Board game photoshoot

For our printwork, I did a photoshoot of the Cluedo board game so that we have images to play around with and create different posters and other mock up of the our smaller tasks.
I took photos of all elements of the board game so that we have a lot to work with.

 I wanted to show all three elements that make the games so that we can use them if we need to.

 Taking pictures of each characters mean that we could use these to then show the who is playing which character for the magazine cover.

 The card shots were so that we could see each of the rooms/weapons/characters so that we have a selection of rooms to use.

 This is a potential shot that could be taken with the real characters too, meaning that they could mimic the figures and then can be manipulated  in the photo.



SCRIPT

Teaser Trailer

Genre: Horror (could be slightly comical)

Inspiration: The Cottage, Jumanji, Cluedo, Scary Movie


Plot ideas/developments- 
• A group of friends are having a gathering at a friend’s house which is conveniently placed in a desolate farm. They are sat in the living room with a pile of board games and lots of six packs of cheap larger. Start off with a light feeling, cheerful music, a nice relaxed feel
• They are talking; someone suggests a game of Cluedo as they spot it in the pile of games/ someone has brought the game ‘specially’/ they are bored of normal games and want to try something more adventurous. Reading the description on the box instantly entices the group into play without thinking of the consequences.
• As they begin to play players go out of the room for certain things, food, drinks, bathroom etc...
• People start to realise that their friends aren’t coming back, they start to investigate. They start to see that people are being killed off one by one.
• The people leave the game unfinished and split up to go in search of people who went missing. When people find others who have died, they begin to question why the murders are taking place...

The teaser trailer needs to be/include;
1. The characters. Clearly show what characters are playing the game and what characters they are given in the game
2. Music (adjusting to the happenings on screen)
3. Close ups (showing vulnerability)
4. Titles
5. Narrating- styled like Jigsaw (Saw films)
6. Sound bursts (The sound gets faster and louder as the flashes become quicker and tenser on screen).


Editing/Filming Ideas
1) When someone is killed, a fade out/ zoom out could be used and then a shot of the board game with the character on in the exact place where the person was murdered. The dice could roll and characters could move on their own- with a low grinding moving noise.
2) A sound or song can be used to show the coming of the “murder”. So when the song is played people will know something bad is going to happen (kind of like paranormal activity where when the time changes to night, people instantly get scared because they know something bad will happen). The music could come from the radio, a phone, TV etc.
3) Red herrings must be used so people don’t guess who actually is doing the murders in the trailer, they must be enticed to go and watch the film so minimum detail should be used to keep them interested.
4) Mood must start off soft and relaxing, then the shots must increase in speed and time until the cuts are quick and frantic, meaning the pace will increase thus making it a lot more frantic.
5) When someone dies, the focus needs to go on the specific colour that will represent their character in the game. This is so we know which character has died and who is clearly left in the game.
6) Close ups of the board game could be used, and positions could be used for where the different people are around the house.


Poster Ideas:
1) A line up of all the different characters with the different colours. Showing what type of character they are. Different poses.
2) Poster broken up with the different characters holding each weapon
3) Focus on the weapons
4) Someones eye with all the weapons and/or the characters reflecting from it

Title mock up 2

This is the second part to the title mockup, I decided to take the camera and make it go round the corner. This makes the audience scared as they have no idea what is going to be round the corner when the camera finally turns, adding to the sense of disorientation and the unknown, which we will also be using in the trailer. 

Slideshow on the different steps

Below is the second mock up where the camera goes round the corner. The reason why the quality is so bad is due to the fact it is just a mock up, when the final is ready it will be exported with the correct settings so it would have a more professional quality.

Video Mock Up.

First Title Mock Up

I decided to mock up the first part of a horror trailer, this could be used on either the trailer itself, or as a production company video. I decided to create a corridor effect where the camera will be in a kind of "first person view". It gives the feeling that people are walking around the corridor and what happens next in the trailer will actually happen to them.

 Below is a slide show on how I made the trailer using After Effects

Slideshow

This is the video mock up. It isn't the best of quality due to the fact it is a first draft. For the final draft I would update it and make the quality far better.

Video Mock Up



The Cottage Research

As part of our research I have looked at the film Pathe film "The Cottage" staring Andy Serkis and Reece Shearsmith, I have looked closely at the trailer to the film as it is the genre we want to look at for our own trailer. Throughout the trailer I have noticed that there are rapid cuts between clips and in this one inparticular that the soundtrack is more important to the film that the dialogue as it helps to give a comical effect to the horror of this film.

I enjoyed this film and I looked at the generic ideas of a horror through it, I have taken these into consideration as we write our own script and expand our ideas for this genre.

Set up for filming

Date for Filming: Wednesday 19^th/26^th October

Cast
Rev./Mr Green:
Mrs Peacock:
Professor Plum:
Miss Scarlet:
Mrs White:
Colonel Mustard:

Things to do when filming:

·         Get a camera and tripod out

·         Lighting

·         Plan certain shots

·         Plan our time when there

·         Make sure we get multiple shots

·         Bring props and prep blood (?)

·         BOARD GAME!

·         Promo shots

Things needing to be filmed at the farm:

Location/outside of the house shots
Through the window into a room them playing
Once again meet the window to which we see the characters playing again, maybe a character missing.
Stood between the stables people missing
Isolated shots odd places in the house and outside the house

Things that can be done in the studio:Close-ups
Deaths?

Things we need to do generally:

·         Sort a time and date for filming a the farm

·         Choose the sound effects and music

·         Name the film

·         Ideas for the print

·         Finish story board

·         Write a small script for characters

·         Promo shots?

Jumanji (1995) trailer and poster research

"When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game." This film really inspired me to research it. As it is along the same lines of the film we are doing, I had a great opportunity to find out more about it. The thrilling film (starring Robin Williams) creates excitement when a young boy picks up the game and then realises there is something strange about it when things suddenly come to life. Bursts of Excitement and thrilling twists in the story really capture peoples attention and draws them in to watch the film.

Below is the research to the trailer and the poster. I used YouTube to research the trailer inserting different notes and pauses to really show what is happening in the trailer.

Poster research

Video trailer research