To the moderator,
This is my A2 Media blog for the film poster,magazine and trailer unit. I have created a trailer for my film idea 'The Grim Truth' and along side this i made a magazine front cover and poster. All of these can be found below starting from September were you will find my research and planning progress. ( http://bethhawleya2.blogspot.co.uk/2012_09_01_archive.html ) If you go to the march posts you will find my evaluation pages. (http://bethhawleya2.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html ) Feel free to look through my research and planning pages, evaluation pages and completed media products.

Hope you enjoy,
Beth Hawley

Friday, 28 December 2012

research and planning: poster research







These are some horror film posters. I have looked at posters from Silent House, The Apparition, One missed call and The Blair witch project. I looked at these to show me the conventions of horror media products because i haven't produced anything before with the genre being horror.

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

research and planning: christmas action plan

During the holidays i am planning on taking a macbook laptop home to complete work for other lessons, there for over the half term i will
-do some test head shots
-completing my targets for my blog
-film an audition piece with my sister

Friday, 14 December 2012

Research and planning: trailer props

 


For scenes in the asylum, we printed mental asylum and hospital records and documents to show the characters insanity. These are some of the written documents we used, footage of the documents on a board will follow shortly.

 

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

research and planning: Auditions

These are my audition videos, with people reading a line from horror film case 39's script. This video is of my mum and it is decided that she is too old to be in our trailer as one of the main characters, although she could play an adult teacher or doctor which would be relevant for our trailer.

research and planning: ishowu video

This i show u video shows me working for a period for 10 minutes. This is to show my day to day lesson work of me using different programmes like Prezzi, blogger, and imovie. During this video i create a Prezzi with ideas of cover lines i have thought of, i have also edited a few elements of my trailer within this clip.

Research and planning: cover lines


This prezi contains ideas for cover lines for my horror film The Grim Truth.

Friday, 7 December 2012

Research and planning: trailer rough cut

This is our trailer in the beginning stages of filming. This includes only the asylum scenes and the storyboard scenes in between in place of the shots we are yet to film.

After presenting our trailer so far to the class this is the feedback we got back.

Our strengths are:
'The logos were good'  I created these logos on photoshop to show the company logo called 'After dark'.

'The acting is good' Our friend Harriet offered to act in our trailer as the girl in the asylum and i feel she works well playing this role.

A lot of the feedback said 'The editing transitions are good', i feel this is our main strength because we worked together to be sure that the fast pace editing would work well.

Weaknesses:

People thought that the story line in our trailer 'narrative was unclear', this is understandable because the only shots that we filmed were the asylum scenes, which are flash backs during our filming we will edit the scenes to show the narrative more clearly.

Some people from the feedback also said that the mise-en-scene, the room that we filmed didn't look 'clinical enough' and needs to look more like an asylum, we are planning on re-filming parts of these scenes but to the same standard as the previously filmed scenes.

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

research and planning: model release forms


 These are model release forms for the photo-shoot for my horror magazine and poster. Sue and Sam's actor release forms are included because there hands were needed to cover my main models face.

research and planning: Meeting post

Yesterday me and my partener filmed some scenes for our trailer. We completed all of the scenes were one girl appears to be in a mental asylum acting strangley. Today we spent the lesson editing those scenes, ready to fit in with the rest of the scenes we will film in the up coming weeks.

Friday, 30 November 2012

research and planning: poster photoshoot



These photos are for my horror film poster. I plan on doing a lot of editing on these to make them darker and i will also be removing the majority of colour, and the arms around.

research and planning: magazine photo shoot










These pictures are for my horror film magazine. I used white and black face paint to create the face make up effect. I shot many photos with the same model but from different angels and positions, showing the contrast of shadows. The pictures of my models arm is of cuts, this is because the character is from a mental asylum and this shows schizophrenic behaviors. These photos will possibly be a faint overlay over the covers photo.

research and planning: photoshoot planning

This is a 'Whatsapp' message between me and my sister who agreed to be photographed for my film poster and magazine. Here i am sending her photos of the idea i had for the photo shoot, showing the possible angles and parts of the body i would be photographing. I also showed her through this message the makeup i would be using on the second picture of the black tear drop makeup around the eyes.

