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The Final Piece!

Ancillary Task - Magazine Cover

Ancillary Task - Poster

Update

Thought I would post a quick update on what we are currently working on in class and out of school, so far we have got a picture for the ancillary task poster and magazine cover which we are yet to put together with the typography which we researched earlier. We have also been working on the production and have finished the logo and the titles which we have been using final cut are finished with the desired font. We choose to use final cut as it is a more sophisticated editing software which allows for greater manipulation of film, proving ideal for out production piece as we feel the use of effects adds to the feel and style of the film.

Production Logo

This is our production logo from last year, we feel it looks effective and we are planning to use it in our current teaser trailer production piece. We like the logo as we think it looks effective and professional, also original as we made it ourselves using Corel Photo Paint.

Below is the same logo, however it is had a high contrast effect applied to it, we are trying to manipulate the logo into more of a horror specific genre as other logos have tried such as in Jurassic Park the Dreamworks company logo which is different to the normal one as it features the little boy fishing getting dragged of the moon, so is manipulated to correlate with genre of film.

After looking at other production logos it is popular to have the logo on a black screen therefore we would like to invert the colours of this high contrast logo.

As it can be seen in the image on the left the original impact productions logo was made by myself on Corel photo paint which is a sophisticated photo editing software, which allows for great manipulation of images and a large range of tools which proved helpful in the creation of our logo.

Taglines

Existing tag lines:

"whats a little murder between friends?" Shallow Grave

"before you die you see.. The Ring" The Ring

"you have been warned" The Omen

"fear moves in" The Uninvited

"experience fear" Rec

"who will survive and what will be left of them?" Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"possession knows no bounds" An American Haunting

"the girl next door isn't there anymore" The Cellar Door

"you won't believe how it ends" Saw V

"how much blood would you shed to stay alive?" Saw

"the ultimate in alien terror" The Thing

The popular theme for the tagline is to focus on the fear that the film is supposed to make the audience feel, also this doesnt give anything away about the plotline which leaves the audience in suspense.

Poster Research

After looking at horror movie posters it is obvious that it is the norm for the majority of the poster to be black with few other colours, often white or red. The imagery must be intriguing and distorted to make you want to find out more about the film.

Film posters in general are designed to advertise the film, therefore persuading the public that they want to pay to watch the film. The poster includes the logo of the film, a persuasive tagline, possible names of actors or directors and release date. The image on the poster has to portray the theme of the film or a particular scene.

Our idea for the movie poster is to use layers of photography with different elements of the plot and images from the trailer. The background will be black and we will experiment with different colour schemes. We want the title to be distorted but obviously it still needs to be legible.

Poster Research

A typical film magazine front cover always has a person on the front, almost always the main character of the film, in character and often with props. As our trailer doesn't introduce a main character fully, we want the front cover of the magazine to only suggest a main character. Our initial idea is to take a photograph of a girl concealed mostly by dark make-up and hair with very low lighting so only some features are seen, inspired by the use of chiaroscuro and shadows in film noir, where the unknown makes the audience intrigued.

Update

Currently we are in the process of completing our ancillary tasks to complete a poster for the film and also a magazine cover, we have looked at various typography for both poster and magazine cover. Whilst we are going to conduct audience research into the name of our film and also the typography that we will use.

Sound Clips

Filming Update

So we thought that we would just update our blogs, in order to state what stage we are currently at in the filming process. So far we have everything filmed, apart from one establishing shot which we are going to be editing on final cut. At the minute, Hannah the other member of my group is currently in London on an Art related trip, however we have covered with the necessary amount of work before hand in free periods etc. We have edited the majority of our filming, and now we are in the process of both editing on final cut and adding finishing effects to that of which we are using in iMovie. We have added a few extra shots to our existing storyboard which was our first draft, and whilst Hannah is away, I am completing the ancillary tasks which we have to do. We feel we our ahead of schedule and doing well for time, with only very minor tweaks to be added to our existing filming and the ancillary tasks to be completed.

Disappearing effect

For our production to fall in with the plot of the film we are creating, we decided to create a shot in which an item (the cup) disappears as it is part of the 'things going missing' element of our film. This shot obviously is going to be manipulated further through the use of final cut, however we decided that we would first put it on iMovie to see what effects we could create and put it on the blog as a way to show our process in filming.

Fisheye Lens

This is some of the footage which we decided to experiment with, we are already in the filming process, however we decided to add this to our blogs as we found a fish eye lens which we thought would enable us to create an effective shot for our teaser trailer. The effect that the fish eye lens creates is one of foreboding as the framing of the shot and how the frame gets thinner towards the end of the shot creates a sense of movement towards the object in view.

Typography

This font reflects the horror genre very well due to the weathered effect. It looks like the letters have been scratched away in desperation. I like the capitals as it is added impact.

This font also looks as though it has been scratched away or eroded. I prefer the squareness of the previous font but the bold text adds impact.


This font is supposed to look as though it has been written on a typewriter, i like this font but the typewriter is quite irrelevant to the storyline of our film as it is not set in the past.
The spaced out letters in this font creates a randomness that is similar to handwriting, handwritten fonts are often used in the horror genre as they add a personality and show the desperation of a character writing because no-one can hear their screams.

This font very much reminds me of dripping blood, it would be very appropriate in a horror trailer. I really like this font and would like to experiment with it further.

This handwritten font looks very realistic which i like and would fit with the storyline of our film. I think it is quite generic which wouldn't give a big impact.

I like the idea of small font but if it is small it is more difficult to read and people might not bother. It is not very dramatic.

This font looks handwritten but i think it reminds me of chinese writing and seems a bit irrelevant to our storyline, but it does fit with the horror genre.

Test Shots

We decided to mess about with a few shots in order to gage what we needed in our teaser trailer and what will look more effective in our filming. We looked at various teaser trailers in research and came across a shot which we liked, in which it started as an establishing shot and then was edited so that the shot is overlapped with a zoom shot, to create a layered jumpy effect. Not only did we want to create this effect but we wanted to manipulate certain areas of the framing and the shots, audio, effects, transition etc to see what we could do for our final piece. We used iMovie to edit these clips, however in the final piece we are aiming to be using final cut for various shots as we feel it provides a more extensive range of editing techniques and more professional tools to edit with. We decided that for the editing stage iMovie was adequate for what we wanted to test, we booked the camera IN ADVANCE and filmed the outside of our school to recreate the establishing shot it the teaser trailer we had seen. On this particular edit, we decided to change certain video adjustments of the framing such as the contrast, exposure and brightness of the shot. We feel this helped recreate an eerie effect which suited our teaser trailer in terms of genre.

Audience Research

We have decided that we are going to have a rating of 15 on our film as it will attract the mass audience of film goers to our film, which is 15-24, we contemplated having an age range of 18, however we thought that cutting out 3 years of the highest film goers would not be a clever thing to do . Also our film is of the thriller genre and atypical to the genre there are no gory images which are in horror movies so we feel we can adequately use 15 as our certificate of age.

We feel with the age of 15 if the trailer were to be on previews before films at the cinema, the mass audience would be able to watch it. The age is not so much a problem on the Internet as trailers are accessible through YouTube without proof of age therefore the age is not as much an issue when publishing out trailer on the Internet. We have decided that publishing on the Internet will be the most plausible option, considering our minute budget, as it is free to publish videos on YouTube.