Evaluation : Question 4

Throughout this production I feel I have progressed majorly. Since AS I feel that not only have I learnt new skills and increased my ability to use a variety of different programmes but also my creativity, I managed to brain storm a variety of different ideas, narratives, location etc. and I did my research to support my ideas, unlike last year when Eva and I decided to go with our first idea. I struggled to use the apple macs and certain programmes this year but have come far compared to AS with a lot of help and support from Eva who continued to help me when I struggled but I feel this is evident in our film in comparison to last year. I feel that this years project has been hugely successful compared to last year and I feel that this is due to our organisation and commitment to the course. Eva and I both worked extremely hard on our trailer this year and I believe this is evident on our final product and our dedication has paid off. I feel extremely pleased with what Eva and I managed to accomplish this year and felt that all our preparation, organisation and determination paid off.

 I personally struggle to use advance technology and have experimented with different editing skills on iMovie such as; transitions, effects, text, layering footage and synchronicity between our audio and visual clips. Not only did this positively impact on our products, but I had enjoyed increasing my knowledge with these features but I would of been unable to do so without Evas help. We both played to our weakness and our strengths, for example Eva was better at editing but I was stronger when using garage band. Despite this Eva and I both spend an equal amount of time around the computer and we only did what we both agreed on.

 Now having finished the course I can not only see how far we have come as a not only individuals but also as a team we have both learnt to listen to each other and have both come very far with our organisation skills, but these can still be improved as due to our organisation not be perfect our post and Magazine cover suffered because of this. Eva and I have both learnt what is worth spending a large amount of time on and what is not, an issue at AS was we would create something it would be good and yet we'd still focus on making it better instead of focusing on things that needed a large amount of improvement.

 We both was careful when choose actors as we wanted people who was reliable, we know that choosing our friends car to film could possibly be a risk encase we was ever to need him and him be unavailable, but we was lucky in having picked friends who we also committed to the role they had been asked to play.

We have ensured that all of the work that we applied was to our best standard and hadn’t at any time went off task or was distracted, this was a huge improvement for both of us as during A2 we were often distracted

 I feel that Eva and I have both matured majorly within this last year, meaning this has majorly improved all areas of our work, especially when compared to last years final product. We have ensured all of the work submitted we have tried to complete to the best of our ability. We feel that by not allowing our selves to be distracted by others and making use of the time we have in and out of class has benefited us and our final piece majorly.

 I used excel to show the results of my questionnaire, by converting my results into charts I feel these were easy to read and understand, and I continued to use these charts trough this product referring to them when carrying out other research and also when making decisions, often wondering what do we think the audience wants to see? In doing this I think It did make a difference as they were accessible and easy to read we referred back to them often.

 Eva and I both used Photoshop to create our Poster and Magazine, Eva was a lot more advanced at using this programme in comparison to myself, due to the fact she is currently studying Photography, where as I have never before this used this programme. With persistence I eventually got the hang of it, learning how to cut certain images and move them, and also to touch them up and change certain aspects, and adjust certain things.

 I also advanced my skills on the apple mac, although I already knew how to use an Apple Mac due to my previous experience during my time studying AS media, but this year I haven't learnt a lot more due to the help from others and using my incentive, I have used Google and also watched YouTube tutorials on how to create different effects on clips, how to include different font and also how to insert different transitions. 
 I also spend a lot more time on the camera, the camera is pretty basic and there for along h my previous knowledge from last year I found pretty basic to use. I experimented to see which shots and angels would benefit our film and what we are trying to achieve. We also used the camera to help research, we recorded focus groups that we held to gather information that would help us to create what our audience wanted to see, in recording this we always knew we had it to refer to encase there was a possibility we needed a reminder of what they said. We took the responsibility of the camera on meaning we had to be extra careful about damaging it and our main concern was water damaged due to the constant raining, but we persisted and always did our best to shield the camera, and this is one of the many reasons we would decided to stop filming if the rain got to heavy.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Evaluation : Question 3

 Eva and I both decided to upload our trailer to Facebook before we had finished it, we both decided to do this meaning we could act on our feedback and improve negative points before submitting our finalized trailer, I am very please we chose to do this, In doing this we found out what people liked about our video and what they didn't like, meaning we could improve and act on it. In doing this is lead to us changing pacific parts of our trailer which we hoped would better our trailer.

 We both found the audience feedback very constructive and also very helpful. We shared our Video before It was finalised on YouTube and Facebook and got a few comments I also chose to show our unfinished trailer to peers in my class and members of family who fit with in our target audience, and took the constructive criticism into account.

