Updated Intertitles

ending credits

these are the ending credits that i made for the trailer. these will go at the end and will make the trailer look more authentic and professional. i chose a font that is suitable for the credits with narrow and tall letters. i also made some of the word smaller in the style of a professional one. i also made it embossed and gave it a colour gradient to make it look like professional practice.


by charlotte alderson

Weather Forecast for Filming Days

Because we scheduled to film the majority of location shots on Wednesday 26th October, I checked the weather forecast out online to check that the weather would be okay, it is forecasted cloud and sunshine, which means we can get the majority of our filming done without any weather problems. -Clark Warburton

Inter title Research

 This is an inter title from the film 'Creep'. The film is about a monster creature living in the underground in London. The producers have followed this theme by creating the background to look like a map of the underground, and the text slowly moving across the screen. It looks really good and it gives and element of continuity throughout all of the products.

 This is an inter title from 'Saw', and is also animated. As it is a 3D film, the inter titles are designed to fit with this, so it features a trap coming out and snapping around the text.

This is an inter title from 'Scream 4', which features a shadowy silhouette of the famous scream mask floating around in the background, with the text fading on screen.

After looking at all of these inter titles from professional texts, I can see that the majority of inter titles are usually animated, with some kind of imagery in the background. I will go back and develop our inter titles to make them resemble professional texts much further, by animating and adding background imagery.

Actors Update.

Intertitles

Whilst we are still in the process of filming our trailer, we have been using our time by creating different parts for the trailer, so that it makes the editing process much easier. Here are some of the inter titles I have created which will be inserted into the trailer. They use the same black, white and red colour theme as the title, so that it still has continuity. We may animate each of the inter titles as to how they appear on the screen, possibly using a type writer style effect.

by Rebecca Hart

Magazine Mock Up

Clown masks

this is the video that i made showing some of the research i did into the different clown masks available to buy. we need to decide which one will be best and most suitable for our film. i looked at numerous fancy dress sites and ebay also. it gave me a better idea of what is available to buy and which one to use.

by charlotte alderson

Certification

i made this replica of the beginning certificate on each film trailer. i created it on photoshop and made sure it could fit into our trailer. i also added the certificate. these touches like this and the credit are small things that often get unnoticed by audiences but are still a very vital part to the films marketing and gives the entire film more authenticity.

by charlotte alderson

Discussing Actors

We had previously discussed actors in the initial planning stages of our product as it was important to know how many willing actors we could realistically get access too. We are now almost ready to begin production, so we have made a final video summarising who our actors are going to be. In order to make our production process as easy and successful as possible, we wanted to keep the number of actors we were going to use to a minimum. If we use an excessive amount of actors, this would have introduced more complications in terms of pinning down a couple of days that everyone would be free, and getting everyone to the same location. For example, two of our group members are going to be three of the characters, which will make it much much easier when it comes to filming. We then only have two other actors to consider, which is a lot easier than having to consider another 5-10. We also ensured that at least one of our group could drive and have a car, to resolve any transport issues.

by Rebecca Hart

Magazine Masthead Logo Font's

All of the fonts I selected to use for the magazine masthead are simple and bold, I consciously made this decision after looking at our research on other major marketed film magazines, all which use a simple often sans serif font, this makes it easy to spot read and have a wider audience appeal, not leaning to be more masculine or feminine but neutral. However, after considering all of the fonts it came to my attention we did need the masthead to be easily recognized so it would have to have some kind of originality in order to let it be that. This is why we've chosen to use 'Super Chargers' as it is still simple but with a little originality with a line through on it, yet still being bold and quite simple, it is effective in a range of colours and styles and is versatile for us to use as our masthead.

-Clark Warburton

Test shots for our poster

For the clown version of the poster I wanted to create the effect of light in a dark studio. We then decided to test it out. We got a black background to the studio and set up the lighting and photography equipment. For the real photograph I will take the photo of someone wearing the mask but we wanted to see how the light fell on the face and used numerous positions to see which looked better.

These photos were my original inspiration that i found for my poster:

These images use lighting to create different effects. The effect for our photographs will be better once the clown mask is being used. The use of lighting effects with the clown mask will make the clown more mysterious and sinister.



These are the sample shots that i took to test lightings and positions for the posters.

by charlotte alderson

Test Shots

In our storyboards, we had included a couple of shots for which we would probably need some practice, and which we may need to change if they weren't going to work. For example, we planned to have the camera tracking a phone to the floor, and also tracking a knife to the floor. However, after these test shots we have found that these tracking shots aren't going to work, as it is far too difficult to follow a falling object in time. It also looks quite unprofessional as the camera is very unsteady when trying to track it. Alternatively, we tried keeping the camera on the floor, slightly angled upwards so that we could see the characters feet and legs. This looked much more effective and professional as the character dropped the object into the frame, and this will be the form of shooting we will go with for our real footage. We also tested out close up shots of characters faces to experiment with facial expressions and shot distances.

by Rebecca Hart

Credit Block

Looking at professional practice, I notice certain characteristics of credit blocks. They always have very tall and narrow text. They have the job of the person in smaller letters and the name of the person larger. i researched them and made notes into what is included on each one. They all include many names so i may have to make names up so it looks more professional. I will have to include Kevin Mcloid, as he made the music for our trailer so we have to credit him with it. They often include the name of the film, the website and the date of release. They usually include the logos at the bottom of the credit block also.

