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. 

I created this collage of images that I had created to use on my new final film poster, I wanted to have a variety as I wanted to experiment to see what image best suited the poster.

Final film poster 

After Effects

Learning about Adobe After Effects in one of our lessons, allowed me to have a better understanding of how to use the After effects programme and how to create effective looking titles that link with our genere of film.

In the lesson we were given a simple tutoriaol on how to create a title for our film trailers using basic tools in After Effects . I used Cam studio to record the fil title I had created and show the effects I had used.

This is a screen shot of the name of our film which will be placed towards the end of the trailer. 

 

This was my practice/draft title in after effects, I then went onto create another After Effects title. I wanted to put an image behind the title 'Animus',  and then for the words to zoom in and only show part of the image.

 

 

I chose to use a piece of footage that was just the main characters eyes, but showing no emotion and looking very distant. I then placed this behind the title 'ANIMUS'. I use various key frames to position the title over the eyes and then zoom and enlarge the scale of the font so that it only showed on eye. 

Filming: Locations

I filmed in various location and tired to film as much as possible so that when it came to editing I was able to chose from a wide variety of shots and ensure that if there was a slight problem with one shot that I would have filmed multiple shots of the same clip.

Each time I went out filming I decided to take a picture of where I had filmed to keep a record of each place, I then created a slide show to present these still images of the places I had filmed my trailer.

Film titles and font styles

As I begin to move on with my film trailer, I need to consider my film titles and font styles. I looked at a website called Art of the title, which is a leading online publication on the creative processes behind the art of title sequence design. It spans out to film, television, conference, and videogame industries.

On Art of the title I looked for clips that incorporated films belonged to the psychological thriller genre. Such as this clip made by William Somerset looking at the film trailer for Seven.

This isn’t going to have a happy ending. —William Somerset 

Also when looking at film posters I created a Prezi to anaylsesome Psychological thriller film posters such as 'Anna' and 'Seven'. When analysing these films posters i saw the oputunity to look into detail at the type, size and style of fonts used on the film posters, I found this o be a great help in assiting my choices inchosing font style and size for my owm film poster and possibly my film magazine.



After anaylising the fonts of mulitple film posters, I used dafont.com to find a range of fonts that I could possibly use when creating my film poster. 

For the image on my fiml poster I am using a black book, the writing within the book has to be hand written but very loose, singature like. I used dafont.com to find fonts like this style, I found three fonts I liked and was able to type the words 'The ending is always the best' into dafont.com and see what it would look like in the font styles I liked.

Since I had to write up the words into the book I printed off the image above and traced over the font styles to get an idea and practice writing in that style.

Music for my film trailer

Afetr researhing into generic fiml trailer music I wanted to look at music and sound FX from trailers that were the same genre as mine; Psychological thriller. I chose to look at Seven and Shutter Island to analyse the music in deopth however, I looked at  several other trailers for inspiration and noted down a few things.


Looking at Psychologial thriller trailers -

I created a mood board of all the different film posters that fell into the Psychoilogical thriller category, I have watched each of the films trailers I have placed on the mood board. I watched these film trailer and took some notes and inspirtaion of the things I liked and could possibly incorporate into my trailer. I then took two other trailer in the psychological thriller genre; Seven and Shutter island and analysed the music and sound FX in moer depth, to really understand how to create an eerie, enigmatic atmosphere within a psychological thriller trailer.





Analysing music for a Psychological thriller trailer -


Seven -

The music in a typical psychological thriller trailer is broken up into 3 parts, these parts are easily recognised in the trailer SEVEN.



Shutter isalnd -

The music in the SHUTTER ISLAND  trailer follows typical conventions of film trailer music. The 3 sections are clearly emphasised and the tones and instruments used provide the atmosphere and mood that directors wish to create in a psychological thriller trailer, to entice the audience to watch the film.  

When looking for music to accompany my trailer I found various websites that provided free copyright music and sound FX.

