Before we even began filming we thought it would be a good idea to get the camera and tripod to experiment with shots and location, We knew from the storyline it would be ideal using the college as the location for the mental institute which we tried different shots before we did the filming for real.
By experimenting with shots before we felt we had a better idea of our ideas and the shot list, which we thought would make a better outcome of the finished film.
We managed to start this photo diary of us actually filming to show the setting and behind the scene footage while filming, We all felt as a group that we needed natural photos of our group working as a team which we felt we improved on and did successfully through the process of filming,
As an extra feature we would like to do a video diary or additional bloopers etc of the footage we don't use in the film, this is our aim and plans for after filming, however it all depends on if we have time as a group.
During filming, photographs were being taken of individual characters in full costume and make-up which we thought would be part of our photo diary as it shows the process of us originally experimenting with location, props etc to having photographs which filming our actual film which we thought photos throughout was needed to add.
We used a table lamp to give extra lighting, this gave a really good effect when we turned the main lights off as it gave the effect of a spotlight. This is shown in films, such as Batman where there is a spotlight on the Joker as seen below.
After research into radio trailers and identifying key features in trailers, we thought it would help us to make a script to help place features in the usual structure of trailers.
We included:
Research into Radio Trailers A common perception of advertising is related to solicitation, or encouraging consumers to purchase the goods and services of a company or organisation. Advertising can be found in the form of print advertisements in newspapers and magazines, billboards, telephone directories, fliers, and mailers, or in electronic media such as the Internet, radio, and television.
Gravity- 2013
Not only did Gravity do billboard advertising they did radio advertising across many radio channels. As Gravity was an award winning movie, we looked into the main features of radio advertising to analyse what we need to make successful advertising over many media forms.
Script: Mission Control in Houston: Explorer, this is Houston. Voiceover: Critics call it a cinematic masterpiece Dr. Ryan Stone: Matt, tell me what you see. Voiceover: Gloriously realised 3D Sound effects from film Voice over: Nerve shredding suspense. Lieutenant Matt Kowalski: (sound effects) we have to go we have to go go go! Voiceover: Film of the year. Mission control in Houston: Astronaut is of structure (Sound Effects) Voiceover: From director Alfonso Cuaron, Warner Brothers Pictures presents Gravity Dr Ryan Stone: I'm really scared. Voiceover: Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney Lieutenant Matt Kowalski: You're going to make it Ryan. Voiceover: Gravity. See it in 3D in cinemas now. By copying out the script of the radio advertising for Gravity has gave us a stable clear structure of how to produce a radio trailer. We have analysed that the actors, the distributor and the director is often mentioned in the radio, also the line of 'In cinemas now' or 'in a cinema near you' is often a regular feature at the end of the advertisement. After analysing the features we have found other radio trailers and most of the radio trailers are similar in the basis of structure and framework. When researching into other radio advertisements, some included competitions etc at the end of the radio advertisement to engage the audiences attention or they include a website etc. We thought this was a good idea as they are including and emerging other media platforms together through advertising. This was shown in the radio trailer for 'Pacific Rim', which not only advertised the film but also included a 'chance to win an epic football experience' which was featured on Facebook. This includes media convergence by using social networking sites and advertisements.
The Conjuring (2013)
As The Conjuring is a horror film, I thought it would have more features of which we could use as our film is or a sub genre of horror, as our genre is a psychological thriller. We thought using the same process of analysing the language features would help us get a detailed framework and specific features which could be included in our radio trailer. Script: Voiceover: From the director of Saw and Incidious, comes the horror event of the year! Lorraine Warren: I can see the dark entity in that haunts your house Voiceover: Critics call it a master class in absolute terror Lorraine Warren: In here, we have something inhuman Voiceover: Genuinely frightening, sensationally entertaining. Lorraine Warren: And its feeding off you. Voiceover: Stomach knot-tingly tense Carolyn Perron: (sound effects) Look what she made me do. Voiceover: The Conjuring, In cinemas now, Rated 15. By looking at multiple radio trailers we decided on a few traditional features of radio trailers which we wanted to keep, such as the male voice-over and the 'in cinemas now' (or something similar) however we looked at the features we could also include just by looking at about 4 different radio trailers which provide different and alternate features: List of features which may be included in radio trailers:
Names of main Actors and Actresses
Name of Director
Name of Distributor
Release Date
Competitions
Age Certificate
Audio clips from the film
Sound Effects from the film
Reviews
Nominated awards etc
Mention of digital technology for example 3D or IMAX
Music features
Description of film, including adjectives
mention of other films - for example The Great Gatsby radio advertisement, it also mentions 'from the visionary director of Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
Often the radio trailers include specific slogans from the film which is also often featured on the Film Poster, this then interlinks the film through all media platforms. We want to include some main features of radio trailers and look at the similarities that most radio trailers and film posters have linked between them.
