October Half Term 24th-30

During the October half term I began to edit my trailer. I decided againt using the school apple mac as I found it very hard to use and also I could not acsess the computer during half time and home time.  I began using my Dell Inspirion laptop using Windows Movie Maker throught the whole process. I have really enjoyed the process of making my trailer but have also found it very tiring and hard. It took my quite a lot of time to actually work out how to use the Windows Movie Maker. After a good half an hour on playing around I began to become more fimiliar with it! I am currently half way through editing my trailor. I am also currently making my two ancillary tasks which are coming along very nicley.

Making of my Film Poster

I have now started to begin and make my film poster. My tasks unclude; deiciding on a name for the magazine, deiciding on a picture, font size, colour, size etc.

Some examples of magazine names:

FilmPlus

FilmIt

TrailorTease

TrailorSpace

The making of my Film Magazine Front Cover

This week I am going to continue to investigate the meaning of an film magazine front cover and also begin to create my own film magazine poster. I have already decided that I am going to to use I picture I took on my camera whilst filming my trailer. My Research that I have done has shown me many different things. Most of the film posters that I have researched the headings are vey clear and bold and it is usually the character involved that appears on the front of the magazine or even the villian. There is also alot of detail around the edges of the magazine cover which creates memerbale infomation and catches the audiences eye. I will be using a picture of my main character on the front of my Film poster, as in most professional film posters this is what they do, i discovered this from my own research of film posters. I will be creating my film poster and my film magazine front cover both on microsoft word, and will be editing pictures on paint and on picnic.

Before me and Jo began to film our trailer we sat down and discussed the filming. We both decided that Jo was going to me part of the main character in the trailer. As soon as we decided this would made mood boards about how each shot was going to be filmed so it was easy and simple to do. We also made a mood board on the type of shots we were planning to use so we had a big variety

Thursday 6th October-

Creating my poster

As we have finished filming my trailer and progressing on to editing it, I am now going to look at creating a film poster for my trailer and also creating a magazine front cover. I have carried out research for each area so I am ready to start the process of making it. The title for our trailer is called 'No Place Like Home' so this will defiantly be on the front on both of my ancillary tasks. I will be creating these on microsoft word and also paint! I will keep regular post of the process of my making of my ancillary tasks!

Mood board/ list of shots

This is a print preview of my shots. Me and jo have listed our shots, the amount of time they last for and also which character's are in it. This helped us alot during the process of our teaser trailer. We very much followed the flow diagram and it made our filming very quicker and productive

Questionnaire results

This is a print preview of my results for my questionnaire. I found out that the majority of the people asked did enjoy watching teaser trailers. I asked a total of 20 people. 12 enjoyed trailers, the other 8! This defiantly helped me as I now know that most people do actaully enjoy them.


This is another print screen on my results for another question. The question I asked this time was ' How long do you expect a teaser trailer to be?' There was a variety of results for this one. The main answer for this was ' 1 mintue'. Therefore now when I editing my trailer I will try and aim my trailer to be 1 minute.

My questionnaire

Here is a print screen of my questionnaire. I gave this out to 20 people in my school and also around my house. I hope the feedback from the questionnaire will help me create a trailer to suit everybodys expectations.

Week beginning 3rd October

Today was mine and Jo's first attempt of editing our trailer. We decided to use to schools apple mac computer. This was a very daunting task for me and Jo as we have never used one of these before. One of the first hurdles we came to, was figuring out how to clip round a video clip. After an whole hour of trying to work it out me and Jo finally managed to do it. Our first session of editing was pretty much just a play around. We flicked around all the different settings and editing tools and decided which ones we liked. We will be continue to edit during the week