Editing Software : Windows Movie Maker

Everything that I have filmed so far I have then edited using Windows Movie Maker as I have used this software many times before and so I know what all of the tools do and how to use them.

This is what the site looks like altogether and as you can see there are a lot of different windows and tools. 

Here is where you can add music, photos and video to your project and also text screens.

The 'emphasise narration' tool is going to be good for when I film the voiceover.

 Here are all the video tools, you can change the volume and speed and also trim videos to cut out the parts which you don't like. This works well for me when there is a part of a video clip when we are talking or I am telling people what to do.

These are the music tools which work the same as video tools.

These scene was very dark as I had a lack of lighting due to it being a night time scene so I increased the brightness of the clip.

Locations Update

As I was struggling to get everyone together to film at tasha's house for the remaining scenes- the attic I was thinking of alternative.

At school our drama studio has lots of different cupboards which my teacher showed to me and the mise-en-scene is perfect for a cluttered attic ...

 I think the mirror could provide a good shot of the moment which James gets possessed.


This is the other cupboard which I don't think would be as good/easy to film in but I like the stuff that's in there as it looks more like a house than a school so I could move some things from there into the other cupboard.

How I Did My Poster: Images

For this image I turned the brightness- light down as well as the saturation which made the image black and white.


With the black and white filter option I moved the yellow levels to the right which made any yellow tones in the photo whiter rather than black or grey- there were yellow tones in James' skin and so that's why he's so pale.


I then coloured in his eyes using a black paintbrush on Photoshop

For the second image I did the same technique with the black and white filter, sliding the yellow levels to the left.

I used an effect filter which was called 'crayon and chalk' that created the texture within the image.

I then de-saturated the image to get it even darker and greyer.

I lost some of the bright-whiteness in his skin when I applied the filter and so I upped the exposure which brightened any white levels.

I added a 'posterize' filter to this which created a cartoon effect and then I did the same black and white technique.

I am going to print each of these out and ask people what they think/ which one they prefer. Personally I prefer the first one as I think it has the most attention on James' character.

Music

I've found that the music I picked out for the trailer already is not very suspenseful as it doesn't build up tension throuhgout like the trailer does, but as I really like it I was looking for another piece of music to maybe layer over the top of it and my friend from my media group found this which he thought would work well...

I really like it as it fits with the music box theme and sounds very creepy so I'm going to try it out.

Poster Improvements

I am currently improving my poster from the feedback I got from my first drafts. I am focusing on eyes because everyone said they thought it was effective last time. I am using photoshop to create my poster and have found a lot of helpful websites on editing horror poster and generally how to use photoshop.

http://www.filmsourcing.com/blog/2013/creating-a-horror-poster-tutorial/

These are the 3 base images I've created and I'm going to show them to my media group and friends tomorrow and do a focus group before I add text and details to them. I'll add a post tomorrow on how I did these...

The Trailer So Far

I've edited together all of the clips that I have so far and filled in the gaps with text indicating what will be there ...






this is not in the final order and is just to help me to know where I am at so far, what I have left to do and also it helps me with the structuring. I have also decided after editing this together that I am not that happy with the music because it's very low intensity and doesn't build throughout the trailer like I want it to.

New Media

New media from emilyrosemedia23

Audience Theories

Audience theories from emilyrosemedia23

Finding a Title

Titles for my horror trailer from emilyrosemedia23

'Waves' of Horror

'Waves’ of horror from emilyrosemedia23

Marketing of Trailers

Voiceover info + Updated Script

There are two main types of voiceover within trailers....

1. A narrator describing the film - someone who is not in the film themselves but personally I have never seen this in a horror trailer. An example is here...



2. The characters are talking over scenes of them doing something else.

Mine is going to be more like number 2- my protagonist, Lauren will be talking at the start about the events at the start of the film and the audience will think it's a narration but towards the end it goes onto the scene where she's actually talking to her friend on Skype about everything that's going on.

I've come up with a script below:

Lauren: (VOICEOVER) When we moved here everything was going so well, the house is so nice and so are the people here.

***

Lauren: (DIGETIC) To her friend via video. Hi, we're really missing you but I'm gonna give you a tour of the new house!

Freddie:BOO!

Lauren: UGH! Stop trying to scare me you idiot!

***

Lauren: (DIGETIC)So here's my bedroom, we're not allowed to paint yet because it's only just been rebuilt after the fire but just ignore that.

***

Lauren: (VOICEOVER) We were so happy there in this big, beautiful house but then things started to go wrong, and I think it's because(DIGETIC) There's something wrong with Freddie

Tasha: What?!

Lauren: I, I don't know(VOICEOVER) he looks really unwell and weird things have been happening to me 

Tasha: Like what?

Lauren: Well first there were strange noises and flickering lights

Tasha: Maybe it was just a powercut?

Lauren: No, no it was more than that. I'm hearing footsteps in the middle of the night, loud enough to wake me up and when I do, he's there .

Tasha: Well what are you gonna do?

Pros and Cons of Different Research

Types of Research from emilyrosemedia23

Storyboard Groups

I've grouped together the scenes of my storyboard that I'll need to film together on the same day.

These are the scenes that I can film in my house with just my sister so they're going to be the easiest for me to film. I have already filmed the first one on here.

 These are the scenes to film at my house with everyone, I am hoping to do this next Wednesday. They need to be filmed after school as I'll be doing James' make-up.

These are the scenes that I need to film at Tasha's house, I have filmed all of these now.

Music

A vital part of my trailer is going to be the music as it creates the tension that is needed for a horror trailer. I watched the Conjuring trailer which contains a consistent piece of music in the background of the whole trailer which creates a really interesting effect.

I've thought about this and I want a plain piece of music going through the whole trailer and then I might add higher tension music on top or the music box music. 

This is my favourite as it's very unsettling.

Make-up

This week I have been looking at horror film make up. I found a lot of special effects make up to create very gory and deformed villains but these are seen more in the slasher genre and as my film doesn't contain any kind of monster this doesn't really apply to me.

My idea throughout has been to make James look ill during the end scenes of the trailer to show that he is the one effected by the spirit. A few years ago I watched a film called The Possession which features a teenage girl who becomes possessed and throughout the film she did look ill and almost dead.

I've been watching a lot of video tutorials on 'halloween sick makeup' for inspiration and tips on what to get and what to use, here's one that I found particularly helpful from the YouTube channel 'MyPrettyFlesh' ....




From the tutorials that I have watched I've come up with a list of things to get...

• Red eyeliner/ eyeshadow
• Grey, black and white eyeshadows 
• Brushes

I also did a sketch of what I want James to look like....

Targets From Now On

Instead of carrying on with my weekly targets, I realised that as they are going to be similar from now on, I am just going to write my targets on here now,

• Find a piece of music that I want for my trailer.
• Film
• Edit
• Poster
• Magazine