filming day 5

During the day we went over the classroom scene and added in close ups and changed the tones of some of the dialogue said in the scene. Also we got cut away shots of a phone being fiddled with to show the target audience and reiterate the type of characters within the trailers. At lunch we did the scene where we all walk down the side road and the key line 'I think I know a shortcut'.  We did a close up low shot of our feet walking, and a close up of Kevin while he says the line. After school we went Tuffnel Park playing fields to film the door scene as we found door that fitted the description that we wanted. We film us walking up to the door and also once there looking behind us to check if anyone is there. 

 

Location for our street scene.

Use of a tripod.

Showing camera being used hand held. 

Film poster photos

Poster inspiration

We decided to use this poster to as it was different from other horror poster we had looked at but also being a horror film meant that it must have worked. We liked the way two images faded into one another and this gave us a challenge on Photoshop to get the same type of effect. 

making of the magazine cover

Photo for the magazine cover

The photo for the magazine shows the main girl screaming and a shadow of a weapon. This still keeps the killer a mystery for the audience. We had to make the shadow more pronounced because when put onto the magazine template the title covers it. So in photoshop we coloured in the shadow with a shading tool. 

new schedule

Filming day 4

Todays filming was void based as we filmed Jessica's scenes. The chair scene proved most difficult as we had to decide what angle to film at which looked more effective and whether to zoom(in to out or out to in) also the closeness of the shot. We decided to cover all bases and film from different angles and take close ups, mids shots and zooms so that when editing we had a choice of what to use and what worked better with he rest of the footage.

Dying Dreams production logo

After effects has helped us create both our production logo animations. This logo uses a more iconic horror figure of a skull which represents death and is a good logo to be used for our trailer.

Another song choice

We have decided that the music we want to actually use within our trailer needed to be more thrilling and uptempo then Mad World. However we have not completly abandoned Mad world as it still is the key fixture to our story line and theme.

Eddplant untitled (cant find the words)

Teaser poster

Filming day 3

Day 3 filming was a very busy day. We first used our lesson to film down in the void retaking shot that were to dark and not right from day one of filming. We reshot Kevins hanging scene making it look more realistic and after deciding to change it to hanging with his hands we again decided to change it back to being hung by his neck. It looked better on the camera and made the scene more shocking and effective. The shot is not a close up so does not linger on the detail of the hanging. Also we filmed Jessica running through the void, this is not on our story board but was a nice fill out shot that can be used for extra footage content.

At lunch we stayed down in the void and got the shots of Brad and Julie tied up together. We chose this shot because as boyfriend and girlfriend with the trailer we have show then happy and alive together and then dead/dying together. The way in which Julie screams is a panicked confused scream which contrasts nicely with Jessica's loud erratic screams.

After school we went up to Hampstead Heath to film our forest scenes. We filmed all the scenes we went to film despite the cold weather. With the scene were Kevin turns around to see the killer we decided that we might have to use some foley sound over the stop to make the snapping of the twig loud, which is the trigger for him turning round.

Typography within the trailer

We came up with a few idea for the titles that should come up in our trailer. For example 'What are you willing to sacrifice for a quicker route'. But instead we decided on 'Know where your going' and highlighting the 'no where' either using a red colouring or letting the rest of the letters fade away leaving the message and answer of 'no where'. We also will use this typography as the tagline to our film, and therefore showing consistancy and continuity for our film campaign.

Update to the production schedule

Magazine research and analysis

I looked at three well established movie magazines when doing my research. To do that well they must have done something right so to copy them or take ideas from their covers would mean our magazine cover promoting our trailer/film would look as professional. The magazines I used were: Empire, Total Film and Entertainment Weekly.

Filming day 2

Today in the lesson we decided to go back down into the void and film some more and get the image for our poster/teaser trailer, despite not being on the production scheduled. We realised after filming one of the scenes that the sound was to quite and couldn't be heard clearly. This means that we will have to edited over sound when putting the trailer together so that what is said is heard clearly and effectively. 

Wole and Ms holding up the prop acting as the slamming door. Oliver filming.

Me and Alomgir on set during filming.

Oliver filming the close up.

Taking the poster picture.

Filming on set.

Teaser poster research

    

We liked he idea of one main image with the writing over the top. This would be our teaser poster as it wouldn't feature the title or if it did would be small at the bottom. 

MAD WORLD PRODUCTIONS

Creating Production company 'Mad world productions'

We took two pictures one of the earth and one of a spiral. We got our inspiration from the song Mad world. The twisted theme to the song not only was a stimulus for our trailer but could follow through to our production company.  

            

By using after effects we was able to animate the two pictures together and have the world turn into a spiral. Symbolizing a mad world literally                                   

    

Poster tagline idea?

KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING - NO WHERE

We decided to use this as gave continuity with the trailer and film campagin to have the tagline and titles within the trailer be the same and conote the same message.

Inspiration for shots and pictures

This shot of the girl in 'House at the end of the street' was a good inspiration for a shot to use in our trailer, as it shows the final girl getting held hostage by the killer.

This iconic scene form the 'shinning' was our inspiration and idea for our teaser poster image.

Slight changes

When filming we found that the hanging by the throat wasn't going to look effective as to make it look realistic was to much of a task. So instead we tied his hands together and hung him from them. This infers that he was more tortured then just hung. Also this makes it easier to rate our trailer a 15 and won't be pushed to be changed to an 18.

Filming

Today we went down into the void to film some scenes for our trailer. We had to adapt the make up to the scenes we was doing and so that the could pick up subtle bruising and cuts. We did each shot a few times getting different angles. So that when it comes to putting the trailer together we have enough footage to edit and work with.

Title ideas