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Research and planning: poster drafts

 All of these drafts are initial designs of my horror film poster relating to my trailer called 'The Grim Truth'. Each draft is different using close up shots, and long establishing shots to present the film. The first draft is the one I intend develop on to my actual poster because although it is badly drawn, I think the design would work well when photographed. The idea is to have a female character who will also be on my magazine cover, but the character's identity is unknown on the poster. This is because her face will be hidden behind three hands, one covering her mouth, and two hands covering her eyes. I think this relates well to the films plot because throughout the trailer the identity of the protagonist is unknown. Over the face will be a question mark made up of works relating the the trailer. The slogan for this poster is 'Keep your friends close', which i think works well with relating to the film. Each draft is different and i will using elements of the first two drafts to create my poster.



research and planning: positioning statement ideas

These are initial ideas for my horror magazines positioning statement and masthead.

research and planning: sound research


During our trailer on a few occasions we will be including footsteps, for example when one girl locks another girl into a small room, when she walks away her feet and the stepping sounds are highlighted. Also on other occasions footsteps will be present as a background effect.


This video shows the music on a classic horror film trailer, the beginning i feel could work really well on my own trailer, elements and sounds from this trailer would work well with our genre and plot.




This clip is of the trailer for horror film 'Case 39'. I really like the music used throughout the whole trailer because it starts off quite neutral then as the action kicks in so does the music in a subtle way. The climax is built due to the sound effects and background music. I think this style of trailer music would work well on my own trailer and give it a physiological element.

Research and planning: Location Recces



Research and planning: meeting post

We have decided that for our trailer we are going to work together on cinematography, editing, mise en scene, and sound. We have chosen to do this because we thought the trailer would benefit from both of our ideas for each element.

research and planning: Magazine Mastheads








These are some Ideas for my magazine masthead. 


Friday, 23 November 2012

research and planning: trailer script

Trailer script:
Girl 1 (new girl): Orla
Girl 2 (leader of the group): Charlotte
Girl 3 (follower): Lily
Girl 4 (tomboy): Sophie

shots 3-5:
casual conversation

shots 7-10
crying, sniffles

shot 12: Orla and Lily
Orla: "iv just gotta grab something"
(lily is locked in)
Lily: "let me out"

shots 19-22 Doctor in asylum
mysterious girl: "no no no no" panicking
Doctor: "calm down, calm down your fine, you'll just feel a little scratch"

shots 23,2430,31,32
in the asylum
Mysterious girl: screaming, pleading
: "get off" "let go"

Shots 35-41
Sophie and lily in the park
Lily: "weird things have been going on recently"

Throughout the trailer there isn't much dialogue, and the large amount being casual conversation between friends, but in the majority being screams and frantic outbursts.

reseach and planning: location shots


These are shots of locations of were we will be filming our trailer.

research and planning: audition poster




These are photos of our audition posters which we placed around college.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Monday, 19 November 2012

research and planning: magazine make up tests


These are make up tests to see if the face paint worked well, and to just to just trail whether my ideas would work.

Friday, 16 November 2012

research and planning: shot list's for trailer




These images are of shot lists for my trailer. Looking at the shot numbers it looks mixed up, the main location will be shot inside the college, then there is 4 shots in a girls bedroom, then back in college. the college shots feature throughout and inbetween certain shots include distorted falsh backs or a mental asylum. The asylum shots will have various way of showing a mental state but not reveling the idnentiy of the girl. The finale of the trailer is in the park, which is where vairous things happen and there are 4 final shot panning around a band stand, shooting a close up on the faces of all four girls.
 

Research and palnning: magazine drafts x2






This is a first draft of my film magazine cover. I changed the name of my magazine from rewind to uncut. I used a close up shot for the focus image to make the whole face fill the frame. I included indication of cover lines, the barcode, the price, masthead and slug line.

This is a draft of my magazine cover. This is a second idea and less refined than the first because i think the first draft will be more succsessful. I included a mid shot of a female character, using the same hairstyle and makeup as on the first draft. There will also be a Masthead, slug line, price, barcode, and cover lines on my magazine cover.