Anamatic

This is our film in anamatic. Using our storyboards we previously designed, we filmed them using a flip camera. We then uploaded the film onto pinacle and edited the film using this program to make a short film. The girl is crying throughout our short film whilst talking about a past memory. There are two-three black screens, on these shots are going to be our production name, our institution name. Throughout these black screens our actress will talk over them aswell create a voice over effect. At the end of our teaser trailer is another black screen which comes up with our trailer title and coming soon 2011.

Font Research

These titles are titles that we have researched and used for title ideas. My favourite is title number 4, this is because it fits in with our convention of a film horror. I also like it because its not to over the top scary. We orignally suggested film title number 3, this is because it stood out and is easy to understand the writing. Title number 1 is to plain and doesnt look scary enough for our film title. Title number 2 looks like a child from preschool has writen it. Title number 5 we are not using, this is because it looks to old fashioned and doesnt fit in with our convention of a horror.

Scouting Locations

So far we have decided to use the dance and drama studio at our school. This will enable my group to experiment with lighting and the use of darkness. We have decided to have the background black and a white spotlight over the girl to show she is the main character and that sh in vunerable. This wil also help us create a realistic mise-en-scene as it will be in the dark and only using a spotlight to focus on the girl. Having looked at interview teaser trailers i have sugessted putting our teaser trailer poster in the background.

First draft - Magazine front cover

This is our first draft of our media magazine front cover. The main image is the main character in our teaser trailer. The clothes she is wearing is what she will be wearing in our teaser trailer. We thought a long red dress with straps and covered her toes would make her more vunerable and hiden. In the poster the character is standing up, my group has decided to take a few pictures where the girl is standing at different heights and postures etc. We thought this would give us more of a choice when we came to choosing the final picture. So far we have decided to use a red dress to show she is the one in danger but to make her look vunerable we thought we may need to choose a different colour dress so to do this will we take pictures in different colour dresses and chose the appropirate one. The character has a spotlight over her to show she is the main character and that the film is about her. We decided using the name EMPIRE as our magazine title but have decided we may want to change it to SPOTLIGHT. We will discuss this later on in our group and come up with the second draft. I came up with the idea of making the title glow, this is to stick with the normal convention of EMPIRE and also to make our title stand out against the rest that we have put onto our magazine front cover. To make our magazine attract to a certain audience we have added on the bottom of our magazine a FREE poster and also we have interviews with stars which would be included in a normal convention of magazine front covers. To make our magazine fornt cover work like EMPIRE'S works we have stuck with normal magazine conventions.