Today we showed our trailer to the whole class on the projector and gave them a questionnaire to fill out.
The questions we asked were
1. From watching this trailer can you see what genre it is?
2. Did you like it?
3.What would you change about it
4. Would you see it at the cinema
5. What did you remember from the trailer? what stood out?
6. Did you understand the plot?
Monday, 21 March 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
Our Teaser poster for THE UNKNOWN
This is our teaser poster for our film which includes the title of the film a catchphrase and a viral website in which members of the public can go on and upload videos of what they think the 'unknown' is there is also forums. This is a great publicity tool that would get the public excited about the release of this film.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Poster
Here is the first draft of our poster the image just needs to be added which we are going to upload next week and put on the poster but the basic layout is done with the fonts and colours. Once the photo is uploaded onto the poster we may need to re arrange the layout colours or add another image or text.
Plan for poster
This is a first plan of our poster which needs to be completed by adding a image, changing font and size.
The font we will use for the title will be the same as we used for our trailer (action of the new time)
Magazine cover research
Now that our trailer is finished and uploaded onto YouTube blogger twitter and soon Facebook we have decided to start making our magazine cover. In order to make our film magazine conventional i am going to look at existing film magazines such as empire.
Empire magazine is a well know film magazine perfect for advertising our film. Therefore we will use the heading for 'EMPIRE' magazine for our own magazine we will be creating our own version of EMPIRE adverting our film as it is doing here for the dark night and showing a picture of the joker.
The colour's used on the magazine help add to the feeling of the presence of the joker. The florescence green and bright pink/purple colour is associated with the joker if you have seen the film. But it also, then allows readers who have not seen the film get a feeling about the presence of the joker, almost a fearful clown vibe about him. This is also, linked with the font used to spell the 'JOKER' which looks like it has been cut together from different news paper or magazine headings. This look is sometime associated or seen in films when a ransom note is sent so that the person does not recognize or can identify the person who is sending it. This adds to the feeling that the joker is not a nice character. When designing our magazine we could incorporate this by using dark greens black and browns as these colours are associated with dark creepy forests. As well the heading reads 'meet the joker one-on-one with BATMAN'S new nemesis!' We could also, use this interview form in our magazine for example ' meet the new queens scream the hot new cast of the unknown' something along those lines.
The colour's used on the magazine help add to the feeling of the presence of the joker. The florescence green and bright pink/purple colour is associated with the joker if you have seen the film. But it also, then allows readers who have not seen the film get a feeling about the presence of the joker, almost a fearful clown vibe about him. This is also, linked with the font used to spell the 'JOKER' which looks like it has been cut together from different news paper or magazine headings. This look is sometime associated or seen in films when a ransom note is sent so that the person does not recognize or can identify the person who is sending it. This adds to the feeling that the joker is not a nice character. When designing our magazine we could incorporate this by using dark greens black and browns as these colours are associated with dark creepy forests. As well the heading reads 'meet the joker one-on-one with BATMAN'S new nemesis!' We could also, use this interview form in our magazine for example ' meet the new queens scream the hot new cast of the unknown' something along those lines.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Comments on our trailer so far
We have already had a few comments on our blog and YouTube about our trailer with some constructive criticism hopefully we will get some more in the next few weeks.
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Monday, 24 January 2011
Twitter Account
I set up a twitter account as many people use this in order to receive more feed back on our trailer. I tweeted a comment asking for people to comment on our trailer and uploaded a link to youtube. Next i am planning to up load our trailer onto Facebook.
Uploading our trailer to youtube
We have created a youtube account in order to upload our trailer. Once it is uploaded we are hoping to get some audience feed back. We are also, being shown how to upload our trailer to Facebook and twitter hopefully this will allow more people to view and comment it.
