Research and Planning: Final Product and Ancillary Tasks

This post has my final product - teaser trailer "Verdict" and my ancillary tasks Poster for "Verdict" and my magazine cover for "The Big Screen".

Research and Planning: Evaluation Question 4

How did you use technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stage?

This is my iShowU for question 4. On this iShowU video I have used the different technologies and talked about them and explained what I used them for.

 I used Exexcel at the beginning of the year to create my production schedule which guided me in what to next after each task completed.

The camcorder was used for filming.

iMovie - This has been used for editing the raw footage to make it into a teaser trailer.

iPhoto - I have used this to upload my photos from the SLR's to put on my magazine and poster.

I have used my BlackBerry to record some scenes and have also used to upload images of my work onto Twitter.

I have used Photoshop to create my film magazine and poster.

I used Microsoft Powerpoint to create the studio logos for my teaser trailer.

My Blogger has been used for my research and planning, which has been my guideline throughout the year and has helped within the role of making my teaser trailer.

I have used Garageband to make sound for the teaser trailer as this is an element that is needed.














I have used the internet to research genres of films horror in particular and also to research specific details within court cases.

I have used prezi to make my different publications that have been used to find out the target audience of my teaser trailer and everything about them, through questionnaire's I have produced.

I have used twitter to upload images of my photos to gain feedback from my target audience to let me know if I'm on the right track to achieving my goal.

I have used the SLR and tripod to film different scenes for my teaser trailer.









I have used Youtube to research codes and conventions of horror genre trailers.

Research and Planning: Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

This is my first video made for the feedback based on my teaser trailer "Verdict" about the strengths and weaknesses the target audience have written down about their watching of the teaser trailer, then what me and Louise have done to change this in order for our target audience to want to go and watch it.

Research and Planning: Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Is this podcast/videoclips me and Louise discuss the effectiveness and not so effectiveness of our film magazine and poster. We made this by making the sound clip on garageband - podcast, and then uploading in this into iTunes and then putting it in iMovie along with screen-grabs of the work we are talking about and other things.

Research and Planning: Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media products, use develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Teaser Trailer

Use: For our teaser trailer 'Verdict' me and Louise used some conventions of filming from other similar possession films such as "The Exorcism Of Emily Rose" The storyline is very similar as their is a court case and a possession of a character. 
The scene in our trailer where there is a blood spatter on the wall was taken from "The Strangers" as we thought it would be a good effect and a decent peak in our own trailer to create tension. Other scenes we have used from The Strangers are a scene where the swings are moving with no one sat on them and the scene where 'hello' is written all over the window. 
We have also used a scene from "Psycho" the part where this is an image of the knife with blood on it.
Other possession films including "The Exorcist" and "An American Haunting" have the storyline where a woman becomes possessed and we also decided to keep that theme running. 
Me and Louise have also used scenes in our trailer where the main character in the jury - Amy becomes possessed, just like in other movies we have looked at. Just like The Exorcism Of Emily Rose me and Louise have also put text on our teaser trailer to provide more information. 

Develop: The scene with the blood spatter on the wall we copied from The Strangers, however the other two we used we developed them further. The scene with the swings moving me and Louise added a darker effect on iMovie to make it seem more darker and mysterious to create tension. The scene where there is 'hello' written on the window, we made this our own by writing 'HELP ME!' in fake blood on a mirror. We also changed the storyline from other possession films where a demon or monster possess the woman, however in our case it is the spirit of a murdered young girl.

Challenge: We challenged the themes in our teaser trailer as well as even though their is a court case in The Exorcism Of Emily Rose we only showed members of the jury and not the actual court case, and we also used a news reporter scene to give more information. We also challenged the other possession story-lines we looked at as ours is completely original and hasn't been done before.

 










Film Magazine

Use: For my Film magazine I did not use too many conventions of others as mine is a horror special. However, there are some things I used from other magazines such as the typical colour scheme of 'Empire" and 'Total Film" - red, white and black. On my magazine I only used one main image just like in some issues of Total Film.

