I am now into the last week of editing and working on my trailer. I have already created a draft trailer, as this was a draft trailer we decided to make it a teaser trailer rather than a theatrical trailer . As we had not filmed all of our shots,with this I have shown a focus group that are in the age range of my target audience and have gained feed back on what they thought.
Key areas to focus on with editing in the last week
Firstly, our foucs group thought that out trailer music was apporopirate to the genre but also relfect a slight elemnt sof the horror genre. I know that to improve on the music and to help convey the genre of Psychological thriller, I will need to add Sound effects. Especailly the shot of one of our actors in a hospital like setting, we reallly want a heart/vitals monitor beep in the background to help convey the story line and the narrative in the shot. As some of our focus group said they thought she was dead rather than in a coma.
Secondly, I feel that within our trailer we have quite a few zoom-ins. As some of our focus grouoped picked up on this, I feel that motioning the shots will give greater shot variety and not look so repetative and make the shots flow more easily. As agian one of the shots in the hospital like setting zooms in on the actors face and i feel that this shot would look better as a motion shot and have tighter framing than just a zoom.
Thirdly, I also feel that from out focus group feedback that some of our audeince were confused to what the 'trauma' the girl had gone through and what the starting point for this 'domino effect' of events. I feel that having a shot of a family, such as a family potrait burning giving a sense of how the narrative starts and how the course of events unfold.
Finally, I also feel in the beginning of our trailer where there are panning shots of the forest there should be a possible voice over. As i feel this will help explain the narative a bit better and leave the audience less confused to what the catalyst of the evenst acctually is.
Monday, 9 February 2015
Evaluation
Evaluation questions
I used cam studio to create videos to show how I constructed my final magazine and poster using photoshop.
- Question1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text ?
- Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
- Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?
I used cam studio to create videos to show how I constructed my final magazine and poster using photoshop.
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Draft Film magazine
After looking into several film magazines curently circulating in the UK and internationaly, i narrowed it down to the three top film magazines I liked the most. This was Empire, Sight&Sound and Total Film. I chose these three magazines as they varied from each other but has some similarities and are my main influences for creating my own film magazine.
I created a padlet wall showing what I liked about the three magazines
I created a padlet wall showing what I liked about the three magazines
Created with Padlet
Name
The magazine I feel will be my main inspiration is sight and sound, as I like the simplicity of the magazine and the good quality images and the easy-to-read layout, I find this magazine most attractive to look at. Howveer I do like the other magazine front covers thought I feel that because the main cover images are commonly full body shots such as Empires 'Thor' I feel this adds more focus on the 'Famous' actor portraying the chracter and the main promotion for the film. Also that the actor/s is the main selling point of the magazine rathre than the films story line or reviews.
I chose three images i felt worked well with my ideas:
I have chosen to use the last image, of the girl with her finger over her lips. As i feel this helps to portray the secrets behind teh book and the narrative of the film. I also like the lighting with the picture which helps to add enigma to the front cover image and as i want my magazine to have influences from SIght&Sound I have chosen to have a tight head shot.
I brain stormed ideas for my Film magazine name, headline and sidebar text.
Name
Film and media FM
Film media and TV FMT
Snap shot
Movie clip
Critique
Film reel
Project
Project F
Tag line
Don't judge a book by it's cover
What lies beneath
Don't trust a pretty face
We all have secrets..but maybe not this one
Title of the film
Animus
Side bar
+ 5 pages of film cover posters
+ a look back at 2014 best films
+ review of the 2015 oscar winners
+ interview with producer of upcoming dark comedy 'The voices'
+ chance to own tickets to opening of feature film Animus
Feature
+ a look at the new upcoming film 'animus'
+ interview with leading lady Eilis O'keefe and her ideas on the film
+ take a look behind the scenes
I used Photoshop to created my Draft film magazine
I got feedback from my draft poster, from this feedback I found that some of teh shapes especailly the barcode in the bottom right hand corner of the magazine. Also that the text in my side bar should be different colours for the main articles in my magazine.
One key point of my magazine that was pointed out was the typo within my title, I found the feed back on my draft trailer very useful and informativewhen it came to the changes I made on my final film magazine.
I decided to chnage the image as I or effered the lighting in this image as if it was a spolight on the book and the lighting of half of her face and half in shawdow. I felt this added enigma to the cover but also it is a more simplistic image not giving too much of the film away.
Final film magazine
Draft film poster
Making my draft film poster
Before creating my flat plat I researched into film posters in my genre I found a film 'Anna' to be my main inspiration for my film trailer.
Flats plans -
I create a draft flat plan for my film poster so that when it came to creating it in photoshop I already had some and ideas as a base and was able to imporve and develop my ideas.
I then created my draft film poster using photoshop, to show the stages it took to creating my film poster i used cam studio to record the process using the layers. From my flat plan idea I changed the main image on the poster as, I chose to not have the knife and place the tag line as writing in the book. I felt this gave the book a greater enigma and more relation to the story.
Feed back on Draft film poster
Fromt the feed back I recieved from my film poster focus group, I had similar likes and improvemnt ideas from most the poeple.
The main advice and improvment ideas I found from my audience feed back were that the main image was good and people liked the mystery and enigma it created. However, they also said that it was difficult to get a sense of story line or plot from the one picture, on the other hand others said that they thought it was about a tragedy and that the book may have an important role within the film or that it belong to a killer or sociopath. From the audience feed back I also recieved comments about the repetition of the line "The ending is always the best", people said that they understood why this was done as the book had the ink blotch effect but others said that maybe have a different tag line as this may help construct the story line that I wish to come across in the poster.
From these ideas I decided to change my poster from a teaser to a theatrical as I felt I could portray the story line better but still retain the enigma that the main image created in my orignal poster. I chanegd the oreintation of my poster from portrait to landscape, as I felt the main image sat better on landscape poster rather than portrait. This also allowed me to add extra images to help the narrative flow better and be presented more clearly yet still creating a sense of mystery as this is one of the key conventions of the psychological genre.
Final film poster
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