Evaluation.

Final Trailer.

Above is my final trailer, I am happy with the final result and felt that making my trailer black and white throughout was very effective in connecting with the horror genre, I also felt that the effect made the trailer more sinister again relating to the genre. I felt the sound worked well in working up the tension throughout the teaser trailer and went well with the equilibrium I was trying to create, the sound I used at the start was low and then I used a rising sound to build the atmosphere of the trailer, I then ended it with bangs. If I had the chance to re-do my teaser, I would make it slightly longer as I felt it was maybe a touch short. I think that if it were longer, it would be more effective however I think it worked well being shorter because it could be a way of building the suspense of the trailer leaving the viewer wanting more.

Final Poster

Above is my final poster advertisement for my teaser trailer. The part of the poster I was most pleased with was the image and the effect I added. Before the image was dull and it was just natural daylight, after I added the effect, the darkness and the shadows beneath the branches became more apparent making the image look more sinister. The effect is also negative which gave the white parts of the image blue-ish, again making it look scarier. I think with the shadows creates the viewer to think what could be lurking under them. I then placed another image on top of the image of the trees. The image I choose to use was one I had previously taken which was when I made my sister up to be the crazy woman. I felt that putting this image on top related my poster to the horror genre more and made it more obvious that it was a horror film that I was trying to advertise. I decided then that because I wanted the viewer to concentrate on the image, I felt that keeping the title and tagline in a simple, bold font made them more effective and stand out but not take away from the image, I also made some of the text a dark red to relate to the connotations of the colour red being; blood, danger etc. If I was to re-do my poster, I would maybe try adding in celebrity names.

Final Magazine

Above is my final magazine front cover advertising my teaser trailer. After I had completed my draft, I found several errors which I fixed in the above final. I also added extra details in making it more genuine.The trailer was the main, exclusive piece in this edition of the magazine. I decided to go with 'Empire' in the end because I felt, as it is a mainstream film company, I felt it would be better suited to my teaser trailer and the audience I was trying to target. I was going for a mass audience which suited 'Empire' magazine. If I was targeting a niche audience I would go for a smaller, less known film company such as 'Anna-Purna'. As I used 'Empire', I looked closely at previous designs on previous editions of the magazine. I followed several of Empires classic characteristics such as; the empire website address under the masthead, the date and price of the magazine above the 'M' etc. Another thing I noticed whilst looking at previous editions of Empire magazine was the use of colour. So when I was creating my own, I felt it was crucial to include some which is why I featured colours such as red and blue. The shocking colours stood out and would work well when the magazine was sitting in a shop at attracting the attention of readers. Another thing I included also was the plus sign before some text which is regularly on Empire magazines. If I was to re-do my magazine, I would think about what other puffs and pugs I could have included to make my magazine more sellable and interesting to my target audience. 

Final Magazine Draft.

Above is the draft of my magazine advertising my teaser trailer. After looking at previous editions of Empire magazine, I noticed that colour was quite important in making it look more genuine which is why I tried adding in blue and red to my own. I think the things that worked well in my draft was the top banner advertising 25 exclusive covers and also the plus the Oscar specials and 25 must see films of 2014. However, things I don't think worked very well was the text advertising my film, I felt that it didn't look professional. This also goes for the text below advertising the exclusive with the celebrities. Now when I go back into edit my magazine, I will look at changing these things and I will also correct the repetitive things such as the word 'exclusive' and also correct any grammatical errors such as the 'must see must see films' which is shown above.

Final Poster Drafts.

Above was a first draft of what a possible poster idea could be. I took an image I had previously taken, and placed it into paint.net. I then added a negative black and white effect which completely changed the image making it completely black with limited white parts to reveal the female figure. The reason I liked this design was because I thought the image was quite powerful and felt it related to the horror genre. On top of the image, I added in two different texts for both the film title and then the 'coming soon'. I quickly picked out two fonts, made them red and then placed them in the centre of the poster. Although I felt the positioning was good and worked well, I thought it looked a bit unprofessional. I don't think this poster would be the best in advertising my teaser which is what led me onto my next development below... 