This is the credit block i made. I included the release date, some logos, the credit rating and i also made the text tall and narrow, mirroring professional practice. i also gave the website for it. I made a UK, US and Australian website for it so it was an internationally recognised film.

by charlotte alderson

Film trailer title animation

As a group we thought of the idea that when the title appeared at the end of the trailer it could be animated. We thought that the blood could run behind the title. I then decided to test this theory out using Adobe Flash. I thought this would be the easiest piece of the software to use for this task. I began using photoshop to prepare my images and then i tweened the blood behind, giving the effect of it running. I think this will be really good for the end of our trailer, as it is effective and interesting.

by charlotte alderson

Poster Layout (First Draft)

This is a first draft of our possible film poster layout. We will most likely have to make changes to it when it comes to inserting the images, or if we decide to make changes to the film title logo, and we haven't yet added our own credit block, and have instead currently just used an existing one. It is a fairly rough draft, yet it follows our decided colour scheme of red, white and black, and I think it looks effective and is comparable to professional texts. One idea I had whilst creating the plan was that when we insert the main image, of which their will be three posters for each planned image, we could fade the black background into the image. It is usually the small details that make products look very professional, and I think this would be one thing that could really benefit out products.

It is important to compare our own products with professional products through the planning stages so that our final products look as professional and effective as possible. Our current poster is a first draft, and the composition and fonts may well change when we insert images to make it more suitable, however the layout and general look of the poster is already very similar to that of these professional texts. The title is generally placed at the bottom of the poster, as the creators tend to rely on the image to sell the film a lot, and the image is usually the first thing that the audience looks at and what tells them the most about the film. The colours red, white and black are very widely used in horror film posters, and our poster draft definitely fits with these conventions. As can be seen from this range of existing horror film posters, Wicked Lake doesn't necessarily stick to these colour conventions as much, and I personally think this really takes away from its effectiveness as a horror film poster, as the lighter colours aren't particularly threatening or sinister. I think the fonts we have used on our own poster fit in really well with existing professional texts. The only adjustment I would possibly make after comparing it with these texts is that I would possibly reduce the size of the title fonts as I think at the minute it is possibly too big in ratio with the rest of the poster. It is more important to rely on the quality and effectiveness of the image to sell the film, rather than the title, as the image is usually the thing that attracts people to horror films and what they use to judge how scary it is going to be.

by Rebecca Hart

Film Title

Today we created this film title on Photoshop, which we will use on the posters, magazine cover and trailer hopefully. We also hope to be able to animate in when used on the film trailer to make the blood drops drop down, really adding to the professionality of our products. I think it looks really effective, and very much looks like that of a professional text, like those shown below.

As can be seen, red, white and black are very widely used amongst horror film producers when it comes to creating the title. The connotations of the colour red, in the context of horror films, is danger, blood, anger etc. These feelings and emotions are exactly the type of thing horror film producers want to get across to their audience, making this colour scheme ideal. The white font is quite non descript and doesn't particularly have many connotations, it is mainly useful as it contrasts with the typically used black background and also really helps to make the red font stand out and catch the audiences eye, being the main part of the image that they focus on. Blood brush effects are widely used, and we used these ourselves when creating our own title image, as they look very realistic and have very sinister connotations. In our case, the blood streaks and drips fit in perfectly with the storyline or our film, as the film is all about a knifed clown attacking suburban teenagers.

One initial idea we had was to use an image of a suburban type skyline in the background of the font, which I believe also looks really effective, and could be a serious consideration when it comes to us deciding what type of title to use in our products. However, the only problem with it is that I think it can be quite difficult to read the word SUBURBAN due to the image used in the background. I also think our re draft of the title using the dripping blood looks a lot more sinister and gives off immediate connotations of a horror film. We will possibly show the two title images to the target audience of our products to get an idea of which they prefer.

by Rebecca Hart

Music for trailer - the rights

We sourced the main background music from a site called incompetech which gives royalty free music. I knew that we were not allowed to use copy right music but it came to my attention that 'royalty free' music is copyrighted music and we were unable to use it. However, after reading the small print for the site, i realised that the person that owns the site and made the music has put the music under Creative Commons: By Attribution license. This now means that we can use the music but we have to credit the maker so not only will i make a credit block which credits his work for the music but we also have to mention him when we upload to sites such as YouTube. 

The link shown below is the link to show where he mention the rights of his site:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/about_copyright.html

The next link is the full license agreement of the music:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode

by Charlotte Alderson

Font research

I decided to do some font research for our posters and our title that we would put on our trailer and our magazine cover. This is the font research for the main title and i do think that some of them could be potentially useful. i quite like october crow at the top. I find it quite creepy and very suitable for a horror. There is some that is based on dripping blood which i also think is very effective and could be used for our title. I think that if some of these fonts, such as the ones with the blood effect, were in red then it would be even more effective. 'Face your fears' and 'night bird' looks like it has been written with blood which does look good also. i think slasha works well connoting the word "psycho" well and also the font 'mark' looks good as it looks like a forest which is where our film begins. 

After looking at the fonts that I found we decided to go with "night bird" for our min title text. It is not only made out of blood but its perfect for a horror and the title "Suburban Psycho", we believe looks the best. 

 by charlotte alderson

Location Research Update

We decided to do some of the interior and exterior location shots in both mine and Charlottes house, These are locations are ones featured in our trailer.

model release forms

by charlotte alderson