The video we uploaded did not have a billing block as it was unfinished when posted, but still we took this into consideration and also the positive comments, I was glad we had a good comment about the variety of shots used as this was something I was cautious with when filming as Shots and transitions were my weak points at AS. Here you are able to see the billing block posted:

Again, we had another comment on not having a billing block present which is an issue we did address. Another Issue was our title, Eva thought we should have a continue theme of a Black background and White font, and then change the back ground to red for when ratings and quotations the film had been giving appeared all so to match when the feel of our trailer changed along with the sound track, I liked the idea of a continual theme of colours but did address the fact that I thought the Title didn't stand out as well as It could or should do. Eva and I had many heated discussions about this and after receiving feed back from our desire target audience and spending some time talking to both of our teachers Eva agreed with me that we should change the title, We then Changed the title from

Our original title:

 Our final Trailer title:

We feel that by changing our back ground back to black rather than the red we have had running through out majority of the trailer this set this title apart showing it was the title.                            

 

We had a comment asking as to why we had a shot of our character running backwards, It was suggest by many people that this was unclear, and from what they could see irrelevant. When Eva and I originally added this thinking it look 'cool' and a little bit different and added 'edge' to the shot, but after our feed back Eva and I sat and had a long in-depth discussion during this we both agreed that this was irrelevant, we wanted to create the feel that our character 'Stan' was either chasing someone or running away from our antagonist, by him running back wards it didn't show this, and this is why we decided to erase the reverse on the shot.

These are comments from both our first unfinished trailer and our finalised trailer. On our unfinished trailer that we posted many people commented on how good our sound track was, many people mentioned the heavy breath we included and how it was effective; especially when combined with the close up of our actors face. We also felt this would be effect as majority of our sound track is made up of a non diagectice tune so hearing a sound that is coming from our actor and is digective creates tension at just the right time, after hearing this feed back Eva and I discussed and debated adding more breathing sounds or a variety of other sounds  but then we felt that not did we not want to risk ruining something we already know was good by making it to over the top but also we knew we had limited time and thought it was better spent improving something that we had had negative feedback on and so we did not change our soundtrack one we had posted our unfinished trailer and received such positive feedback which we was extremely pleased with.

 

We decided to keep the full identity of our protagonist a secret in a bid to create tension. I feel It did create the tension like we had intended to, I personally feel it was very effective and helped our trailer to meet the conventions of a thriller. I feel that our trailer could of potentially been better if we would of been to show other features of our protagonist such as a close of her hands, lips or even eyes. We had mixed reviews on this aspect of our trailer, a slight minority of our audience feedback said they was confused, but the majority of our feedback suggest that this was a great idea and felt this was one of the best features of our film trailer.

 The majority of our audience feedback was very positive which we was extremely pleased with, we had overall 2 negative comments one saying they was slightly confused with the narrative, which we hoped would be a good thing meaning they would then go onto watch the film out of curiosity and enjoy it and the other negative comment being that we had an unsteady hand when filming in one specific shot, which if we was to redo this project would be something we would be able to address with ease. 

 

Some other comments left:

 

  

Evaluation : Question 2

 Eva and I both decided we wanted to aim our film and trailer to a main stream audience from the age of 18-25 year old, as the genre has become increasingly popular within the past few years within the film industry.
 We decided to create a combination of a film trailer, poster and also magazine cover to promote our new film soon to be realised. We both wanted to create a packaged to promote our film that would be exciting and that would challenge the typical conventions of the thriller genre to create a overall memorable trailer. To do this we need to find out the likes and disliked of our target audiences, to find this information out we carried out focus groups and I also created a questionnaire and gave it to others to fill in, this helped us to narrow down our potential ideas and create the most effective trailer we possibly could. During this focus group we voiced our idea of using 'cheerful, child like' theme tune as the beginning of our trailer to create tension, all participants agree that this was a good idea, which would immediately grab their attention and they said the idea sounded extremely appealing, one participants ever said "It will make the graphic content more disturbing" and another added :The cheerful music will contrast the visual image and make the audience feel vulnerable." We spoke in detail telling them the ideas of colour and font we had; they agreed and informed us that as it being a thriller they would expect to see big bold and clear font, meaning this would help to grab their attention also. We decided to show them trailers which we ourselves had been inspired with and had help us the gather our own ideas to received feed back on these videos and their qualities we showed them many trailers such as 'You're next', I feel this primary research has been significant when making final decisions for our own trailer.
 We then began to discus other things with the group, subjects such as the representation of the antagonist in a thriller trailer and the typical conventions that needed to be met. From research we have found many trailers do not give away the full identity of the antagonist. The use of camera angles and also shots in many only show certain features of the antagonists, for example just basic close up shots of only the hands, eyes, or possibly even the weapons used. This was a convention we felt we wanted to use to keep the mystery present.
 Eva and I both decided that we would use to face of our antagonist for our Poster and Magazine cover image, this meaning that 'All tied up' is the only thing to link these products to our film trailer as we decided not to show our antagonist in our trailer, but we did decided to add a shot of her hands 'tied up' to a tree, we did this to create suspense which I feel worked in our trailer, on refection I feel this worked out positively and negatively for us, by doing this this has left the audience slightly confused and unsure whether our products did link or not, it could possibly just be different films with the same title, but I fill by not having our antagonist face shown in the trailer this created tensions and mystery and was our 'hook', by giving the face of our antagonist away we feel would put out target audience off wanting to go and see the film as they already know who our two main characters were running from. When carrying out our research we found a similar technique used in films such as 'You're next' we the audience see the antagonist shown but with masks on, we feel this was a good hook and we personally would want to go and see the film just to see if the antagonist would ever to be revelled, a similar technique is also used in 'the purge'. After Eva and I both read through and discussed our feedback we both agreed that we made the correct decision and stuck by our decision in choosing to disguise our antagonist, and also so did the majority of our audience who gave feed back.

