1. The love heart represents the human relationships that are key to the film - The film is driven by how its character feel about each other and without that element the film would have no emotional impact or way to move its audience. If you look at the most successful action franchises out there, Indiana Jones, James Bond, The Dark Knight, Jurassic Park etc. they all take time to represent often quite complicated, emotional relationships between their characters as it deepens the empathy  that the audience feels for them and therefore raises the stakes when that character is put in jeopardy.
2. The second image represents the technological element of the film. When you ask a child what they like about spy films, they will often say the gadgets. As my film has a far, far smaller budget than the Bond films for example, I won't be able to have such complicated equipment. However I feel that this is a genre convention that it is important to uphold and so will be showing my characters using things like earpieces and tracking devices.
3. The explosion represents the action element of the film, what people like about action films is their ability to get the audience's hearts racing with thrilling and complicated action sequences. As I am only filming the trailer I most likely won't end up showing any sequences I film in full, however I plan on filming at least two full sequences which I can the cut up in the editing process to make the trailer more ambiguous. It is important that I keep this ambiguity because my questionnaire showed that people don't like it when a trailer shows too much of the film.
4. I wish to subvert the stereotype of females in action films only being there for eye candy, while yes I believe that the female characters can use their femininity as a weapon and do show one of my characters doing that, I also feel that women in this genre need to be shown in far more complexity and variety. As a result I have an incredibly female led cast and lots of different personalities to showcase the potential gains of giving women more of a role in the genre.
5. The laughing children shows that I want my film to be witty. Often action films have their leads quipping witty one liners and, as my questionnaire showed, I am not alone in enjoying this convention. It can give relief from the intensity of action sequences and endear characters to the audience, there is a reason why Tyrion Lannister is such a popular character after all.

You have not created any posts in December - remember your Research and Planning needs to be completed by Christmas.

1) Explain your film trailer - own film treatment

2) Explain what has influenced your production

3) Moodboard

4) Representation of the characters in your film - are they stereotypical or not

5) Audience Research and Profiling

6) Online Tutorials to help you with your filming and editing - explain the techniques you have learnt

7) Soundtrack Research - non-copyright music - explain whether it is conventional and why you chose the music

8) Opening titles - research titles in the same genre - analyse what is effective about the titles, practise creating your own titles and evaluate these

9) Script

10) Animatic storyboard

1. What sort of locations do you expect to see in action/spy films?

• Busy cities, train stations, busy roads, sciency places
• Other countries especially USA or Russia, urban settings
• Business districts, night times settings, slums, lawless places

2. What characteristics do you like to see in action/spy film protagonists?

• Blunt, funny, dark side
• Intelligent, ruthless, attractive
• Funny, witty, dark side

3. What is your favourite action/spy film and why?

• James Bond or Bourne Films
• Skyfall - good music, or Alien - Strong female lead,no love interest
• Taken, Taken 2, Spy Kids

4 .How old are you?



5.  What gender are you?



6. Do you watch this genre of film regularly? (explain why or why not)

• Sometimes, I like action films and have watched so spy films.
• No, I tend to prefer less action based films.
• No, I don't really watch films often.

7. What age did you first start watching this genre of film?

• Very young
• 8-10
• 10

8. What do you expect to see in an action/spy film trailer?

• Lots of action, building suspense
• Fight scenes, witty dialogue,some plot exposition, mystery, love interest
• Witty one liner, action, hints of a sexual scene

9. What would you like to see in an action /spy film trailer?

• Same as above
• More witty dialogue, less plot exposition, more mystery, fight scenes
• hints of a sexual scene

10. What most draws you to a trailer?


11. What sort of music would you like to hear in and action/spy film trailer?

• Dramatic, loud, building suspense
• suspense, fast, funk/rock style
• Dramatic scores, epic rap song

12. What would you least like to see in an action/spy film trailer?

• Boring things, showing too much of one scene
• giving away too much plot, not enough action
• plot spoilers, the climax to a climactic scene

Beccy - 

1. What sort of locations do you expect to see in action/spy films?

2. What characteristics do you like to see in action/spy film protagonists?

3. What is your favourite action/spy film and why?

4 .How old are you?

5.  What gender are you?

6. Do you watch this genre of film regularly? (explain why or why not)

7. What age did you first start watching this genre of film?

8. What do you expect to see in an action/spy film trailer?

9. What would you like to see in an action /spy film trailer?

10. What most draws you to a trailer?

a) Location shots
b) Hints to the plot
c) Character introductions
d) Action scenes

11. What sort of music would you like to hear in and action/spy film trailer?

12. What would you least like to see in an action/spy film trailer?

Well done Katy, you have several key ideas for your film trailer so far and have considered the setting, costumes and tag lines. Try and complete the following posts this week: