Research and planning: ghosts make up

These are some ideas of make up / costumes that we want to go for:

These are some ideas of what we don't want to do for the make up:

This post shows make up and costume ideas for what we aim to achieve for the ghost character in our trailer. We want pale make up with some small bruises, rather than violent and blood everywhere. We want it to come across as the ghost mentally attacking the characters rather than physically attacking them.
The last two pictures of make up showing blood are not what we want, as I said the ghost isn't touching the characters so the blood would be misleading. We want to portray that the friends are being haunted and weird things start to happen around them and especially to one character.

Research and planning: animatic storyboard

This is my animatic story boards so far, that I have done with my partner. It shows how our trailer is going to look, as well as the description shown in our treatment, this helps us get a better idea of how the trailer will run and helps us decide what we need to edit. It has also made us think about props more because they're actually shown in the storyboards.

Research and planning: cinema post

Earlier this week me and the other students from my media group. We watched Annabelle, a new horror film, we decided to watch this because it was relevant to most of the people watching. Whilst at the cinema we took some photos of film posters which will be helpful as a start point when we are researching for our own film posters.

Research and planning: costume and props list

Costume list:

• White night gown - for the ghost to wear
• Casual clothing - for the characters
• Handbag - for the female character
• Make up - pale to make the ghost look creepy

Props list:

• iPhone - used to look at the pictures on
• Beer bottles - one character is drunk and dropping bottles
• Picture -  we need a picture to start moving
• Curtains - blowing near them
• Toy -  starts playing on its own
• Bed -  characters wake up in a bed 

 

Research and planning: shot list

This is a shot list showing the type of camera shots we are going to use when filming, and the reason that we are going to do each shot.

Research and planning: risk assessment

This is a risk assessment showing that we have analysed where we plan to film our trailer. This helps make sure that ourselves and the actors will be safe when we are filming our trailer. The risk assessment covers many dangers when filming.

Research and planning: production schedule

This is a production schedule that me and my group came up with. It shows when we plan to do lots of our research and planning.

Research and planning: equipment & software list

Equipment: 
Cannon SLR camera

Tripod

Lighting

iMac

Software: 
Photoshop

Final Cut express

Garageband

Adobe effects

This is a post showing all of the equipment and software that me and my group will have to use when making our trailer and magazine. With all of these things we have enough to make everything we need. 

Research and planning: how did the trailer of Annabelle differ to the film

The Annabelle trailer and the film do differ slightly. In the trailer we are not introduced to the doll until the time that it re appears in the film, making it seem less significant although that's basically what the whole film is about. Also some of the film is shown at different times in the trailer. For example when the girl bursts through the door at the end of the trailer, which actually happens quite early on in the film. I think that they have done this to grab the attention of the audience towards the end of the trailer, due to the trailer being quite passive. This jump at the end would help the audience remember the film. 

I feel that after watching both the trailer and the film, the trailer makes it quite hard to understand, just because the trailer mainly includes the peaks in narrative, and they're all mixed up to grip the viewer. 

Research and planning: audience research prezi

This is a prezi, showing ideas of who a horror film would be targeted towards.

Research and planning: proposal treatment

This is my proposal that I did with my partner. It is the proposal that we took through "treatment" and improved from our two initial proposal ideas. This proposal is in more detail and explains deeper why we are going to do certain things.

Research and planning: trailer proposal 2

This is the second trailer proposal me and my group came up with, including a second plot idea.

Research and planning: trailer proposal 1

This is a trailer proposal me and my group came up with, the first of two initial ideas.

Research and planning: example of a "bad" trailer

This is an example of a horror trailer that would be bad for us to look at when making our own trailer. It is seen as bad because of a few reasons;

• First of all, even the opening graphic sequence seems to advanced for us to try and emulate, the opening sequence from Insidious seems a lot more suitable.
• Even the location / mise-en-scene is unsuitable, it seems to be set in an industrial warehouse with lots of blood everywhere and people chained up. This is too gory for what we decided to go for based on audience research, that told us our audience prefer creepy horrors.
• As well as the location being unsuitable the weapons are too. For example the gun on a reel and a bat with nails through it, in our trailer we are looking more towards a farmer with a shotgun.
• However with practice I think that we could create similar sounds, which would be great for us because they seem professional and definitely creates a creepy atmosphere.
• Another reason that this trailer isn't suitable because it is too short. It is more of a teaser trailer than the full length trailer that we decided to aim for.
• However something else we could take from this trailer would be the character outfits along with some elements of the story. Because these aspects of the trailer are suitable to our trailer.

Now that I have analysed the "good" and "bad" trailers I know what aspects we can take from the different trailers for our own. 

Research and planning: example of a "good" trailer

This is an example of a good trailer that we can look at for ideas when looking at creating our own trailer. This is because:

• It is set in a house / office environment that we could easily access something similar too. 
• The characters in the trailer are average people rather than 'half dead zombies'.
• I think that with some practice at photoshop, I could make a similar opening title sequence but with our own touch and different sound.
• Some of the shots are quite basic but very effective for example the rocking horse moving in a room on its own. If we gave it thought I think we could come up with something that basic and effective to create that "creepy" edge which we want rather than a gory film.
• Some of the camera shots used are quite tricky considering we have little experience with a camera. So I think that some work would be needed for the person doing cinematography.
• I like that the trailer has used a lot of fades when editing because I think that the slow editing creates a more eerie atmosphere.