January

Shooting park scene including:

• Ramel, Femi and Kieron stealing bike from extra's 
• Ramel, Femi and Kieron chatting in park
• Walking round the Estate with Ramel and Stacey

Monday 6th January

• "Out of Area Shoot" including Femi and Kyle

Friday 10th January

Shooting all scenes including:

• Ramel in kitchen looking at knife
• Ramel in kitchen looking for food
• Ramel and Stacey in Ramel's home
• Ramel walking away from Stacey

Friday 17th January 

• Ramel in studio

Monday 20th January

• Playground scene including Ramel, Femi and Keiron

Created by Abena Amoako

Animated Storyboard

This is our first version of storyboard, with mixed images with some drawn and some found images because i could not find all of the images online.

These images are a resemblance of how we want our trailer to eventually turn out, we understand that it will change according to the locations and actors available to us.


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Soundtrack Research

In this post you will find information about the type of music that will be used in our trailer. We carefully selected music that is affiliated with the genre of our trailer, such as Grime/UK rap which is a popular music genre that is listened to in  the South East of England.

Music in Existing Social Realism Films
Adulthood Trailer 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhrJBUMxNMQ

The track played in the adulthood trailer is from a well known UK artist that goes by the name of 'Bashy' with his huge fan base it attracted even the people that are not particularly fans of social realist films to go and watch adulthood in the cinemas simply due to Adulthood's usage of star marketing.

SKET Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sc3SaZy4n8

In this trailer they use a UK Artist named 'Ghetts' who is well known by the youths in London. 'Ghetts' makes grime music which is a common genre played in social realist films because the lyrics of hardship normally relate to the characters lifestyles. The reason why the grime genre is so popular in social realism films is because of the the target audience for most social realism films are normally from 15-25  in London, and grime attracts people form that age group.

Possible Artists We May Feature

• Mover
• Nines
• K.koke
• Shaks Corleon
• Joe Black
• Chipmunk
• Skepta
• Squeeks

Top 3 Selected Tracks

• Nines - My Hood
• Mover ft future 1 - Where do I go
• Joe Black -  Real N*gga Music

Completed by Sean Okpa

Edited by Abena Amoako

Filming Locations

We would like our trailer to begin with our protagonist character overlooking his city or neighborhood.  We would like this establishing shot to be taken from a high stand point therefore we want to go to a story block as it gives us a good view of the area. We would then take the shot from behind the protagonist to get a third person point of view.

We also aim to film within the estate that Ramel lives in. Actively walking or playing with his mates. From this our audience will be able to see Ramel's involvement in his community (not a positive one) and therefore be able to present his environment as one that he should aim to escape from. We felt we could achieve this with shots of parks and alley ways where we can show Ramel getting up to mischief. 

Our main character Ramel will find a leaflet for a talent show on a train. Because Ramel will be alone in this shot, our audience will be able to identify the emotions of this character without the interference of the other characters. It is also another way to establish the setting to our audience.

We will be shooting a scene in the home of ‘Ramel’, with his girlfriend as here we can show the characters in their comfortable environment to try and get a sense of both Ramel and Stacey's relationship. This scene will be where the climax starts off and ‘Ramel’ is left with decision of whether to take part in his talent show or meet up with his friends. 

One scene will be shot at a studio. We wished to present our protagonist as an aspiring rapper and therefore wanted to show him in his element. By doing this we feel that we would be further anchoring the musical element of the trailer and give the audience the opportunity to see Ramels talent and then why this talent show would be important to him.

We intend to film in the playground of characters (Ramel, Femi and Kieron) as we can present them in  a playful way so our audience can gain insight into the personality of each character when they are together as well as the influence they each have on one another.

Created by Abena Amoako