Emily Kingsnorth

Teaser trailer

2010-03-11T02:13:00.000-08:00

This is our final copy for our teaser trailer. We decided to make Jade kneel down on the floor to show her weakness. We also made her look up at the camera when she was talking to make it seem like someone was looking down at her and she was looking at them scared. We wanted the trailer to look like an interview but didnt want her sitting in a white room on a chair, we wanted to add tension to the trailer and make her be sitting in a dark room looking scared on the floor. We added eerie sounding music to add more tension and used gunshots at the end when the title came up. We added the gunshots to continue with the tense atmosphere and show somethings going to happen. Jade in the trailer said what her name was, where she is from, how old she is and what she think has happened to her, by saying this is a fearful way added to the tension even more.

Filming at first was akward as we had a few problems with the location, the time to fim and who we was going to film.

We went through several amounts of ideas for our filming. We was going to use the dance and drama studio but then when we went to film a class was in there and there was no free time when we wanted to film. With this idea a few people said it was too much like a normal trailer and not a teaser trailer, so we was back down writing ideas onto paper again. Then we came up with our idea now. We decided upon an interview where the girl would be her character and would talk into the camera to show she's talking to someone, expressing what had happened in her past life (which would be happening in the actual film.) The group then had another problem as they wanted me to be the girl talking into the camera, as i didnt want to do this because i wanted to play a part more in using the camera we decided on using one of our friends, this again caused another problem as our friend had lessons that she couldnt get out of so we had to do it around our lessons, in our frees at lunch and after school. We also decided to film in the dark room that we use in photography, this was because it was a small dark room that would work better then the dance and drama studio, we then used studio lighting to point the light at Jade so we had some light and it wasnt pitch black. We managed to film in one go which was very helpful to us as where we had smeared Jades makeup down her face and made her hair all messy, coming to film again would result in a continuity error as we wouldnt of been able to make her look exactly the same as she was in previous filming. This was an advantage. Therefore filming wasnt a major fall back as we had it all done in time with time to spare to improve on anything drastic.

By having Jade kneeling on the floor we thought this worked really well as we thought this showed her weakness. We wanted this effect to show the audience how weak our model is and show she is the victim in the film. In our teaser trailer our model was in a small dark room against a door, this works really well as it portrays she's trapped, and can't get through the door. I like this idea as it shows the audience she's cornered and maybe a hostage. However i feel the door handle in the camera shot doesn't work well as it suggests the girl is close to escape but can't. Looking back at this we have discussed that we could of had her in a coffin or a hole in the ground that she can not escape from. This would of created more fear for the target audience to draw them in to come and see the film.

Editing our teaser trailer

2010-03-11T02:04:00.000-08:00

After filming for our teaser trailer, the editing only took us two double lessons. This is because when filming we made sure we got all the shots we wanted and that when Jade (our actress) was talking it was clear on the camera and we could hear whay she was saying. While editing we had to add in our production name, our title, institution name and also at the end "Coming soon." We added music from a copywrite free music website. We added a piece of music called "Personnal Demons." We had one slight problem with the editing, and that was that in one of the clips of Jade it jumped a bit and made it blurry, we overcome this by putting our production mane over the top of this clip.

Audience feedback results

2010-03-11T01:49:00.000-08:00

We uploaded our teaser trailer onto Youtube and Facebook, we got positive comments from friends on Facebook but had no comments from Youtube. Most of the comments mention what we can improve on next time. Most people liked the way we zoomed in on her face when our actress was saying what her name is and how old she was. This was to create tension. Some improvements include making the music quieter as a few people couldnt quite hear what our actress was saying, but this could be due to their computer or how

we rendered it from pinical onto our memory sticks.

Another improvement was to make our actress look more scared then what she actually was as she looks too calm for this situation. One or two people said we should use more camera angles, but we felt as we were using our teaser trailer as a kind of interview, loads of different camera angels wouldnt fit in aswell. The music and the gunshots at the end of our film were good as people thought it created a tensed atmosphere.

Audience feedback

2010-03-11T01:46:00.000-08:00

To gather audience feed back about are teaser trailer we uploaded it onto Youtube and Facebook.

Questionnaire results

2010-03-09T06:13:00.000-08:00

1) Do you regulary watch films?

The majority of people (17/20) said yes they do watch films.

2) When deciding to watch a film, what genre do you tend to choose?

Comedy was the most picked option. Which shows comedy is the most popular film choice to watch.

3) Do film posters help you decide if you want to see a film?

9/20 people said that posters sometimes make them want to go and watch the film, this is yet another good advertisment as it will then make people to go and watch certain films.

