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.