Research and planning : Cast selection and De-selection

After much consideration and reviews about the actors that signed up for the audition, we have selected a few that would like to use in our trailer and the selection was made based on attitudes, acting skills, and behaviour.

Attitude: in terms of attitudes we wanted some one who had a positive attitude towards the making of the trailer and would actually take it serious and focus on it more while putting in a lot of efforts towards the success of the trailer.

Acting skills:  this skill is crucial to the trailer as it the foundation and soul of the trailer the acting skills include facial expressions, movements, body language e.t.c. these are the key factors that we need to make our trailer look realistic and believable.

Behaviour : we were looking for actors with positive attitudes.

 In conclusion we picked the actors that best suit the criteria for our trailer production.

Research and planning : November podcast

This is my November podcast

Research and planning : Hyde park test shots

Theses are the test shot I have taken for  Hyde park as it is one of our locations for our horror trailer and we are going to be using most of these shots and angles in our trailer.

Research and Planning : Audition sign up sheet

 

This is the audition sign up sheet i created and put up for those who wanted to take part in the trailer to fill out before we make our decision and get in touch with them. 

After much consideration and reviews about the actors that signed up for the audition, we have selected a few that w would like to use in our trailer and the selection was made based on attitudes, acting skills, and behaviour.

Attitude: in terms of attitudes we wanted some one who had a positive attitude towards the making of the trailer and would actually take it serious and focus on it more while putting in a lot of efforts towards the success of the trailer.

Research and planning: Audition poster and Auditions

 

This is an audition poster I have created using photo shop, I got the image from the internet and had a play around with colors and text relating it to  genre of our trailer. I have also added a few of my audition videos for the trailer

Research and planning: My favorite film magazine mast head font

 This is my favorite masthead font from dafont.com I like this font because it goes with the genre of my film magazine which is a horror genre and it would go well with the theme and layout of my film magazine.

Research and Planning : film magazine font ideas

 Font Name: Cf Night Of The Damned

                                                              Font Name : Absender

 

 

Font Name :  Alpenkreuzer

                                                                Font name : Alexandre



I had a look on dafont.com to look for  font sizes and styles I could use for my film magazine mast head and these are some of the font styles I liked.

Research and Planning : College Test shots

These are the test shots I have taken of the college area we are going to be using for our film trailer

Research and Planning: Meeting post

I and my Partner had a meeting to discuss our progress so far and we have complete most of our tasks but we still need to do our script test shots and animated story board. our test shots and hold auditions after creating our audition sign up sheet.

Research and planning : Distribution company logo

This is the distribution company logo my partner has created on photo shop.

Research and planning : short list

Here are two shot list of the two locations that we are going to use, it is the college and the park.

Research and planning : Location research

The types of location that we are aiming for are low key lighting because our film trailer has a genre of horror therefore, it must be low key lighting to put effect and make it look dramatic and create suspense. By watching our film trailer the audience must be intimidated and on the other hand they must have interest in watching more horror films, but not put them off watching horror films. In our trailer we are including 2 locations college and Hyde park in our film trailer so here are the 2 locations that we are aiming for:
The Hyde Clarendon college

    This can be the establishing shot that we are going to use in our film trailer which you will see in the first few shots of the animatic storyboard.  we are looking to start with a  high key lighting at the beginning of the trailer until the park area. 


    Here is another shot of the college from outside, this is more of a left side view of the college when entering from the front.


   This is a high angle shot of the main hall inside the college, which will also be in our film trailer and also you will see a couple of shots similar to this being used in the animatic storyboard.


Hyde Park

These are the types of locations that we are looking for in Hyde park. there are going to be a lot of shots in Hyde park in low key lighting also there are shots used like this in the animatic storyboard. 

  The trees look very intimidating so this is a good type of location that we are aiming for.

   The lighting cant be too dark or else the filming will not come out right, it is going to be dark and we wont be able to see because it gets dark around 5pm here so we will need some light like the lamps in the places or the street lights.

Research and planning : Costume and prop list for magazine.

The costume and props that I am going to use for the film magazine are:

• plain white t-shirt  
• Fake blood/red colouring
• Knife  
• hair extensions/wig
• contact lense for effect
• liquid eye liner

Research and planning: costume and prop list for poster

The costumes and props list for my poster is listed below:

• White T-shirt
• Fake blood/colouring
• Knief
• Hair extensions / wig 
• Face paint or fake blood 
• Liquid eye liner
• contact lense to create scary eyes effect.

Research and planning: Risk Asessment.

 This is a screen shot of the Risk assement forms for out film trailer. I have gone through the list and considered the possible risk we might have to deal with during the course of making our horror film trailer.

Research and planning: Location Recces

this is a screen shot of the location recces I did relating to my role in the production of our trailer i have also added a picture of what the park would look like at nigh which is when we are going to be filming.

