First Copy of Magazine Front Cover

Here is the first copy of our magazine cover.

Editing the footage

These past few days we have been moving our footage around. We have started to re-arrange the order of the clips according to our new script. We have inserted our new footage of the old, boarded up building in Wigan. The clips we have collected will be transitioned from one to the next using a fade (to black/white depending on the image). To do all of this we have use Premiere Pro.

                                                         

The sounds that we have collected and created for our trailer such as the sound tracks backwards , heavy breathing, screaming, foot steps, doors slamming shut etc, are all successful. Yet we recorded the mother of one of the team members reading the reporter script. We thought that although her voice was good and fitted the part she did not have enough emotion and variety in her voice. We re-recorded this with another family member of the team and this now sounds much better.

To complete the trailer, we need to add the sound and preview screens/credits.

Premier Pro Trailer Evidence

Evidence for the trailer. Including the different fades and blackouts used.
*Print Screens*

Effects such as fade for the audio should be print screened.

*Slideshow of print screens*

After Effects Edited Map Evidence

These are the steps that I used to create the moving map:

                                                                                                                                   

This was the final outcome of the after effects special effects:                                           

                    

    

                           

News Bulletin

For the beginning of our trailer, we where thinking of having a news bulletin. This was to allow the audience to be aware of the plot of the film, and allows the film to still be inviting for the audience and yet restricts what they will know about the film, leaving them wanting to watch the movie.

As most trailers now tell too much of the story, we are going to carefully plan out our sequences ensuring we don't reveal too much, but still leaving the audience itching to watch the film.

We have someone in mind for the role of the anchor woman (Molly's Auntie) who's voice could be suitable for the trailer.

To create the image, we created a new image in Photoshop. We styled the shapes into a style similar to BBC news, and made sure the background was transparent to make sure the video could be seen behind it. The evidence of what we did is below.

In order to add our own news bulletin we looked at the colours, shaping and overall use of existing news reports on TV. Here, we saw that the red was used to represent the urgency of the report. We took inspiration from this and used the influence of the representation within our own work.

New voice recordings

The other voice recordings we had of the news report weren't all suitable for the trailer, so after a discussion with the group, I decided to take home a voice recorder and try to recreate the recordings, in the style of a news report. I used the same script as previously, but a different person, so we had more choice of recordings when we came to editing the trailer.

New Photoshoot

To enable us to create the magazine and poster, we needed new pictures. Involving full body shots of Taylor and Joe. The contact sheet of images from this shoot are below:

Font Research

I tried out different fonts to get the right font for our poster.

These are a few fonts that can be related to the normal horror poster's that are on the market today.
I need to develop and make sure I get the right font. I can edit a couple of these and take my research further and produce a final font.

As a group we really liked this font, it gives the "static" effect that is included in televisions and when camera's are dropped, as we drop a camera in a trailer it can be releated to this to make the poster and the trailer have a mutual feel.

Molly created a poster that we have tested to make sure the font works with both the images and the credits. The font is distinctive and can be read easily. This makes sure that we can use this and include it in our final product.

Magazine Front Cover Process

Here is the beginning of the magazine process. Firstly I looked at the different fonts on http://www.dafont.com/ which I then chose three fonts for the different sections on the magazine:

Dafont fonts -
Media Blackout - Main Titles
AppleBerry - Sub Headings
London - Small Text

I then looked at the other features of a magazine these inculded a main image, the title of the film with tag line and the magzine in big font, other films and little tag lines to join them, also other pictures and the barcode/issue number/price/date.

I began to build these up slowly, also to make the magazine look recent I looked at this website which gives all the upcoming films for 2012 .
http://www.movieinsider.com/movies/-/2012/

After choosing these things I picked out the two images I was going to use as the background, this displays an idea of what genre and then the two main characters that will star within the magazine.

I also chose another photo for a smaller story that we will be using to convey another story, this is an image I took whilst in New Zealand and it is the signpost that has Hobbiton written upon it. I'm not allowed to use/show the full image due to the film (The Hobbit) not being released yet, when visiting the set we are not allowed to show the full set after signing a contract.

 I then had to change the colour scheme due to the background images being quite dark so that the font won't be seen. I have chosen Red, White and Yellow to convey the text to keep the magazine simple but also make everything written visible.

After placing everything upon the background and formed the magazine cover, I began to tweak the little things that were noticaeable and didn't look right these included the main image of the two main characters who looked slightly orange so we used the auto colour tool to make them look more skin coloured. With this image I also went around the outline of the two characters as you could see the cutting out from the original image, so I made that less noticeable. I also had to change one of the fonts due to it being too thin and not very noticeable upon the background. The change was from "Edifice thin" to "London" so that they were thick enough and are easier to see. We also made the celluloid film reel stand out more by making it lighter.

As I had a space on the top right of the magazine I decided to add a sticker after looking at other magazine that also do it.

Therefore the magazine is filled however it doesn't look cluttered and the theme is still simplistic but catches the eye of the reader.

Titles for the Film Magazine

As we're not allowed to use an already existing magazine title, I have looked at and inspired my title from them.
I wanted to use a play on words to title the magazine as reel is related to film but also related to people speaking also known as "reeling off information". I have also use a reel of celluloid to imply this more and have kept the colour scheme simple as most film magazines only have three or four colours throughout the whole magazine.
I used the font "Media Blackout" from dafont.com and found the image of the celluloid film from google images.

This is my idea for the title. However, there will be more discussion about this and may be changed depending upon the front cover image and idea.

Another poster mockup

To develop ideas for a final poster, I created a second poster, using a different idea altogether, I created the credits that could be used on all of our poster ideas, and I didn't have any images that were suitable for the poster, so I created it using this image so that I could gain ideas from this.

The font styles for both the credits and the title were found and downloaded off dafont.

Filming; New Location

As we needed some new footage of an actual building, we didn't have to go back to Preston to get all our footage.

On the 2nd of December we went to get some covering footage of a building in Wigan. The building is rundown and looks the same as the Preston building that we previously filmed.

We took some footage of a scan of the building include a couple of good shots of birds going in and out of the windows

News Report Voice Recording

Yesterday I went home to record some test news voices. I managed to get a couple good recordings and opened them up in Audacity.

I loaded the voice clips into the program.

Film Poster Ideas

This is poster was an idea before we changed the name of the film.

 The name of the film changed so I decided to keep the background, font but change the name of the film.

This is myfinal idea for the poster, as we've looked at horror posters and they are simple and plain.

Film RENAME

We wanted to change the name of the film, and brainstormed a number of ideas so we could come up with a final name for the film.

Things in court: 

To get a more professional and inciting film name which would seem more realistic as a real movie name. To do this we looked up each word. This gave us more ideas of possible titles. Our favourite word using the brainstorm was "Indignation" which means: Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment. Which links into the film because the murderer's victims were all criminals in some form, or liars, drug dealers etc.

Tuesday 29th November- Reporters Script

Reporter Script; (16 April)

-This is the 6 'o' clock news. For the people of Preston, tomorrow will be the start of the 10 year memorial of the 14 victims of the Victor Thistle killings. The killings took place on the 17th of April to the 24th of April. This week is now known as the week of 'Indignation murders' to the people of Preston.

 -Today is the start of 'Indignation murders' week. It has been said that there have been sightings in Amounderness house.

-Two people have gone missing in the early hours of this morning, last sighted near the Amounderness House. Is this coincidence, a heartless prank, or are the killings of Victor Thistle starting again?
　
Other possible scripts- 


Tomorrow will be the ten year anniversary of the 2001 Indignation murders. Locals have been claiming to have heard mysterious noises coming from the abandoned Amounderness House.

Two people have gone missing in the early hours of yesterday morning, last sighted on the country road near Amounderness house. No one can be sure what has happened to the two teenagers, but their is no traces of them around the area. Police have released a warning to avoid the area, and if completely necessary, do not go alone, and go only in daylight.  (using long pauses)

Film plot

17/04/2001-24/04/2001- A series of murders took place in Preston, all 14 people were brutally killed by Viktorr Thistle. He lived in Amounderness house, which used to be used as a court building, after the death of his wife and children, this led him to lose sanity within his own home. People believed he murdered out of vengeance for his family, and all the people murdered were criminals, that he believed were "guilty" of some crime, and his only way to remain happy was to take their lives. At the end of the week, close onto his trail, police found Viktorr's body in the center of Preston. Locals called this week the "Indignation murders."

Ten years later, on the anniversary of the murders, after families have mourned their lost ones, things start to take a turn for the worse. Sightings happen around Amounderness house, and people again start to go missing. Posing the question.. Is Viktor back? Or is someone playing a heartless joke on the locals, by mimicking the murders of ten years ago?!

