Drafting and planning: Looking at my location

INSERT PICTURES (SCREEN SHOTS) OF THE MIST IN THE FOOTAGE 

on the day of filming there was a very heavy fog which was perfect for my trailer as it adds to the mysterious ambiance of my story. the original plan was to turn down the brightness and contrast of my footage to create the illusion of it being dark but due to the fog changing the contrast might not be so easy as the color of the fog will change which wont look very good so i will have to play around with the graphical tools in MovieplusX6 to see weather lowering the brightness is a viable option anymore. even if i don't turn down the brightness the trailer will still look good it just wont look as good as if i shot it at night i am still confident that my trailer will be up to scratch as i am quite proud of the way i constructed my shots.

Drafting and planning: Raw footage (tracking)

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The video above is the tracking shot for my trailer that i filmed before Christmas. the tracking shot came out better than i expected it too when i made the track to be able to film that exact shot. the movement of the track is really smooth and it showed as the camera isn't shaking at all and the speed the camera moves at isn't perfect but i can slow down the clip in editing so that isn't a problem. the one issue i have with the clip is that i forgot to center the axe so it was dead in the middle of the shot but i will have to get over that and see if there is anything i can do to fix the issue if i have the time to do so but there isn't any point going out of my way to fix something that looks fine as there is no issue with the shot as i can use it in my trailer i will just have to live with it being off center.

Organisation

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the video above is the my tracking scene that i filmed on Sunday. i filmed it by making a track using some wood and made for the size of my skate board so i could push my skate board off the track. the tracking shot didn't go as i thought it would as i planned to film the few end scenes in the dark and the tracking shot being one of them and i couldn't film at night on the day due to the fog and mist as when it was dark the fog and mist covered everything so the camera wasn't going to be able to pick up my characters so i will have to lower the contrast of the night scenes in editing so it makes it look like i filmed at night. Because we get marked on the way we structure our shot types i am quite certain that my tracking shot will be worth a few good marks due to it being a steady shot due to the track i made so i am confident that my track was worth the effort. my other shot types were quite generic but still good and they will be worth marks as they will look especially good when i put it all together with my transitions in editing.

Organisation

Now that all of my filming is complete i must now concentrate on the editing and with what comes with the editing is the addition of sound so i must now also go and look into music and if i need it voice overs. i might only need a voice over because the cameras we were given by school don't really pick up the dialog of people very well so i will need to make a judgment call once ive put all of my scenes together so i can see if the dialog is hard to hear with the background noise of the wind/ rain and if its hard to hear with music so if i cant hear the lines of my actors then i will need to get them to do the lines again into a microphone so i can place the audio files over everything else so i can hear the lines clear enough. But to forget that for now i need to look at music for my trailer but for my trailer it will be difficult because we are allowed 15 seconds of a copyrighted song but i dont think that using 15 seconds of a song will work for me as i think my trailer would go best with a background song all of the way through so i dont want any lyrics that will mask the sound of my dialog so my main interest is to look into instrumental songs that can just hide them self in the background of my trailer but will still have a good impact on my trailer.
the song below is the type of thing i am starting to look at, with the song below if i was to use it i would only use the first fifteenth seconds or so because the single piano notes if left on their own are really mysterious and if i was to use them that would be the only part of the song i would even think of using.

Organisation

Last Sunday i started and completed my filming for my A2 horror trailer. ive reviewed all of the footage and i don't see a reason why i would need to re shoot anything so all i need to do now is focus on the editing aspect of the project. Im setting myself a deadline which i will have all of my editing done by and i think that aiming at around the 5th of February will be plenty of time to complete it all. One

 one the left you can see a picture that i took on the day of filming and the weather conditions were perfect for my genre as it was very misty and foggy so to play of of the pathetic fallacy as the weather shows the mood of the characters as they are distraught from their missing friend so they cant think (see) straight. There was the concern that it could have gotten too foggy for the camera to be able to pick up the characters which was an issue since i was planning to film when it was getting dark so i made the decision to film the night shots in the day because i didn't want to risk a re shoot. so in editing i will need to lower the contrast of the scenes so it makes it creates the effect of the scene being at night where it has just been darkened.

