Editing our trailer

Today me and Jo started to edit our trailer. I personally didn't realise the amount of time it took to edit our trailer. Whilst editing our trailer me and Jo both realised that there were parts in out trailer that didn't really conjoin and flow. Therefore we decided to film a couple more clips. As we done these, we again added them into our trailer. The flow of the trailer itself makes a lot more sense and we are both happy with it. Most of the night me and Jo were placing the clips in order and creating the story line. After that we cut and edited each clip so the most exciting section in the clip was the bit being shown. After doing this to each and every clip, when then picked and choose what clips we wanted to put into our trailer. Again after choosing these our trailer was finally beginning to take place. All we have left to do is to edit the clips into one another and add sound effects.

My final film magazine front cover

Feedback on my film magazine cover

Today I got teacher to look and give me feedback on my film cover. She said everything about the film cover was good but she could see no similarities between my film poster and my magazine cover. she personally preferred my film poster as it looked a lot more scary and professional. What I have decided to do is change my picture on my film magazine cover. The picture I am going to use is one I took whilst filming my trailer. It consists of the my actor opening a mirror and the man in the mask is in the reflection of the mirror. The similarities now would be the man in the mask is on both of the posters. I also am going to change the yellow writing to black as I think the yellow writing is to bright and happy for the horror trailer. Black writing will fit in with the genre of horror. Also the I had re-arrange the writing on the left hand side on the magazine so it made more sense and read fluently

Re-Filming

Today me and Jo re-filmed our bits to add into our trailer. We had to re-film as some of the shots that we filmed which were to dark! We re-filmed a good 3 mintues of new footage! We also filmed new bits which we hadn't filmed before, re-filming gave us new ideas to put into our film trailer. To make sure that the filming wasn't to dark again we decided to film earlier on in the day and we also used a light in the next room which gave the camera more light! We are now ready to start finally editing are Film Trailer

My Final Magazine Front Cover

My changes made

Here is my Final Magazine Front Cover. I previewed my orginial magazine to my teacher and she guided me in the right direction and gave my advice. The changes I have made to my magazine cover are as followed; I made a spelling era at the top right, I mis-spelled Joanne's Name. I also deleted 'Pull out poster of Johnny Depp' I deleted this because Johnny Depp isn't really seen as a 'Horror' genered actor so It wouldn'y appeal to those reading the magazine. I also changed the daily mirror writing to the heading being 'Exclusive' I decided to put this as the word 'Exlcusive' draws the readres attention in more! I also made the picture look more brighter as it looked to dark and you couldn't make out the actor

My Final Film Poster

Editing my Film Poster

Creating my Film Poster

Today I decided to take pictures for my Film Potser. I used a model and gave her a mask to wear as she is the main character in my film. We took many different shots, but found it very difficult. Where the genre of my trailer is horror I had to have the lightening pretty dark, but this didnt look very effective on the picture as it was too dark. We tried the using the flah on the camera but the flash reflected on the plastic mask. What we decided to do is use my porch as it does already have a light in it. As my trailer is about a man in a mask trying to get into the house we used the door to take pictures. I positioned my model behind the door and looking through. The glass on the door has a good effect as it makes the mask like smeared.

I used http://www.picnik.com/ to Edit my picture, I darkened my picture down, and used a blood effect on the glass of the door. I also cropped the picture as it was alot bigger, but I wanted the emphasis on the man behind looking through the door.

Here is my Final Shot

Final Magazine Front Cover

Tuesday 15th November- Contuining editing my trailer

As I have been editing my ancillary tasks, I have also been editing my trailer. I have found editing was a bit of a strugle but I eventually have got the hang on it and discovered how to add in all different effects, from music, sound effects, other videos etc. I managed to edit a mojority of my trailer but had some awful news that a couple of my shots were to dark and the audience couldn't make out what the objects were in the film. Therefore today and tommorrow I will be filming be shots needed and getting back on with editing my trailer and adding them new shots in. This has delayed me with my editing but It will look alot better when my shots are brighter, I believe the story line will be alot clearer if the shots can me seen.















At the beginning of my trailer I need to create a advertising trailer. I have to think of some names that I could use also. I will also be creating this today. Some advertising trailers that are very known are:

 Warner Brothers etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIT-gON4Hs
I hope to create my advertising trailer along the samer lines as one of these. I will be posting print screens of my process of making my trailer logo

Tuesday 15th November

Today I have again made changes to the front cover. I have moved the text from the bottom of the front cover to the middle underneath the other text on the left hand side of the magazine font cover. I have also changed what the the deep red text said. I have changed it because I believe what it said before was more or likely to be put on a poster advertising the film. I have also added a picture of black and yellow tape at the bottom of the front cover to add more effect. As you no yellow and black tape means stay away and danger, so this is why I put it there.



Monday 14th November- Film Poster Magazine front cover continued....

This is my Film Magazine front cover continued. I have moved the text at the bottom onto the left hand side which makes it look more like a professional film magazine poster! I have also added in a bar code to also make it look more realistic. I have added in text on the left hand side of the magazine which again makes the magazine look more professiona. I like the colour of the text as it is very bright and it stands out, which catches the audiences eye. All I have to do now is pick a picture to put on the front of the magazine. Again I will continue making changes

Editing My trailer

Me and Jo began to edit our trailer using the apple mac computer at school. As I said on my post when we first started filming, me and Jo found it very hard to use. Also it wasn't suitable as me and Jo wanted to use the computer after school and at weekends. We also couldnt acssess the mac at all time because other students would be using it too. We therefore mad a decision that we should not use the mac. As we both have laptops with Windows 7 on it, we decided to use Windows MovieMaker on our laptops. I think that Windows MovieMaker is alot more complex to use and I personally understand it more. Since using this software I have learnt how to add in videos and music from youtube and convert it. Also I have learnt how to fade out and fade in shots. I have learnt how to cut shots, and how to make the music I have used start at a certain time. Windows MoveMaker is definatly more easier to use, and I have learnt various things that I can now use in the future. I also had to edit the brightnessof my shots because some of them came across to dark. Im hoping they wont be too dark, and that I will have to re-film! My trailer so far is looking good, and I hope to continue the high standard of work throughout. I am now looking at high pitch screams and sudden noises e.g bangs, door slams to use in my trailer to make my audience jump as this is my main purpose of my Teasor Trailer.

