Links

Throughout the blog i have put links to other infomation on either Lyndsay's or Tessa's Blog. Thses are labeled "Click Here".
otehr links to infomation are websites refering to other media we have used.

Feedback.

we presented our trailer, poster and magazine cover design to the class with questionaires to see other peoples views and how we could change the desigsn and trailer to make it better fitting to conventions and what we needed to achive.
to see our results click here.

we took all feedback and changed layouts of the psoter, magazine and trailer to fit how others saw the matirial. the feedback became helpful and helped us develop our skills at this stage, we had then taken every detail into account and changed the way the trailer was edited to make it more fast paced and more easier to udnerstand the storyline.
Final trailer:

Final poster:

The final magazine cover was perfect, it didnt need editing at all and we managed to meet many more conventions when we got the second round of feedback as it met more peoples viewing targets this time around: to see these results click here

Film magazines

After the poster concept we then looked at film magazines and conventions, studying magazines for our As level coursework helped us in this task look at the conventions.

Existing magazines:

Taking ideas for these poster lyndsay and tessa worked togehter to produce a film magazine cover with our film as the key focus. this lead onto working with photoshop again and putting the key elements into the cover design.

Final cover design:

as you can see from the final design it meets the conventions of the cover with side stories and focus on our poster with use of fonts, iamges and colour.

Movie poster.

we started looking at conventions of movie posters such as credits, titles, logos and image layout.then we looked into the dark feel of the posters and how the contrast works.

Existing posters:

Lyndsay then took these idea's and used photoshop to come up with some poster ideas using the same fonts from the trailer and some edited images (to see full click here):

First Draft Poster:

this was missing some conventions and then was edited again to add more to the poster:

Adding sound.

i used a website called http://www.sounddogs.com/ to find certain sounds that fit in with the conventions of horror movies. such as:
screams
footsteps
wind
doors
dogs barking

i aslo found some eiry music called blood theme. the song was composed by daniel licht and had a supressing mood to fit in with the trailer.



we also needed some original sound for the trailer so we borrowed a voice recorder and whispered the words "dont go into the loft", lyndsay then took this final sounds and edited it in a program called Audacity, once all sounds were compiled lyndsay then put them finally onto the trailer with the production logo.

first trailer edit.

Editing.

Lyndsay found the fonts she wanted to use on a website called http://www.dafont.com each of the fonts had a horror feel to them: broken up and grunge look and feel.

first font

Final Font.

Lyndsay edited the fonts into Adobe premier and then fitted them into the trailer, this was a hard process as they were picture files and sometimes didnt lookright so we laned on a bold font. the final font.

Filming.

I was unable to attend all of the shoots myself but i did attend the first in dartford park. we all took our part in setting up the shoot and setting the scene, lyndsay took control of directing the shoot while tessa filmed the action itself. i took care of helping setting up the shoot under direction, such as swings and movement. the shoot alsted for about an hour because of poor weather conditions but this gave quite a lot more imput into the scene and the actresses and actors played a very good part in this shoot.

i was unable to make it to the other video shoots as i was eitehr away at the time or was unable to get to the location. Once all was filmed we had to then transfer all the files onto the computer. we had trouble doing this at points because the files didnt want to transfer through a standard usb cable. After asking for help from our college's IT department we found we needed a Firewire cable, we had a look for the cabel but couldnt find one, luckily lyndsay was able to get one so we could then move on to editing.

Production Shedule

Once we had listed everything we needed such as props, cast, locations and had our equipment, we then went on to writing up a production shedule based on the storyboard. This took time finding days right for filming for weather and depending on if everything we need such as cast, equpment and props was free. Once we had our finished shedule we were ready for filming in these locations.

Location, Props and Cast.

The groups Production Lists

Settings:
- Scary looking house
- Park, trees
- Back garden/ garden shed
Props:
- Ladder
- Newspaper clippings, family photos
- clothing, casual, normal, nothing fancy, old clothes as they will become dirty
- Torches
Sound:
- Dog barking
- Heavy panic panting
- Crackling
Cast:
- Main Girl: Hannah Hand
- Ghost Girl: Tessa Hambleton
- Villain: Zack Warner

storyboard.

Once we had our film idea and pitch we began storyboarding the final draft for the trailer, and started looking at the conventions of horror movies and fast paced trailers. The Storyboarding for the trailer as we worked with the conventions.

Conventions:
Dark
Villians
Heros
Violence
Suspence
Eiry Music
screaming
fast paced cuts in editing

SCREAM TRAILER




PARANORMAL ACTIVITY TRAILER





From watching these trailers the storyboard came togetherin fast paced, looking at the trailer conventions such as production company logo, titles and music.

Never Say Never Storyboard: