Planning and Research- Production Meeting

• Over the weekend, me and my group decided to start filming a scene.
• We choose the one which we think will be most difficult, and that's the scene where the girl is being tortured. We had to wait till it was dark.
• We already decided we would film this on a farm and add are own props to set the horror scene.
• We went shopping a bought the props we needed for the set up. Like rope to tie round her head to make it look like shes being gagged and tape to tie her to the chair and fake blood.
  
• We used Laura's chair to tie her to, and my top which we ripped and put blood and mud on to to make it look realistic.
  
• The farmers workshop which we asked the farmer if we could use, was a good mise en scene for are trailer, we moved drills and hammers around to make it look like a real horror scene.
• Filming went well and we thought about the cinematography throughout filming using different shot types at different angles, we also thought about editing using some zoom and zoom out shots.
• We will edit the film when we produce it in final cut.
  

Research and Planning- Publication Plan

Publication Plan on Prezi

Planning and Research- Film magazine draft

• This is my film magazine draft.
• I decided to call it 'EXPOSURE' as i think this is a good title for a film magazine as it relates to films.
• The three colour scheme would be Black, Grey and Red as these colours are connations of a typical horror.
• The image which will be the main image is an image i have already took whilst filming of my actress.
• I will have facebook in the top corner of the magazine to show the readers what the film is based on.
• The Title of the film 'Offline' will be just above the main image.
• Down the sides will be the sub story's , and I'll  add a quote in as a lot of film magazines do this.

Planning and Research- Analysis of Magazine cover

•  This is the 'Empire' magazine which promotes many films and reviews.
• The film this magazine is promoting is 'The Dark Knight' you can tell by the dark colours and low key lighting used in the background connotes a horror look.

• The bright green and purple brings out the text to make it stand out to the audience.

• The main image is of the main character in the film, just by looking at him tells you he is scary by the face paint on his face and the his facial expression, where he is smirking which contrasts with the setting he is in which looks like a prison, also is eyes are the same colour as the green of the text this is so the colours flow and relate.

• The text which says 'He's a cold blooded, mass murdering clown' this give a typical convention of how you would describe a character in a horror film.

• This magazine again is a popular film magazine 'Total Film'. Total film doesn't promote many horror films.
• I choose this front cover, as it does relate to what my trailer is about as i am using a social network scheme.
• By looking at the front cover you can tell the genre could be said to be a drama. The font is original and classy this connotes a drama film.
• The way the magazine is layout with the images of people faces shows what the film is about i really like this idea and have been looking at using this for my own.

Research and Planning: Actor Release Form

This is the actor release form for are main character Georgia Pinder who is playing Louise Smith in are trailer. We did this to show she is prepared for the filming that she will be in.

Research and Planning- Actor Head shots

•  We decided while planning are film trailer that are main character would be a young girl so straight away we knew that a male would not be suitable.

•  Although this is a young girl we was not to sure if she would fit the kind of girl we was looking for she very natural and we wanted a more girly girl to show vulnerability.

•  This girl looks very similar to are main actress we was stuck between the two as they both are very young and good looking girls which is what we are looking for, due to her being unable to attend al the auditions, we decided Georgia below was the most suitable for are trailer.

• She looks very Innocent and we was looking for a small light haired girl i think Georgia is the perfect match for are main character.

Research and Planning: Micro element

For my film trailer i am in charge of by myself of the mise-en-scene.

List:

Setting- The setting for the trailer will be set in a study room, as the main character is a student. Make out that she is in her halls at university. Also a clip will be set in the woods, or a park.

Props- Props we will need are, computer, access to facebook, study books, glass(that she knocks over), chair, table, black cloak, bloody knife, lamp.

Costumes- Casual student clothing on college girls, black cloak for killer.

Make up- Make up on students, just usual not to much. If we show killers face, then use white make up and have blood on his face, and dark eyes.Lighting- Low key light most of the way through for the horror effect.

Composition- Concider have things off centre the disorientation to show the space as the audience in horror are waiting to something to come into the off centre space.

Cinematography is an element me and my partner will be sharing for the film trailer.

Low Angle

High Angle

Close up

Long shot

Medium shot

Fast zooms

Panning

Tracks

Tilting

Craning

Establishing Shot

Sound is another element ill be sharing with my partner:

Would be using Garage Band for creating are sounds/music.

For the non digetic music for are trailer we are thinking of using inspiration from 'Kings of Leon, Closer' as the beat of music relates to are film.

Dial up tone, to computer, the facebook pop up for chat and a new message. Maybe have a voice saying you have one new message, repeating maybe. Disconnect tone also will be used.

Research and Planning- Character Profiles

Louise Smith: Young attractive innocent looking girl, aged between 16-19. Need her to be good at acting as its a very intense scene being shot, and many close ups to show emotion and vulnerability.

Trevor West: We decided that we didn't want to show Trevor during the trailer to make people wonder who it is, and what he looks like. This makes the audience want to watch the trailer more, as they wonder. We stereotype Trevor to look like a bald middle aged man, we a spooky look about him.

Louise's Friend: We suspect Louise friend who gets tagged in the photo to be similar age to Louise and be her friend so able to take images of her and Louise to add at the start of the trailer.

News Reader: Not to sure what gender male or female, late 20's id think. Dressed smart and speak clearly and confidently.

Research and planning- Production schedule

I produced this production schedule to help me work out when i will be doing the work that needs to be done by a certain time, i did this to help me organise myself.

Plannig and Research- Auditions for actors for trailer.

I created this poster to put up around college, to help me and my group find the perfect actors/actress's to be in are teaser trailer, we handed it out in the drama studio as we thought there would be where the best talent is.This is a post i posted on facebook where i have over 1000 friends to promote my new film trailer and also to get more auditions to find the right cast.

Research and Planning- Plan for rest of the week.

Wednesday- Today, i analysed a film poster and then used the connotations to help me produce my plan for my own film poster.

Thursday- Finish my story board, come up with a font for my trailer title 'offline' and produce more plans for my poster, and get feedback off peers.

Planning and Research- Conventions

Title stands out.

An image that relates to the genre and also shows the narrative A spooky look to the poster as its advertisement. Slug line- ideas? Stars names? Date? Cinema or DVD. Edits, to make the poster flow.

This is my first plan of my teaser trailer poster, i have decided i want to use a face mosaic in the shape of the main character screening and make it look like a reflection from the computer with disintegrated photos of herself when you look closely, the facebook font will be seen, i would add this in it as i think using face book relates to a lot of peoples everyday life which makes it more scary.

Research and Planning- Analysis of film poster

Genre- The genre of this poster is horror, as you can tell by the title and also the emotion on the women's face, with the silhouette in the background gives an horror approach to the poster.

This is a typical horror convention as a silhouette is used in the background with also a back in light to show blur spookiness about this image.

This tag line also shows this poster is a horror genre, as the word 'evil' is used.

Narrative- By looking at the poster you get a good incense to what this horror film is about, firstly by the title this gives the viewers an idea that this film is about when a starnger calls. The silhouette of a man in the background gives the conventions of a typical horror using silhouttes of male figures. Also how the women is holding a phone with a worried facial expression, which gives a horror feel to most of the audiences everyday uses.

Media Language/Layout- The black background gives connotations again of a horror, the creme light colour for the title makes the title look a bit like lighting, a glow effect which is on her face as well, and also the backing light comes behind the silhouette as well.

Audience- The average horror audience, ages between 15-28 some may be older.

Representation- Typical female victim, to what looks like a typical male to be the villain/murder/killer, a typical horror connation representation. The actors a stereotypical for horror films.

Research and Planning- Props list

This is the props list i created on power point, these were my first ideas of props i will be using.

PRODUCT COST

Rope £2-3 (Crafts shop)

Tape £1 (pound shop)

Clothes £0 (use are own)

Computer £0 (Use mine or Laura's laptop and internet connection.)

Black Coat £5 (fancy dress shop)

Fake blood £2 (fancy dress shop)

Hammers etc. £0 ( one of are dads or friends)

Mud £0 (off the floor)

Make up £5 (fancy dress shop)

Chair £0 (Laura's chair)

Research and Planning- Plan

This is are first plan for are teaser trailer, we took pictures for each shot/scene that will be in are film trailer. We made add more in a later date, but this gives you an idea about what 'offline' is about.

• Picture 1: Fact and pictures will be a fact about facebook and a picture off facebook.
• Next image of girls face blurred. Seeing it on facebook, actress's facial expression.
• Shoulder shot of computer, pick glasses off the floor. Men silhouette behind reflection in computer screen.
• Girl screams. Another picture blurred. Then OFFLINE!
  

Research and Planning- Equipment/software list

There is different equipment and software i will use to produce my film trailer:

Final cut express
Garage Band
Photo shop
Facebook

The internet

Laptop

Cameras

Microphones

Research and Planning- Meeting

Me and my group have had a meeting while we discussed who was doing what for a teaser trailer. We decided that myself will do mise-en-scene and my partner will do editing and we both will do sound and cinematography. We already have an rough idea on what we are going to do for are teaser trailer, this will help us produce are story board soon. We also went to watch Social Networking the film in cinema together we did this is as it relates to are film trailer as we are basing it on facebook, although it wasn't a horror so it didn't relate although we did get some cinematography and mise en scene ideas for are trailer.