FInalising trailer

the last week or so has been spent editing over and over again all the footage i had filmed for my trailer and today I finalised my trailer. Over the Christmas holidays I will be evalutating all my work, icluding the trailer making process. soon I will export my trailer file and post the clip on here.

What do I have left to do?

So with around a week till the deadline what do I have left to do? I have completed my poster and I think I'm happy with my magazine cover so all that's left to do is to edit all of my film clips together and finalise my trailer.

final poster production

So the previous drafts of the poster didn't look quite good enough so i had a few ideas, one was to put the original image on a polaroid style background

I still felt like this looked un finished so I added doodles onto the polaroid frame and altered some of the text and came up with this:

poster changes (three drafts)

 Draft one ^

Draft 2^

Draft 3 ^


I didnt think any of these look quite right so i'm working on another draft for my final poster.

risk assesments

What have I been doing all this time!?

It's been a hile since my last post, but basically i start filming next week so i have filled the last couple of weeks by starting on my poster and magazine.
I went through a few different ideas and I am now quite pleased with my poster.

I have been working on my magazine cover more recently and I struggled slightly with the background. I originally had it green to line up with the colour scheme but it didnt look great as all the characters were too obviously cut out. So I asked my classmates what they thought might look good and a few people suggested glass or a blurred street, so i combined the ideas and also blurred the people in the background to make it look better and more realistic.

I will continue work on these items untill I am completely happy with the way they look.

photo shoot one

In this photo shoot I got shots of Rachel who is playing Jules for the poster and magazine. I also got a group shot for my magazine cover.

script

We see a house with a long garden path with the gate in the foreground. Jules steps forward and we see her from the hips down as she pauses to look up at the house. There is silence until she sighs and places her hand firmly on the gate to open it.

Cue party music

Jules-(voice over)­-shot walking around party pausing and zooming into people’s smiles- as a teenager in the 21^st century I’m often presented with sets of rules I have to follow. As an awkward teenager, I often follow these rules, bar one night. I’m not a people person and human interaction really isn’t my thing, so ‘that night’ was always going to be disastrous­­.-cut to webcam shot, cue end of party music and start of riff 1- But I guess I kind of had a hand in it too. (pause) Anyway I’m Jules, I’m 17 and I probably hate you, unless you’re the curly haired -cut to shot of rob hair tucking- tall mysterious life ruiner who occupies my mind 98% of the time with his hands - cut to shot of Rob hands then to shot of eyes and smile-  and his eyes and his everything. -cut to webcam shot- (mutter) asshole. I don’t even. -sigh-  How can anyone be so perfect, really? - cut to shot of Rob laughing- anyway, I come online to vent to all of you people who take the time to listen, so thanks. This is the story of my never ending night, please take note. Because, THIS –cut to photos shot w/camera shutter sfx +flashes, back to webcam- this ­­–cut to crying shot back to webcam- this –cut to burning photos shot back to webcam- THIS –cut to Rob catching Jules shoulder and back to webcam-  is NOT all part, of growing up.

Jules's photos

NEED (Props)-

Laptop

Green top

Lamp

Backstage

Mug

WHEN-

Backstage SG16

TUESDAY BREAK TIME

SHOTS NEEDED-

Poster: asleep at laptop

Mag: stood central

TODAY!

I spent my time in class working on the blog site and making all the pages I'm going to need for the promotions package and this also means I have the basis of my poster done. I plan on using a 'screenshot' of the blog page for my promotional poster with something along the lines of 'logging in spring 2013' to link to the internet themes. so in the next lesson i will be finishing my poster.

Space.vent drafts

So originally I used the site tumblr as a style model for my 'blog site' with its colour scheme:

But then I decided that I should make the colours match my colour scheme so I can use it for my promotions poster :

The purple and green may seem less professional and realistic but it works well for my genre and will fit in well with the synergy.

Costume design

 This is a sketch of the main character, Jules', costume for when she is vlogging. I wanted to show her being 100% relaxed when on her blog and how she can be herself and comfortable by wearing a big old jumper. I wanted to keep the colour scheme with the green though.