From these results, the responses say that we need more music in our film which is more suited which we have added now, we have also added the missing shots that they picked up on. Three of the respondents got the correct age certificate for our film which is a 15 and they all guessed correctly on the genre of the film.
Final Cut Express was a video editing software suite, now discontinued, created by Apple Inc. It was the consumer version of Final Cut Pro and was designed for advanced editing of digital video as well as high-definition video.
When editing we used the software of Final Cut Express in which we found many advantages in editing and adapting our film, there has been much progress through producing our film.
One thing we found very helpful was when cutting our shots and trying to dissolve them together we found it useful to use the effect of Fade In, Fade out and cross dissolve. This we felt to dissolve the shots together we needed to add these certain effects to make the narrative flow better and give transition between the shots. We focused on other effects which we may use however we wanted subtle effects to show a transition between time, and as the narrative is a thriller but a quite emotional narrative we wanted to use continuity editing and not quicken the editing up by using obvious editing which we thought could potentially ruin our transition between the shots.
We also used the toolbox for the stereo to fix the audio in various shots where there were interruptions such as loud traffic. We changed the levels of the audio and focused on correcting the shots that needed correcting. This was very easy to do and we all found it useful when adding extra audio as we could mute the shots that had background audio. Again we found that the progress of editing audio were helpful as we could tone the added audio in the radio trailer but make the voiceover louder and the music added slightly quieter. The process was very helpful when editing audio.
During the process of filming we had to occasionally reshoot some shots in which had slight difference in lighting which we used the effect of video filters and colour corrector, which you dragged and added on to the shots that didn't match the lighting and it would just match the other shots. This was especially helpful as it made the film flow and didn't look abnormal with the change of lighting. Also we found it very useful on Final Cut Express that you can change and adapt the saturation and colour contrast as come of the shots seemed more warm than others which we found was easy to adjust.
In the final process of editing we wanted to add credits and titles which we just added text and changed the effect of how we wanted it to appear on the screen. With the credits we added the effect which made the text scroll down like the traditional way credits appear on screen, and we made the titles and other text including the actors name and title of the film, cross dissolve as we didn't want obvious effects on the text to match the other editing.
Overall, we felt that final cut express was very easy to operate and found there were a way to change the things we wouldn't be able to change using other programmes. Many of our problems were linked with lighting and colour which wasn't a problem as we just used the colour corrector and the brightness so then it would match the other shots. The progress has been a lot more helpful by using this editing software and if we found certain things difficult we could easy find another way round it or could just search for it, as it was organised this made the editing process easier.
This is a movie poster for The Interview. This poster looks very cartoon-like and has bright red and yellow colours.
You can clearly see the main actor's names in bright red writing, this film stars James Franco and Seth Rogen who are popular and well known actors shown above wearing suits with red and black ties. Their expressions seem serious and wearing suits they look professional.
The theme in this poster is clearly red, black and yellow. Images on this poster include Army Tanks, Rockets with Japanese writing and a logo of Kim Jong Un at the bottom. These images connotate a war and army theme. The writing slating producers/directors as 'Western Capitalist Pigs' shows that the film is a comedy with offensive language and sets the mood and tone of the film. Japanese writing on the poster shows that the film will be set in Japan revolving around Kim Jong Un.
The writing at the very top of the poster says 'From the Western Capitalist pigs who brought you Neighbors and This Is The End' this shows that the film will be popular with an audience who have seen Neighbors and This Is The End.
The framing of this poster shows James Franco and Seth Rogen looking out of the frame together, this looks similar to the popular Che Guevara poster, symbolising that these characters are important to the film and may be the 'revolutionary heroes' in the film.