4) Does watching a film trailer help you decide whether you would like to watch the film?

16/20 people said yes they would go and see the films after watching a teaser trailer, this shows its a good way to advertise films. Other people would go just because its a sequel of a film they already like.

5) Have you ever read a film magazine?

11/20 people who completed our questionnaire said yes, this shows that creating a film magazine is i good way to advertise our film as quite a few people read them.

6) When seeing a film magazine in a shop, what attracts you to find out more about the movie?

This question gave us a wide range of results

Boldness of title
Fonts
Which pictures to use
Actors/actresses names

7) Of the films you watch, what certificate do they tend to be?

The majority of the people said they watched certificate 15, the people where mostly all our age range.

8) Do trailers reveal much about about the films storyline?

Most people said sometimes the films reveal too much which makes the film disappointing to watch as they know what is happening next.

9) Do you ever feel mislead by trailers/posters?

This graph shows that the majority of people sometimes feel mislead by trailers and movie posters and believe that the trailers are better then the film.

10) Over the past years what movies have disappointed you the most?

Harry Potter
Clover field
Paranormal Activity
Sorority Row
Unborn

Logo

2010-03-08T03:57:00.000-08:00

This is our logo idea we used to put on our teaser trailer, to come up with this idea we used our production name which is Tom Ross productions. We decided to produce a logo as all films and teaser trailers have this. This therefore fits in with normal film conventions. We had the black background and the yellow and red writing because it stood out amongst the black background and worked well on our teaser trailer.

Stalked poster

2010-03-08T03:48:00.000-08:00

I took this image as i felt only seeing half of the models face portays fear and that she is hidden. We left plenty of space next to the models face so that we could put the title of our film, the directors names and the date it is coming out in the cinema.

The group decided to make the image grey scale as it created a tensed atmosphere and enhanced the image. Then again using photoshop we edited the models eye to a bright blue, this was to show the models normality and draw the audience's attention towards her. We also discussed about cutting around the models hair to make it look tidy, but then decided keeping it messy also gave of the effect she was a normal girl.

This is our final poster. We added the title of our film, using our font we used for our magazine front cover aswell , Dirty Finger. We also added the date our film is realesed, our slogan and our directers names at the bottom etc. We also added "TBC" which stands for to be confirmed. This is often a normal convention for teaser trailers as the age certificate has not been decided yet. The idea of our slogan "Watch your back" is from the idea of actually being stalked. We put it in capital letters so that it stands out and attracts the audience.

Magazine drafts

2010-03-04T02:15:00.000-08:00

This is our final copy for our magazine front cover. We were happy with most things on our front cover, therefore we didn't change much. A few things we changed were the free La Femme poster, we changed this because we didn't think people would want a few Love tunnel poster on there wall. We also did this to advertise another groups coursework. We also changed the font of La Femme to the actual font that the other group used, also the colour. We outlined the picture of Grace from the free La Femme poster to yellow, this showed that the piocture was linked with the free advertisement and not with the title Stalked. We changed the colour of the writing on Unknown to green, this made it stand out and create an eerie feeling. We could improve on small slight adjustments including the title La Femme at the bottom to be moved up further so its not sitting on the line at the bottom of the page.

This was our rough draft for our magazine front cover. To get some ideas we looked at different film magazines such as "Empire and Total film." We looked at there conventions and what film magazines include. We made up our own film titles such as "Stalked, Unknown, Bubbles, and the top 2011 films." To stick with normal film magazine conventions we decided to put film reviews and interviews on to convey these.

This was our final front cover. We have changed it slightly from our first draft and moved things around

to fit everything we wanted in. On our first draft we have the film title Bubbles in a bubble with bubbles around it, we decided I didn't like the bubbles as it didn't fit our conventions of a film magazine that we wanted, therefore we erased the small bubble

s but kept the writing in a big bubble still. We had a few problems with the writing and the colours. We wanted the title "Stalked" on the right and the slogan in orange above and the rest of the writing around, whereas our model is wearing bracelets the problem was having to change the colour so we could see it around the black backgrounds and our models bracelets. We also didn't want the picture in the bottom right as it made the whole magazine looked cramped as most thin

gs were happening in the right. Therefore we moved the picture to the left and the main title and slogan above the picture on

the left. We also changed the slogan colour to a dark blue so we could see it clearly through the black background. We added the Free love tunnel poster picture but we feel that this isn't a picture you would like on your wall so we have planned to change this to another image. We added the bar code to fit in with conventions of a film magazine. We have put it in the top right hand corner next to the price and the date. We used the title font "Dirty Finger" as our magazine title "Empire" and "Stalked" to show that Stalked is the main article on the magazine front cover.

