Poster Research

 

For our further tasks we have to create a poster for our film. Today we started looking at posters for horror films to get an idea on how our poster is going to look. Here i have looked at a few different horror posters which each of them has aspects that we could use:

This poster is from 'The Descent'.

• Dark background, really effective gives the viewer a sense of suspense and fear.
• The image on the left is unclear, makes the viewer wonder what it is, the image has a creepy vibe to it, this will make the viewer want to find out whats going on.
• From the director of 'Dog Soldiers' a film that has done well in the past, shows that this film will follow in doing well as has the same director. 
• Tagline, 'Face your deepest fear' this is a catchy tagline as this will draw people in to want to face there own fear.

This is the poster for  "a Nightmare on Elm Street". 

• Dark, bloody background, blends in with the main image of Freddy Krueger. This gives the sense that the movie is quite gory and bloody.
•  Freddy Krueger is the main character, used as the main image on our poster, could take this idea and use it in our poster. 
• "Welcome to your new nightmare" this tagline will attract people in as they might want to see if it will challenge was they thought was there worst nightmare. 
• this is a more bloody movie than our trailer but we could use some different features from this posters layout.

This poster is from the Blair witch Project. 

• This poster is more suitable to our trailer, as our overall storyline is along similar lines to the Blair Witch Project.
• The use of the actors face creeping up from the bottom of the poster is really effective as it shows she is afraid. 
• The use of the woods in the background gives an idea of where it takes place, this could be useful for us to use as it would attract people to watch the film as they know it will be creepy.

feedback

As we have now uploaded our video to youtube we have  posted links to let people know about our trailer to try and get some feedback from them about what they think of it. Any feedback is good feedback for us.
we have 2 comments on our youtube page.

we also have 1 person that have liked our video, this is good for us as it lets us know that people have liked viewing our trailer. the feedback we got through the comment is also useful to us as they have left us some constructive criticism, but i believe they thought it was a full trailer, which means now we should state that it is a teaser trailer.

Kate and Katie also had some comments posted on their trailer blog entry.

The comments in grey were left on Katie's blog page, giving us positive feedback to our trailer as the two people who left the comments really liked it. 

The comment in orange was left on Kate's blog, it also gives us some positive feedback which is good as we now see that our trailer is very effective 

Uploading our trailer to YouTube

Today we watched our trailer again to see if we needed to make any more tweaks to it. There was nothing else that we could do to it meaning its ready to be uploaded to youtube.
we created our own youtube account A2mediakkt, and uploaded our saved video into our account. the next step that we took was to 'Share' the video onto Blogger where it can be viewed on youtube and on each of our individual blogs.

We now have to let people know about our trailer for them to give us feedback on what they think of it. To get people to know about it i have put a link to the video on my twitter account. below is a screen grab on the news feed of my twitter page.

A2 Media Horror Trailer

This is our horror trailer that we created and uploaded on to youtube.

Editing trailer 3

Today we showed our lecturer paul the footage that we have edited so far which is 1minute 13 seconds long. this included all our completed footage, with the title certificate, lionsgate logo, fades between two scenes and the title of our movie followed by a Coming soon screen and our 'movie website', paul really like our trailer and commented on how we have a good use of sound effects over our clips. paul also suggested some more editing tips for us to include.

• include a fade between the clip of the 3 girls walking and the first text clip
• include a fade just before the second piece of text
• add the ambient sound that we have used over some of our clips to the clips with no sound
• make the first and second text clips the same font

These little changes will benefit us in making our trailer look and sound as good as possible.

We have now made them changes and also managed to used the font that we downloaded for out movie title, The Unknown as we didn't know how to use it before.
this is what the movie title looks like.

Logos

 To make our trailer seem more true to life we researched some movie trailers to see what features they included. We found that they all had a movie certificate title shot at the beginning of the trailer. This is an american certificate, labelled restricted which is what we need to have for our trailer as it is a horror. We will input this into our trailer followed by a fade to black, this would make it look more realistic as a trailer.

Trailers also included a logo screen of the company that produced the movie. we chose Lionsgate as it fits with our genre and is a corporation that it responsible for some box office horror hits, such as american psycho and Saw. As we would like to think our movie would be a success in the box office we decided to use this Lionsgate logo in our trailer, it will appear after the fade to back from the certificate shot, as this is how other movie trailers has there sequence of events.

music research

Today we were looking for music that we could have as a backing track throughout our trailer. We are only  using music that is copyright free, the website that we used was www.freesound.org there was many music clips to chose from in the horror genre but we needed to make sure they linked into to the paranormal theme that we are using and also to our storyline of 3 girls being lost in a forest.

www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=2855 this is one sound effect we chose call horror_ambient its quite creepy sounding and make you feel in suspense that something is going to happen shortly after the music has stopped. when the clip is playing you can also imagine that this would be the kind of music playing if you were lost in a scary forest in the darkness.

www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=35716 this is one scream we looked at to play at the end when the clip of the 3 girls are running away, we did think that the scream was not scary sounding enough to fit in with our trailer. This scream is still an option but we are most likely going to try and find another scream that will be more suited.

www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=20684 This is a clip of an owl that we will add into our trailer somewhere just to give the forest a gloomy feel at night as owls will be around where the location of the forest is.

we will input these into our trailer to see how they sound alongside each scene of our trailer, and if they give the right effect to our trailer that we want. we may go back onto freesound.org to research some more later on.