Practical Production Evaluation – 'Final Beat'

For my practical production i worked in a group of three including myself. I worked with Juggy and Sundeep and produced a film trailer for a film called 'Final Beat'. Our main aim was to make the trailer look as devastation as possible by using shots that attract and pull in the audience to produce tension. We chose to use the title 'Final Beat' as it was prior to our practical production as it refers to the final beat the individual produced, the beat which is related to the police boundary and the last beat spoken from the heart, these will be obstacles or problem the character will come across, we have some a glimpse of the obstacles within our trailer. Through out our whole production, we have used the phrase 'beat' to connote more than one meaning, this will help entice our audience to feel the tension throughout the trailer, which will provoke our target audience to watch the actual film.


When we began to breach the planning stage for our practical production, we decided to spread each role evenly through the group in order for us to gain experience in each section, as we all have strengths and weaknesses, and working evenly spread can help us correct each other or combine all our strengths and ideas to conclude with the ultimate strength to include to our production, all three of us would be then satisfied with the choice. However, we then realized that it was based on who ever was available, but we still shared equal input. We still had responsibilities, of which some where the same, my major responsibility was to produce the soundtrack in time for us to use, I decided to make this whilst we were editing. In editing we all took part by sharing ideas and giving equal satisfaction about the sequence chosen. Each of us had different experiences in editing style for example, Sundeep had experience in a film trailer, myself and Juggy had experience in producing a music video. The editing conventions of a film trailer is fast pacing, which is similar to a music video.


The opening of our film trailer is a sequence which is put their to produce tension towards the audience, and leave enigma that the audience find left unanswered. This sequence gives away the genre of the film, by the use of sound affects such as the gun shot, and the police sirens. The most effective sound effect is the heart beat which gradually increases in speed, this equips and prepares the audience for the enigmatic sequence. The purpose of this sequence is a flashback, which the audience must focus on, as the out come is at the beginning rather than the end. This is a unique technique as we conclude with end end a the beginning rather than the end. We used Todorov's theory but we rearranged the sequence to show the disequilibrium in the opening of the film trailer.


Towards the end of the film trailer we included a fast montage sequence, to show a typical film trailer convention. The fast montage sequence is used wisely in a specific time where the soundtrack suit the type of moving image, the soundtrack give it more of the tragedy as the music is parallel to the sequence. The typical convention normally used within a film trailer is a voice over, but we decided not to use a voice over, as we had decided to make the film trailer seem more authentic and make it more of a art house film. We only focused on using the soundtracks which is non-diegetic and diegetic sound such as the police sirens and the actual sound of some of the sequences. We chose to use the diegetic sound of the sequence as the words used mean something and is useful information to develop a storyline within the audience's mind.


After studying 'Bowling for Columbine in Module 2' I was inspired by the anti gun society who believe that guns kill. This gave the team an idea about using gun violence within our film trailer. Bowling For Columbine was based in the USA, we wanted to produce a tragic like bowling for columbine, but we focused to do this in the UK in a form of a film trailer. We focused more on the best shots to produce the gun killing, this is why we chose to put the sequence of the dead body at the start, as we want the enigmas to relate on how the individual got there in this position and what had done it? We show the prop of the gun right at the end of a still image of one of the characters holding the gun, so the audience focus on the prop of the gun and think it is not only to protect but also kill. We didn't only focus on the prop of the gun but also the the microphone. This prop is important as this is the whole reason on why this disequilibrium was the outcome. We hoping to show that the new equilibrium can be formed by the imagination of the audience, as we don't want them to live a life nest to a gun.


We do this by focusing the whole trailer on our primary audience. The primary audience is revealed by the characteristics of the each character within the film, the characters aim at the same age group of around 16+ but the whole primary age group is 12-21. the socio-economics group would be C1 C2 as we want to attract most of the audience as possible. These issues of fighting, passion of music etc are likely to run through the childhood of these type workers. By studying 'Bullet Boy' in module 2 we decided to follow the education purpose of the whole film, we wanted to sponsor our film by BBC to also educate about the outcome of gun crime.
The education purpose would help us produce our narrative as we want the new equilibrium to be formed by the audience themselves from watching the film trailer.


To conclude with the overall production, 'Final Beat' it shown as a art-house film in a purpose to educate. The entertainment throughout the film is the key to entice the audience to watch the film. We seem to show the typical stereotype youth within th year 2000 and hope to send a message across of the mistake made within the trailer.

By RสJ.E$

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