Target Audience (Fonts on Twitter)

Earlier i used social media so i could communicate with my target audience. i did this by asking them a question about my project. i know that i would be addressing my audience as my followers on this form of social media consists of people aged 18+ so i can guarantee my responses will be from the correct audience. i provided my audience with five different fonts and asked them which of the five they think would go best with my film. i selected the five fonts after using over fifth teen different fonts on my title and selected the best five. i only gave my audience five to choose from as i thought giving them fifth teen would be too much for them to decide on. i was clear looking on the response that they preferred the third font out of them all. my thinking is that they liked it because of its shadiness as its not extremely bold but yet

it stands out the most of them all. in my opinion the third font is the best as it will fit my purpose     correctly. Once all of my filming is complete i will ask the same question to my audience but instead of the fonts being in a list they will all be displayed on the movie poster and trailer so they can decide what font should be on my final piece of work.

 

Organisation

This is my test footage of my fire close up scene. i was expecting the camera to not pick up the details of he flames very well but the camera captured the detail of the flames quite well. Using the camera at home is giving me some good and much needed practice with the camera. i also filmed the same shot in two different times of the day so i could counter compare what looked best. the shot that i filmed at night looks better because the fire creates a glow around the area which could connote that the area is a safe space due to its light illuminating what was once cold dark and dangerous. these are the types of hidden meanings i am trying to get across to my viewer as i want them to read into things so they can create a better story and experience for                                                                                               themself

Organisation (Props and Costume)

the images above are pictures of my props.
The protagonist's will wear normal cloths such as the ones above to show that they aren't anything special or dangerous so the viewer can get a grasp of what the group stand for. If im honest the costume of the protagonists isn't that important in this situation as they just need to look like normal average teens which is what im hoping to achieve with this choice of costume. The axe i purchased is a real axe so it will be used with ext-ream care and the blade protector will be on at all times so there isn't going to be a risk of anyone getting hurt. The antagonist is going to be played by me so i will be playing two separate roles so i will bring a change of cloths so i can play both easily. the antagonist is only going to be seen from the waist down so im going to to switch my tracksuit trousers to jeans so it will be obvious it isnt me playing both roles.

Organisation

I am still sticking to the plan to film on the 13th of December and film my entire trailer on the same day. i have ran into a problem that might not cause too much of a problem if everything goes to plan but i need to make sure im ready, because i need people to act in my trailer i have my cast ready but because im planning to film it all in one day i do not have the luxury of being able to re schedule if someone cancels on me at the last minuet so i am trying to get a minimum of 3 people to be my back up actors if people drop out as i need to film the entire trailer in one day so the lighting gets progressively darker as the shoot goes on and so my trailer looks and feels as if it takes place on the same day which is what im going for and will achieve easily enough. i will more than likely not have enough time to re-shoot scenes so i will need to do around 10-15 takes of each scene so i have backups if i need them which i will. i will also need to ask for a second camera battery because the camera will be on for a good three hours and im not confident in its battery life to risk having half a trailer. tomorrow i will try to get a camera from the school so i can test how the footage comes out in the type of lighting i will use and see how much lens flare i will get when i have to film the close up of the fire. im doing this early before shooting so if there is a problem i have time to fix it because i don't want all of this to be done at the last minute and have all of my footage being rushed and of poor quality.

Research into similar products & Organisation

in the small clip above you can see what tracking is, it is when the camera follows the characters movement instead of holding the shot still when the character is moving. if used correctly tracking can make the scene extremely dynamic and it can make it a fun experience for the audience as if you do it correctly it will make the audience feel like they are actually following the character instead of them just watching the character. in my trailer i plan to use one tracking shot for a scene that will last a maximum of four seconds. the tracking shot will be a low angle where camera is a few inches from the floor and the shot will be of an object being dragged along the floor. this is where the problem is as the school doesn't have the equipment to be able to shoot tracking smoothly and in the conventional way i will have to use my imagination to be able to move the camera forward without the shot becoming shaky and out of focus. my idea is to use a piece of wood and a skateboard to create a track that i will push the camera through. the idea is simple enough to create grooves in the wood so the board wont roll off and just place the wood on the floor making sure it is flat to the floor using a spirit level to make sure the elevation of the ground below is level so it will be suitable for filming purposes.