Psychedelic Film Poster

Here is our finished film poster

Filming Update

Today we filmed another section for our trailer, this wasn't included on our storyboard as it was an idea that was in the shadows over the past couple of weeks and we decided to give it a trial go to see how it fits in with the rest of our footage as we are doing a last filming session over the next week, then we will do the final edit.

Below is a printscreen of what is to be expected (if we use the footage!)

Another update of our trailer so far will be uploaded by the end of this week, to show our current progress as we have made changes during the editing process, which includes the change of our current music choice.

progress with filming

Here is our film so far, we are contemplating changing the music as it isn't fitting with the shots as nicely as we would want to. The editing is also just a rough edit as we imported all of the footage today and did quick cuts and changes on some of the footage.

Update on filming etc...

Over the half term we have been filming parts of our trailer and experimenting with new shots, not just ones we initially had on the storyboard. We collected around 20 mins of footage and with rough editing we have around 30 seconds of footage. We're happy with the shots that we've done so far as we feel they are close to the genre and appeal to our target audience. We did encounter a few problems whilst filming, and after discussing them amongst the two of us we feel more confident for the final film where we will go over any shots we feel are weak, and add in some new and quirky shots as all the time we're experimenting with the camera and what looks good to us.

One of the disadvantages we came across when filming was the lighting. For our first filming session we met at around 3:30pm and started filming our first sequence of everybody putting their stuff into the car. By the time it was 4:15pm it was so dark and because we didn't anticipate this change in the weather to be so quickly, we were unequipped as we had no floodlights on us or any source of light on the camera we were using. One of the advantages of having this problem is that we now know that when filming we must meet a lot earlier, as even though we want some night shots, we only want about 5% of our trailer to have darkness, and some of the footage we got wasn't clear at all when uploaded onto iMovie.

Logo

Here is our final logo that we filmed and added a grainy effect and sped it up also.

Final Logo FILMED!

As  mentioned before we were in the process of filming and editing our logo...
it is now complete with an added effect of film grain and also we have sped it up.

Underwater?

As we may have mentioned earlier on in previous posts, underwater shots are something that we may be considering.  Below is a video focusing on underwater shots. We think that if we were to use an underwater shot it would be representative of a lake, but in order to get clear filming we would have to film underwater in a swimming pool, which may take away from the eerie feeling that we want to evoke as the lighting would be blue from the swimming pool. Although, saying this there are various effects on iMovie and iMovie HD that we could use to distort it and make it scary.

A shot like the one above is one that we may consider doing as we aren't completely submerged in water, we are just on the surface.

Update on Filming and progress on film schedule..

Bianca and I have already started to film some shots that we need for our trailer which doesn't require people. Some has already been posted (the sky moving etc) but that still hasn't been set in stone in terms of editing as we have been playing around with different effects as we have 20 minutes of footage that we need to cut down to around 5/6 seconds. We have also started filming other parts for our trailer that don't require people such as setting. We have chosen to do this as we want to get at least 50% of our trailer done as half of it is landscape. The other half (that requires our actors) will be done during and just after the half term, as we collectively need to gather everybody and have a whole day/ couple of days filming our key shots, as the shots with our actors/actresses in will be the most adventurous.

Over the next few days progress on our filming and film schedule will be updated on the blog, a copy of our music mashup will also be put on the blog very soon and also a re-edited animated storyboard as we are going to put the music with the storyboard to give a rough idea of what our trailer may look like.

Skins - Inspiration

As mentioned in earlier posts, influences that we looked at included the teen drama series "Skins" which is based on similar concepts in relation to our film. One particular episode that we looked at was an episode where the group of friends go on a drive to stay at a forest for a weekend. We chose this episode as we believe it would be the most useful one to watch. We spent a lesson watching the whole 45 minute episode and Bianca took screen shots that were useful to us in terms of shots that we liked/shots that we could use as inspiration when filming our trailer. Below are the 5 screen shots we liked.

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As you can see in this shot we have a clear view of the forest area and also the tents and an unlit fire. We particularly liked the foggy atmostphere as it gave an eerie feel when we were watching the episode. One thing we would probably want to change if we were to use this shot as inspiration would be the colour of the tents used as in a horror we don't want to use too many bright colours as it would contradict the setting and the audience intention we want to have.

This shot we thought was key as it is one of the first shots when the group of them are in the car. This particular shot we thought would be useful when filming them in the car driving to the place, and perhaps showing the different emotions that characters are feeling. For e.g. Naomi (Blonde at the back) looks unhappy whereas Freddie and Emily look very neutral, and we will take the smallest detail such as facial expressions into account when filming for our trailer. We may also use this shot as inspiration and use a focus pull on the characters faces for added effect.

