Voice over

we have decided to make the trailer more effective by having a voice over when the tile come up. The reason for this is it will give the trailer more impact. these are the places where a voice over will be used:

First draft of the teaser trailer.

evaluation of magazine cover

The magazine followed many of the key convention, such as putting the main character in the middle of the magazine cover. The purpose of this is to grab the reader attention and get the reader interested in the film and thus the primary reason to buy the magazine. Other key conventions have been followed, for example the character covers the title of the magazine which shows significance and the importance. Also the writing on the sides is there to persuade the reader to buy the magazine and to tell them other stories which are featured in the magazine. Furthermore, there is a website on the magazine, which interested reader can browse if they are interested in the film and want to go watch it. the common convention such as date, price and bar code are placed very clearly as this is what consumer look for when buying a magazine.

Our first title production

we went for a design that we felt would generate a sense of mystery when the audience looked at it. we chose a dark grey colour as the title with black drop adds, this would thus create a sense enigma. the grey colour could represent dullness, plain etc. we wanted to challenge the convention and not just put red to highlight it is a horror genre. I think we have successfully created a title which by looking at it can give u a sense of what type of genre the film will bec

Editing shots

After we completed our shooting we uploaded all the footage on to a computer and we then started ordering them into chronological order. We then started cutting out any bits which was not needed in the trailer and removing unwanted footage. Our target was to make a trailer for about 90 seconds long and so we had to remove some scenes which we felt was no needed. We started adding effects to some scenes, for example, we had to make part of the trailer representing the past so we added a black and white effect on it etc. Some scenes were very slow and we wanted to create a sense of pace in the trailer, we did this by cutting shots and showing the action from different positions.

First draft of the magazine

This is the first draft of the magazine cover. This was designed by my fellow team member Alex. First impression of this magazine cover is that, it seems that the magazine looks plain the black and white is effective in emphaising the genre, however, this in then takes any impact of colours to attract the consumer to buy the magazine. the magazine does follow common convention such as having the barcode, price. this is what the consumer looks at when buying magazine. Overall i would say this is not a very effective magazine cover to attract the audience and the reason for this is because he did not follow the plan.

Research into sound

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/scary_halloween_sounds.shtml

After we organised all the scenes in chronological order we started to add effects and sound into the clips. We had to look into sounds which would be best suitable for the trailer. i started of browsing for sounds on the internet, I had to always check if any of the sounds were copyrighted, if so then we could not use them in our trailer. After browsing many sites I eventually found a a website where they had all the effects that we needed and had no copyright. We then started taking effects from this site and adding it to the trailer.

I also browsed on the internet for a soundtrack to the trailer. I looked for a soundtrack that would create some kind of suspense in the beginning of the trailer, so this would draw our audience into getting them ready for something but not giving anything away. After looking at various websites, I found a soundtrack from this website:

http://www.freesoundtrackmusic.com/