I found these sound effects from FREE SOUND

• http://www.freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/156692/ - sudden shock or change in events 
• http://www.freesound.org/people/ayamahambho/sounds/113595/ -  use for more isolated shots , alone in the woods. 
• http://www.freesound.org/people/Airborne80/sounds/219187/ - whispering hearing voices ect. 
• http://www.freesound.org/people/genelythgow/sounds/203558/ - as a base line undertone through the trailer

After filming some shots for our trailer and then editing team in After effects I decided that we needed other sound effect such as when she is in the hospital suite. As from our audience focus group I found that many people thought she was dead an dot rather confused about what was going on the plot line. Therefore I though fit best to maybe use a heart/vitals monitor sound FX to ensure that people know she is in a coma rather than thinking she is dead and to add a bit more clarity to the plot line of the trailer.

I found these sound FX on FreeSound to use within out trailer for the heart/vitals monitor

A key learning point I took from looking into film music, I learnt about the varying styles of music that need to be in my genre of traile. I aim to find a sisnter music track that has varying tempos, thereofere when it comes to editing my trailer the shots I use I plan to fit them to the music of my trailer. This will help when creating a climatic montage and fitting music to the shots to add a mysterious atmosphere.

Scripting my Trailer

In the lessons we looked at scripting for other film trailers both teaser and thetrical, we also loked a the element of using a Voice over and the conventions and functions.

Voice over –

·         Gives background information

·         Introduces scene setting etc

·         Showcase narrative and stars

·         It gives importance of production makers

·         Sense of anticipation

·         Reinforce the title of the film

·         Voice over scripts tend to summarizes story (5-8 lines)

Voice over commonly replace by inter-titles and character narration/commentary 

Scripting  -Looking at scripting for other trailers 

The Woman in Black  - 

In the lesson we got given a script for both the teaser and thearical trailers for "The Woman in Black". We then watched the trailers and annaylised the scripting of trailer.

Teaser trailer - 

Theatrical trailer - 

After looking at the scripting of the Woman in Black trailer,  I then explored scripting within trailers of my own genre. I looked at Seven, Shutter Island, Memento and Black Swan.
From looking at scripting for these trailers I found that there is little 'lengthy' dialogue and more 'one liners'. Also that there are between 1-3 conversations within the trailers that are commonly broken up by montage shots or the conversation carries however, the image on the screen changes. This is the use of off-screen dialogue.


The scripting for my trailer 

Gaining Permission

With Regards to our filming ideas for locations and setting some of these are areas of the general public, therefore in order to film in these location we had to write to or call to gain permission.

Macc Forest

Dear Sir/Madam

I am an A Level Media Studies student at The Fallibroome Academy, as part of my course work for this year I am making a film trailer. I am requesting permission to film in Macclesfield forest on various trails. The shots will be of an actor walking/running through the forest, the shot will appear for a few seconds in the trailer.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks,

Heather Lancashire

Sparrow Park

Dear Sir/Madam

 I am an A Level Media Studies student at The Fallibroome Academy, as part of my course work for this year I am making a film trailer. I am requesting permission to film in and the view from the park. The shot will be most likely of the view from the park rather than of the park itself, however I may also have need to film in the park itself. The shot will appear in the trailer for a couple of seconds.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks,

Heather Lancashire

Teggs nose Farm/flats

Dear Sir/Madam 

 I am an A Level Media Studies student at The Fallibroome Academy, as part of my course work for this year I am making a film trailer. I am requesting permission to film in and around Teggs nose Farm. The shots will be of the view but also there will be shots containing actors, this is where I would need to film in the flats and near other buildings. The shots will appear in the trailer for a couple of seconds.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks, 

Heather Lancashire

Town

Dear Sir/Madm

 I am an A Level Media Studies student at The Fallibroome Academy, as part of my course work for this year I am making a film trailer. I am requesting permission to film around the town shopping area, also near the town hall. The shots will be of actors as the areas will be used as the background setting. The shots will appear in the trailer for a couple of seconds.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks, 

Heather Lancashire

Large house

Dear Sir/Madam
I am an A Level Media Studies student at The Fallibroome Academy, as part of my course work for this year I am making a film trailer. I am requesting permission to film in and around your house as I feel with its grand, modern structure will work well when filmimg scenes for my trailer.
I am looking forawd to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
Heather Lancashire

Studio

Dear Sir/Madam
I am an A Level Media Studies student at The Fallibroome Academy, as part of my course work for this year I am making a film trailer. I am requesting permission to film in the studio to shoot various shoots using the lighting rig for my trailer.
I am lookig forawrd to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
Heather Lancashire

After gaining permission for the places where I am filming, I have created a Risk assessment for filming in these places.