Final Teaser

Final Movie Poster

Final Magazine cover

Evaluation Question four

Evaluation Question three

Evaluation Question two

Evaluation Question one

Final A2 Media Products

Here are the final versions of my teaser trailer, movie poster and movie magazine.

Poster

Magazine

Ancillary online feedback

As part of my audience feedback I had used the popular online photo sharing platform instagram to share some of my work and ask for opinions. In recent years instagram, Facebook and other sorts of web 2.0 platforms have layered the foundation of producer to audience relationship by granting content creators with a contemporary take on researching and marketing. I had used instagram as a form of researching as it allows me to post the content I make and get feedback within minutes.

Horror Teaser draft three

Here is the third draft of my horror film teaser trailer, from my last update I have renovated my trailer inside out; this includes filming extra scenes, changing the order of my sequence, adding more backing tracks and horror sound effects and adding more inter-tittles.

Horror magazine ver2.

 

Here is the third draft of my horror movie film magazine, I had decided to make the following changes to my magazine in order to make it look more like an authentic movie magazine, I had also included some horror motifs into my magazine front cover to further emphasize the genre of horror. 

  

Changes I had made to my second magazine draft includes moving and placing the barcode of the magazine to a more conventional area, I had also added a red strip at the far right of the magazine to fill out some of the empty space present. I moved the date and issue of the magazine to under the feature bar because I believed that it was a much more conventional place as the original placement was blocking the main image. I order to further implement the motif of horror I had added two horror related taglines to the  magazine, I had also used two horror fonts and the colour red.

Horror poster ver2.

 

This is the third draft of my horror movie poster, right of the bat you can see that there were a lot of changes made in this draft from my second draft. When comparing my second draft to a comtemporary horror movie posters there seem to be a large amount of differences, 

 

As you can see in the poster in the right, horror posters tend to be mostly covered in a dark shadow whilst the main focus of the posters seem to be highlighted in some sort of spotlight; this is something i had implemented into my own poster, I had also incorporated a lens flare into the knife that my main character is holding to make the lighting seem more authentic. 

At the bottom of the poster I had incorporated the release date of the film as that is a major convention of movie posters. In addition to the release date of the movie I had also incorporated two indie film festival at the sides of the poster to increase the authenticity of the poster. I had also added the names of the actors staring in my film as it is a key convention that is used in all movie posters. Another new addition to my poster will the tagline I had included at the top of my poster this tagline will be used to persuade audiences to want to go to the cinema and watch the film as it states that the film was created by the same people who had created critically acclaimed horror films and thereby increasing the reliability of the film. Finally I had digitally incorporated blood unto the face of the main character of my narrative to further implement the theme of death in my narrative.

Jump scare draft one

Here is the first draft of a jumpscare I planning on including in my horror teaser trailer, from some verbal feedback I have gathered that the jumpscare is not at all "scary" and it also does not seem to fit in with the themes present in my narrative.

To combat this piece of criticizing I will be researching into ways of making my jump scare more authentic and "scary", in addition to this I will also be reaching into ways I can incorporate my jumpscare into my narrative,

Demon face update

Here is the image I am going to use for my demon face section in my teaser, I originally wanted to record a sequence but couldn't find any tutorials online to guide me so I had to improvise.

 

It was extremely easy to achieve this demon face, all I had to do was mask around the face on Photoshop with a magnetic lasso and the use the curves adjustment layer to change the hue, saturation and contrast of the mask. 

Teaser Trailer update

As stated earlier in my blog the second draft of my teaser trailer is up, now I am working on my third draft this time I want to implement even more horror conventions into my teaser and whilst researching I came across a convention called scare/demon face; this is when the unsuspecting audience is shocked by a jump scare that normally involves a demon face and a scream such as the one pictured below.

 

I also came across a video on youtube with a chilling track I will like too feature in my trailer. This video also influenced me to implement the demon face convention into my teaser trailer. 

Video credits-ByOussamaLmoussaoui

I also found a cool video on youtube of a woman screaming for about 13 seconds, I am planning on using this as the scream sound effect when the demon face shows up.