Develop: I have used other features of of different things on Empire magazine's like the added information they always use at the top. for mine I wrote "Review Of Summer BlockBusters 2012" they always have one piece of information at the top, but I changed this abit as I added a box for background.

Challenge: I have also challenged other types of magazines as my film magazine has a gradient effect and a negative effect with an inverted effect as well. Which has changed the background and the image completely and has made it look a lot more scarier. This gives my magazine a great horror effect.

Film Poster

Use: On my film poster I have used the typical conventions of the review of other papers to give it an added something so that my target audience will go and see it. I have also used the typical steeltongs and have added my logos and a website that the audience could go and visit if they wanted to, to find out more information.

Develop: Things I added on that aren't usually found on a lot of Horrors was the "Based On A True Story" and the tag line "Nothing Stays Dead & Buried". I didn't include actors names on mine as I wanted to make it mysterious as possible. I also changed the 'Yes' and 'No' that is found on an ouija board to 'Guilty' and 'Not Guilty' so that it fits in with the storyline.

Challenge:For my film poster I have not added an image, but have purely created an ouija board effect with a gradient that shows light and dark so that the audience doesn't quite know who the villain is and who the hero is. It is also quite original as the only other current film poster I could find without an image now is 'The Human Centipede 2' and that had been banned in the UK so that would be why.

Research and Planning: Final Film Magazine.

This is the final product for my Film magazine The Big Screen.

Research and Planning: Edit Log

This is my edit log for the teaser trailer Verdict so far.

Research and Planning: Raw Film Footage

This is my raw film footage for the teaser trailer so far. Me and Louise have now done all our filming and are in the process of completing our editing. However we still need to move different things about e.g. the ouija board and victim scenes. There are also a few editing transitions we need to sort out, like the time of the clips and also the text scenes. We have also been on Garageband and have had an experiment with the different sounds on there e.g. bass and music box, because it is about a little girl being murdered. So we thought that would fit and sound creepy. However, we have not found our ideal sound just yet. There are different diegtic background noises e.g. the gavel scene and we would like that sound to continue throughout on different scenes. There is also dialogue from different characters in the trailer, e,g, the jury member using the ouija board, the news reporter and the voice over from the judge. We also haven't decided if we would like to use the voice over sound given to use for the slide that will have the title "Verdict" and the "Coming Soon".

Research and Planning: Final Film Poster Verdict

This is the final copy of my film poster Verdict. for this I warped the text and numbers to give it an ouija board effect. I also added my own touches of putting stars on there to show ratings as this is seen on a lot of horrors as they don't like to give much away so they use ratings to let the audience know how good a film it will be. I made the production logos on photoshop, for BlackOut Productions I used a lightbulb on the custom made shapes, however for the TV I did it myself using the different shapes on photoshop e.g. lines, rectangles, circles and then ovals. I also used steel-tongs to make the credits and then used a background i created on Microsoft powerpoint, I then saved this as an image opened it up on photoshop made it as my background and then used the gradient tool to darken it out. I have no image on mine as I thought this would give it a better effect, it doesn't let the public know what happens as much then.

Research and Planning: Final Film Magazine The Big Screen

This is the final copy of my film magazine The Big Screen, As you can see I have taken a picture of the woods and the park and have the cut out the picture of the swings and then overlapped it onto the woods and then used the gradient tool to make it negative red. This gives it a horror effect, I then cut out a picture of my model Chloe, using the magnetic lassoo tool. I have changed my picture now as me and Louise both had a picture of Amy. Chloe is the little girl who has been murdered in the story line and even though she only appears for a fleeting moment in the trailer essentially she is a main character as she has been murdered and she does possess Amy. I also made a rectangle on a new layer and learned how to use the opacity tool to make it almost transparent and then put my main headline on top of it.

Research and Planning: Editing

Today me and Louise have been editing our teaser trailer and we used iShowU to show us using iMovie, splitting up clips, changing the positions of different clips and also using sound.

Research and Planning: Background Shots

For my media magazine the background shots that I have inverted and added the red gradient to and the negative effect were taken at Hyde Park, I used a picture of the woods and then a picture of the swings and combined the two together to overlay them and then add my model Chloe on top for the finished effect.