Let Me in- Poster Research

 

 

- The poster consists of ice as the background which gives a feeling of innocence to the audience and black letters in capital letters for the writing, also having the word 'ME' in blood staines which catches the audience's eye instantly which means danger, the red also stands out a lot more when it is up against a white background

- The poster doesn't contain too much information about the film compared to other film posters that I have analysed, only the director is produced onto the poster, this could mean that the poster had been released early when they were still in the progress of making the film or could mean that they did not want to unvail too much information about the film, this may be a convention we may consider for our own poster

Paranormal Activity (research)

- The poster contains red font infront of a black background, by which it gives a feeling of danger which is shown throughout this film

- The image across the middle of the poster has been edited to tinted blue, also showing the main convention of this film is that it's filmed on a home video camera, which gives the film a more realistic approach

- At the top of poster there are quotations to make the viewers become more interested in the film, also by having quotations on a poster it informs the viewer that this film is worth seeing

- 'In Cinemas November 25' is indicated in white at the bottom of the poster, the rest of the writing is in red, however this stands out from all the other writing because it is clear and shows to the audience when the film will be released to watch, this is a good feature to have on a poster

Film Magazine- Empire Title

As my group and I have decided to use empire magazine to have our film shown on, I decided to research into the different empire front covers of films to see how the 'EMPIRE' logo is positioned.


The different film magazine covers above show how the 'EMPIRE' logo is positioned. I have managed to find in photoshop the Magic wand tool, whereby you can select each letter individually and then add it to a film magazine front cover. This is something I will keep in mind, in which i may use on my own magazine front cover. As my group and I aren't too sure where we will be placing the 'EMPIRE' logo yet, it all depends on the image that we will have on the front cover.

Empire Magazine

Here I have looked at the empire film magazine, as this is the magazine we want to have our film shown on. This magazine looks at the big block buster films that are released, below I have looked at some of the eye catching covers that I think are really effective front covers for catching the audience's eye. By looking at these different magazine covers there are some obvious conventions (simple image, font colour matching image and font titles in the trailer).

Editing- Screen Grabs

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Time Stretch







Additive Dissolve

Research and Planning- Film Titles

Font used:  Adobe Garamond Pro

Colour: White
Style: Bold Italic

Text Size: 120

Above I have displayed practice film titles for our film. These were created using Adobe Premiere, whereby I have added a black background with white writing in capital letters over the top, which can be compared to the film 'Valentine' trailer titles. The theme represents the genre of the film, horror/romance. We will be using something very similar to this for our teaser trailer. Below I have displayed an example of a  film title from the film valentine:

FILMING DIARY

oday my group and I went to the woods to do our second lot of filming for our teaser trailer. We hadn't been able to film for a few weeks before today because we had to find a camera that was available to use and also that everyone is able to attend. We managed to do shots in the woods, of high angles and long shots. Even though most horror films happen at night, we  have filmed during the day in Oxshott woods, by setting our location in the woods we have been able to give a horror feel to the scene which is what we were hoping to do.

My group and I have found that as we are doing a teaser trailer this year as opposed to a two minute opening of a film, we need lots of shots that we are able to edit altogether as opposed to making long shots. We have found that within some shots we need only 2-5 words in a shot instead of long dialogue conversation. By making a teaser trailer, it has made my group and I realise that by going by our shot list, script and story board it is going to be fairly difficult as we didn't quite realise how many shots we are going to need need to make it a realistic teaser trailer. So far we haven't managed to stick to the story/shot list as much as we hoped however, this does not matter too much as we are making a teaser trailer that doesn't need to tell too much of a story.

Below I have added some of the location shots from todays filming;