Filming

Today we booked a camera and went to Katies house to film our teaser trailer. We wanted to create a home video, in order for the audience to see the characters from their view. We started with a shot of us driving to our new house. The camera angles were all close up shot and the camera was shaky to show we were not proffesionals and to make it more like a home video made by an ordinary person. The next shot was a mid shot of me and Katie outside of our house getting the keys ready to go inside. We purposely look over happy in order to show to our audience that everything is good and nothing can ruin it for us. We then have rhiannon following us with the camera to the door and us opening the front door. We used a lot of general conversation about moving in and how excited we were, but no planned speech as we wanted to make it believeable that it was a home video. We also shot a close up of a knife on the kitchen surfae spinning to indicate the genre of our film to be thriller. The next shot a wide shot of me Katie and Rhiannon (filming) of us in our living room sitting down relaxing saying about how much we love our new house, again indicating that everything is okay and we are happy with living here. However to indicate the thriller genre I say I have a funny feeling about the house, and that I feel like we are being watched. This then makes it not seem so happy and makes the audience want to see what will go wrong at the house. The filming was time consuming as we may have said something wrong, or laughed etc. So many shots were taken in order to have a suitable one for our teaser trailer. Although this wansn't our original idea for our trailer I felt this may be a bit more believable and suitalble than the previous idea. Next lesson we will upload our video onto Pinnacle and start to edit our clips in order to get our trailer.

New Beyond Magazine Cover

We thought about our target audience and decided to change our colour scheme. We thought it may indicate a more feminine audience, so we changed our colours to red, green and white. This makes it look more masculine and more appealing to males. Also we made the headlines a lot bigger in order to make them more eyecatching for passers by. Also it fills up the front cover in order for less black space. The image of Grace is now on the cover. I feel this image is effective and makes her stand out against the black background. We decided to have her holding a candle to make the film look more old fashioned suggesting she is an old ghost from years ago. The nightie also indicates this. The candle also makes the poster look more scary as candles are often used in thriller films.

Overall i am pleased with our final magazine cover as i feel it fits the conventions of a film magazine and portrays our film genre with the image.

This is our drafted magazine cover on Publisher. We changed our colour scheme as when we tried the orange, green and blue it looked too girly and did not fit our target audience. We tried out many colours and finally decided on blue, yellow and white. the colour scheme now fits with the target audience and is also eye catching to attract the readers. The font for the title was called Baskerville old face, we liked this font as it looked like a typical clear font for a magazine cover. The other fonts we used was, century gothic, Bodoni MT, and Arial Black as these were all clear fonts to read quickly if you was walking past the shelves. All our titles are short pieces of text in order to get to the point of what the article is about inside e.g. Top 10 film reviews inside. We also we chose top have two related articles on our film as Grace will be our image for the cover. this shows that she is more superior than any other article in the magazine and that the main focus is La femme. We also have a win opportunity of a film poster from another film in our class, this is typical of magazine conventions as there is always a free poster to make the readers buy the magazine. We chose a black background as it makes the fonts brighter and also the image clearer once it is inputted. We put a barcode, price and date also on the magazine cover in order to follow the conventions and make the magazine realistic.

Fonts and colour schemes

Charater Name Choice

We decided to name our character 'Emma-Lou'. We wanted a double barrelled name as it makes the name more distinct and different to just Emma as it is not as interesting. I thought about the scary character Emily Rose in the excorsist and thought Emma was close giving it a scary impression already. We thought this character name would work as it is quite an innocent, little girls name showing a contrast to what she is really like.

Film Title Choice

As our film is a thriller, we wanted to fit the film title to fit the genre. We thought about 'The Unknown' as the scary character is mysterious. However we discovered that this was already a film title. i thought if we had our film title in a different language it will be harder to have an already film made with the same title. We decided to keep the title simple and not much giveaway to the film so we decided on 'the girl' in french which then read 'La Femme', this gives the film more mystery as not every potential viewer of the film will know what this title means.

Film Poster and Film Magazine Cover Drafts

Here we have drafter our Film Magazine cover. We decided a blue, orange and green themed fonts as they are bright and eyecatching to our potential readers. We have fitted the theme of the thriller genre also by having a black background, this also makes our character, 'Emma-Lou' more visable as she is dressed in white. To fit the conventions of a magazine cover we have clearly displayed the date, price, bar codes etc. We also have other headlines in our chosen colours advertising new films, paying tibute to a famous actor and also giving away a free movie poster of the lastest film. We chose the name Beyond for our magazine name as it is indicating the films in our magazine are beyond our imagination. Also it is short and easy to remember for ourpotential customers. In our research we discovered that the characters on the cover hid part of the title with their head. We have followed this convention in order to make our magazine look more realistic.

Here is our draft of what our film poster will look like. We have fitted the thriller conventions again by having a black background to make it more scary and also to make the characters more clear. We have made 'Emma-Lou look dark and mysterious in the background to make audiences wonder who this scary figure is and what she wants. We then have a bright light shining on the characters, they look happy and innocent to make the characters more vulnerable. they are also dressed in bright clothes to make them stand out and look eye catching. At the bottom of the poster in red, another eyecatching colour, is says coming soon. We have not given a specific date as it keeps the audience waiting for the release date. Our film title 'La Femme' is in white, to make this stand out at the top of the poster against the black background.