I have made some changes to my trailer, firstly I have made the analog TV noise end sooner so that it goes off exactly when the image ends. I have also added the girl being dragged backwards because I got feedback on survey monkey suggesting to add more clips of the girls as there is a lot of title screens, thy also said to make it slightly longer. Using final cut pro I added the bad film effect which is on a lot of the scenes on the movie already so that the whole movie has a specific house style as well as adding to the creepy horror genre. I also increased the heartbeat sound because it is hard to hear with all the other sounds in the movie.
Friday, 16 December 2011
Feedback on magazine
My audience feedback was: "you should add links to social network sites, and an actual website."
"you should use the same image filter on the alone part of the magazine so that it is a similar style and colour"
I have made these changes shown above. I will also look to fading the image into the background so that its not such a hard line.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Creating my film poster masthead
I began editing my poster by using the same typography that is in my film which I had downloaded from dafont.com I then added a green tint to the picture to match the colour of the TV flicker. To get the flicker I using grab on the macs to capture the image and using layers on Indesign was able to write text on it.
Using soundtrack
This was the first time I used soundtrack, I used different layers so that I could adjust the volume on the different sounds, such as increasing the sound of the heart beat, and making the breathing noise louder. I also learned how to fade out the sound so that its a smoother video. I imported a rough cut of my video so that I could match the sound up with the video. I also increased the pace and used sounds together to make the loud bang on the alone such as thunder, explosion and drone noises so that it really emphasizes the sound.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Using surveymonkey.com
I signed up and used surveymonkey.com because its a great way to get feedback on my video in percentages and accurate figures, I asked mostly yes or no questions and posted this on facebook for people to take because its the target audience I am aiming for.
The link to questionnaire is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NQMQVWT
Alone teaser trailer 2012
This is my second attempt of my teaser trailer, with the new preview sequence before the actual footage, increasing the heart beat sound and with the new titles at the end.
Creating my film poster
http://www.designzzz.com/superb-blood-brushes-sets-for-photoshop/
Using this website I downloaded a set of blood brushes to make my poster reflect the horror genre.
Some problems I've en-counted was that after saving it on photoshop I didn't say it as A4 size so the final product was pixelated. I also used photoscape to give the blue tint and the antique style photo filter.
Using this website I downloaded a set of blood brushes to make my poster reflect the horror genre.
Some problems I've en-counted was that after saving it on photoshop I didn't say it as A4 size so the final product was pixelated. I also used photoscape to give the blue tint and the antique style photo filter.
Finding the preview picture
http://www.infinityandbeyond.tabert.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/2zoivbc.jpg
All trailers use this at the beginning because this is conventional and declares who the film is owned by and that its complies with the copyright rules.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Changing the Alone title
After posting my first attempt of my teaser trailer on facebook I got some feedback saying that they thought the alone was too much like cartoon writing and they preferred the typography at the beginning which was like a typewriter. They suggested changing it to have a house style, so using livetype I used the same font but added a tv flicker effect to work with the horror genre of watching a video that we weren't meant to see, I als added a blue glow to show the flicker off. On the last title, I used a conventional template of placing my companies logo snip productions in the bottom, adding a website, and saying about the facebook page and the rating information.
Editing my film poster
This was the original photo, following the low angle shot which I drew on my flat plans, I wanted it lo like she was about to be dragged behind and that she was screaming to give the hint of a horror genre.
Using photoscape I added an antique effect to the picture, because the film narrative is that girls have been disappearing for years since the village had been desserted it also gives its a more creepy vibe for the film poster as well as thetv flicker effect.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Alone Teaser Trailer
This was the first time I exported my film, after doing this I noticed that the heartbeat wasn't loud enough and that when the tv cuts off the sound goes on for too long, so I will edit this for my next attempt.
Snip Productions take 2
After getting feedback, they thought that the snip productions was too busy and that it didn't look very professional or fit with the genre of horror. So I made it more simply by adding a pink glow to the SNIP and on a plain black background with a movement effect.
Livetype
I then added another livetype page to explain more about the movie and tease my target with the cliche of until now reinforcing the horror genre.
Snip Productions
I inserted a background, but to get the sepia effect I did this on photoshop. I darkened it and then made the text different sizes on livetype. I then added in the scissor picture so that it looked like it was cutting up the title. I added an movement to do this.
Livetype
I decided to change my titles to a similar style to Quarantine and paranormal activity. I downloaded a font from dafont.com called typewriter to create this effect.
Livetype
After getting some feedback on my video, they said that there wasn't a narrative as there is little speech so they thought it needed to be in my titles. Using Livetype I created titles saying one barn, one girl, one watcher and one killer.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
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