analysis of Cyberbully

CyberBully Trailer

After watching the trailer to CyberBully I have made a timeline of what happens throughout. By looking at this I can get an idea of what type of music I should use and to give me ideas on the different clips I could include.

I like this trailer because I think it fits in with my idea quite well. Because of this I can get a lot of inspiration from it. I think I am going to use similar style clips in my trailer as well as music that sets a similar mood.

Making the music

As we couldnt use music that had already been made by artists we have made our own music. To do this I have used Garage Band. This piece of software allows you to create music using the different instuments provided. To create this I have used the different instruments and dragged them onto the tracks. Here I was able to arrange the music in the composition I wanted. I think the music I have made works well with the storyline. However some of it could be seen as too repetitive.

trailer transcript

 

Upbeat music

Institution

(voice over)

Life was going great for me,  I had just started sixth form and enjoying time with my friends

Walking through school gates talking and laughing (cross dissolves)

Hanging out at park

Talking with friends

Walking down the street

Sitting with friends at lunch

Pause music

(voice over)

But then everything changed

Fast, tense music

close up of phone

I know your secret

Close up of face to show expression

Looks around at friends

I need to speak to you!

Shows friend message

I promise I told no one

Well you are the only one I told

*at home* *text messages/ facebook messages/ phone calls

I know what you are

What do you want from me

You're a disgrace to your family

A disgrace to your religion

Coward

Its unnatural

Tense slowed down music

Shows scenes of friend trying to comfort her

Telling her she wants to help her that she is there for her

font analysis

title ideas

As we now have a new storyline for our film trailer, as a group we have discussed different title ideas that could fit the storyline. These are some of our ideas:

Unexpected

Complex                /

In a moment

Kept secret           //////

Betrayed

Complications     //

Misunderstood  //

After collecting audience feedback we have decided that 'Kept Secret' will be the name of our trailer. This relates to our trailer as it is about a girl who is keeping something secret.

Planning our trailer

Everything was going great for sixth form student Sahmeek until one day someone finds out her secret that she is gay. Sahmeek comes from an Islamic background which is why she had kept this secret. She confronts her friend Sara who was the only person who knew her secret. From this point she starts being bullied by people she though were here friends and she gets cyberbullied also. Once the bullying gets too much for Sahmeek she is faced with the option of the long process of counselling or ending her life. What will she do?

storyline

After thinking of different ideas for our new storyline for the trailer we have come up with this idea:
 

When girl 1 and girl 2 moved to secondary school they became friends with a group of girls. When girl 2 tells her friends that she is gay they start to pick on her pushing her out of group. Girls 1 evidently joins the bulling to fit in with her friends. This bullying carries on through out her school life outside of school. A few years later girl 2 comes across her childhood friend and high school bully (girl 1) and decides its time to confront her. She eventually finds out that girl 1 is also gay, when she saw how her friends reacted when girl 2 had told them she was scared to tell them herself so instead of being bullied she decided to join the bullies.

Change of storyline

After our research and planning for our original storyline we started having problems with filming. It took a while for us to find people, a male actor, to agree to act in our trailer. However because of time diffulcuties with finding times and days that everyone could do we had to result in changing our storyline. Together we have come up with different ideas where we can just use female actors in the trailer.

Animatic

This is our animatic. We have used still images to work out how we are going to edit our film. Also what camera angles we will use and to get an idea of how long we will have each shot. I think the timing of each scene has worked well because we have managed to time each scene to make it fit in the overall time needed. To make sure that these times are kept throughout our filming we will need to plan each scene properly. The titles I have used throughout the animatic has worked well. I think this because the colours and font fits in with the genre of our trailer. When I was editing this on final cut I had some problems with adding transitions in. They didn't always fit in the right places making it harder to get the transitions to be at the right size. If I was to create this again I could draw out the scenes in every camera angle we are planning to use. This would help to visualise the final trailer.