Trailer:
When researching other film trailers we used the internet to check some out on the IMDb website and Youtube. These were quick, easily accessible websites and the easiest websites to check them out on as they both contain multiple links to basically every film trailer thats been made. By looking at trailers with similar genre's to ours enabled us to pick up features such as camera angles, genre idea's, pace and time for each shot which helped influence us with some of our final decisions. We also used google to help us research the film 'Fight Club' to find more information about it's narrative as we found many similarities in our intentional genre along side this film, so it's influence helped us to structure our own narrative and key things we needed to consider in the narrative to ensure it made complete sense.
To film all the trailer shots we used a Camera Corder which was fairly accessible and easy enough to use. We firstly used one to test out camera shots and angles in different environments so that we could plan places to film the shots and answer any questions through the planning stages that we were unsure about when we would be filming the actual shots for our trailer. Once sorting out our storyboard we fairly quickly managed to film the shots we needed with the use of a Camera Corder and plugged it into an Apple Mac to upload and edit what we had filmed. With the use of a Tripod we were able to film high and low shots and created some interesting camera angles and shots with and without the use of the Tripod to enable a better interest for our target audience.
When constructing the trailer we used iMovie software on the Apple Macs as it is fairly easy to quickly get to grips with, with some guidance. It allowed us to cut up and move around the shots we filmed so precisely that we had the advantage to make it as good as possible and stereotypically film trailer style. iMovie also allowed us to add in effects such as the flashes to move from scene to scene which helped to portray our genre along side the narrative of our film. Another feature we could do was add in music in the background of the trailer to stereotype it as a film trailer, by importing music and sounds we put on iTunes allowed us to cut up and move around different songs/sounds on iMovie to fit in the areas with suitable clips in the trailer.
Whilst researching and constructing the trailer we made this blog to document everything we did so that we could refer back to things we did earlier in the project when working on it later in the year. It has also allowed us to collect every thing we have done so that we don't forget any of the most important and valid ideas and points that have been said and discussed. We also used the blog to write about things we did for the Poster and Magazine Front Cover too for the same reasons stated.
Poster:
To capture the original photo for the poster of Chace we used a Digital Camera as it enabled us to get a clear image of the character and also allowed us to then upload it on the Apple Mac to edit it on Photoshop Elements. It took hardly any time to capture a good enough photo that we could work with on Photoshop elements and was also a quick process to upload on to the Apple mac.
We used Photoshop Elements programme on Apple Macs to edit the photo of Chace's character and change it to the way we wanted it. By using many of the icons on the programme we were able to create the image of Chace pulling his skin down to reveal his alter evil ego. This helped to create a painfully memorable image that we thought would make our target audience remember our film through our poster. We also added text to allow the audience to identify the film name, our tagline and other important information other film posters tend to include on them.
When researching current film posters we used the internet, mainly Google, to check out similar genre films to ours so that we could get a vague idea of the layout we should be going for to ensure that our poster would fit in with a film poster you'd find in a magazine or on a billboard. Google is an extremely user friendly site and found exactly what we were looking for quickly each time which meant it didn't take too long to gather research before we were able to sketch our own ideas for our poster.
Magazine:
Through the research process we looked at Film magazines like Empire to gain knowledge of what the normal conventions of a Film magazine front cover are so that we would know what the audience would expect to see and read. Being the Title of the magazine, the foreground and background picture and other interesting bits about films and winning posters were elements we chose to encounter and use as influence on our cover to what would be our magazines normal front cover conventions.
To get the images of all the main characters of our film we used a digital camera to capture them. This allowed us to upload them on to an Apple Mac to edit them and compile them to make our finishing front cover. We used the tripod to get the right angles and height for the pictures which allowed a steady photo and refrained from the photo's being blurry or show slight movement of the camera. By using the Digital Camera it allowed us to capture the clear close up photo of the clock which is extremely empowering as you can see the tiny details of the mechanism and really puts across our intentions behind the positioning of the clock.
The editing software we used to construct the magazine was Photoshop Elements as we had fairly good knowledge of how to use the programme by the time we were composing the magazine. It enabled us to use different layers to include each step on the front cover and allowed us to work with one layer at a time. It was quite time consuming putting the magazine cover together with all the different parts however we managed to create a magazine cover that works and portrays our film across in a thought provoking way.
Jo
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