Friday 28th November

Today was more of a catch up with the blog type of lesson rather than doing my ancillary tasks, although I know I should not be doing blog work in class time anymore, I am not getting more footage/pictures till the 4th of December, which is a Thursday. That is the date that I will be getting all the filming done, that is the date that I have agreed with the location owner.

So instead of thinking of what I could do next lesson, I thought why waste my time doing that and actually progress with my blog, because I think of it as if I do not do any work in lessons, I am basically losing marks for my final grade. 

Draft Two Poster

I believe that this is my best piece of coursework so far, I think that if you would compare this to any of my other drafts this stands out as being the one that is far ahead of the others. Before I talk about what is good and what I have changed compared to the past drafts, just to say that the image that I have used is not mine, I have copied and pasted from google images to see what would suit best with the change of style. I think that this style of image that I have used is one that goes very well with this template. The reason I have used this sort of template design is because I was going through my inspirations and the Paranormal Activity poster came up and I decided to give that a bash and see what the outcome would appear to be.  

Poster Attempt Two

Comparing this with my last post that I did from my poster you will be thinking I have not made any progress, and in some ways, that is rather correct. I have taken away the image and there is a reason for that, I have also looked back at my inspirations and got some peer/teacher feedback and realized that the film title should be placed higher up and not in the way of the main image. The reason I have taken the main image that I used previously off is because I did not think that it was the correct image for me to use. The image that I want to use is one of the full mask with a little bit cut off hiding some identity.

Fourth Attempt at Website

It is a shame that I had to screenshot twice so that I could show all of my website. This is starting to come along rather good and I am pleased with the progress that I am making. What I have changed from last time if you can notice is that I have added a background to the slide show. The reason I added this was because I asked my peers how could I improve the website and the blankness was one of the few things I was informed upon. This is a possible picture to use in the background although I will be taking more photos and having a play around when I do have those photos. When I put the picture on my website, I found it rather hard
put it so that it was behind the text and visible to see everything. So what I had to do was google how it was done and once I had found the suitable information it was easy enough to go from that point onwards. I also moved the title, the release date and the social media hashtag around, increasing the size of them making them more of a sight rather than something at the top of the page.

Second Attempt at Website

Attempt Three at Website

First Draft for Website

This is my first draft of the website that I have to create as one of my ancillary tasks. For this I found out that I only had to create a homepage, I feel like I have put the necessary information on the homepage if people were to use it, it would be simple enough to show yourself round. The color scheme is the same as my first draft of the distribution poster, the creates synergy between the movie trailer.  

First Attempt at Poster

This here is my first attempt for the distribution final poster for my horror trailer. As you can tell I will not be using this as my final piece as it is nowhere near as good as I want it to look like.What has inspired me, specifically, is 'The Purge' poster. I think the layout and the main image (only image) is very thorough, I like the colour technique they use and that will be something I will try to replicate. The background image is one that I will be changing, I am going to get a photo of a man wearing a mask, and take a close up of him wearing the mask showing about 75% of the mask/face. The reason I want this is because it adds a sense of mystery to the poster. A certain 'what's he hiding?'. The font on the other hand I am rather pleased with. I am highly debating using this font as it creates synergy with the title, the same level of class that is masquerade. I feel like the bottom of the poster is something that only needs slightly adjusting to make it look a lot better, that will not take to much time I am hoping. In conclusion I am rather satisfied with my first go at my horror trailer poster.

Final Draft for Practice Recording

To help my practise and finally get a go at editing a piece of filming I created a short film where two actors would do simple things, we had to record it and see what we could put together and see what the final outcome would be, considering this is the first time I had ever used a camera to record something and the first time using that certain piece of software. This is what I came out with in the end after a few attempts on editing all the footage I had together. There is some sound effects that I could and maybe should of added on to block out some of the sound that we have in the background. Although even though I have not added sound I think that this is rather a good go at editing with about thirty minutes experience.

Trailer Name Final Decision

I have came to the conclusion that I will want to use the word 'Masquarade'.

The reason that I have came to that conclusion is becuase it fits in with the mask that will me worn by the antagonist in the trailer. Another reason why I have chosen this out of everything else, is becuase why I found out the definition of masquarade,

'	pretence, deception, pose, act, front, facade, disguise, dissimulation, cover-up, bluff, subterfuge, play-acting, make-believe; informalput-on '   That came up and when I foudn out that I thought it was very fitting to have this as my horror trailer name.

Time Management Last Research Day

This is me on the last day off blog work in class. What I am doing is editing my first go of putting some clips together. The purpose of me doing this is having a go at editing clips so I have that little bit of experience before I have to edit my final trailer. I personally found this rather hard at the begining, not only using this bit of software. But actually directing the clips, I really underestimated how hard it would be. From the editing we had the choice to add sound to the clip, yet we did not know how to do that, so for next time I will have to research into this to find out how to add sound. This was also the last lesson I had to go on my blog in class. Meaning that if I have to finish or add anymore work to my blog I will need to do it in my own time.

Planning for Actors

There will only be three actors in my film trailer. The antagonist, the man with the mask on. Then finally there is the male and the female. The body type for the antagonist I want to be rather tall and skinny, an ectomorph. The female I would like small, so they come across as being weak and vulnerable. Like a traditional teen slasher, I would like them to be blonde and large breasted but that is not a must have. And the male I do not have any specific qualities that they must have. What will be the hard part, is not finding the correct people, it is once I have done that, which is most likely the easy part, then getting all of us to find a time that is fitting for all of us and then for them to actually be good at acting. Which from people that have ever acted before in there lives, which is the most likely probability, they are not going to be good at all.