Reflection of the whole process

Reflection

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

Feedback for our trailer- first edit

After posting our trailer up on our facebook page this is the feedback we have recieved! There were mixed comments, however the overall impression we got was that generally people were impressed with the trailer. From the audience feedback I found that people were mostly impressed with the editing and continuity of the trailer, the visual effects, special effects such as the killings (throat cut) and the use of sound.

However the areas we could improve on were the audio of the trailer (fixing the sound levels- decreasing the music and increasing dialogue at some points, mainly the end of the trailer as the music blocked out the dialogue at some points and the credits/titles at the end of the trailer could be improved as people were commenting saying they were basic.
Therefore, for our final edit we are going to encorperate the feedback we got into our trailer to produce an effective horror trailer.

Trailer Completed!

Production: Final day of filming- On the heath

Today we filmed our final shots on the heath, we chose to go there as we needed to show our protagonist in an isolated, empty space and the heath is perfect for this at the moment as it is full of bare trees, woods and on camera looks like an empty woods. This fit's with Burton's theory as he says that locations/settings often follow a particular theme in that the places horror films are set are normally isolated and secluded from the rest of society.

In order to experiment with different angles our friend helped us to climb up a tree which meant we were able to film at a variety of different angles and use different shot types. For example we filmed a wide long shot at a high angle of a couple that were about to be victims of the killer, the use of the high angle allows the viewer to feel as though they are an onlooker into the action, almost as if they are spying.

Production: Filming location- Frank's house

 
 Key lighting- low key lighting,
                                                      shadows, atmospheric

effect of clown mask..

Production: Film poster final version

After making several versions of our film poster using the same image, I decided it would be good to experiment and play around more with the image as I had not yet tried to alter the contrast/exposure/colour and tones of the image as we particularly liked the original version.

Magazine cover

Final version of film poster

After making many changes to the original film poster we created, we have finally made a poster we pleased with and think reflects are trailer in an effective way encorperating the conventions of a horror movie poster in.

Production: Filming the cut throat scene

As one of our killing scenes we decided to have a throat cut in which you would see the arm reaching our and slitting the victims throat however, apart from the torso, arm and hand the killer's (Cameron) identity 

would not be known therefore creating an engima code in our trailer.

In order to conduct the throat cut we followed this tutorial on youtube which allowed us to understand how exactly we would make the blood splatter out creating an effective and realistic shot. Combined with this Christine Blundell's make up academy trip also came in very handy as it allowed us to put our makeup techniques to practice by concealing the plaster of paris on Miranda's neck making it look like a realistic throat cut.

We collected the following ingredients:

Fake blood, Plastic tubing, liquid latex, plaster of paris, a garden sprayer, baby powder and concealing makeup.

Below are some shots of the filming process

Planning for production: Filming the office scene

For tomorrows filming we are planning to film the first couple of shots in which we see Cameron's work colleagues (journalists) being spoken to by Detective Matthews about the recent murders/abduction of girls. For these shots we are planning to get some point of view shots from Cameron's perspective, and over the shoulder shots of the detective speaking at a high angle to show his level of authority and the significance of his speech to the journalists about the deaths. 

Photo's from filming: 

This is the layout in which we filmed the shots, with the detective stood at the head of the table overlooking everyone. We chose this layout because it creates a tense, serious atmosphere as everyone is gathered together- we aim to have short clips of dialogue playing over the top of a sound track which enhances the serious mood of the shots.

This is the angle in which we shot the point of view shots from, this is to put the viewer into Cameron's shoes and give them a feel of what it's like to be him seeing thing's from his perspective. This also provides a variation in the shot types.