Production: Final Poster 2

After our audience feedback we changed the poster to fit the conventions more.

We edited the image so that there was more contrast and hue, this made a black edge around the image making the main protagonist the focal point. This edit was important because it stands out more and makes the whole poster look sharp and well put together. The font is changed because on the feedback we noticed a lot of people commented on how the font was too simple. We did a text that stands out and looks more like a 'thriller' font. We also added a tagline. This was something we missed out when putting the first together. When we were modifying the poster we realised this could add the realism value to the poster.

Production: Magazine Pictures

 We got our main character to pose for the pictures for the magazine front cover. Her brief was to wear the same clothing as what she did in the poster, this will help make the ancillary texts flow well with the trailer. We asked her to have a stern expression. Moody/sad type of look.

We tried different lighting and using the flash on the camera and positions to get more variety in the shots.

Production: Final Trailer

We have completed our trailer and uploaded it to you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szsi9fYv4II

Production: Editing Part 2

We have edited the trailer a considerable amount. We have included the 'green band' and our production titles a the beginning. We have edited the sound using sound booth so that we could have the best possible effects for the trailer. We have included dipping, so this makes it more dramatic, when these occur we teamed it with dramatic music for a second so that it is emphasised. We cut quite a lot out so that we could keep suspense and so that it was shorter, making it more of a teaser trailer than an actual trailer.

Here we are editing the sound, making it fit in the right places so that it all flows together.

This is the dipping, we have made it so it was at the dramatic parts, and we have including titles for some of them so that it meets the normal conventions of other trailers.

We added end credits to the trailer to make it more realistic and legitimate.

 After completing the trailer we had to export it so that we could upload it to You Tube and play it on Blogger.

Research and Planning: Hardware

We used this video camera to film our teaser trailer. This was given to us by our teacher because it's a high quality camera. He gave us a quick tutorial on how to use the device.

For the voice over we recorded Charlotte's voice on her phone, on the voice recorder application. We like the effect it gave because it actually sounds like a real radio announcement.

This is Charlotte's Blackberry that we recorded her voice on.

Charlotte's iPod touch is what we recorded the other voice over on, because the sound quality was more suited for the phone call to make it realistic.

Research and Planning: Roles

Charlotte and I have worked together in creating our products for our film.

We have split our roles for some of it.

Together:

• filming
• editing
• sound effects
• choosing layouts
• script and treatment
• preparation for filming
• production title research
• images for poster
• poster development and magazine development

Separate:

• research into trailers, magazines and posters
• production title editing and development
• target audience
• shot list
• poster layouts
• storyboard first draft
• film magazine layouts

As you can see we have done the majority and the most important parts together, showing we have come together and worked hard to make sure we have equal input into the products.
The things we have done separately shows that we have had initiative to do things differently but combine our skills to do it, for example, Charlotte is creative so she took a lead role in creating our production titles, whilst I went carried out the audience research.

Research and Planning: Magazine Layout

This is the layout for our magazine front cover. We still need to take images of our main character for the image, we haven't done this because we want to get the best possible high quality images, and screen shots will not perform to the same standard.

We like this layout because the font is large for the main film title, enabling the audience to be more attracted to the film we are mainly advertising. The barcode at the bottom makes it look more realistic as a magazine cover. The text on the side makes the page have more depth and makes it more interesting because there is more on the page. The title of the magazine needs to be the biggest font, because this is what attracts the audience to reading it.

Production: Final Poster 1

Production: Poster Editing

We started by picking our favourite two images from the ones we took to decide which one to be on our poster, we went into InDesign to compare the two.

We went into Photoshop to edit the first image. We toned down the brightness and decreased the saturation to make it appear darker. We then slightly altered the gamma correction to make the contrast go down a bit more.

This is the difference between the images, as you can see the edited version suits the thriller genre conventions more because it is more darker and has more of a spooky feel to it.

We edited the second image by lowering the contrast and brightness to make it darker so that it fit in with the genre conventions. Then lowered the saturation to make it even darker.

We like this image because it shows her running, this gives a spooky and mysterious vibe that makes it stand out because the audience may be drawn into thinking why she is running.

We like this image because it shows her confidently standing, because in the film she is the main character who is the heroin so she needs to be confident and strong. We like the colours in this because it even though it has been toned down the light coming through the trees gives a sense of hope and that not everything may be gloomy.

Production: Poster Pictures 2

We took pictures of our main character out in the woods. We want one of these to be our poster cover because they goes well with the genre conventions of the thriller genre.



We wanted something that would stick in someone's mind when seeing it, and we wanted it to be simple but holding mystery so we thought that by just seeing the back of her it would add a good effect.


These are the photos we took, and we will pick the ones we like the best and edit them if necessary.