This is the final stage of the production of my trailer. All of the finishing touches have been applied. Sound has been added, including music, sound affects and background noise. All of the sounds incorporated are used in order for the trailer to seem dramatised. Some of the edits (such as one of the cut edits) have a sound in synchronisation with it, in order to establish one scene from the next in dramatic fashion. All of the sounds and music are intense, and are something you would hear in a horror / thriller trailer. It includes heavy deep sound which makes the viewer feel uneasy, that anything can happen (in our questionnaire, one of things we found out was that audiences responded well to "things that make you jump", so I picked up on this and made the trailer give off this idea.)
This is the final stage of the production of my artefact. As you can see credits have been added at the bottom and a release date has been input in bright white below stating"December 20th"
This is continuation of my trailer production. Now I have inserted text, and endorsements into it so that there is now some structure to the plot of the trailer. The little back story at the start was something that I found was very effective, that was used in The Blair Witch Project trailer. Gives the audience a hook, and a small back story to base their judgement on. Fonts that were used were very simplistic, nothing too fancy or colourful to draw focus away from the actual structure of the clips, I wanted a bleak tone throughout. Along with this I have followed on from the poster production and added endorsements to keep the continuity going of critical hype in our media package, all to position our young audience into seeing that our film is an well rated piece of entertainment that they are likely to enjoy.
Following on from my last post about my poster, I have now added several endorsements at the top of the poster, along with the address for the website which my partner is producing. In the previous post I forgot to mention the small title above our film logo saying "A Coleness Brothers Film" Several films use this convention where they put iconic film makers near their film title. It's done because if Directors have a good enough reputation for their films (examples being The Coen Brothers, Ridely Scott) then this will inspire audiences to go and see it, because of the quality of their previous films, or because of their reputation. As mentioned before, I have added endorsements at the top from several different publications. This, much like the directors title, adds hype to our artefact. In my research section there is the analysis of the poster for Paranormal Activity. I followed the convention guidelines from this, where several endorsements where present at the bottom of the poster. That film was built around media hype, and public reaction, we aim to have the same principal for our media package. Finally the website address at the bottom appears in red, and sets itself apart from the rest of the poster in order to stand out, as the website we feel is important to the promotion of our film. With modern technology being what it is, most films are researched on the internet before they hit cinemas, and we want to take advantage of this fact.
This is the beginning of the editing process of my trailer. So far I have just managed to edit the clips together, with fade edits, and cut edits based on the storyboard that is in the planning section. At present no sound effects, music, captions etc. has been added, at this stage its the base of the trailer. It has been cut together to be very paced and dramatic, much like the Cloverfield trailer analysed in the planning section. I have used all of the clips that were filmed, that appear in the uncut video shown earlier. It is currently very short in length clocking in at 1 minute 20 seconds, I aim to keep it around this length throughout its production, as stated earlier in planning, there are reasons to keeping it a short trailer relating to audience positioning.
After this I darkened the image slightly so it could blend into the black background, therefore the focus of the image is the white sky that appears behind the trees towwards the end of the tunnel. I chose this image from all of my previous ones, because of its meaning to the audience. The idea of a tunnel is almost representitive of the journey that the characters will have to go through to escape, Almost like a light at the end of a tunnel. I liked this idea, as in a predominantly black poster, is a bit of white, almost showing human presence. Which in itself is the focus of our film: the hunting of lost people. The slightly more darkened version is shown below.
As you can see, I have begun my poster within Page Plus X3 utilising both the logo stated earlier, as well as one of the images I took from my planning. I have followed the codes and conventions of the Jacobs ladder poster. Using one image, In black and white over a black background, with very little use of colour at its present stage. I have inserted a tag line stating "SOME THINGS SHOULD REMAIN UNKNOWN" again in capitals. Very similar in style to the logo, a font that is easily understandable and can be taken seriously, like the film itself should. Above I will show you what I did to blend the photo I took into the background, too make it look like one large image.
