TRAILER FINAL CUT with Changes from feedback

I've finished my trailer! I had a few adjustments to make after I showed it to James and Sophie, the lead actors, I recorded their response below..

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 I changed the keyboard scene to one where you could see what she was typing as it made more sense and gave a clue. I also made the title at the end pop a bit more by adding a black screen before it which switched to the title on the beat of the music.

Trailer...

Almost Done!

I have been editing my trailer all weekend and also filming scenes that I had left to do.

I've recorded the entire making process on my laptop and I'll upload that along with the almost-finished trailer later on.

Final Magazine?

Sinister Trailer

This weekend I have been continuing to edit my trailer together and I have been watching horror trailers to get some ideas for the text inbetween clips.
One of the trailers I looked at was Sinister which contained something that I really liked; at the start it has flashes of pictures to do with the victims and the plot. I thought I could do this- pictures of Lauren and Freddie laughing and being happy instead of the footage that I had planned to do as I am not going to have enough space in my trailer for extra footage. I could also then flash images of the music box in between to foreshadow what's going to happen.

I also liked how they had alternating clips of the video tapes playing and the bad things happening as it shows they are an effect of the video tapes. - I could do this with my music box too.

Magazine Making 1

Trailer 10th March

Again this is just for structural purposes ...

Final Title

I finally have my title! After my second survey Melody is definitely the title.

Narrowing Down a Title

This was the data I received from my survey. The 'other' answers were Music Box, Within, The Dust, Just Breathe and Airborn.

After my title survey I am still unsure of what to name my film. The preferred title, with 4 votes was Melody which was my favourite as it seems ambiguous with the genre but still unsettling. I did a post about this kind of title which you can view using this QR Code



I really like Within as well so I am unsure of which one to pick. Because of this I created another survey with just those 2 titles and hopefully this will help me decide...

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NRHM6J8

Title For My Magazine : FRIGHT

Filming Plans: 7th of March

Planning of My Film Magazine

I've sketched what I'd like my film magazine cover to look like

I am going to use this image

Billing Block

Here's what I put in my billing block

*PRODUCTION COMPANY* PRSENTS “THE MUSIC BOX” LAUREN JONES SOPHIE ROSE FREDDIE JONES JAMES SULLIVAN SUPPORT BY NATASHA PRETOT WRITTEN BY EMILY ROSE CINEMATOGRAPHY BY EMILY ROSE DESIGN EMILY ROSE MUSIC BY KEVIN MACLEOD AND THE BLAKE ROBINSON SYNTHETIC ORCHESTRA DIRECTED BY EMILY ROSE EDITED BY EMILY ROSE FILMED ON LOCATION IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Final Poster? + how I did it (with Working Title)

Title Survey

I created a survey to try and find a title...

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ZZQN2FK

and asked some of my friends to fill it out. Hopefully I will get lots of replies..

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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.

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.

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.

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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!

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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.

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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?