 Eva and I both agreed that we wanted to do our best in making a thriller and a thriller trailer that wasn't stereotypical, and although we wanted to make our genre clear by meeting the conventions that would show we was intending to make a thriller we did want it to be an average stereotypical trailer, and this is why we chose to not only not show our protagonist but make our protagonist a female, when research other thriller film we found that a women protagonist wasn't uncommon in horrors, but the women was usually a spirit of some kind, so more of a psychological threat rather than a physical one, to have a live female antagonist in a thriller was to challenge the conventions of a thriller as she is a female she possesses female trailers yet is still feared by and extremely threatening to our male character. Our participants from our focus group instantly picked up on that the antagonist was a female and they commented on this saying "Its interesting you have chosen to make your protagonist a female, this is different and works well as it is unexpected and instantly makes it slighting more thrilling, this film will therefore want to see how this female is going to be portrayed".
 I feel the photograph used for our Poster and Magazine was a strong link to our film despite the fact our audience don't get to see this face in our trailer, Eva and I both felt by seeing our actor Britney hands tied in the trailer and the film being called 'All tied up' would be enough to link all items in our promotion pack together. The use of tag lines on the film poster is a typical convention expected on most film posters, especially thrillers, often a riddle is used or something to indicate what could potentially happen in the film, for example 'The thrill' 'Before the problem'. We decided we also wanted to have a tag line, this tag line being 'A road trip of a lift time' this related back to what we see in our trailer, we see it start of with driving alone country lanes; we feel by using country lanes this was effective as they are enclosed on weather sides and empty, no others are present in any of our shots, but our tag line doesn't fit with the picture present, this is what we feel will make it stand out and also help consumers to link the 2 together. We fell this is effective as it instantly makes the audience members think about the story and also reflect on what they have already seen in the trailer and effectively this will make them want to go out and watch our film. Our billing block is used on our poster to introduce actors, producers, directors etc who have worked on the film. I feel that our final poster had potential to be better, and this is because of font used and also colour schemes. Eva and I both sat together and watched various tutorials on how to download these different fonts onto a photograph but still struggled and was unable to do so. I feel our bill block was to large also, but this was a struggle for us as we was unable to get the billing block to the exact side we wanted, we would either have to stretch the billing block or squeeze it and neither looked great, meaning we had no other choice but to have it at this set size, I feel that also our poster lack conventions for example not having star ratings or quotations from well established film critics.
 When beginning to think up some ideas for our magazine we both decided we wanted our  magazine to fit the conventions of a film magazine in order to promote our film and to help it 'sell'. We wanted to highlights licks from our trailer onto the magazine cover to catch the audience attentions and make them want to buy our magazine in order to film out more about our film. I feel that during the research we carried out we found many different styles of magazines for all genres, Eva and I decided to narrow down a few magazine covers that fit into our genre and we felt inspired by. This would of helped our progression when creating our own magazine cover as we was unable to pink point the information needed to help sell our film as the main feature. Simple things such as the effect of the magazine title against the main image needed more work as it didn't blend effectively. I feel that the magazine was poor over all, and didn't show the variety of skills we have when using media technology such as Photoshop and if we was to do our task again this is something we would focus a lot more of our time on. If we were able to adjust our ancillary tasks we would need to carefully consider the following:
 - Fonts used
 -Media technologies
 -Billing block
 -Editing further
 -Typical conventions

 Our ancillary tasks was not the strongest in comparisons to the other products we had created for example our trailer. I feel that the decisions we had made after reading audience feedback on our ancillary tasks showed we had taken into consideration what they had said, positive and negative and  Eva and I both worked closely with our target audience to create an overall promotional packaged that they would be interest in and impressed with. Eva and I both agreed that we could of balanced our time better meaning a better poster and magazine cover. We spent a large amount of time filming, editing and creating a sound track. Meaning our ancillary tasks suffered because of this reason, If we had a chance to do redo this task we would have balanced our time better meaning we could of been more successful meaning we could of shown our use of skills better.