Highlighting Letters in our Trailer

We have a looked at The Da Vinci Code trailer to display our ideas for the lettering used within our trailer to reveal the name of the murderer. It highlights the first letters from each victim and brings them together to create the complete name.
The section of the clip we're focusing on begins at 2 minutes and 12 seconds.

Map Edited Images

To add to the mise on scene of the trailer, we decided to create a "map" mapping out the killings that took place, and who was murdered.

It also gives one of the character's names "Victorr Thistle" He has this name as the 14 murders he has committed, each victims first letter of their names spell his name - this is why he has two "r"s in his name. This could maybe convey something like the case of Jack the Ripper where two people were killed in the first night but he was disturbed whilst murdering the first victim and found another victim with the same letter, therefore giving him two R's.


Joe used After Effects to change some of this.

To give the effect that the first letter is significant, I created a new title and selected a blue circle over the first letter of the Letter

I then placed a black box over the top of the image, this allows the images around the selected letter to be black so more en thesis is placed onto the text

I then used the effect "Colour Key" and selected the colour blue. This changes the layout and lets the blue circle look like it has been present. It makes it look a lot more important and makes the viewer really look into the letter

I then added a fade effect which makes the images interlink so it was all one video.

Ideas for movie poster

After looking at movie posters, I felt inspired by the "Shutter" movie poster. So I did a mock up of a possible movie poster, using an image of Taylor's face, with a montage of other images taken in the building we filmed at. I used a desaturated image, and changed the levels and used the burn tool to get a "burned out" effect on the image.

My mockup:

Analysis of movie poster company credits

To be able to make the company credits at the bottom of a horror poster, I looked at existing ones, so that I could determine exactly what information is in the credits.

New Photoshoot: Empire Magazine and Action Shots

We decided to go and take a photo shoot and take pictures of more interesting, and more exciting action poses.

Below is the contact sheet on the different images that we took

Name idea

Bicycle For Two – based on the whistling idea, using the song “Daisy Daisy”  “But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for two.” Is very ominous towards the plot of the story, it could mean Joe and Taylor but it could also mean maybe the whistler wanting Taylor?

Monday the 14th November

Today I (Taylor) started to edit our footage together. As the script is now finished (sounds and footage) I started to try to plan out the footage and sounds following the script.

We all looked at our trailer so far and have all decided that we need more footage and so are going to do some voice recordings, and other things to use in the trailer.

Ideas for Sequences

From the clips we have gathered we have created a few scenarios that we could use to create the trailer as they work as sequences.

Cell:

• Blood drip on hand
• Zoom In
• Jump cut to other parts of the room
• Looks at the 'Help Me' blood splatter

Spinning Cell:

• Speed up footage
• Merge footage with text and footage with no text
• Stop on the wall
• Show the 'Help Me' writing

Running:

• Running
• drop the Camera
• Sound clip of people shouting run
• Fade to darkness

End:

• Joe moving the door handle very slowly
• open it quickly to reveal nothing
• Fade to darkness
• Whistling begins (song)
• Coming soon screen appeared

News Sequences:

1 - 10 Year anniversary (Beginning of the killings/murders)
   - Sightings in the building
   - Strange noises/happenings

2 - Anniversary
   - Revival of an old story
   -Two people have gone missing within the building, haven't been seen in a long time

Names of the film:

1. Amounderness House Murders
2. Whistler
3. Indignation

Name of the murderer

X=Not using

Surname;
- Jenkins X
-Thistle
-Whistle X (Thinking of using the whistling for the 'trademark' for the killer)
-Scott X

Forename;
-Nicholas X
-Abraham X
-Victor
-Franklin X

We wanted to use an old and unusual name for the murderer. We decided that the killer should have a trademark like some of the other famous movie killers;

- Freddy Krueger ("Nightmare on elm Street" series);  Scratching and the non-diegetic song is played in most of his films (1,2, Freddy's coming for you...)
- Jigsaw ("Saw" series); drum beats and a string orchestra which gets more intense as the killing is coming closer (Typically, the puppet's face will be seen on screen, and he will say "I want to play a game...")

As we wanted our character to also be realistic we wanted our character to also have a 'trademark' etc. As we have filmed one of our characters whistling in the spot light and found the sounds rather scary, we wanted to use whistling as our killers 'tradmeark'. This is also why we decided to use the name 'Thistle' so that we could create an easy tag line such as 'Victor Thistle. Hear him whistle'.