Horror Magazine ver1.0

 

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Horror Poster ver1

 

Here is the third draft of my movie poster, I have pretty much kept everything the same as my plan but with some minor changes like the RGB split that is featured in my main image.

Teaser Trailer Draft 2

Here is the second draft of my teaser trailer, due to my feedback I had made quite a few changes to the tone and feel of my trailer, like I had stated earlier in my blog I changed the colour tone of my trailer to allow it to better compliment the themes and tones of my narrative and genre, I had also replaced my audio backing track with a far more "creepier" track that better emphasis the horror genre and I had also added some horror sound effects to increase the authenticity of my trailer.

Teaser update

A piece of feedback I had gained from the first draft of my teaser trailer was that the music did not seem to correlate with the themes and the genre of my trailer. Audiences recommend that I featured "more creepier" music and audio samples. To combat this I had searched youtube looking for free royalty music that i could feature in my teaser.

I had come across this 10 minute long track that someone had composed and posted on youtube, the inspiration from this track was from a video game titled SCP-087, I belive that this track had succesfully managed to capture the creepy tones of the video game and would be perfect as a background track of my teaser trailer for the same reason. Credit of this video goes to- Natureworld1986 

I had also came across this video by a youtuber named Nicole McClelland which as a research into certain horror sound effects, I will also be using this sound effects layered untop of the track above to giver a fuller more authentic fill to my teaser. Credit of this video goes to-Nicole McClelland 

Extra Filming and teaser update

As part of the feedback of my teaser trailer first draft I was told that my trailer doesn't seem to carry a horror vibe but instead seems to carry a thriller vibe, to combat this I had done some extra research into the conventions of a horror film. From my research I had concluded that horror films seems to adopt a dark/dull colour tone in their scenes, this is done in order to compliment the dark themes of the film. After my research I had gone back to adobe premier pro to reflect on my work and I had noticed that my footage seems to carry a vibrant blue colour tone which contradicted the themes of death and suicide present in my narrative; to combat this I had turned down the saturation of all my footage to around 50% to dull out the blue tone. The change in saturation was very effective as it gave my trailer a much more grittier and darker tone.

 In addition to the tone of the teaser I had decided to film some extra footage that further explore the themes of body manipulation and suicidal thoughts, I had included some snapshots in a pintrest board, click the image below to view them. 

Ancillary Final Mockups

Here are the final draft for my ancillary task, I am featuring two movie posters because I am planning on using cross media convergence to promote my movie on different platforms, the first poster would be a regular movie poster that can be found in magazine articles or billboards whilst the second movie poster would be an animated digital iteration that could be found in webpages and advertisement in online browsers and mobile devices. I had decided to include the final draft I had created for a video game box art for my horror film, it was a last minute decision to scrap this idea as I do not believe that it would be used as a source of advertisement unlike the other ancillary drafts featured in this post.

This will the traditional movie poster that will be featured in billboards and magazines. 

This will be the magazine front cover.

This will be the digital iteration of the movie poster.

This was the final draft for my video game box art.

Premier Pro Update

I initial started to compose my media studies horror teaser on a trail version of Adobe Premier Pro CC, unfortunately the trail version for this program only lasted 30 days, 30days in which I had used up. this was a big eye opener for me because it made me realise that time management is an area that I need to work on in order to complete this task, this was also a problem that I came across when completing my initial AS media coursework last year, although since then I had improved on y time management it seems like there is still plenty of room for improvement.

In order to complete composing my horror teaser trailer I had to purchase a monthly pass to download and use Adobe CC software, meaning that I could continue using Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After effects. After launching my project on Premier Pro I was greeted with an error message ( shown above) that stated the s "sequence" was missing from my project. 

After hours of searching the internet I could not find any permanent or even temporary solutions to this issue, meaning that I may I have to began composing my horror trailer from scratch; although this is a major setback it may not be that bad because this allows to compose my trailer whilst implementing all the corrections I gained from my audience feedback, this also allows e to re imagine certain parts of my trailer that I believe were not that strong.

*UPDATE*UPDATE* MY WORK IS BACK* IT WAS A TEMPORARY ISSUE*

Movie poster draft two

Movie poster draft one

Feedback

Introduction 

This is a mood board that I have created to showcase the feedback I received for the from the first draft of m y teaser trailer. From now on I will use this mood board as a reference for when I continue to produce my trailer and any other task. 

