Film poster
Film magazine cover
Thursday 20 December 2012
Monday 17 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
Soundtrack
Using Soundtrack Pro brought from the Apple Store, I was able to look through a variety of different soundtracks from the cinematic section. These are all copyright free as they are provided within the app from Apple.
I found a track I particuarly liked called 'Blackout' and I felt it went well with my trailer. The strings and eery tones fit the mystery and thriller aspect of the film, whilst the piano part of the song make it seem like a drama film, which also fits in with the film's theme.
Cutting the song into parts and looping particular moments of the song, I knew I wanted to use the drum and heavy beats at important parts of the trailer, for example once the girl's face changes to the mask.
I wanted to have a faster sound during the montage/last half of my film trailer and I looked at different songs I could use. Everything I chose seemed to really stand out as it was played after Blackout and it didn't fit right, so I thought I would play around with Blackout's tempo, speed and so on.
I changed the tempo of 'Blackout' and made the pitch slightly higher, which speeds up the music and therefore adds tension. I used this in the last part of the film trailer and faded it out towards the end.
For sound effects, I found a sound called 'Dark Side' which I used at the point where the soundtrack changes tempo. This is to show that there is an obvious point where everything in the trailer speeds up, which is the time that the face of the girl is revealed to be a mask.
Throughout my interim feedback, a few people kept telling me that the little girl and older girl's scream did not fit in with the trailer, as the scream was too short and appeared out of nowhere. So I played around with the editing features of the song to see how it would be worked.
At first I copied a chunk from the middle of the scream and reentered it into the middle, this is so the scream is now longer in duration. I then used the echo effect from Final Cut Pro to extend the scream and make it echo/ The echoing scream reflects the narrative of the film, as the little girl is haunting the older girl. The scream I use is one I recorded of the little girl, and it goes over both visuals of the little girl and older girl screaming, so it shows that the two girls are connected.
Another sound I used within my trailer is another sound effect from the little girl. As the song the girl sings at the beginning is Ring A Ring o'Roses, I wanted to connect the beginning of the trailer with the end of the trailer like a loop. At the beginning the little girl sings one part of the song:
During the last part of my film trailer, I wanted the little girl's singing to echo throughout the montage and end in the final scene. So I recorded here singing another part of the song.
I made sure that I positioned the last part of the song to have the countdown to three appear just when the character opens her eyes in the last shot. I also used another effect so that her voice appears like an echo, a voice in a head which is a code of psychological thrillers.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o'_Roses
I found a track I particuarly liked called 'Blackout' and I felt it went well with my trailer. The strings and eery tones fit the mystery and thriller aspect of the film, whilst the piano part of the song make it seem like a drama film, which also fits in with the film's theme.
Cutting the song into parts and looping particular moments of the song, I knew I wanted to use the drum and heavy beats at important parts of the trailer, for example once the girl's face changes to the mask.
I wanted to have a faster sound during the montage/last half of my film trailer and I looked at different songs I could use. Everything I chose seemed to really stand out as it was played after Blackout and it didn't fit right, so I thought I would play around with Blackout's tempo, speed and so on.
I changed the tempo of 'Blackout' and made the pitch slightly higher, which speeds up the music and therefore adds tension. I used this in the last part of the film trailer and faded it out towards the end.
For sound effects, I found a sound called 'Dark Side' which I used at the point where the soundtrack changes tempo. This is to show that there is an obvious point where everything in the trailer speeds up, which is the time that the face of the girl is revealed to be a mask.
Throughout my interim feedback, a few people kept telling me that the little girl and older girl's scream did not fit in with the trailer, as the scream was too short and appeared out of nowhere. So I played around with the editing features of the song to see how it would be worked.
At first I copied a chunk from the middle of the scream and reentered it into the middle, this is so the scream is now longer in duration. I then used the echo effect from Final Cut Pro to extend the scream and make it echo/ The echoing scream reflects the narrative of the film, as the little girl is haunting the older girl. The scream I use is one I recorded of the little girl, and it goes over both visuals of the little girl and older girl screaming, so it shows that the two girls are connected.
