Model Release

Own fonts and logos

The following fonts i have chosen from dafont.com, i typed in the word(s) i wanted to translate in their fonts and looked through the categories such as 'horror' 'handwriting' and 'distorted'.


I like this style as it looks handwritten from a young child, but it has also been gone over again which gives it a strange kind of texture and it looks like the little girl Rosie could have written it.

I like this font as it is spread out like a typewriter and stands out well as it is plain and bold.

This font is my favorite choice at the moment as it looks handwritten by a child, its bold and eye catching and it also matches the horror genre.


This font would stand out well at the end of a film trailer on a plain background, it looks like it has been scratched which matches the horror genre and the theme of the film. The big bold font would stand out well and be memorable to the audience at the end of a trailer so that they remember the name of the film.






The above images i have found on the internet, including the fonts i used. I put them together using Photoshop and as i thought it wasn't original using the images exactly as i found them so i began to learn to edit them and make them look like a totally different product.



Above is a rough drawing of my film poster and what i hope it could look like although it may turn out differently when i get editing and putting it together using Photoshop. I thought i would keep the design quite simple and have a lot of focus on the title of the film to make the audience remember it. I also wanted the image quite distant as i do not want anything given away, i think a shot of the characters is enough, i want the audience to wonder what happens to them just by taking a glance at the poster, i want it stand out and capture them.

Risk assessment/Hazard evaluation

Storyboards

These are few shots of my storyboards, when filming it is likely that i take a lot more shots than this to ensure i get the perfect shot and decrease the chances of me having to get my characters back together and go out filming again. When filming, i will take each shot in various ways to just the way i have drawn above, i may end up adding more storyboards after filming if plans get changed and things don't work as well as i hope. When i come to editing i may put the shots together in a different order to see if it makes the trailer work any better in other ways.

Media promo video

I have made this media promotion video to help people learn a few things about the media course at my college and to practice my skills in Final cut with editing clips together. I also made the soundtrack in garage band to learn how to create a good piece of music for my trailer, this was the first real piece of sound i had made on garage band, and although i found it quite easy to use, i found it difficult to be able to match the sound with the visuals it will be played with on screen when put together so when i make the soundtrack for my trailer, i will have to make more than one go and keep editing back and forth to make sure the editing matches for a better result. The practice with Final cut helped my skills with fading the music in and out by changing the sound levels so you can hear the dialogue when someone speaks, and then being able to fade the non-diegetic music back in when there is nothing diegetic to hear from the clips which have been edited together.

Logos and titles

This is the first logo shown in the tralier of Eden Lake before showing any footage in the film.

Then during the shots titles begin to show up, these can be used instead of a voiceover and they fade in and out between shots of the film and back up the visuals on screen.

The name is shown towards the end of the trailer.


A good review from a known source is shown with a rating.


At the end of The Orphan trailer all of the titles and logos are shown together.

Recce of location

This is a children's park in Newton Aycliffe containing swings, a see-saw and small slide, etc. I chose this location as it is representative as a place a child would go when they play. It is a suitable location for my film as it is somewhere the young girl could have played with in the past with her best friend and the fact that in my film i will be using the swings and see-saw, they come in twos, there are two swings and the see-saw is for two people to play on. This will enhance the fact that the girl is now alone as she will sit in the park by herself and no-one to play with. Also swings are a typical genre indicator in horror films, ive noticed this in films such as 'The Strangers.'



The first location is where most of the filming will take place. Just off Burn Lane in newton aycliffe a small 'stream' runs through a public footpath surrounded by trees and grass. It looks like quite a dangerous place as there is no street lights, only any natural light therefore the setting will be quite dark when i am not shooting in the day time. This is suitable for the film as it needs to look mysterious and creepy, similar to the type of location used in 'Eden Lake'. There will be shots taken in the trees and these may be at different points along the footpath, depending on any light or vision restrictions at the time of shooting. I will also use this location in the day time as it is easy to get to with no filming restrictions and in the light can look like a nice place for children to play for my opening shots.




This is the living room setting i will be using for a place for my main protagonist to be haunted. I like the colour scheme as the green can create a feeling of jealousy and i can present this from the young haunting child through to my main protagonist. I will use the window in the background to show the character walking outside with out the protagonist realising, sat inside of the house. The room is large and easy to film in with the ability to use natural and un-natural light sources if i needed to.




The final location is the bedroom setting also used for a place for my protagonist to be haunted in. Typically a bedroom is somewhere you can feel safe, especially inside your own home. Therefore using such a location for a haunting to take place would be using the typical conventions of a horror but creating an uncomfortable environment for my audience as i am challenging primal fears. The colour scheme is very grey and black conveying a sense of mystery and dullness.

Proposal

The main narrative of my film will be based around hauntings going on to a main teenage, female protagonist. I will begin the trailer with an equilibrium, two young girls playing and having fun. Suddenly something happens to one of the young girls, maybe she falls into a lake, or river and the other does not rescue her, and the young girl dies and that is all we know. I will use intertitles to show that time has passed. We then see the survivor of the two young girls now grown up in her teenage years, having no problem with the death of her best friend years ago. This is when the disequilibrium begins. I will try to present the girl being taunted by the ghostly figure of her best friend. It may have been 10 years since the little girl had gone missing, or been found dead and the topic gets brought about and the teenage girl is uncomfortable with this. I will exaggurate this through sound and mise-en-scene and the use of a black ans white wash on the shots when it comes to the editing of the footage. I will show the girl in different locations and situations being haunted by the young figure, who will still be dressed in the clothes she was in the day she was missing, but very pale and ghostly looking. She will be haunted at home in her own room first, maybe thinking it was a dream at first, seeing her best friend at the foot of the bed. Then on the way home from college, she spots the figure in the tree's and things graduallu build up and get worse, fast paced editing will help to create tension. I will use shots of the teenage girl screaming and show her distressed, not being able to tell anyone about the situation. The shots will have a shorter duration and faster editing towards the end of the trailer, using shots of the little girl appearing in the back of frames to make the audience jump. Not wanting to reveal too much to the audience the trailer could end there with the audience in a state of shock. I will use non-diegetic heightened sounds to compliment the on screen visuals and enhance the shock for the audience.

Trip to Teeside University.

On Monday 6th of September, QE Media took a trip to Teeside university to take part in a shooting and editing workshop. The above picture shows the sign for the "Aurora building" where the workshop took place. When in the workshop we got to learn about how to use the equipment so we could have a go at using it ourselves. When handling cameras we were taught about the focus which enabled us to have a clearer picture on the camera, by zooming right in to our object and adjusting the focus so the picture was no longer blurry and then zooming out for a better picture. We also learnt about how to adjust the white balance so that all of the colors are correct, before recording. We would find a pure white colour and aim the camera at this, for example a white washed wall, then we would adjust the white balance setting on the side of the camera and all of the colours adjust to this which gives the colours an even and more accurate balance. These things that i have learnt with the cameras will have an impact on my production and make my recordings have a better quality.

The image above shows the camera and microphone with cover.



We learnt how to set up the camera on a tripod so that our picture would be straight and steady. We then practiced moving the camera on the tripid, practicing tilt ups/downs and panning shots making sure you got a smooth motion.

We then got let outside in groups to do some recording practice of our own, using all the skills we had just learnt. When returning into the building we got introduced to final cut pro, although we have already had some practice in the past, but i learnt here how to adjust the sound levels in the recordings, heightening the sound when thats what you want the focus on. We got to edit together our shots we took outside and make them into a short narrative structure.