Research & Planning - Interview

Here are our Interviews with 4 people, we asked them questions about Horror films, this feedback will help us in the future for when we produce our own Horror trailer.

Research & Planning - Sharing Horror Poll on Twitter

I used Twitter to share my poll about Horror films, hopefully people will see it and take the time to answer some of the questions :)

Research & Planning - Poll Junkie

Here is a poll I have created about Horror films and Antagonists. This poll is for the public to answer.

http://www.polljunkie.com/poll/dnsfyc/film-trailer-poll

Research & Planning - Pitch

Here is my Pitch for my groups future trailer, I have to be honest I did not know what to think of or what plot lines to do, but as I watched some trailers and analysed them they inspired me a little bit for the future trailer. Hopefully I will know what to do to make a successful trailer, props, poster and magazine cover for my project.

Research & Planning - Who will I be working with for this Project?

For our A2 project this year we were given a choice to work alone or in groups for this project, I chose to work in a group as I had a feeling I would struggled producing my own trailer.

For this years media project, I will be working with:-

Aimee Barwick 

Amy Jenkinson

During our first meeting we discussed who has more experience the most with Mise-en-scene, Editing, Cinematography and Sound. None of us are any good at Sound, so we decided we will work together on this and combined our Sound skills to make our future trailer sound professional.

For now we are all not sure at what we are best at, but we will try to figure it out over the weekend before the next meeting.

I only know that I am best at Editing because I know some of the Transitions e.g. Fade, and continuity techniques. For editing my own clips, I like to use my time on Technological software's and I also have Photoshop at home too,  so I can finish off any projects that need to be done ASAP.

We will have occasional meetings every week to discuss future preparations, Ideas, problems etc.

Research & Planning - The Chase

My tutor gave me and my group a small task to start the first week of media off, we were given an assignment to make a 'Chase' sequence, it was like practising how to make a film trailer in only 1 minute. Dissolves were used to show connection between the characters. Also, we used pan shots to show the scene, we also used close up shots to show the emotions of the characters.

Research & Planning - Photoshop Challenge

Here is my rough film poster for the classes Photoshop Challenge, the genre of my poster is Horror. I wanted to do horror because I thought I'd challenge myself in creating something scary and mysterious instead of designing something colourful and cheerful as I usually do for most of my work. I also wanted to face my fears as I hate watching scary films because they really scare me!

Using Google images I searched for an extreme close up of an eye with a tearful look. The eye I chose to use was very colourful and did not blend well with the horror theme, so I used Photoshop to dim the lighting slightly and change the eye colour to a darker shade.

I also found an image of a scary woman screaming in front of the camera, audiences would definitely find this photo frightening as the woman doesn't look normal, you can only see her head and nothing else.

Using Photoshop I placed the scary woman's head inside the pupil of the eye, this gives a mysterious and unusual effect, but this image will inform audiences that the eye is facing the head and we can see her face being reflected in the eye as the person is looking through a mirror, hence the title 'Through The Looking Glass'.