Magazine front cover edits

2010-02-26T01:38:00.000-08:00

I took this picture of Jade cupping her hands and feeling scared. We wanted our model to look vulnerable and as if she hand been crying, so we smudged her makeup down her face and made her look scared and upset. She is also kneeling down and looking at the camera to show its actually someone or something she is looking at. Whilst editing the picture we realised our model was wearing different coloured nail varnish, we decided to keep this nail varnish on our model to show she's leading A normal life and is an ordinary girl.

This was our final copy of our image that i edited using photoshop, to create this image i increased the contrast to make the image stand out more, i then increased the levels to make the colour black look more effective. By doing this it gave us a scarier feel to the picture. Then using the second layer of the image on photoshop i added our title EMPIRE and made it go behind our models head so that her face wasnt covered up, i could do this because EMPIRE is a popular magazine and everyone knows the name of it.

Location

2010-02-26T01:15:00.000-08:00

We decided not to use the dance and drama studio as we wanted a small dark room. We decided to use the dark room as its a small room and the darkness made it feel isolated. We turned off all the lights and aimed a spotlight at the actress in our film to create a dark yet lighter image. We decided not to put our movie poster in the background as many teaser trailers don't use this convention. Having the spotlight over our model made her look vulnerable and realistic.

Choosing Music

2010-02-11T01:15:00.000-08:00

I researched copyright free music on google and found a few ideas, my group suggested this piece of music was the best idea. Its called "Personnal Demons." The idea of using this piece of music is because its a tense piece. It starts of slow and the tension builds up through the musical piece.

Questionnaire

2010-02-11T01:11:00.000-08:00

1: Do you regularly watch films?
Yes No

2: When deciding to watch a film, which genre do you tend to choose? (Choose those that apply) Sci-Fi Horror Thriller Comedy Rom-Com Action Drama

3: Do film posters help you decide if you would like to see the film?
Yes Sometimes No

4: Does watching a film trailer help you decide if you would like to see that film?Yes Sometimes No

5: Have you ever read a film magazine?
Yes No

6: When seeing a film magazine in a shop, what attracts you to find our more about the movie?________________

7: Of the films you watch, what film certificate do they tend to be? (Choose those that apply)PG 12A 12 15 18

8: Do trailers reveal too much about the film’s storyline?
Yes Sometimes No

9: Do you ever feel mislead by trailers/ posters?
Yes Sometimes No

10: Over the past year, what movies have disappointed you the most?

We have carried this out on males and females aged 16-25 years as this is our target audience. We are in the process of anaylsing our results and will be posting them soon.

Anamatic

2010-01-28T03:21:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-28T03:06:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-19T01:06:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-18T02:03:00.001-08:00

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.

1st Draft of Teaser Trailer

2009-12-07T03:56:00.000-08:00

This is our first draft for our teaser trailer. We have decided not to use this idea as i didnt think it was scary enough to use as a horror. We had an image of a girl writing a diary and then a man staring up at the girl from across the road, i decided that this doesn't create a tensed atmosphere as its not scary enough to show as a horror, i thought this storyboard idea is to much like an drama and not our chosen genre which is a horror.

Horror film posters

2009-11-30T03:52:00.000-08:00

In todays lesson i researched different horror posters. I looked at the following 4 posters. I noticed most of the film posters contain dark colours to create the gloomy and scary effect. There was also many posters with reds and oranges, these colours used sense the feeling of danger and fire, and also blood.

These 4 images below are all movie posters which are horrors.

This film poster is a typical convention of a Horror poster, this is due to the blood and the
arbitrary body parts as the main image. The use of blood which is associated with death also shows what may take place in the film. The title on the poster "Saw" shows its a horror as it looks like its been written on with blood of some sort. This poster creates a tense audience as they don't know why theres been a foot 'chopped off.' The target audience for this film is an 18, therefore we cant relate to this film poster for ideas as it is too violent and gruesome. The colours on this film poster doesnt follow the conventions of orignal horror posters of dark colours etc. The background colour is still successful in create a scary horror poster as the main image is the foot. The foot is still a dark colour with the effect of blood and bones showing, this creates a distraught feeling for the audience.

It was my idea to get this poster off the internet as it looks quite relevant to our idea as its outdoors with very little light, which is what we want in comparision to our poster. This is a classic horror as it has dramatic and dangerous behaviour. The certificate for this film is an 18, this doesnt relate to our film as we want ours to be for 15years+. This use of lighting used in the film poster creates mystery and secrecy and the use of black was a common convention used for horror posters. The main focus on this image is the main with his hat and holdle. By having the light from the window shining on the man tells the audience he is the main character and he could be the "Exocist." The tag line is "The most terrifying movie off all time" this tells the audience that the film is going to be scary. Our movie poster has the same idea as this movie poster, we want to use street lighting and make it outside in the dark, this shows the dark and gloomy effect we want in our horror.