Evaluation: Question 1

 This was one of our opening shots; an establishing shot. We chose to use this shot as it establishes Location and also shows the poor miserable weather, which reflects and gives people an insight to what genre we have chosen to go with early on in our trailer. The music then contradicts the shot and setting, the music is calming, upbeat yet slow and calming, which didn't really fit the conventions of a thriller, this at the beginning was confusing for our audience which we was pleased with as this is what we had intended to do.
This shot shows how our character are alone and their are only the two of them present and no one else being around; for the shot shown in the beginning at least.
 We have chosen this country road to shoot in specifically as it is quite closed in due to being surrounded by big and tall bushes on either side, also we can see ahead a bend, this is threatening as we the audience can not see nor know what could be coming around the corner.
 We hoped by doing this shot from inside the car we hoped the audience them selves would imagine themselves to be in our two main characters shoes, creating fear.
 We have seen this technique used in the opening to 'Nothing left to fear' a newly realised horror/thriller movie. 

 We show many shots of text through out our trailer, but this one is slighting different due to it being a rhetorical question. Eva and myself chose to this with the intention of it leaving the audience near to sure that the main two characters are leaving to begin a fresh start somewhere, but this piece of text having a question mark, being a rhetorical question will create tension and suspense, leaving the audience wanting to watch the trailer and also go onto watch this film.
 We deliberately used white font on a black back ground leaving the writing to stand out and catch the audiences intentions. We also used the bold font "" as we felt it was basic; meaning our audience would focus on what our font said rather than the style of it, and we chose this font as it was natural bold, yet still simple. We chose to make our font small, yet big enough to read and grab the audience attention, we felt if we made it to big it was to 'trying', we feel by making it a smaller font and placing it toward the bottom right hand side, it gives the audience something specific to grab there attention and to base their focus on.

As the feel of our trailer changed and became more threatening, the music changed and also became more threatening and it is because of this we chose to change the font style and size also, along with the colour. We used the font style of 'Gaz' as it was all capitalised and extremely bold and eye catching. We chose to do this to show the difference between the writing shown when it was the 'unknown' to when things were brought together and it is made clear that there Is or possibly will be a problem.

During this shot we panned around the bonnet of the car we decided to use. We decided to do this to not only shot that they have a means of escaping if they need it, unless something was to go wrong with it. I feel this was a good idea because its fits the conventions of a thriller. Its an example of a stereotypical horror 'Don't go in to house' feel, people watching this will be thinking 'Don't get out of the car' the car is a way to make the audience feel like the characters are safe. We also decided to use this shot as it is a representation of the time we had tried to set of film in; the 80's. This isn't completely clear in our trailer as their wasn't many surrounds or other mise-en-scene shown, this would have been more clear in the film when created.

 

I feel this shot was effective as it establishes location and shows that our character is the only one around. I feel it is also threating as we see him coming closer and closer. We liked this idea for our trailer as we thought it had the potential the leave our audience slightly confused, which we thought was effective and yet slightly different to most trailers where you often get a clear picture of who is the antagonist. We thought this was different and attention grabbing at the same time, as we the audience are not sure if he is chasing some one or if he's the one being chased. Should we fear him or what he is running from?

              

For this shot we have tried to create a birds eye view, I attempted to achieve this by standing up on a high fencing being supported by Eva holding me up to ensure that I did not fall, I don't feel it is completely clear that this is a birds eye view as we could only shot from the highest possible point we could get to, which wasn't that high for us, yet we did our best, I feel we could of been better prepared and attempted to access a ladder and carried this to our location with us, this would of been better as we would of been able to film from a higher point. 

 At the same time I also feel we benefited from the angle we have filmed from, as we are still able to see our characters facial expressions which show fear, I feel this is effective because we know he's running from something, something which scared him but were just unsure what that something is and this creates suspense.

We chose to use this shot when filming out character Stan running around the corner as it showed his whole body and also his surrounding, we hoped it made the audience feel threatened as he was running closer and closer to the camera and their was no possibility of the audience stopping this or them getting away.

Eva and I both sat and discussed what shots we wanted to use, and we both decided that it was a necessity to use an extremes close up, we chose to use an extreme close up to show the fear on Britney's face. We wanted to show this fear but not show why the fear is there, why is she scared? Because of her boyfriend who is present, running towards us in a threatening manner or because of a scary person/creature who we; the audience can not see.

This shot is I feel effective as we have nothing other to focus on except her eyes, there are no other key features for us to see. 

We chose to film this shot from a lower angle as this is different from the angles we have used in other shots, we felt that when filming from this angel it was more effective when watching Britney's eyes move side to side when she was observing her surroundings.

Although this shot has positive notes I feel that possibly the shot could of been much better, for example getting the camera closer to her face and cutting more of her nose and forehead out, meaning there would have been only one thing to focus on; her eyes. I also feel that her hair flicking in her takes some of the focus away from her eyes, but I also feel its adds an airy feel.

 We found from our research that extreme close ups are common with in this genre to show the fear and also the confusion. We have seen this used in many thriller trailers, such as 'Your next' 'the purge' and also 'crawl'.   