Film Poster Research

This research conveys that the film posters are very simplistic which therefore makes it more effective and will interest the target audience.

Film Poster:

·         Simple Background

·         Name of Film

·         Main image

·         Date/Coming Soon

·         Slogan

Wednesday 9th November- cropping clips 2

Today I have cropped the clips and sounds so that they are ready to use when we start to put our footage together. I have also organised the footage into folders according to which we will use and which we are not going to use.

We needed to know which footage we had which is useful to us so that we could see whether we had enough or needed to film some more. This is the list;

Footage;
-Blood Splatter (Help Me)
-See shadow in the light
-The shadow runs
-Door opens on its own
-Shadow stood in doorway
-Shadow slams the door
-Actress running with the camera
-Joe and I walking down a corridor into the darkness
-Zooming into a hole-something scans across the camera-the door slams
-The chair moving on it's own
-'Help Me' being written on the wall on its own
-Blood dripping onto the hand
-Blood dripping down the wall
Walking around the building
-Looking at the kitchen
-Looking at the first aid room
-Handle rattling
-Door opening on its own
-Bloody hand print on the corner
-Light whip/scanning across the camera
-Bloody hand in the dark
-Room scan (Court room)
(Images can also be used for quick cuts such as; bloody hand print on the window and through the door/bars, writing on the walls)

Sounds;
-Is someone coming?
-RUN!
-Help me
-Scream (1 person)
-Scream (Prank)
-Backwards sounds (weird)
-Whispering
-Help us/let us out
-Breathing
-I've locked the door
-Don't think anyone is here
-It's probably outside
-Didn't sound like outside!
-Scratching
-Doors banging
-Running
-Camera rattle and drop (on the floor)

Possible Film Names

Different Film Ideas...Which would you choose?
10 years too late
Killer Death
Maniac 10 years



After creating a radio button list with a submit box, this allows different people to input there most favorite film idea. After getting the results back we was able to load the information into Microsoft Excel to create a pie chart to get the correct results.

PICTURE HERE, NOT WORKING ATM

Total FilmFront Cover Break Down

Here is a break down of the front cover of Total Film magazine, we should follow these guidelines to create our own magazine front cover.

08/11/2011

Today I started to put the best clips/footage on to our project. This was so that we could easily see which clips we had (which where good to use). I was also separating the sound from the video by using audacity to re-record the sounds. This is so that we can simply edit them later on. Such as make the louder/quieter etc.

I also started to play around with using Premiere Pro to play the clips backwards, slowly making the sound more dragged out/lengthened and of a low pitch. Recording this using Audacity allowed me to save the recording and listen back. When I did, I found that as the sounds where re-winded it sounded rather spooky. There where other things such as laughing, screaming, whispering and moving with sounded odd as they started loudly and slowly deteriorated compared to the noise normally where it would be the opposite to this; start off quiet and then get louder.

I really like the effects created using this technique. This also means that we now have our own background noise and ghost like sounds which we can use within our project.

Magazine cover research

I have been researching the layout and look of film magazines such as Total Film and Empire.

All these magazines have one thing in common, this is that the main character is the focal point of the magazine. This means that for our magazine cover we should have the characters as the main focus with other little bits arounds to introduce the film slowly. These could be things such as the background, the title, the object the character is holding etc.

Also with the front cover of a magazine we also have to include other films, the pricing/barcode and other snippets from the film world, these could maybe include interviews.

Film Magazine Front Cover:

·         Simple background

·         Name of Magazine

·         Colour Scheme

·         Other stories

·         Main Image

·         Name of Film

Poster Criteria

I am beginning to try out different ideas for the film poster, however I was unsure about the criteria that needs to be on the poster as it has to promote/advertise the film. I then found this website which is a step by step guide to what to put on and how to make film posters, he has chosen to mimic an Alfred Hitchcock film.
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/05/13/how-to-design-a-movie-poster-with-an-example/

Looking at these film posters they tend to be very simple with one object/character as the main focal point and then the title is the other bold thing upon the poster.

In my opinion if a film poster is too cluttered it won't attract the eyes of the audience because there will be too much to understand. If there is one main subject that doesn't give away too much of the plot and a strong title with gives the audience curiosity towards the plot for the film.