Research and planning : Plan for the week

This week I am going to work on :

• Script
• shooting schedule
• location recces
• risk assessments
• Audition posters/auditions
• Test shots

Research and planning : 2x drafts of horror film magazine.

 That is the 1st draft of my horror film magazine .

This is the second draft of my horror film magazine.

Research and planning: Meeting post

 I had a discussion with my collegue and dicussed what we would both be doing this week relating to our job role I have to do :

 Risk Assement  asnd Location Recce
while my collegue would do the location research and shoer list.

Research and planning : Publication plan

Publication plan on Prezi

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Publication plan on Prezi

Research and planning : film glossary

 I had a look on film glossary to get ideas for the mast head of my film magazine as it has to be related to film and media languages.

Research and planning: Plan for the week.

Complete production documents
Auditions / actors head shots
Make up tests
Test shots

Research and planning : Horror genre collage

This is the horror genre collage I created by cutting out pictures or horror images objects and item just to give a general idea of what horror is and what my images and future work on my project would look like and what should be expected from it.

Research and planning: 2x film poster drafts.

These are the first and second draft i have drawn for my trailer poster.

Research and planning : film magazine analysis 2

This is a film magazine cover page and also its of a horror genre. I can tell this because of the image on the cover page and also the use of colours that are associated with horror, not only this but the Masthead in a big font on the top of the page . The word scars has connotations with blood as you can see the girl has blood all over her face and her body. Moreover the main cover line is written in red associated with blood with sub headings in white. The font size of this horror film magazine is going the order of its importance, from the masthead which is in the biggest font size then the main cover lines of the magazine and then the sub headings to the issue date under the masthead. The horror film magazine also uses the three color scheme rule which are red, black and white, however there is more red on the cover page to demonstrate the blood and terror. This horror film magazine includes features of a magazine like: Masthead, Slug line/tag line, Issue date, bar code, Main cover lines, sub headings, Main image, 3 colour rule.

By looking at the cover of the horror film magazine. I can tell that the audience for this film are teenagers because there is a image of a teenage girl so I assume that this is for teenagers. The age rating for this film would probably be 15 because it may have disturbing images for young children therefore, they should be teenagers . Looking at the image of the cover page I think that the girl is being portrayed as being weak  which is a typical stereotype of women by the media  The cinematography shot used in this cover page is a mid shot.

Research and planning: Film magazine analysis 1

 

This is a film magazine cover page and  its also a horror genre. I can tell this because of the image on the cover page where the girl in the picture has fangs and her mouth covered with blood , also the type of colours  used on the cover are associated with horror ( black because it is dark and scary, red as it represents danger and blood), not only this but the Masthead i written in a big font on the top of the page  The word fangoria is written with the a font representing fangs and also in the colour red . see the girl has blood all over her face. The font size of this horror film magazine is going the order of its importance, from the masthead which is in the biggest font size then the main cover lines of the magazine and then the sub headings to the issue date under the masthead. The horror film magazine also uses the color scheme rule and uses red, black, yellow and white, however there is more red on the cover page to demonstrate the blood and terror. This horror film magazines includes features of a magazine like:

• Masthead
• Slug line/tag line
• Issue date
• bar code
• Main cover lines
• sub headings
• Main image

By looking at the cover of the horror film magazine. I can tell that the audience for this film are teenagers because there is a image of a teenage girl so I assume that this is for teenagers. The age rating for this film would probably be 12A or 15 because it may have disturbing images for young children therefore, they must be accompanied by an adult. Looking at the image of the cover page I think that the girl is being portrayed as being strong but also the main character  in the film. The cinematography shot used in this cover page is a close up.

Research and planning: plan for the week

Meeting post
film poster draft
extra research posts

Research and planning: Meeting post

After half term I and my partner had another meeting and we both decided that I will do the production company logo and she can do the distribution company logo i have already started working  on the drafts for the production company logo. we also talked about our animated story board which we are working together to complete.

Research and planning: Distribution company research.

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for the marketing of a film. The distributor may set the release date of a film and the method by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing. A distributor may do this directly, if the distributor owns the theaters or film distribution networks, or through theatrical exhibitors and other sub-distributors. A limited distributor may deal only with particular products, such as DVDs or Blu-ray, or may act in a particular country or market.
The distributor is also responsible for ensuring a full line of advertising material is available on each film which it believes will help the exhibitor attract the largest possible audience, create such advertising if it is not provided by the production company. If the distributor is handling an imported or foreign film, it may also be responsible for securing dubbing or subtitling for the film, and securing censorship or other legal or organizational "approval" for the exhibition of the film in the country/territory in which it does business.

Research and planning : Production company logo 1st draft

This is the first idea I have come up with for the production company logo we are going to stick with the name Xtreme Productions but however the design structure or background layer might change later on.

I did this using power point and photo shop started off using power point to create the big X then opened it in photo shop added a background and used other fonts on photo shop.