Our trailer is made up of various shots of Britney and Dylan alone, this is the one shot where we get to see both character together. This is when we get to see them together, looking worried, scared and frightened, this shot shows they have each other, but for how long? we put this shot after showing them apart to create tension. We personally thought this would work as we see shots of them together than apart this would leave the audience questioning do they make it through the film together? why are they so scared? what are they running from? I feel that this was effective and worked in the way I had hoped it would.

This is a birds eye shot used to show us the protagonist, but not give the protagonist away, I feel that in using this shot it creates tension as the face is hidden, and also the foot are hidden beneath the leaves, but from the stance and body language you can tell the character is looking around; what is this character looking for? I believe its clear that this is the protagonist but they slow motion that has been edited when seeing this character walk, and also the clothing that is seen meets the conventions of a antagonist, dark colours and leather. I feel that this idea worked and this shot was effective. We have seen a shot similar to this used in the thriller of part 2 of the final Harry Potter, foe example we seen a shot of Lord Voldemort feet whilst walking with his snake, his face is not shown and this creates tension, where is he walking to? I was felt this was very effective and this is why I suggested we should do something similar.

 

 
 Eva and I tried our hardest to have a shot showing our actress Britney tied up, we also wanted to include the setting in this also. To show that she was tied up in a forest like place, showing that she is deserted. This shot is a close up and shows her struggling. We decided to do this hoping it would create tension and influence our audience decision to go and view the film, we feel we made the right choice in doing this, one view from our target audience said she felt this was one of the most effective shots. Saying that this left her thinking about the trailer, did she stay tied up, did she get away? What happened after this? I am glad we used this also as it showed another feature using a close up that wasn't just one of our actors face and another part of their body. I feel this was effective and create the tension we intended to create.

Here we have a extreme close up of one of our characters. We intended to show fear in this shot, yet determination. In trying to show determination in this shot we wanted the audience to wonder if this determination had helped him to succeed through the film  and fight of the protagonist, or does he still have a battle to fight? I feel this is possible one of the best shots we have in our trailer and I am very impressed with it and glad we managed to capture it. the effect we have used through our trailer I feel also compliments the shot, due to the effect we have chosen to use the hair is darker than with our the effect meaning the significant parts of the face we have tried to focus on such as the right eye/eyebrow and nose are highlighted. When receiving feedback on our trailer, many people complemented this shot and how it was a great shot to finish our trailer on, it was also said that the soundtrack complements the shots excellently.

Magazine :

Looking at the magazine cover I have created it is evident how I struggled to use Photoshop to create the magazine. My main issue was what colour font to use, If I used white it would blend with the back ground, yet if I used black it would blend with our protagonist hair. So this was a struggle, I was unable to take any more pictures due to running out of time.

Our Magazine does meet the conventions of a film magazine by having the barcode, price and date included. Having a close up of the antagonist is also common, our differs because she is not seen in the trailer.

 We have chosen to include the age rating on our magazine and also relate the inside stories and other articles to the actors in our film.
 When reflecting on what we've done I would have spent more time on these tasks and prepare better for them meaning a better result.
 I know Eva and I both feel the same on this subject. We both feel we spent all our time on our trailer which paid off, but both our poster and magazine suffered because of this.

Develpoment :

 Throughout this production I feel I have progressed majorly. Since AS I feel that not only have I learnt new skills and increased my ability to use a variety of different programmes but also my creativity, I managed to brain storm a variety of different ideas, narratives, location etc. and I did my research to support my ideas, unlike last year when Eva and I decided to go with our first idea. I struggled to use the apple macs and certain programmes this year but have come far compared to AS with a lot of help and support from Eva who continued to help me when I struggled but I feel this is evident in our film in comparison to last year. I feel that this years project has been hugely successful compared to last year and I feel that this is due to our organisation and commitment to the course. Eva and I both worked extremely hard on our trailer this year and I believe this is evident on our final product and our dedication has paid off. I feel extremely pleased with what Eva and I managed to accomplish this year and felt that all our preparation, organisation and determination paid off.
 I personally struggle to use advance technology and have experimented with different editing skills on iMovie such as; transitions, effects, text, layering footage and synchronicity between our audio and visual clips. Not only did this positively impact on our products, but I had enjoyed increasing my knowledge with these features but I would of been unable to do so without Evas help. We both played to our weakness and our strengths, for example Eva was better at editing but I was stronger when using garage band. Despite this Eva and I both spend an equal amount of time around the computer and we only did what we both agreed on.
 Now having finished the course I can not only see how far we have come as a not only individuals but also as a team we have both learnt to listen to each other and have both come very far with our organisation skills, but these can still be improved as due to our organisation not be perfect our post and Magazine cover suffered because of this. Eva and I have both learnt what is worth spending a large amount of time on and what is not, an issue at AS was we would create something it would be good and yet we'd still focus on making it better instead of focusing on things that needed a large amount of improvement.
 We both was careful when choose actors as we wanted people who was reliable, we know that choosing our friends car to film could possibly be a risk encase we was ever to need him and him be unavailable, but we was lucky in having picked friends who we also committed to the role they had been asked to play.
We have ensured that all of the work that we applied was to our best standard and hadn’t at any time went off task or was distracted, this was a huge improvement for both of us as during A2 we were often distracted
 I feel that Eva and I have both matured majorly within this last year, meaning this has majorly improved all areas of our work, especially when compared to last years final product. We have ensured all of the work submitted we have tried to complete to the best of our ability. We feel that by not allowing our selves to be distracted by others and making use of the time we have in and out of class has benefited us and our final piece majorly.