Another sound I used within my trailer is another sound effect from the little girl. As the song the girl sings at the beginning is Ring A Ring o'Roses, I wanted to connect the beginning of the trailer with the end of the trailer like a loop. At the beginning the little girl sings one part of the song:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,The song is an urban legend song, which has been around for hundreds of years since 1800s. However, some people say that the song comes from the Black Plague of 1665-1666, where thousands of people died. The song therefore has quite a sinister meaning.
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
During the last part of my film trailer, I wanted the little girl's singing to echo throughout the montage and end in the final scene. So I recorded here singing another part of the song.
Fishes in the water
Fishes in the sea
We all jump up
With a one, two, three.
I made sure that I positioned the last part of the song to have the countdown to three appear just when the character opens her eyes in the last shot. I also used another effect so that her voice appears like an echo, a voice in a head which is a code of psychological thrillers.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o'_Roses
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Pitch
Film trailers are created after a film has been made, by editing different parts of a film for a promotional package. Therefore, it was only ideal for me to come up with a full story for my film and then to make the trailer.
Here is my story:
While their mother was sleeping, Mattie brutally murdered her younger brother Michael, who was only 3 years old at the time, with a knife in the kitchen while their mother was asleep. Mattie was only 6. When her mother came into the kitchen, she saw Michael on the floor with his blood everywhere, over the knife and all over Mattie. Mattie was taken into a mental hospital because she was blamed for her brother’s death, which was too much for her mother to handle so her mother committed suicide. After therapy and care, Mattie describes that a dark haired man, with a wonky leg, in a duffle coat had come through the back door and murdered Michael in front of her and that she was innocent. Matthew, a neighbour six doors down, matched this description and was found guilty for the murder meaning that Mattie was able to leave child care when she was 18.
15 years later, Mattie lives in her own apartment, with job and a predominately healthy and stable life despite her past. Mattie appears unaffected by her past, her mother’s death and witnessing the murder of her brother. Suddenly she start’s having nightmares about her childhood, seeing herself with Michael’s blood over her and painting a picture with the blood. Over the week, the nightmares become more vivid and Mattie see’s that the picture her young self is painting is of a mask. Here, her nightmares come into her waking life, as she begins to see her young self on the street, in work and even in her home. The mask too begins appearing in her day to day life, as she sees a man in a duffle coat wearing the mask in shops, in restaurants on dates and at home. Then one day, Mattie is getting ready and she looks into the mirror and sees herself wearing the mask. These nightmares become too much like reality and Mattie becomes frightened. Mattie goes back to the child care home she grew up in and asks to see the physiatrist, Dr. Kien, to see if she can start therapy again to help her nightmares.
One night, while Mattie is sleeping, she wakes up from another vivid nightmare of her and everyone around her wearing this familiar mask. She wakes up to see that a masked silhouette behind her. She demands to know who the person is and why they are haunting her. The masked person replies that this is just her dream and that Mattie is still in the mental hospital from her childhood. She had been declared insane and started to have happy dreams of a normal life, in a normal apartment, with a normal job and normal friends, being happy and healthy. However these dreams began to be taken over with the masked man, the one that she told police killed Michael when in fact, Matthew was never arrested. Mattie killed Michael when she was young and was taken to the mental hospital. She has never left.
Here is my story:
While their mother was sleeping, Mattie brutally murdered her younger brother Michael, who was only 3 years old at the time, with a knife in the kitchen while their mother was asleep. Mattie was only 6. When her mother came into the kitchen, she saw Michael on the floor with his blood everywhere, over the knife and all over Mattie. Mattie was taken into a mental hospital because she was blamed for her brother’s death, which was too much for her mother to handle so her mother committed suicide. After therapy and care, Mattie describes that a dark haired man, with a wonky leg, in a duffle coat had come through the back door and murdered Michael in front of her and that she was innocent. Matthew, a neighbour six doors down, matched this description and was found guilty for the murder meaning that Mattie was able to leave child care when she was 18.
