Research and Planning: Updated Costume List.

Updated Costume List.

When we made our previous costume list the weather was different to what we will be filming in now.

It is a lot colder now and it wouldn't be fair to place our actors in the cold filming in the other costumes so we are going to adapt it to the weather now.

Girl #1

Keeping the dark jeans and simple t-shirt with design on and the minimalistic make-up and hair in a ponytail however we will now add a cardigan over the top, maybe a patterned cardigan to give this character more of an identity.

And she will still end up with ripped clothing and dirt all over her, make-up a mess and also I will add some cuts and bruises.

Girl #2

We were originally having this character in shorts or a dress, we will still keep her in a dress but we will add tights as well and a cardigan, a thinner cardigan so that she is a lot different to the other female and has a separate identity to the other female character.

Again she will have the ripped clothing, dirty and make-up a mess and cuts and bruises.

Male #1

Keeping the checkered shirt, and dark jeans and depending on how cold it is, we may add a jumper over the top. 

Dirty, dusty, ripped clothing and bruised and cut.

Male #2

This character is a lot more casual so we will keep him in the t-shirt and joggers but add a hoodie or something over the top to keep him warmer. 

Dirty, dusty, ripped clothing and bruised and cut.

Research and Planning: Potential Colour Schemes for Magazine.

Potential Colour Schemes.

*All with white aswell.

These are very rough ideas of colour schemes that I could go for, I think the best one for my magazine will be red because of the title 'Premiere' it has the 'red carpet feel' so the obvious colour to go for will be red. 

These are the shades of red that I could potentially use and I think I prefer the 4th and 5th shades although the 5th shade may look to dark against black and dark low key lighting of my images I may use.

Research and Planning: Analysis of Audience Feedback.

Analysis of Audience Feedback.

Genre and Narrative:

The genre of our trailer even with the small amount of footage we had in our rough trailer was well received, nearly everyone guessed that it was along the lines of a horror film. 

The trouble we had was that due to the lack of footage the narrative wasn't well received and people found it difficult to follow the story so that is something that will come with time when we add more footage in the trailer, but we will have to get more audience feedback at that time to make sure that our storyline is coming across well. 

Strengths of Trailer:

-Heartbeat 

-Low Key Lighting

-Location 

-Editing

-Nightvision effect 

-Some cinematography shots

The heartbeat was a popular strength of ours so this would be something that we would definitely keep, as our audience felt that this gave it an eerie feel and made the whole atmosphere a lot darker.

A lot of people said that the lighting and location worked well together along with the nightvision effect, which is something we still need to play around with. 

Some editing and cinematography got picked out as working really well within the trailer so we should definitely look at recreating some of those shots with the actual actors we are going to use. 

Areas of development:

-Filming more

-Camera needs some work

-More Editing

-Clearer narrative

The filming more development area is an obvious point which will definitely come in time.

The camera filming does need some work, we may try and use a HD camera although that is looking unlikely that we will be able to at this moment in time. 

More editing will come when we add more footage.

The narrative will become clearly eventually.

Research and Planning: Plan for over Christmas.

Christmas Break.

Over christmas, we plan to;

Film our handheld camera shots.

Extra posts.

Planning for Poster and Magazine. 

Blogs up to date.

Upload auditions.

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback.

Audience Feedback.

The audience feedback sheets from showing our rough footage trailer.

Research and Planning: Edited Trailer.

Edited Trailer.

This is our edited trailer including the rough footage that we filmed on the handheld cameras (the unedited footage is on the previous post) we put the MPAA message at the beginning for the 15 rating and we also put the distribution/production logos in place although, the 'After Dark' logo needs a lot of work because the image did not transfer into the trailer well at all, so that will be something that needs changing. The production logo is more or less perfect for placing in the trailer. We then placed all the relevant transitions in, the most used one is fade to black because it works the best with our trailer and isn't as harsh as jump cuts which we will be using in the actual trailer. We did include some of our animatic storyboard in the trailer to fill in the gaps and then where we had some relevant footage we placed it in and then we started to place some effects and alter the colouring and brightness on the footage to make it look slightly night vision-y and it does look good now but we are going to play around with more effects before we decided on what is the final effect we are going to have.

Research and Planning: Unedited Footage.

Unedited Footage.

This is some rough footage, that we filmed with a handheld camera.

Research and Planning: iShowU Editing.

iShowU: Editing Rough Footage.

This is a partial edited trailer with some rough footage, we have just been playing around with effects on the rough footage so we can get ideas for our final trailer. We used iMovie to edit our footage and just placed our footage onto our animatic storyboard so that we knew where to place the footage and we could also fill in any gaps with the images of the storyboard.

Research and Planning: Magazine Article Ideas.

Magazine Article Ideas.

Research and Planning: Auditions.

Auditions.

Some auditions for our trailer.

Research and Planning: Audition Script.

Audition Script.

For our trailer, we decided to hold some auditions in order to establish who would be best for what parts in our trailer.
 

We took apart of a monologue from the film Silence of the Lambs.

You know what you look like to me with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you Agent Starling? 

Research and Planning: Filming for the Draft.

Draft Filming Problems.

This week me and Luke have planned to film some footage for our draft trailer, however we have encountered some problems, the original actors/actresses we were using are not available to film during the time available so we found other people to film our drafts with, so the same amount of characters will be used for the draft but they may not be in our final cut. 

However, on the day we encountered other problems, the weather was bad so we couldn't film the main scene we needed due to it being outside, so we are trying to figure out where we can film our other scenes on short notice.