 This is a sketch up of the outfit Jules wears to the party, the red stripes are meant to be purple but its showed up wrong on the scan. I wanted it green and purple to match the colour scheme whch is going to synergise through the promotions package like we saw in the juno package

This is a sketch up of Robs costume, we dont see him much in the trailer but i wanted to show him as being simple and relaxed while still looking very good.

this is my updated schedule

question time

magazine mock up

so my basic idea for the image is a layered shot. With a group shot of the party way back in the nbackground with everything going wrong, then a full body shot of Rob in the mid ground top show he is of some importance and is away from the disasters, and then a profile shot of Jules central to show she is the main character and is away from all of the chaos in the image.

Female Casting

As none of the girls I contacted would like to be a part of the work I'm struggling to find the right girl. I'm very specific on what i would like her to be like so it's becoming increasingly difficult to cast someone as Jules and may have to play her myself, or ask my younger cousin. The only problem with asking her is that she is only 15 and may not look right for the part. As this develops I will write a post explaining my conclusion.

Casting

I have chosen from the actors who responded for the role of Rob and written to him

movie magazine cover analysis

The first thing that stands out to me is that the colours are always consistant and compliment eachother but still stand out well. the colours often relate in a way to the film themes, like the suckerpunch cover uses orange, to show heat (sexy, fighting etc) Sherlock Holmes has been used with a pale blue to show mystery and avatar, of course, used bright blue because the creatures are blue

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 The main feature is very central and the fonts are consistant. each of them have a coverline above the magazine title which works well. the simple fonts are vital so that anything different can stand out much more. its also easier to have varying sizes of a simple font as it will look good big or small.

the main image is always overlaying on the masthead, this shows that they are important and stand out. The protagonist is always central to show their importance. I will bare this in mind when putting my cover together.

 puffs are subtle but still do their job because they differ to the simple font, meaning they stand out simply..

I will apply all these features to my movie magazine.

Conventions of a magazine cover

you will often find the following things on a standard magazine cover:

-date/ issue number
-barcode
-tagline
-masthead
-coverlines
-main feature
-protagonist
-puffs
-midshots
-consistant colour scheme
-secondary images

Music planning

Having given the letter to my chosen composer, he has recently replied saying he would happily work with me and has agreed to write me some music for my trailer.

As in trailers we have seen for teen comedies the music is generally upbeat and popular but because i cant use copyrighted materiel Jamie will be writing some upbeat music for me.

I would like my music to be similar to music such as 'neon trees' maybe a bit more pop like 'ed sheeran' for acoustic-sounding tracks.

detailing

A big part of my work is based around a blog site I have made up so here is my design idea for it

film trailer attributes which are most important for me.

Narrative: My trailer has a constant voice over of the main character telling the viewers what the basic story is to entice them to find out what happens so the narrative is the main hook for my trailer because it's going to make the audience interested

Voice over- so because the voiceover is constant its very important that it is good and makes sense.

Character- we follow the main character in the trailer and she gives the voice over. I have to create a very strong character out of Jules so alot of work will go into this.

Effectiveness of movie posters

I think the Juno poster is most effective because it tells you the basic story without giving away any of the twists. We can see she's pregnant and its tagline gives us a hint about it's story. The poster is also bright and bold so it draws you in.

I think this poster is quite effective because its very blunt about what the story is but it seems very busy. the bright colours are effective too.

I think this poster is not very effective because it doesn't draw you in as much. the colours are all very samey and this does tell us the film is girly but it doesnt stand out in any wat and it doesnt tell us much about the story or why someone would want to watch it.

I think this poster is the least effective because it leaves us with no idea of what the movie could be about and the only thing that stands out is the title. there's no clues on it other than the three awkward looking boys. It does tell us who brings us the movie though which may give dedicated fans an idea of the basic themes.

From this I know that my poster will need to be -
BRIGHT
hinty
not too obvious but pretty blatent without giving too much away
stand out
not too crowded but SOME INFO IS NEEDED