This poster is again another horror. It is a typical convention of horror films as it contains a young girl being haunted by a little boy. The Unborn certificate is a 15, this relates to our certificate and target audience of 15 years +. The use of the tag line "Evil will do anything to live" tells the audience what might happen in the film. This creates a tensed feeling, the effect of the man starring at the women through the mirror also adds to the tensed feeling. This is a typical horror as the colours used are dark and gloomy and the title is glowing. This could suggest the reason of life, by having the title "Unborn" and having it glowing. The title is giving the film life.

This poster is a horror/thriller and is certificated at PG 13. This doesn't relate to our target audience as ours is for 15+. In this image they have stuck to the orignal film conventions of horror posters as they have used dark greys and blacks, they have also used reds and oranges around the girl, this could tell the audience she is the victim and the one in danger. The red around her creates the danger effect. The fact the women is screaming and has hands grabbing her aswell also shows she is the main character and maybe the victim. They have used studio lighting on the women to make her stand out, they have also darkened the background to create a scarier effect. The tag line on this poster is just above the film title, this tag line creates the film and briefly describes what is going to happen in the film.

Tuesday 24th November

2009-11-30T03:26:00.000-08:00

We watched more teaser trailers in todays lesson and came up with more ideas for our own teaser trailer. We decided to stick with the idea of using Dear diary as we thought this was a good idea and it was through a first persons narrative. We also came up with different diary ideas of what to write, what kind of diary to use etc. We decided that the camera angle we would use to see the diary is from the girls perspective at her looking down at the diary.

In Mondays lesson we decided the name Emily Rose was not appropriate anymore as it was copying too much of the orignal film horror caller "Exocist of Emily Rose." We came up with the name "Stalked" we research films already called "Stalked" and there were not any be used so we decided this would be a good film title as it is whats happening in the film, so it gives the audience an idea of whats going to happen.

Teaser Trailers

2009-11-30T01:30:00.000-08:00

Teaser Trailers are short trailers used to advertise a new film coming out but dont give any of the story away. Teaser trailers are more likely to be used for big budget films like 2012.

Teaser trailers are much shorter then a normal trailerThere is hardly any film footage in these Teaser trailers dont tell the audience much about the film Teaser trailers can be dirctor's commentary like the new Ricky Gervais movie
Teaser trailers come out a year or even two years before the film is out and teaser trailers also can be made before the film is even thought about.

Monday 23rd November

2009-11-26T03:03:00.000-08:00

We came up with the idea of a Horror and call it Emily Rose. We chose this name as it sounded like a scary name to use, but that was due to the film called "Exorcist of Emily Rose" so we have choosen to change the name. The reason for choosing a horror is because it was easy to make and interesting as people would be on the edge of their seat watching it. The idea was, we start with a girl writing a diary, "Dear diary" then it faded into the next scene with a black or white flash to the same girl in the shower (just the shadow through the shower curtain) then again a black faded flash to the girl still writing the diary "He wrote to me again" then a black/white flash to a mirror that has been steamed up from the shower saying "I see you."

We decided to use these ideas as its freaky due to we dont no what it is that can see the girl. After looking back at this idea we realised it was too much of a normal trailer and not a teaser trailer as it had too much film footage in it.

Movie poster - 26th November - 1st draft

2009-11-26T02:17:00.000-08:00

This is our first draft for our movie poster. We decided to have it at a bus stop in the evening when its dark, we thought this would be a good idea as it emphasises the stalker idealogy. We are only using the stalkers hands on the glass and only make his eyes seeable as we dont want the audience to know who or what the stalker is. We will make the stalkers eyes an abnormal colour as it creates tension to the audience as they dont normally see yellow eyes on a person. We decided to have the women looking over her shoulder with a worrying face to show the audience she can sense something happening, we also suggested the hair blowing in the wind to create the pathetic fallacy. We have written at the bottom "Coming 2011" to show when our film is coming out at the cinema, we suggested coming soon wasn't appropriate as the coming date was unknown. "Stalked" is our film title that we want to put on our poster but think writing the title on the floor in chalk was a good idea so we suggested to try this out and if it doesn't work we will try writing it in other forms or writing. Our target audience is aimed at 15+ as there are very little explicit scenes. Our poster is portrait as we want to show the whole picture and the way the girl is standing and the atmosphere emphasises its a tensed feeling.