Monday, 17 January 2011
monday 17th editing our trailer
We played our trailer back to our lecture and suggested that we should add a transition between the first bit of text and and between the clip of 3 of the characters walking and the second part of the text. He also, showed us how to use our font we decided on for our title of our film which we would also use in our poster for our film. We chose our font we wanted to use for our film title 'the unknown' previously from dafont.com. We then downloaded this font to allow us to use it in our trailer :). By using the font in both the trailer and the poster it will make coherent as well by having the same font it gives the film a recognizable style that when you look at you know that it is advertising the unknown. We also, made the fonts the same on each text. Added footstep sound over the padlock clip. Took the sound out of the part which says the name of the film. Made the sound of the owl more quieter to make it feel more realistic.
Next step is to hopefully upload our trailer onto youtube to get feed back and onto our facebooks and twitter accounts. Once that is uploaded we need to start our poster for our film. We have already came up with a few ideas these are...
Next step is to hopefully upload our trailer onto youtube to get feed back and onto our facebooks and twitter accounts. Once that is uploaded we need to start our poster for our film. We have already came up with a few ideas these are...
- half of face looking scared
- picture of looking up to the trees
- 3 friends together hiding behind trees looking frightened
- picture of 3 friends running of
The idea we like the most is of the shot of the half face looking scared with maybe the forest trees in the background.
Final stages of our trailer
Today we have decided to complete our trailer for our film by adding music and generally tweaking what we have done making it as perfect as we can get it.
We are looking at music from various music websites that have free download able copyright music from websites that the exam board suggested. www.freesounds.org was one of the websites we looked at and downloaded a scream sound and 'horror' which is some creepy eerie music.
We have added a new owl scream to replace the previous one we used as it sound more realistic(20684_johnc_owl). We have also added a scream to the shot were you see us running away(42847_freqman_psycho_scream) , to the scream we have already added we are trying to find another one as there are 3 people running away screaming. We have added the 'horror'(ambienteffect 2 which is from the imovie sonds) added the pan of the location (forest). The end criedits sound(breath of death).
Our next step is to find foot steps for the part walking up to the pad lock and another sound for when the camera is pushed away by the person after the padlock shot.
We are looking at music from various music websites that have free download able copyright music from websites that the exam board suggested. www.freesounds.org was one of the websites we looked at and downloaded a scream sound and 'horror' which is some creepy eerie music.
We have added a new owl scream to replace the previous one we used as it sound more realistic(20684_johnc_owl). We have also added a scream to the shot were you see us running away(42847_freqman_psycho_scream) , to the scream we have already added we are trying to find another one as there are 3 people running away screaming. We have added the 'horror'(ambienteffect 2 which is from the imovie sonds) added the pan of the location (forest). The end criedits sound(breath of death).
Our next step is to find foot steps for the part walking up to the pad lock and another sound for when the camera is pushed away by the person after the padlock shot.
Monday, 13 December 2010
editing footage
Last Monday and this Monday we have been editing our footage. Today we added the green film rating trailer screen that looks like this
By having this at the beginning of the trailer it makes it look more official and professional.
We also, added lionsgate logo to our trailer as they are a well known production company for making horror films making it perfect for our trailer.
We also, added an 'ambient' sound to some parts of our trailer, and also, when there is the pan of the location we put a owl sound in the background to give it more of a forest eerie feel. We plan to add more sound to our trailer once we have found them.
The feed back from our lecturer on our trailer so far was to speed up the part we slowed down as seemed too slow. He also, said we needed to have more transitions as parts go from bright to dark and does not flow very well.
Next step:
We have now got a first cut of our trailer so we are now going to move on to making our poster for our film, to give us inspiration we will look at posters for horror films. Once this is done we will go back to tweaking our trailer.
By having this at the beginning of the trailer it makes it look more official and professional.
We also, added an 'ambient' sound to some parts of our trailer, and also, when there is the pan of the location we put a owl sound in the background to give it more of a forest eerie feel. We plan to add more sound to our trailer once we have found them.
The feed back from our lecturer on our trailer so far was to speed up the part we slowed down as seemed too slow. He also, said we needed to have more transitions as parts go from bright to dark and does not flow very well.
Next step:
We have now got a first cut of our trailer so we are now going to move on to making our poster for our film, to give us inspiration we will look at posters for horror films. Once this is done we will go back to tweaking our trailer.
