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.