Magazine Cover

More Editing

After putting up what we had of the trailer so far, we got feedback saying we needed to make the story more clear, so we decided to look at trying out putting titles over some of the footage, heres a small screen shot of the work so far, we have decided to go for 'Have you ever been on a trip to hell?' to symbolise the journey of addicts on drugs. I was then thinking, making putting 'I have' after to make it more fitting as this story is of a girl trying to get out of drugs but it all going wrong. I also thought it might work because it makes it more personal and like you are actually following her story, rather than just another random story.

Requiem for a Dream

Synopsis:

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.- Found of IMDB

I decided to watch 'Requiem for a Dream' as it seems to link with the trailer I am making for Media. As it is all to do with taking drugs and the effect on different people. In the film 'Requiem for a Dream' we are mainly shown the affects on a young couple in love and how they slowly deteriorate until it gets to the stage where Marion Silver has to stoop to selling her body to get enough money to get the drugs she needs while Harry Goldfarb has to go all over the country to get the drugs he needs and ends up getting an infection so he cannot return to his home where Marion is waiting for him. It also shows the effects on the mother who is obsessed with getting on a TV show, she turns to a dieting pill that makes her start to go insane and she ends up in hospital while they try and help her. It also follows the life of Harry's friend Tyrone C. Love, who ended up in prison with Harry due to being caught.

Our trailer uses extracts from this film as we include things like showing the effects of drugs with the couple happy and messing around, along with a more violent side where the couple is arguing and shouting at each other and the fact that both our trailer and the film seem to be more of a documentary of the lives rather than a straight up film. However unlike the film we have the added extra of the trailer we are making being a horror with deaths. Personally I found the whole trailer extremely confusing as you never really know what's going on or where the story is going to go because it seems to be a tangled web of the messed up lives of the people involved. All ending with tragedy for each character whether that's hospital, prison or being forced into a life of entertaining men to get enough money to pay for the drugs.

Although I didn't particularly like the film, as I felt it was way too confusing and actually gave me a headache watching it because there was so much happening all the time and it just got extremely confusing. I did still think it showed the affects of drugs well, and made the audience feel as though they where the ones doing drugs too.

Poster

We wanted to make a mysterious looking poster for the trailer so that you couldn't really tell a lot about the image, to create more intrigue into who the two characters are. The way it has been done suggests horror as they are in a dark tunnel with one person running away and the the person having caught them and is trying to drag them back.

Company Logo

We decided to change out company logo as we thought it would be more interesting and would stand out a little more. All copyright of the image goes to JustWithIt on deviantart.

Story board

Synopsis for new trailer.

What happens when the first person you trust turns on you? Eleanor (Ellie Daligan) is about to find out, after she and her boyfriend Hunter (Wayne Kanaris-Brady) have spent eighteen months in a dark room doing drugs together and having fun. Eleanor finally realises  what she is doing and how its affecting her life. Hunter, seeing her trying to get out of the drugs lifestyle after he continuously tries to force her to do drugs she decides she's has enough, with encouragement from her friends she manages to escape... but has she also escaped the hands of Hunter? In a rage Hunter goes after her friends and her to seek revenge on those who did him wrong.