 

Click the image above to be linked to my initial feedback board.

Sequence one

Here is the first draft for my horror movie teaser trailer, from viewing it you can see the several motifs and cinema conventions that I had included in my teaser. The first noticeable motif will the the use of letterboxing, letterboxing is the technique of "transferring film shots into a widescreen aspect ration to standard-width video format while preserving the film's original aspect ratio"- Wikipedia, I had added a letterbox to my trailer to achieve a rich cinematic look. 

Like I had stated earlier in my blog I had began to use adobe after effects to create a film institution intro and some trailer intersections, just like the letterboxing these conventions were placed to increase the authenticity of my teaser trailer. 

Emphasizing on the themes of the darker side of technology I had included free stock footage of static to act as an transition between scenes in my teaser, I had also used adobe after effects to create some glitch effects and transitions to better fit the general tech theme of the teaser. 

The music that I am using in my teaser trailer is called Oh Death, this was a short track that was created for the US hit TV show Supernatural that was used to introduce the character of death into the shows continuity, I believe that this song is quite fitting for my teaser as the lyrics give an emphasis on death, a key theme that is heavily implied in my teaser trailer.

Turbine Films intro

To further add to the authenticity of my teaser trailer I though it would be quite reasonable to create a pseudo movie institution to publish and distribute my film. Film intuition introductions send to fall into two categories; the cinematic and the indies. The cinematic introductions tend to borrow a lot of conventions from cinematic pictures; this includes motifs like lenses flares and cinematic sound FX whilst on the other hand the indies tend to come across more plain and would often just include some text and or an image whilst in other cases they may replicate motifs of bigger institution intro (an example being Lionsgate Entertainment) ; these motifs add to the overall aesthetics of the indie style.

   

An example of a cinematic intro 

    

An example of a indie intro  

Magazine draft one

Trailer logo

Designing my logo

Introduction
Horror movie logo all follow different conventions depending on which conventions that the movie follows. Must slasher logos will consists of a red font that creates the effects of blood dripping from the letters whilst others genres such as the psychological horrors feature a logo with an eerie font and and eerie colour to further implement the themes of the movie.
The themes in my narrative consist of; internet relationships, technology, suicidal thoughts thereby dictating that my narrative falls into the somewhat psychological genre, but due to the antagonist in my narrative being a killer; my narrative also falls into the slasher genre.
       My initial ideas for a logo will be a bold logo that represents all the themes that occur in my trailer; these themes are suicide, stalking and online networking, I am planning on incorporating this into my film logo by stylizing them into my logo, for example I could have could use a digital font to represent the theme of online networking or incorporate a picture of some hanging themselves on one of my type faces to represent the theme of suicide.

Step one

 Since I had gained previous experience from using it last year on my AS media coursework I will be using Photoshop to design and create my film logo. I had created two separate layers; I had used the first as a sort of backgroup for my text which I placed on the second layer, since the color of my text is white the black backgroup allows me to see the text clearly.

Step two

I then proceeded to change the font of my text to "True lies" which was the font that won the poll of what font I should use in my logo, I also ramped up the spacing between each character because I though the letters were to cramped together.

Step three 

 

I had then found a stock image of a person hanging themselves and traced it unto of my text layer to give the impression that the victim is hanging themselves from the letter E; this will be the portion of my logo that represents the suicidal themes of my narrative. 

Step four 

I had shorten the rope used to hang the victim and had move the victim higher. 

Step five 

To achieve the digital look I was going for in my logo I had merged all the layers together and then duplicated it, after this I had changed the RGB split of the duplicated area and slightly moved it to the right to give a sort of glitch effect on the text. 

Step Six 

Finally I had found a glitch texture online and had used placed it on a layer on top of the duplicate area and had changed the layer style to and overlay to give it an overlay over the text.

Finding the right sound for my trailer

Now that I am in the post production portion of my project it is time to start searching for some resources to use when composing my trailer. The first on my list would be to find the right sound for my trailer. In order to add authenticity to my trailer I will be using sites such as freesound.org and YouTube to find sound effects.