15 years later, Mattie lives in her own apartment, with job and a predominately healthy and stable life despite her past. Mattie appears unaffected by her past, her mother’s death and witnessing the murder of her brother. Suddenly she start’s having nightmares about her childhood, seeing herself with Michael’s blood over her and painting a picture with the blood. Over the week, the nightmares become more vivid and Mattie see’s that the picture her young self is painting is of a mask. Here, her nightmares come into her waking life, as she begins to see her young self on the street, in work and even in her home. The mask too begins appearing in her day to day life, as she sees a man in a duffle coat wearing the mask in shops, in restaurants on dates and at home. Then one day, Mattie is getting ready and she looks into the mirror and sees herself wearing the mask. These nightmares become too much like reality and Mattie becomes frightened. Mattie goes back to the child care home she grew up in and asks to see the physiatrist, Dr. Kien, to see if she can start therapy again to help her nightmares.
One night, while Mattie is sleeping, she wakes up from another vivid nightmare of her and everyone around her wearing this familiar mask. She wakes up to see that a masked silhouette behind her. She demands to know who the person is and why they are haunting her. The masked person replies that this is just her dream and that Mattie is still in the mental hospital from her childhood. She had been declared insane and started to have happy dreams of a normal life, in a normal apartment, with a normal job and normal friends, being happy and healthy. However these dreams began to be taken over with the masked man, the one that she told police killed Michael when in fact, Matthew was never arrested. Mattie killed Michael when she was young and was taken to the mental hospital. She has never left.
Sunday 9 December 2012
Thursday 6 December 2012
Risk assessment
Home 1 - Hall way for mirror
Home 2 - Hall way for little girl painting
Bedroom 1 - Bed used for dream scene and opening of door
Kitchen 1 - Used for knife scene
Grassland 1 - Used for running scene
Street 1 - Montage scenes of girl walking and car being drove
Home 1-
All breakable items were placed away from the scene so that they were not at risk of being broken and damaged because this was not my house. Secondly, if the items were broken they could have caused injury to cast and or crew members. There was a natural risk of people tripping, knocking themselves of things and so on, however we avoided these accidents by setting up the tripod, camera and making sure each scene was filmed with no rush.
Home 2-
All items were removed as the little girl was going to be in the hallway. There was a natural risk of people tripping, knocking themselves of things and so on, however we avoided these accidents by setting up the tripod, camera and making sure each scene was filmed with no rush. I had to get permission from the girls' parent to make sure she was ok to be filmed for my media project.
Bedroom 1-
As this was not my bedroom, we had to respect the owner's privacy and therefore we removed objects that would be in shot which were photographs or something similar. This also meant we had to make sure we left the room after filming how we found it. Possible risks were simple hazards such as hurting self on objects, but none of the risks were dangerous.
Kitchen 1-
Kitchen's are very dangerous because of the different utensils that are around, therefore I was sure that no other people were in the room as I was only filming a knife. Because knives are dangerous, I made sure to slowly and carefully apply the fake blood to the knife and that I was wearing safety gloves.
Grassland 1 -
There were many risks on the grassland area, such as litter, holes in ground, trees and wildlife. We made sure not to harm any wildlife during filming and that we did not affect the nature where we filmed. We also checked that no litter or other dangerous materials surrounding the area where we were filming, so that my actor and the crew were safe. Dog mess is another issue we had to check for, to make sure it wasn't in the way of filming.
Street 1 -
Similarly to grassland, the street could have had dog mess, litter or other natural hazards to harm actors or crew. We had to watch out for cars too, but luckily we only used an alley way and a dead end road, so there were fewer cars.
Home 2 - Hall way for little girl painting
Bedroom 1 - Bed used for dream scene and opening of door
Kitchen 1 - Used for knife scene
Grassland 1 - Used for running scene
Street 1 - Montage scenes of girl walking and car being drove
Home 1-
All breakable items were placed away from the scene so that they were not at risk of being broken and damaged because this was not my house. Secondly, if the items were broken they could have caused injury to cast and or crew members. There was a natural risk of people tripping, knocking themselves of things and so on, however we avoided these accidents by setting up the tripod, camera and making sure each scene was filmed with no rush.