Technology used :

I've used a large amount of technology during my A2 year, especially compared to last year. I feel this has helped me to develop my skills majorly.
 This year I have used my initiative when I have struggled with technology I have been expected to used, instead of giving up of moaning about not knowing what to do I have played around with different programmes to work them out my self or I have asked others around me or even used the internet, I have used Google on several occasions and also resulted to watching tutorials on Youtube on a few occasions.
 This year I have made use of a variety of different programmes on the apple macs such as Photoshop, iMovie, Garage band, etc. I have also used cameras to not only films footage for our trailer but also record focus groups we have carried out.
 I have made questionnaires and recorded our results in a variety charts made on excel, and obviously the internet for things such as blogging which I remember from AS I also feel I've advanced my skills on basic websites such as this. I've made use of checking out other media blogs, YouTube channels to not only look at tutorials but to also carry out a large amount of research, I've also spent a considerable amount of time reading other thriller trailer comments let by others on the internet to see what their feedback, and see how this could possibly benefit Eva and I when creating our own trailer.

More filming :

 Eva and I have now got to the point in editing when we feel we will benefit from more filming as all the footage we have collected so far is extremely repetitive and basic, we feel we needed to gather more camera angels and a shot a larger variety of shots. So we chose to take the camera and go to river side with both our actors; Britney and Dylan.
 I did some further research and wrote out a list of shots commonly used in thriller trailers. I then referred back to this list when filming, so our own trailer included a large variety. I tried to get a bird eye view shot by standing on a high fence when Dylan was running around the corner, Which I feel was effective, and also different from any of the other shots we have so far used. We also included establishing shots for our trailer opening, close up, extreme close up.
 I feel that from filming this extra footage has benefited us majorly, we have taken into account all the different cameras angles and shots we can use that will create more suspense and we can use to create different effects and also help us to gain more marks.

Task :

This is a table from term 4, showing what we have left to do. I'm finding these tables very helpful as they leave me knowing where I am and what tasks I have left to complete.

To do :

 After spending some time talking to both Mrs Harris and Miss Mayo Eva and I have both processed where we are at, and what we now need to do to get to where we want to be.
 We both know we are behind when creating our Poster and Magazine, both have been started but as yet not completed, this is something we both need to get on top of and to be completed during our own time as we now using all lesson time to edit and create our sound track.
 We have created charted showing what we have completed and what we need to complete, similar to a checklist. Which are shown here:

Check List for December 2013:

Check List for January 2014:

Pathetic fallacy :

 A technical term used for when the weather is used to represent a mood or a situation, and the weather is used to emphasises this. For example, a love story wouldn't leave the happy feeling when you watch a couple finally get together after waiting the whole film for this to happen if they had their big kiss in the thunder and lightening, usually the weather will be sunny and happy to reflect the character feelings and emotions. 
Another example of this would be a horror movie; a horror movie wouldn't have the same effect and create the same tension if it was filmed on a Sunday, where the location is light and bright, and you can see the whole location.
 An it is for this reason that we have chosen to film when it is dark and dull with poor weather, we have done this in attempt to create the an atmosphere and suspense and to create the 'unknown' as it is dark and our actors surroundings are therefore not visible, and we feel this created the suspense we wanted.  

More to be done :

 Now Eva and I are at the point where we are editing our filming and adding various clips together, we have realised that we made need to record some more filming to add into our film trailer, with a variaty of more camera angles and shots to show our abililty and knowledge of media termonology. 
 Due to Eva and I's shots being short in duration we are stuggeling to come up with idea's to fill out the length of an average thriller trailer of 1.45 minutes with out giving away the full story line, we want to create suspense and leave our audience egar to watch all the whole film. 
 We have decided to use our free period to film further with the best resources we are able to get, and we are hoping to film Dylan more when we are able to get him when he has free time to film further. 
 Eva and I are currently trying to come up with more creative ideas, that are not so conventional and sterotypical to fit our genre. 

Location :

This is a picture taken from Google of where we have filmed part of our trailers; The entrance and Car Park to Capstone Wild life park. There was a few other cars in the car park the time we was filming, We thought this could potentially be an issue, but the only thing I could do was to avoid getting any other cars in the shots, which I tried my best today, I also took into account the fact that it wouldn't be a major deal as we would only be using snippets of the footage, and editing it.  

