Research & Planning: Magazine Inspiration

I have decided to make my film magazine a 'horror film' special edition. This issue of Empire is a Harry Potter special edition and has been helpful to see how the magazine has kept its original house style.

Research & Planning: Shooting Schedule

Research & Planning: Poster Research

 


 



These are some posters that contain elements I would like to incorporate into my poster. I like the idea of having my poster in black and white as I feel it represents the genre quite well.

Research & Planning: Auditions

Research & Planning: Christmas Action Plan

During the Christmas holidays I am going to:

•  Do some test shots for my magazine cover and film poster

• Make sure my blog is update especially with social networking feedback 

• Auditions   

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Research & Planning: Unedited footage

Video will be uploaded on Monday.

Research & Planning: ishow u

This an ishow u of me completing some work in media.

Research & Planning: Rough Cut Trailer Feedback

This our rough cut trailer. We presented this to the rest of our class on Friday and received feedback.

Strengths:

'Good acting' This has shown that our chosen actor is a good choice and therefore we will continue to work with Harriet.

'Logo's are good' Beth created the logo's using photoshop are fit with the genre of our film and look professional.

'Editing Transitions were good' The editing process was done quickly however it worked well and fitted with the genre and we are going to use some of similar transitions especially in the asylum scenes.


Weaknesses:

'Storyline was unclear' This was something a lot of people said and we realized it looks unclear to the audience as they don't know the rest of storyline. We do need to film more scenes that include other character will develop and show the story a lot more clearly

'Change location/make more convincing' This is something that I agree with and want to improve however talking to our teacher she suggested cropping some of the shots. We could look for another location however this may be difficult.

Research & Planning: Cover Line Ideas

This is a word it out on some ideas of cover lines for my film magazine.

Research & Planning: Rough cut of our trailer

This is a rough cut of our trailer, using some of the footage we filmed during this week. We are planning to film the rest of our trailer during the rest of this month.

Research & Planning: Production Documents Risk Assessments

These are the completed Risk Assessment forms for each location we are planning to film in.

Research & Planning: Magazine Masthead Fonts

These are some idea's for my film magazine masthead font.The fonts were chosen from da font.

Research & Planning: Sound Research

For our trailer we want it to have a distinctive sound track that will create atmosphere and tension and let the watcher know when something bad is going to happen.


These are some popular soundtracks from horror films:

Research & Planning: Location Recce

Research & Planning: Meeting Post

We have decided that for our trailer we are going to work together on cinematography, editing, mise en scene and sound.
We have chosen to do this because we thought the trailer would benefit from both of our ideas in each element.

Research & Planning: Script

Girl 1 (new girl): Orla
Girl 2 (leader of the group): Charlotte
Girl 3 (follower): Lily
Girl 4 (tomboy): Sophie

shots 3-5:
casual conversation

shots 7-10
crying, sniffles

shot 12: Orla and Lily
Orla: "iv just gotta grab something"
(lily is locked in)
Lily: "let me out"

shots 19-22 Doctor in asylum
mysterious girl: "no no no no" panicking
Doctor: "calm down, calm down your fine, you'll just feel a little scratch"

shots 23,2430,31,32
in the asylum
Mysterious girl: screaming, pleading
: "get off" "let go"

Shots 35-41
Sophie and lily in the park
Lily: "weird things have been going on recently"

Throughout the trailer there isn't much dialogue, and the large amount being casual conversation between friends, but in the majority being screams and frantic outbursts.

Research & Planning: Location test shots

These some test shot we have taken of the locations we want to use within our trailer. These are locations around the college and we need test shots of the park and in house.

Research & Planning: Audition Poster

This is the audition poster Beth made for our trailer. We put the poster up around college in busy places that a lot of people will see.

Research & Planning: Drafts for poster and magazine

Research & Planning: Meeting Post

We talked today about some important decisions for out film trailer.

Name of film: The Grim Truth or Grim Truth

Production Company name: After Life Productions

Tagline: Keep your friends close

Research & Planning: Publication Plan

Publication Plan on Prezi

Research & Planning: Plan for the week

Complete production documents
Upload photos of make up tests
Actor head shots

Research & Planning: Film Magazine Analysis 2

The genre of the popular acclaimed film 'The Shining' is a horror film which is what genre of film we are going to make. The genre of Empire magazine is a film magazine and it has some typical magazine conventions such as as a masthead, bar code, issue number and price, shot type. This cover is different to other Empire covers as it is a special edition promoting the '500 greatest movies of all time'.

The cover of the magazine follows three colour rule well. There is only a few cover lines on the magazine due to the fact is a special edition.

The photo on the magazine is a close up taken from a popular scene in the film which people will be able to identify. The cover also includes a quote from the film which also hints at the genre as it is quite a sinister quite.

Research & Planning: Film magazine analysis 1

This magazine cover is promoting 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' which is a thriller film however it does use conventions seen in horror films.  The magazine genre is a film magazine. 
The magazine uses typical conventions such as a masthead, cover lines, a bar code, issue number and price which shows it is a magazine rather than a film poster.