Above was the next development of my film poster. In comparison to my last attempt, I felt that this one was more crisp and realistic. Again, I took a picture I had previously taken in my local park, put it into paint.net and added a effect featured on the software.I put the saturation of the image right down, played with the brightness to get the effect I wanted shown above. I liked the edit because I felt that it emphasized the shadows beneath the branches making it appear that something or someone could be lurking within the forest. I then took a plain text and added in the title of the film, a 'coming soon' and critic comment in plain white. The reason why I chose to keep it white was to keep it simple as I wanted the viewer to concentrate on the image. Looking at this draft of the poster I think that to develop it further I could possible overlay another image to make it more obvious what genre my film is. Another problem with it, is that there wouldn't be a critic comment for a teaser trailer as no one has saw it yet, so this would also have to be removed in my final poster.

Making of my Teaser Trailer - MoviePlus X6 - Clips

Above shows a screenshot from MoviePlus. Putting my clips into MoviePlus included me saving the clips from the camera  onto my computer and then importing them into MoviePlus. This procedure was pretty basic but at first when I imported them, they didn't fully download onto the software so I had to re-import them but after I did that, they worked and from then I was able to add all my clips and edit and arrange them to how I wanted.

Making of my Teaser Trailer - MoviePlus X6 - Sound

Above shows a screenshot of when I was choosing and adding sound clips into my trailer. Most of the sound originally behind my clips, I removed and replaced with sounds out the file shown above and off the website freesound. Before I added these sounds, the original sound wasn't as effective, as it was the sound of natural sounds; birds, wind etc. By adding the different sounds I felt it made my trailer more effective. However, I also used these sounds but added my own sounds on top of them such as the 911 call I added towards the end of my trailer.

Making of my Teaser Trailer - MoviePlus X6 - Universal

I decided to go for Universal as the film idents for my teaser trailer. I decided to use Universal as I think as its a more known/ popular brand, I feel it will ensure my teaser trailer reaches out to a mass audience rather then a niche one. 

Making of my Teaser Trailer - MoviePlus X6 - MPAA

Above I have showed the restriction I have used on my trailer. I have inserted this at the very beginning of my trailer to be informative to the viewer so they are aware of the restriction put in place. I have only placed it at the beginning for under 20 seconds, I put it up for just enough to understand what it is without it being on there too long. 

Further Poster Development - Coming Soon - Celeb Names.

Above is a possible idea/ development of a poster design to promote my film trailer. In this poster attempt i tried using an image of the crazy person who plays the bad guy in my film trailer. I thought the image worked well and the character looks stressed, crazed/ disorientated. Before I put the effect onto the image, I don't think it was as effective as when I added it.  I added the effect using Paint.net and also used this software to add in and test different text types and fonts. 
Looking at this attempt of the poster, I don't think it would work successfully and don't think I'll be taking this idea any further. In my trailer, I have decided to keep my villain out as a way to intrigue the viewer to question what is hunting the young couple, so I think including the poster with an image of her will not make sense.

Further Poster Development - With different font Titles.

Above is a few samples of working with different fonts using Paint.net. I went through a range of different fonts in order to find the perfect one which I felt went and complemented my genre. None of the above did this for me and I wont be using any of these font types but I felt it was necessary to try them first but the outcome wasn't successful. I felt the fonts didn't look professional nor realistic and felt that if I did use them, then my poster would look amateur-ish.

Further Poster Development.

These screenshots show two different effects taken from Paint.net and applied to my image. Out of all the effects, these were the two that I felt portrayed the horror genre best and made the image more sinister then it was without them. I felt the effect on the bottom image worked better then the one on the top as the above effect makes it look ghost related which is not what I wanted to portray as the character is alive and is not haunting them but hunting them. This is why I feel the effect on the bottom image works better.

Drafting and Planning - Teaser Trailer Clip - Talking, Screaming + Running.