This is another Location chosen; River side country park. It again is very similar to Capstone Wildlife park, not very busy and a lot of nature and is made up by a mixture of vehicles and pedestrians. We liked the idea of both these locations as although they are not very busy, they are not deserted, we didn't want other members of the public in our trailer but we want it to appear that there is a possibility of help arriving to this visibly accessible location. 

On the day we filmed at both of these locations it was rather gloomy, which we was pleased with as we didn't want it to bright and sunny, but rather dark, dull and gloomy, but still with the right lighting for us to film in. It took us many attempts to get the right lighting and weather to film in but we persisted and got the filming that we wanted and needed.  

Changes to production schedule :

 Eva and I have planned and arranged to film on multiple occasions, but every time are unable due to this unpredictable unpleasant weather.
 We had planned to film the afternoon of 24th january, as Eva and I both have free periods but then was unable to due to the awful weather, and also the Saturday of afternoon of the 1st of Feb but we have been unable to film in the rain because not only do our actors not want to stand out in the freezing cold and rain but also that would not look good on camera having wet actors, and this wouldn't fit in with the costumes we have picked and written about, or what we wanted in our trailer, also we need to take into consideration that we are responsible for the camera, therefore if anything was to happen to it we would have to replace it, meaning we would be responsible for water damage.
 We had originally had planned to film in upchurch as there is a red telephone box but was unable to as one of the the roads got blocked of as a tree has been blown over. The weather has had a major effect on our filming, meaning that we have had to rethink the whole process of what we want to do.
 After a lot of discussion Eva and I decided to re plan our whole idea. We decided to film from inside the car, meaning that the weather wasn't a major problem when filming. We eventually filmed on Friday 7th Feb, where we decided to film driving along country roads, pulling into and out of the country parks. We've also got shots of Dylan in the car park, looking around acting confused and looking fearful.
 The weather was still rather gloomy and dull in our shots, but not so much that it was an issue.
 We are pleased that we finally have some footage we can edit and begin to use. We still intend to do some more filming during the half term, just so we have plenty of footage to chose from and spend time creating more ideas.

Production schedule :

 Eva and I have now created a production schedule; We plan to film with our actors on the afternoon of 24th January 2014, we have chosen this pacific date as We both have free periods and it is also convenient for our actors. 

Lighting :

 As Eva and I are usually at school Monday - Friday from 8:30-15:00 we know the time we have to film is very limited, we are both slightly worried as we intend to film outside, by the time we finish school is it usually dark, and this does effect our filming, obviously we are also limited on the weekends due to work and our actors not being available, so we intend to use our frees and media lessons wisely.
 Due to the weather we have been having it has been very gloomy and dull in general, we see this as a good thing as this is how we have pictured the lighting in our trailer to be, but yet again its also a bad thing as we don't want it to loo like we've just filmed in this weather with this lighting as we have no other choice, and we don't want the lighting to be so poor it effects the rest of what we are filming or it takes away the attention from what we are trying to focus on.
 We know the location we want to film in; Country parks. Meaning we know where ever we choose to film we are going to be slightly sheltered by trees and bushes, meaning we know our lighting is going to be slightly darker no matter what, we also know we need to take into consideration that if we are filming in different areas of the park at different times on different days the lighting may be significantly different.  

Mise-en-scene:

 Eva and I have thought very carefully about mise-en-scene, as we want our trailer to clearly show that our film is filmed/ produced during the 80's we have taken into account that we are going to have to find a very specific place to film. 
Props: We are very lucky as we have a friend who drives a classic mini copper which benefits us majorly, although we have this we need to think about filming in a public place, because having a classic car which fits our genre perfectly is worthless if we have brand new modern cars in our shots. The mini Classic we are using is clearly old, it is a gold/brown colour, with a black convertable roof, a tad beat up, with a loud engine. 
 Costume: We have told both Brittany and Dylan what we wanted them to wear, we want to create a 'rock' kind of look. For the look we are trying to create we have been inspired by series/films such as this is england. 
 We want Brittany to look natural with minimal make up, natural hair, we want this as back in the 80's we know girls didn't look like todays young girls; full face of make up and big, long hair and dressed in bright colours. We want Brittany in a leather jacket as this fits the 'rock' look we want to create and this is convenient as we know she has one herself, meaning that if we need to for some reason randomly go out and capture some last minuet shoots we do not need to worry about where to find a leather jacket that we can use. We know that dark colours will be key when creating this image as it fits the stereotype, along with patterns such as tartan and chequered.
 Dylan has a big Khaki coloured parker coat we have asked him to wear, it is a dark shade of green and also big and fluffy, this is the film is well suited as we want to emphasis how cold it is when him and his friends are stranded in an un known location, showing how cold it is will help to create this gloomy, dark, negative atmosphere, which may not be vital in the trailer but to create this trailer we need to fully take into account what would happen if this film was to be created.