Unusually for a magazine it uses more than three colours rather than following the rule of three colours. The masthead and position statement are the style as the are on each 'Empire' magazine.

From the shot type with is a long shot you can tell the genre of the film. It includes both main characters and the lighting is dark which hints it is a thriller/horror film. The dark clothing both characters are wearing also hints at the genre.

Research & Planning: Film Poster Analysis 2

This is the poster for the film 'Case 39'. You can tell the film is horror due to colours used on the poster, the dark colours fit well with the genre. The layout of the poster is quite different from other posters as the steel tongs is nearer the top of the page to left with the title of the film near it. The tag line of the film is in the top corner. All the fonts are in white and stand out against the dark background.

The image shows the genre of the film well as the two main characters are crouching down.A long shot is used to show the two characters and as they are crouching down you can see the fearful expressions on their faces. The lighting is low key and this is stereotypical of horror film posters. The location shown in the poster is unclear and this adds mystery and could influence the viewer to want to see the film.

Rather than the typical 'Coming Soon' this poster uses 'They'll never stop' followed by the release date.Again this suits the genre and makes the poster more interesting

Research & Planning: Analysis of film poster 1

This is the film poster for the 2011 film 'The Possession'. The genre of the film is clearly horror from the style of the poster. The text on the film highlights the genre as it says 'based on a true story' which would be something that makes an audience want to see a film more. Another tag line used is 'darkness lives inside' which fits the plot of film as it about possession.

An establishing shot is used to show the young girl almost floating in the air with insects coming out of her mouth. The lighting is almost sepia toned and is unusual to most horror film poster as they usually use low key lighting, rather than the brighter light used within this poster.

The mise en scene shows the girl in isolated location, only lit by a lamp post. This fits with horror conventions. Although we can't clearly see the girls face it is clear she is only a young girl and she appears to be wearing pyjamas, again another stereotype of horror films.

Research & Planning: Locations

College
Corridors
Classroom
Hospital looking room
Park
Bedroom

Research & Planning: Film Name Idea's

These are some ideas for the name of our film;

Asylum
Stalked
Who's watching
Betrayal

Research & Planning: Production Logo's

These are some popular production company logos that have produced many popular films in different genres.

Research & Planning: Plan for the week

x2 film magazine analysis's
Meeting Post
Film poster drafts
Extra research post

Research & Planning: Make Up Test

I am going to test out some make up looks for each of our main characters.
The main character is have different personalities and this is going to reflected through mise en scene.


Character 1 'Popular, fashionable girl'

A natural look, 'flawless skin', pink toned blush and lips.

Character 2 'Copycat of character 1'

Same as character 1 show how she idolises her and wants to be like her.

Character 3 'Tomboy'

Very little make-up, concealer to cover any imperfections

Character 4 'Gothic'

Dark eyeliner, heavy. `Fits within stereotype.

Research & Planning: Distribution Companies

These are some popular distribution companies;




 Film distributors are responsible for the marketing and advertising of a film. This stage is one of the most important as if the film isn't marketed well the audience won't want to see the film.

Research & planning: Animatic Storyboard

This is our treatment for our horror film. We have decided to go with idea 1 as we feel this the idea will can develop more and develop each element of the trailer.

Research & Planning: Meeting Post

During the half term we are going to complete a treatment, more genre research, Audition poster, actor research.

I am going to individually complete a make up test and look for suitable locations, research distribution companies.

Research & Planning:Treatment

-Certificate shot
-Production company logo
-Shot of three girls talking.
-Jump to black 
-P.O.V shot walking to lesson, voice of three girls talking 'bitchily' about villain.
-Cut to all the girls walking out of college, villain slightly further away to distance.
-Cut to villain in her room,burning/tearing up photos of girls, more photos hung up on walls.
                        TITLE SCREEN 
-Jump cut to flashback scene someone in mental aslyum.
-Quick flash to black
-One girl locked in room, panicking.
-Jump cut
-Someone walking away, hear a chuckle.
-Jump to black
-point of view mental asylum

Research & Planning: Update

We have now decided to do proposal one as our trailer. We have chosen this one as we developed the idea more and it will be more realistic to make.

Research & Planning: Costume & Props List

For trailer idea 1

Stereotype outfits;

Girl 1 Cocky, popular, fashionable style
Girl 2 Follows girl 1, looks up to her, similarly dressed
Girl 3 Tomboy, casual outfit
Girl 4 Stalker, all black/darker colours
Hospital gown or an all white outfit
Doctors coat

Props
Photographs
(more to added when ideas are clearer)

Research & Planning: Word it out

This a word cloud of word that relate to the two proposals for the trailers.

http://worditout.com/word-cloud/122243

Research & Planning: Equipment & Software list

To make my trailer I am going to use:

Apple iMac

Sony HD Camera

Handheld camera

iMovie

Garage Band

Blogger

iShowu

Firefox

Photoshop