drafting and planning / research and developement - music

On the 20/1/2015 I created a post saying about how I was going to have the killer approaching the camera with flashes of light as he approaches. As each individual flash of light happens I am going to add a bang on a drum and then when he finally attacks the camera I am going to add a scream of a woman expressing how Lucifer has taken a victim. I feel this extrinsic sound will add to the tension and create an effect of fear.

Drafting and planning - cutting out of awards on film poster

One key feature on my film poster is the awards listed on the bottom. when constructing my film poster I came across a slight problem which could be very costly to the authenticity of my film poster. the white background contrasted heavily against the darkness of the image creating a problem shown below.

This was overcome by cropping the background out on page plus, however the magic wand tool on page plus left behind very slight white parts of the background. To overcome that problem, I decided to add an effect called outline which blended in the white parts of the image into the outline solving my problem.

Research and development - more footage

research and development - Footage for trailer

This is some of the footage I will use throughout my film trailer. This will require a lot of editing to make this suit the theme of my film with cropping the starts and editing the sound to remove any laughing. Furthermore if i was to slow the video down, it will add to the suspense of the film. 

drafting and planning - flashing camera

After doing some research I found that making the camera flash and having a scary picture pop up is very effective in frightening the audience. The above clip shows a man looking into a camera a seeing a man pop up which frightens him. (at 2.10)
In my film trailer I intend to create something very similar to this but instead of having the man pop up, im going to have him starting far away and having him rapidly closing in almost expressing how he is moving to attack the camera. here is a draft of my creation

Drafting and planning - Cropped headphone scene brought together

This is the headphone scenes brought together with the unnecessary parts cropped out. I feel when it has been slowed down and with music playing in the background, it will be a essential part to the film trailer.

research and development - teaser trailer analysis

For my film trailer I will be making a teaser trailer. the main differences between a teaser trailer and a full theatrical trailer is that a teaser trailer is only a minute or 1.5 minutes long so doesn't express much about the film. instead of showing incredible amounts of the film, I will be showing little parts to create a sense of mystery and thus enticing the audience into seeing the film. Furthermore, I personally feel that if the audience is shown too much of the trailer then they wont both seeing the film at all.

drafting and planning - Headphone scene

One of the key clips throughout my film trailer will be a scene in which the headphones of one of the victims falls to the floor in slow motion covered in blood, almost hinting at the fact that one of the people have been killed. here are some of the drafts.

This draft was good but as I felt the clip was too dark and required more lighting, I reedited the clip placing more lighting on the headphones.

This clip felt a lot better and once this clip has slow motion editing attached with dramatic music in the background, then the clip will be very effective. I also created another video which shows the headphones covered in fake blood dropping from a higher level. I intend to combine these 2 clips together in slow motion to create a suspenseful effect.

drafting and planning - effects used on film magazine

During the construction phase of my film magazine, i put various effects onto the picture to generate different effects. One effect i found was the brief encounter effect which gave the image a dark mysterious look to it which is shown below.













Another effect i found was radioactive, this gave the image a blue/green tint to the picture which i thought was quite nice, however either though it gave it an extraterrestrial look, it wasn't suited tot he theme i wanted. this was shown below

After further searching i found the effect i desired which was 'Gettysburg' and this created a orange theme to the picture. At first i thought it didn't suit the theme but the story line was the main villain died in a fire so the orange theme actually flowed with the picture. This also created a dark shadowy effect over the main villain which is exactly what i wanted. This is shown below.

Organisation - costumes wore by victims

Throughout my film trailer it is essential that the victims express a sense of normality. By having just normal clothing it shows how the victims don't expect what is about to happen and how there deaths came unexpectedly. Furthermore, by wearing clothes that normal average people wear, it allows the audience something to relate to making them feel that if that horrific incident happened to them then it could happen to us creating a scarier effect.

organisation - lighting used for film poster picture

During the photo shoot for my film poster i used extrinsic lighting on one side of his face to create a show behind the main actor, this show will be manipulated into he shape of a devil almost to show how the darkness symbolized by the shadows is creeping up on him. Here are some previews of the pictures taken. These picture are only draft ideas of what i intend for my film poster put the shadows provides a good idea of the objective i am trying to achieve.

Drafting and planning - props/costume of Lucifer

The props my killer will wear are: Black leather gloves, Black hoodie/Jumper to hide the scars he has from the burns and a knife. This is very simplistic but the items are so simple they create a effect of darkness and by having them mostly black it creates a colour connotation of death.