Monday, 29 November 2010
Filming 2nd session wednesday 24th december
On wednesday the 24th december we completed our filming for our trailer, however due to the times we could all do this filming we had to do it during the day and not i fox's forest which is our original location. But we filmed it at a location similar looking to our original location(trees, thick forest, leaf, bushes). As we filmed this during the day we will have to edit the footage in imovie to black and white to make it fit into our previous footage and so it fits with the conventions of a horror.
Our next step is to look at our footage and edit what we have and see if we have enough footage to start to put together our trailer.
Our next step is to look at our footage and edit what we have and see if we have enough footage to start to put together our trailer.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Font ideas
Questionnaire for our name
We conducted a questionnaire to our class about the different choices for the name of our film and we intend to use the name that was voted most popular amongst the class.
As you can see from the results from the questionnaire the name 'the unknown' was the most popular therefore this seems like a ideal name to use for our film. As well this name was the favorite of the group and what we thought seemed most appropriate so we were glad when the results showed it was the most popular with our peers.
As you can see from the results from the questionnaire the name 'the unknown' was the most popular therefore this seems like a ideal name to use for our film. As well this name was the favorite of the group and what we thought seemed most appropriate so we were glad when the results showed it was the most popular with our peers.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Name ideas for our film
We had a production meeting today to discuss names for our film
These are the names we can up with
These are the names we can up with
- The woods
- Alone
- Haunted
- Nowhere to hide
- The unknown
- Hidden
With these name ideas we will make a questionnaire and ask people which name they prefer or if they have any other suggestions.
Synopsis
Three friends decide to go on a camping trip to a woods that they have heard has strange things happening inside. They have been told it is haunted and that people disappear in there. The three friends, thinking that these tales are a load of rubbish decide to go and explore for themselves, having a laugh and not taking anything seriously.
They set up camp and then go off with their hand held camera to explore this supposedly haunted woods. However, whilst they are filming and making fun of the stories they hear noises and strange things in the woods and instantly start to worry, although they try to cover up their feelings and shake it off.
As night falls, more strange things start to happen and they begin to actually panic. Trying to dodge this 'thing' that is following and haunting them.
Monday, 1 November 2010
Looking at our footage
Today we looked back at the footage which was about 7 minuets we got on wednesday to see if we could use any of it. After looking at it we found a few bits that we could use in our trailer. These included Alice walking up to a door and shaking the lock. A shot of Beccy's face looking worried. And all 3 of them walking in a subway.
We still need shots of...
We also, watched a imovie tutorial on how to use imovie and give us basic understand on how to edit our trailer, and allows us to begin putting it together. Here is the hyperlink to the tutorial we watched.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#intro
Here is a screen shot of the editing we have done so far on imovie
Our next step is to carry on filming for our trailer. We have planned to do our next filming session on wednesday the 10th of november. We will do it after our media lesson and meet up with our actor at the location which is still fox's forest. We also, need to come up with a name for our film, to start this we will brain storm some ideas and relevant words for our film.
We still need shots of...
- panic in all the girls
- shot of the location
- realizing there is something lurking in the wood so possibly running and screaming
- the ending shot of the camera falling on the floor and filming someone running away.
We also, watched a imovie tutorial on how to use imovie and give us basic understand on how to edit our trailer, and allows us to begin putting it together. Here is the hyperlink to the tutorial we watched.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#intro
Here is a screen shot of the editing we have done so far on imovie
Our next step is to carry on filming for our trailer. We have planned to do our next filming session on wednesday the 10th of november. We will do it after our media lesson and meet up with our actor at the location which is still fox's forest. We also, need to come up with a name for our film, to start this we will brain storm some ideas and relevant words for our film.
First filming session for our trailer
On the 27th of october we had our first filming session at fox's forest with Beccy Alice and Jenna who are our actors for our film. We turned up at our location at 6 o'clock and done as much filming as we could but we did not complete filming our footage as it go to dark and could not see what we were filming. Therefore, we will arrange another day to book out the camera and complete our filming for our trailer.
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