This shot we thought was interesting as it wasn't a shot that we had in our storyboard initially. We never really thought that showing them walking into the forest would be something that is necessary, but this clear shot of Freddie (Left) and JJ (right) is really effective as we can see their full profiles, and also the two characters behind them. This creates a sense of distance between the characters which we would take into account when filming as not only does it look good, it also adds another dimension to our trailer in terms of creative shots.

These last two shots we thought were interesting as again, it shows distancing between the characters and interaction between some (effy (left) and pandora (right) in the shot above) We liked the night time shot more as the fog was present again which adds the element of fear and eerieness to the scene.

Altogether we found that watching this episode of skins has broadend our minds in terms of shot ideas as we will now find it easier as we can use this as inspiration to create interesting and quirky shots for our trailer.

Music Inspiration / Looking at different tracks.

The last couple of lessons Bianca and I have been looking at possible tracks that we would like to mix together to create our soundtrack for the trailer. Below is all of the tracks that we looked at and liked the sound of, we will upload a mix of all of them in a few days time. Some of these videos also gave us inspiration for possible shots that we could apply and use in our trailer.

Additional Inspiration / Research

Holi from Variable on Vimeo.

Above is a video on Vimeo that we were linked to by a friend who thought that we would find this video useful. As you can see the whole video is in extreme slow motion and features powder paints / coloured powder; which is one of the main aspects that we want to include in ours. We really warmed to the use of slow motion, which is something that we hadn't considered that much or looked into in depth. As you can see the camera used for this video is of very high quality, as the frames run smoothly even when put into slow motion. We thought this would be a problem as the cameras we are going to use to film are of poorer quality than the one used in this clip, but we decided to test slow motion on the MAC camera's to see how a movement came out on there when edited in slow motion, as the MAC cameras are of the lowest quality, and if we could create an effective slow motion using the MAC camera, we could create a better effect with the video cameras within school.

Above you can see the short video that we filmed on the MAC cameras which is of Bianca walking at a normal sped past the camera, we then edited it on iMovie with the slow motion effect and found that it had the desired effect that we wanted it to have, but when we use a better camera it will be of higher quality. 

Schedule

As you can see we have created a facebook group calling together all the people we are having in our trailer, on here we will discuss availability and times we will be filming. More printscreens like this will be put on the blog in due course.

Animated Storyboard

as you can see, our wonderful animated storyboard. Enjoy.

Storyboard - Part 3 - Finished!

This is our final page of our storyboard, we will be putting up an animated storyboard very soon with more annotations.

Storyboard Part 2

Target Audience Prezi

Target Audience on Prezi

This is a quick preview of what our logo is going to look like on A3 paper. This is how we made it (quick and simple!)

Timeline for Creep Trailer

This trailer is the trailer for the film Creep, which is a British horror film about a woman locked overnight on the London Underground who finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below. We decided to use this as our main influence and below is the trailer and our step to step analysis of each shot etc.

Below are some screenshots which caught our eye and why...

This part of the trailer caught our eye due to the angle of the camera, the eerie lighting and the grim picture that is in the shot. We would like to incorporate something similar to this into our trailer, for e.g. someones hands dragging through grass, or a shot of the feet as shown in this clip, but in a dirty forest/field at night.

This was one of our favorite shots which is at 1:24-1:28 which is the protagonist (main character) holding a torch to her face in pitch black. We thought this looked particularly effective and scary, and as it's a simple shot we will also think about using this in our trailer, or something of similar effect.

This shot, which is at 0:00-0:07 is a handheld shot of someone walking through a tube station, with a point of view shot. We thought this shot was particularly effective as it was the first shot, before the production logo and before any credits, and it really helped to set the tone of the film due to the lighting, and the setting, which at first glance may appear as a hospital, but as the handheld gets closer we realize it is an underground tube station. We also would like to include handheld shots as most horror trailers that we have watched include handheld camera work, as it adds to the trailer by making it jagged and unsettling, which is the feel that we would like to give off in our trailer.

Final Logo Decision

Above is our final decision for our logo. Which was decided by the followers of our blog and also others that visited it, and this was the most popular font. As shown in a video a few posts earlier we showed how we would like to film our logo, we did an initial test trial with a lighter to burn the piece of A4 paper from the centre outwards to create a burning visual effect. We encountered some problems such as the paper being too small and also holding the paper with our hands and not clips. We will be filming again in the next few days with A3 paper, and some clips to hold the paper to ensure we don't burn ourselves or the area that we are filming in.

Production Logo initial ideas and poll

As you can see, we have narrowed down our design ideas for our logo and scanned it onto the blog, below is a poll where members of the public can vote for which logo they think looks the best.

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