This is the Apple Mac 'Final Cut Pro' software that I began using, but then swoped to the Windows MovieMaker as it was more convenient

This is Windows Movie Maker which I am now continuing editing my trailer on

Friday 11th November- Film Magazine Poster in progess

This is my Film Magazine front cover in progess. I will be concentrating on this for the next couple of days. So far I really like what I have done. The colours, the text and the way it is displayed I really like. I think it draws the audience into it. Here is feedback from one of my friends,   Sam: I think this magazine front cover looks really professional and I could really see it on a shop shelve. The one thing that I dislike about this front cover is the text at the bottom, I think it looks a bit too much like a film poster more than a Magazine front cover. I have also added in magazine's opinions at the bottom of the magazine, although I do believe that this is more apprant in a film poster, so I will take this out. I will contue to make changes to this..

Thursday 4th November- The making of my Film Poster

Film Poster number 1= This is my first mock of my Film Poster. I have stuck to my colour theme's red, black and white. The writing is very chilling, and scary. Therefore I believe it fits in with my horror genre. On the other hand I think the writing looks very cartoonish and un professional. I have tried putting my chosen picture on the background of this poster but I could not see this on a professional poster, therefore I am not going to carry on with this Film Poster.

Film Poster number 2= This is my second mock up of my Film Poster, I already prefer this one to my first mock up. Again I have stuck firmly to the colour schemes, the create a sense of horror. The writing up the top of the poster is very affective. The text points at the end of each letter creating a sharp, knife like object. I also like the way the text colours are con-joined together making a blood colour. A prefer this Film Poster out the to two so I am going to continue with this Film Poster/

This is the start of both of my Film poster. I have made two of these ad have already picked on that I prefer. I like the colours of this one red black and white and hope to keep these colours throughout the magazine poster also. The writing if very chilling and automatically tells me that the poster is genre at horror.  will now be carrying on with my second poster and posting pictures of my progress.

Film Poster Research

From the film posters that I have researched towards the beginning of my blog, I found out many of things. I found out that my film poster has to be very bright coloured at bold. The picture has to be very much to the point and alot has to come through from the photo.The film poster does not have to look to busy, but has to have the name of the film on it, it has to have the date of the film and all of the people involved names on the bottom of the poster. It has to be very detailed and creative. I am hoping to acheive this with my film poster. I will be creating my film poster on word and on publisher. I am now going to begin to make my film poster.

Also me initial idea was to use the front door in my teaser trailer for the front of my film magazine cover, but through my research I discovered that its manily the actors on the front of the magazine. Therefore I am going to use my actor as the person on the front of my magazine cover

Wednesday 3rd November- What is a film trailer?

A movie poster is a poster used to advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature photographs of the main actors. Prior to the 1990s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on movie posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tag line, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, etc.
Movie posters are displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(promotion)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_poster

Film Poster promoting the film

As I am now in the process of making my first ancillary task, and am now going to move on to my final task. I am now going to create a film poster promoting the film! I have to make this film poster very eye catching and bold to catch the audiences attention. I will be using a picture that I took during the filiming of my film trailer. I will be carrying the same colour scheme throughout both film poster and film magazine front cover. The colour scheme that I will be using are as followed: red, black and white. I believe these colours are very thriller/horror colours, and my target audience should realate to these colours as being thriller/horror genred. Creating my first ancillary task will take a lot of time. I will be using my own personal research that I have discovered through analysing other professional Film posters and using ideas from these. I hope that my film poster will look good and professional.

Thursday 2nd November- Starting my Film Magazine Front Cover

Today in lesson I continued to make me Film magazine front cover. I decided on a final name which was 'FilmIt', and also decided on a picture taken by myself whilst eiditing. Here is my Film magazine cover in process..

As I carrying on with making me Film Magazine Front Cover I am thinking of new ideas to put on it. I decided to use a black background as I believe that as my trailer is genred horror, the film magazine itself could be promoting horro trailers. Another reason why I used black for the background colour of my magazine was because the colour font that I use would really stand out. Also the text at the top which is coloured red, signifies the essance of blood and horror. The colour red can also be seen as a sense of danger as red is also seen as 'stop'. I also included a date and a price at the top of my film poster so it comes across more real and professional. The other ideas I have thought about texts and credits to put round the side of the magazine to promote other horror films, and actors etc

What is a Film Magazine Cover?

Movie posters are art and, unfortunately, the forgotten one. In the early years of cinema history, they were used just like advertising material. Displayed in theatres only, movie posters had the same function as a menu in a restaurant: what feast can I enjoy this evening? Nowadays, movie posters play a big role in cinema memorabilia collection. They have lost the “informative” tone to wear a more artistic and decorative dress. We want to change it with this post.
Made in many different sizes and versions, and released in different moments all along a movie’s life, posters immortalize in one static image the feeling and the atmosphere of a motion picture. Some posters can be dark or try to frighten the audience, others bedazzling with bright colors; some can be someway informative, while others can be fully teasing and may provide you only the date when movie will be released, even if you may not know what the movie is about.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/12/50-beautiful-movie-posters/