Research and Planning: Updated Magazine

Research and Planning: Film Trailer

Research and Planning: Todays Progress

Today, I have created the distribution company logo so that we can include it within our film trailer and my film poster. 

I have looked at the audience feedback I received on facebook and twitter for my poster and changed certain elements for example I made sure both the title and tag line were the same colour red, I made the eye bigger, changed the SteelTongs font to a shade of grey so it doesn't draw attention away from other areas.

Research and Planning: More Footage

This is some more unedited footage that me and Alice filmed, these were some shots that we needed to get to add into our montage scene in the trailer.

Research and Planning: Film Trailer Edited

This is the latest trailer editing that me and Alice have done, we have added more sound.

Research and Planning: Poster Social Network Feedback

I have posted an image of my film poster on twitter and  facebook then asked for some feedback. Hopefully when I receive the feedback I can make some final adjustments and improvements to my poster.

Research and Planning: Magazine Social Network Feedback

I have posted an image of my film magazine on twitter and facebook then asked for some feedback. Hopefully when I receive the feedback I can make some final adjustments and improvements to my magazine.

Research and Planning: Poster Update

Today I did some adjustments on my film poster, I used the smudge tool on photoshop to smudge the black around the eye, I think it creates a wispy creepy look to the inner eye and adds more emphasis on the reflection of the victim in the eye.

Research and Planning: Magazine Update

I have added storylines, price, banner etc to my film magazine, this has filled up the spaces where it looked bare before. I am not happy with the overall look of the cover yet so I will be making adjustments to improve the look and spacing of it all.

Research and Planning: Filming

Today 18/02/13 me and Alice filmed the rest of our footage for the trailer, we did the last minute shots we needed to add to the trailer to improve it. Tomorrow we will be going in college to edit this in and finish the sound so that our trailer is our overall product is made. 

Research and Planning: Magazine Update

Since last time I worked on my magazine I have started to add more magazine stories and creating the look of a magazine front cover by adding the codes and conventions.

Research and Planning: Unedited footage

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback

After showing our film trailer, posters and magazines to our class we received feedback on things we could do individually to improve our work. For our group trailer it was suggested that we show the female character as being more vulnerable and to break the trailer up with more captions, this is something we have taken into consideration, we will edit the footage so that the shots are shorter and look more like a trailer.

Research and Planning: Sound Research and Replication

Today me and Alice went around college and found ways we could create sound for our film trailer, this video shows the different ways we did this. 

Research and Planning: Unedited Footage

This is some more footage that me and Alice have taken to put into our current trailer, these will be used as fast shots that will flash up in the trailer to pick up suspense.

Research and Planning: Magazine Update

Research and Planning: Poster Update

These are some of the tools that were used when cutting out the picture and fitting it into the eye to make it look like it has the shape of an eye and look like a reflection.

These are my poster updates where I have added new things for example my film tag line 'WHO LURKS BEHIND YOUR SHADOW'.

Research and Planning: Editing and Trailer Research

As I have watched our current trailer I began to realise it is more like a short film, so I have spoken to Alice about the ways we can change it. I thought it was important for me to grasp the genre of my trailer again and understand what reaction I want from the audience and the ways to create it. One of the ways we will make our trailer more like a trailer is to put in a montage which is a series of short shots shown in a small amount of time. 

Therefore I researched into trailers and what they should do, horror films and what they should do and finally montages and what they aim to achieve.

Research and Planning: Meeting

Me and Alice have had a chat about filming, when we need to do it by and when we are available to do it. We have came up with a schedule of when we will film, when we will edit due to Bethan being away in Australia, when we will add sound too. All this should be done for next Tuesday so we can present a finished product and trailer.

Research and Planning: Film Magazine Story Inspiration

I have researched film magazines, in this case I specifically looked at Empire and Total Film. I wanted to see what type of stories they used, how they worded them and presented them. It seems like they use a word or couple of word to draw the audiences attention e.g. 'OSCARS SPECIAL!' the exclamation mark makes it seem importance so we are drawn to it and then look underneath and see big star names this would encourage the audience to purchase the magazine and read the stories inside. The cover is the biggest selling point in terms of the stories used, if they sound boring no one will be interested so it is important to make them interesting and attention grabbing.

Research and Planning: Trailer Change

After watching our groups trailer again I have realised that it appears to tell a short story rather than teases the audience as a trailer. They seem to get a lot more of the story told through our footage therefore me and Alice have sat down and decided the changes we need to make in order to improve our trailer. We have come up with a shot list that we will do to create a montage at the end of the trailer to quicken the speed and reinforce the horror genre of the trailer. 

The shots we have decided to take are :
- Jess being bundled in the car
-Blood dripping from a knife (makes what happens ambiguous) 
-Jess screaming
-Jess running
-A mysterious text message or letter
- Jess trying to phone for help and no answer
-Jess hidden in a cupboard or going into the cupboard
-Point of view shot of her breathing in the cupboard and somebody approaching

I think the montage should end on the cupboard and when the door opens it should either be ending with a bright light over taking the screen or a dark black taking over the screen, the film name will then appear and fade out. 

Research and Planning: Poster Photo Research

I have posted my top three photos on facebook to see which my audience prefer and think is most effective.

 I also posted the same photos on twitter to get a broader range of answers, these answers will help me pick which one I will use for my poster.

Research and Planning: Poster Progress

Today for my poster I have taken a picture of my friends eye and used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the centre of her eye in order to add the photo of the victim to create the storyline for the film. I changed the picture of the eye and eyebrow to black and white as the horror convention usually use darker colours to advertise the genre. I also decided to create the poster in this way as I wanted to emphasise the fact that she is being watched and show her through the eyes of the stalker.

Research and Planning: Magazine Progress

Today I have changed the size of the image and used the clone tool on photoshop to clone the background wall and add it to the the top of the page which was white to begin with. I have also added a black banner at the bottom of the cover, I will use this as a streamer for inside stories.