Thursday, 12 May 2011

Monday, 10 January 2011

What did you learn from your audience feedback?


Evaluation Prezzi

Shortlists & Running Order

Questionnaire Results

















It is clear from the results above that there is a substantial number of young adults who enjoy horror films and there is a clear gap for psychological horror movie. A psychological horror also offers an option for audiences who don't enjoy horror movies alone and prefer other genres.

Risk Assessments


Tuesday, 14 December 2010

I researched many different Film Magazine front covers and realised that a lot of magazines, such as Total Film and Empire, used the same picture from their most publicised poster. I have decided to follow this trend. As I did with my promotional film poster I have made a mock-up of the basic design on my film magazine cover. Again the mock-up plan has changed slightly from my final magazine front cover.

Movie Poster

For my movie poster I first created a mock up to help show the basic design my movie was going to take. However since making the mock-up poster I have done alot more secondary research of film posters, so there are a few changes between the mock-up and the final draft of my movie poster. 

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Venue Release Forms

When filming our trailer for the majority of the scenes we need specific permission from land owners to use their land for filming. The scene settings of our trailer which required permission to film are:

The Graveyard
The House Owner
Costa Coffee

For some of our scenes we did not have to get permission to film, these locations were as following:
The Alley Way
Maghull Train Station

To double check it was indeed okay for us to film in the train station we asked the merseyrail attendant and duty and he confirmed that it was.














Graveyard

A member of our group e-mailed the reverend of St Andrew's Church to ask if we could use the graveyard on the church land. The e-mail we sent the reply we got can be seen below:



















House Owner

Fortunate enough for our group we were able to use one of our own houses to film part of our trailer, therefore we simply asked the parents of the person in our group and verbally got consent to film in their house.

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Costume List

Our target market for our trailer is older teenagers and young adults. Something as simple as characters costumes can define what type of person they are, understanding how important costumes are we took time and cosideration deciding them. We made the costumes casual and in fashion for the modern day teenager/young adult. We also thought out our whole film to make more sense of what costumes would be used in the same shots of our trailer.

Venue List and Risk Assesments

St Andrews Church (Maghull)
Train Station (Maghull)
Costa Coffee (Ormskirk)
Country Lane (Maghull)
House

The locations above were perfect for the mis en scene needed to film our trailer. Our trailer is for a scary movie so we thought very carefully about lighting and what time of day to film. St Andrews Church gave us the perfect setting for eerie dark long establishing shots to fit in with the genre of our film.
For risk assessments we made sure that no one could be harmed or hurt whilst filming. When filming in the graveyard we made sure that all branches and twigs were moved out of the way to make sure no one tripped over. All so when filming in Costa Coffee a knife was used. We made sure that the first knife used (which fell off the table) was blunt so it caused no damage; we then swapped the knife for a sharper one. A lot of the camera angles we used were high shots therefore we had to make sure the platform we used to rest the video camera on was secure and safe.

St Andrews Church Graveyard

Cafe


House 
















Country Lane

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Filming Log

This is a copy of our filming log. As you can see there are some significant changes from out production schedule. When coming to film our trailer it became apparent that members of our group could not be present on some days, so we re-scheduled the days and our jobs within the days of filming.


Production Log

My group consisted of Rachel Slater, Lauren Talbolt, Sam Higham and myself, Lauren O'Connor. This helps us to decide who will execute which job whilist filming are trailer. We have split the jobs fairly amongst the group. We have also included a timetable of what we will film on what days and times.

















Actors

Victoria Francis




Hannah Hobson

Props

Below are pictures of props we used for our film trailer:

Knife
















Gravestones


Key


Mirror


Photograph


Video Camera


Torch


Telephone 


Cabinet and Draw


Coffee cup and plate














Shower Curtain