This is another clip, showing my couple talking for longer leading to my female character running and screaming about something. After filming my clips, I had the idea to just maybe include my female character throughout my trailer. I wanted it to appear as though the male was taken and the female was left alone, weak and vulnerable. I want to work on portraying this through movie maker and see how I can make that work.

Drafting and Planning - Teaser Trailer Clip - Couple talking

This clip shows my two characters kissing and some speech. In my trailer, I want to keep speech quite minimum as I think that will make it more sinister. However, I thought I would try out filming some clips of them talking, just to see if it could work well also.

Drafting and Planning - Teaser Trailer Clip - Girl screaming x2

Like the previous clip of my sister screaming, this is similar, however this scream I think is more terrifying than the previous one. I think that I could use this is my trailer and it would work quite successfully. 

Drafting and planning - Teaser Trailer Clip- Girl Crying

Similarly to the previous clip, I liked this clip for the sound of my female crying. Again I thought that I could take this sound out and add it into my trailer somewhere. This clip isn't completely irrelevant though as I could possibly cut it and put her facial expression during the clip somewhere in my trailer.

Drafting and planning - Teaser Trailer Clip - Girl Scream

The main purpose for this clip is the girl scream in it. I felt the scream was quite horrifying and felt that in the movie making software, I could take the scream away from the clip and possibly add it somewhere in my trailer. The clip however is useless as there is not much too it.

Drafting and planning - Teaser Trailer Clip - Couple standing

I have taken several clips in the preparation of creating my film trailer. I took different clips which I then plan on putting into a movie making software and then mixing them together to create my teaser trailer. In the above clip, it shows the couple standing with their backs to the camera with the sounds of birds in the background. The clip is four seconds long and is pretty simple. I thought that I could include this sort of clip at the beginning of my trailer possibly incorporated with some bangs and quick editing.

Drafting and Planning - First Magazine Draft

Above shows my first draft for my film magazine. I used an image I had taken which was my sister dressed up as the crazy person. I liked this image as I felt she looked scary and it would be a clear indication to the reader what the genre of my film was. I then added some general conventions of a magazine to it such as the bar-code and the masthead however that was all. This draft was pretty basic and as I develop my magazine idea I will add in a price, a tagline, a web address and a dateline to make it look more professional and realistic. Another thing I tried to incorporate into my magazine was colour. When I looked at previous editions of Empire magazine, I noticed that they often included colour such as red or yellow on their covers which works as a way of attracting the public's eye. This is why I chose to colour some of the text in bright colours to firstly make it more attractive and also to make it similar to other editions of 'Empire' Magazine. This first draft is quite basic and hopefully will change dramatically as I develop it. 

Drafting and Planning - First Magazine Draft - Empire

The next masthead I looked at was 'Empire' magazine. The bold, red font stood out on the black and white image and I felt that it would work better then 'Total Film'. I also liked and preferred the idea of using 'Empire' magazine because with my film, I wanted to target a Mass audience rather then a niche one which I felt Empire related too. It also works well as I want my image to be dark/ black and white so the bright, bold red would work best.

Drafting and Planning - First Magazine Draft - Total Film

Above I looked at using the magazine name 'Total Film' as the masthead for my magazine. The masthead itself is simple as it is just white and bold. However, when I added the masthead on top of some images in paint.net, I felt that it didn't stand out on the image I had chosen. As the genre I am looking at is horror, I knew I wanted the main image to be dark, possibly black and white, so with a white masthead, I don't that they will complement each other so 'Total Film' probably wont be the option  I go for.

PagePlus Practice.

I had my first attempt at the software PagePlus today and above is the outcome of just having a quick go on the different edits and effects. The software allows you to cut backgrounds, replace them, add borders, text etc. I found the software easy enough to use, I took a simple image off Google - marriage themed - to relate to my teaser trailer idea and imported into PagePlus. I then tried many different edits in the attempt to make the image more sinister then it previously was. I then added the text 'Will it be a happy ever after?' to finish the image off.