Home 2-
All items were removed as the little girl was going to be in the hallway. There was a natural risk of people tripping, knocking themselves of things and so on, however we avoided these accidents by setting up the tripod, camera and making sure each scene was filmed with no rush. I had to get permission from the girls' parent to make sure she was ok to be filmed for my media project.
Bedroom 1-
As this was not my bedroom, we had to respect the owner's privacy and therefore we removed objects that would be in shot which were photographs or something similar. This also meant we had to make sure we left the room after filming how we found it. Possible risks were simple hazards such as hurting self on objects, but none of the risks were dangerous.
Kitchen 1-
Kitchen's are very dangerous because of the different utensils that are around, therefore I was sure that no other people were in the room as I was only filming a knife. Because knives are dangerous, I made sure to slowly and carefully apply the fake blood to the knife and that I was wearing safety gloves.
Grassland 1 -
There were many risks on the grassland area, such as litter, holes in ground, trees and wildlife. We made sure not to harm any wildlife during filming and that we did not affect the nature where we filmed. We also checked that no litter or other dangerous materials surrounding the area where we were filming, so that my actor and the crew were safe. Dog mess is another issue we had to check for, to make sure it wasn't in the way of filming.
Street 1 -
Similarly to grassland, the street could have had dog mess, litter or other natural hazards to harm actors or crew. We had to watch out for cars too, but luckily we only used an alley way and a dead end road, so there were fewer cars.
Tuesday 4 December 2012
First poster attempt
When creating my poster (link here to how I created my poster), I had a few different ideas when making it. Here are some drafts of my poster:
My first idea was a image of the main character but hidden behind the mask. In the character's eye would be a reflection of the little girl from the film trailer.
After many attempts, I realised to pull off this I would need a very creative images to work together. I tried many times but thought of other ideas I could do with the photos I took in my character poster photo shoot.
Here are some other small edits I tried with my images:
Even before asking, I was not impressed with this poster and therefore I decided I needed to make it look darker, more intimidating and like a psychological thriller.
Here are some edits I created on photoshop. Straight away I thought I was on to something good as I liked the change in the image.
In the second edit of it, I made sure the face was more vibrant and therefore stood out more. I like the idea of a full black background as the film will be quite dark and daunting.
I added the extra information credits and my tagline, which I was both happy with.
Then I tried different coloured text.
One White with a Red outline.
A second just plain Red.
And a third, red with a black outline.
I genrerated a survery where I printed out a copy of each and gave to twenty members of my target audience to see which colour they preferred.
White with Red outline 4
Plain Red 1
Red with a Black outline 15
When I asked these people what genre they thought the film was, they all said horror and some said 'horror/thriller'. When I asked why, they all said that the text reminded them of blood and therefore horror.
Even though my film features blood, it is not specifically a horror but a psychological thriller. Therefore, I am going to change the type of font so that is it more basic for a film poster (like the ones below) but stick to the colour of the one with the most votes. Red with a Black outline.
My first idea was a image of the main character but hidden behind the mask. In the character's eye would be a reflection of the little girl from the film trailer.
After many attempts, I realised to pull off this I would need a very creative images to work together. I tried many times but thought of other ideas I could do with the photos I took in my character poster photo shoot.
Here are some other small edits I tried with my images:
I took one image and expanded on it with some editing. I created a poster and asked around in my media class what people thought.
Here are some edits I created on photoshop. Straight away I thought I was on to something good as I liked the change in the image.
One White with a Red outline.
White with Red outline 4
Plain Red 1
Red with a Black outline 15
When I asked these people what genre they thought the film was, they all said horror and some said 'horror/thriller'. When I asked why, they all said that the text reminded them of blood and therefore horror.
Even though my film features blood, it is not specifically a horror but a psychological thriller. Therefore, I am going to change the type of font so that is it more basic for a film poster (like the ones below) but stick to the colour of the one with the most votes. Red with a Black outline.
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