 In our trailer we want to have a few quick cuts of our 'creatures' to create tensions, doing this people are going to want to know what are the creatures? What do they do? What effect will they have on the characters? How do they effect/come into the story line? Meaning that people will therefore want to come and see the film in cinema, which of course is the ultimate goal and the focus for a trailer.
 For this pacific trailer, our main focus is location and clothing, apart from the car we haven't focused majorly on any other props.
 For our 'creatures' we want these to look very human like, just with the faces of farm animals. Currently Eva and I have both been looking for suitable, realistic animal masks to use, we was looking at having a minimum of 3 different animals shown in our trailer, but we are still struggling to find what we want. If we do not find what we want we are going to have to consider and alternative idea.

Actors:

 Eva and I are fortunate enough to have a friend; Dylan, who owns a classic mini copper, and has agreed to let us use his car and also film him. This is perfect for what we need as we are trying to create a film that looks like it has been filmed and produced in the 80's.
 We have also asked our friend Brittany to be in our trailer also. We have chosen to ask these two people as we know they are both reliable and often together meaning we can film them both together.
 Dylan also has long hair, and a scruffy look to him which met the character we wanted to create, we didn't want the stereotypical look of a teen boy today. He has a deep voice and looks older.
 We chose Brittany as she's reliable, confident, and simple looking. She is very pretty, but not caked in make up, she's very natural and mature looking, which is the character we wanted.
 Both are confident characters so we know them being filmed would not be an issue, and they have both said they are more then happy to act/say what we tell them to do.

Sound:

 Although Eva and I have yet not created any music we have both spoken in depth and agreed in what we are aiming to achieve when making our sound track. We both have decided to use garage band to create our soundtrack, as we know that then we are able to create exactly what we want, as we are able to make the whole thing ourself and we know garage band has a very large selection of sounds to use, we also both already know how to use it, meaning we are both in the position to work on the sound. We both want our sound track to differ when meeting the conventions of a stereotypical sound track to a psychological thriller.
At the beginning of our shots we would like some dialog of a conversation between Stan and his mother. We want the dialog to be brief and unclear, but loud.
 The when our characters set out on the country roads we want to have a few short shots of them in the car, with digetic music playing; that they themselves our playing in the car, singing along to.
 We want something to resemble a nursery rhyme, which sounds happy and calming, but when paired with what we are presenting visually, our setting along with the facial expressions of our characters and the quick cuts it could be interpreted as creepy and unsettling. We are doing this to create tension, but make this tension even more unsettling as nothing is clear; no body knows whats going to happen, or who is going to turn up.

I  gave him   reason   to    open    up   to   me     just  like    that    I   know      his    heart , and  like  that   his    heart   had    broke   right  in    front  of   me  and  I   must   now     pick up  the    pieces     that   are  his   heart ; I   hath    fallen     in  love  with   all   his     honesty   and   honour      true    with  the   heart   to   hold  on   to   all    the  people   whom   he   held   dear in  all   the   world. His   mournful   cry   leaves   my   heart   breaking   like   a   wine   glass   in  an   earthquake ,  even   if   he's     grieving   over   someone   close   to   him I   shall  not   leave  and    abandon   him   to    fates   foolish  luck ;  but   thats    just  fine    because   my   love   for   him   is   strengthened   by   tears  such  as     his   and    I   will  not    be   pushed  away     from   him     by   his    fierce    tears  of   grief.

• We liked the idea of having a voice over in our trailer as they are often used in thrillers to set the mood of the film.

Location:

In our trailer we have chosen multiple locations. As in the beginning of our film we want Stan to have a dispute with his parents and is given the ultimatum of either pull himself together and get a job/further education or leave their house. We want this to be shown very briefly in our trailer, a short clip of stan in his room, we want to see a stereotypical lazy slobbish dirty room, clearly belonging to a teen boy.
 We have taken into account that most young boys rooms today are made up with a collection of computers such as TV's, Xbox's, PS3s, ipads or laptops. Meaning that we are aware these will have to be removed or hidden to not be visible in the shot if we want to create a film to look as if it was created in the 80's.
 We then want to go on to create most other shots to be out in the country side, in a unclear location, yet what appears to be nothing out of the ordinary. We want to keep all these shots very basic, and then throughout the trailer establish that clearly something is not right and this is then when we want the location to become a little deeper into the forest and a little darker, and a little more gloomy.
 Our main character Stan is being played by a friend of mine; Dylan. We have shot him in his own room. We have chosen to shoot in the car driving along country road and we have also filmed in the car park of capstone riverside park, and also Riverside country park, as these are both close to where we live and also accessible for all of us at most times, meaning we can go back on any given date and we also know what the set out of this location is, meaning we can prepare what we want to film and where.
 Both of these country parks have been near to deserted when we have been there due to the weather, which is a bonus for us as we would like our location to look as deserted as possible. Both due to weather are very wet, and gloomy creating the image we want to create.

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