Final Trailer JB/EA

Above is the final cut of The Devil's Footsteps

Magazine Cover EA/JB

Final Draft Magazine Cover:

This is our final magazine cover that I have produced for our media studies project, as you can see we have only added a few things from the second version, however the final additions are crucial, I added the banner and the puff which makes it seem more like a magazine. I added a small contrast change to make Conor's face look brighter, there is also an extra tagline introducing Conor as a USP. One of the simple but crucial last changes was the addition of a price tag and website at the top of the magazine.

Second Draft Magazine Cover:

There is a huge change from the first to the second draft of the magazine cover, there are four main changes; the addition of the image of Conor who takes up the majority of the page, then the addition of the title of our trailer, tag lines and finally the I did not want a blank black background because it made the poster look too simple moreover other magazines tend to not have a blank background. A small change I made was adding a little piece of film reel behind the word film in the title of the magazine "FILMSPOT".

First Draft Magazine Cover:

This is the first draft of the magazine cover, as you can see there is no background, or tag lines. I had decided on the layout and the colour scheme early on by looking at other Empire and Sight and sound magazines. All the drafts of the magazine cover have been made in photoshop.

Alternative Magazine Draft:

This is a version of the magazine cover which we scrutinised and took constructive criticism from, we decided that the colour scheme did not suit the horror genre and that it was too bland as a magazine cover. Obviously we were not finished however this was the point of major change in our poster leading to the majority of the final touches.

Poster EA/JB

Poster Final Draft:

There is quite a lot of change from the second draft to the last, this is because I re-edited most of the text I had already put in. By this I mean I resized the title and added coloured blocks behind it, this is why it stays vastly the same colour throughout however it still has some of the colour burn from the image behind. I added a tagline for dramatic effect, resized and recoloured the actors names to be larger and more attention grabbing. The billing block was also resized to make it bigger as most posters have a large billing block that takes up the width of the poster. I have also changed the release date to 'OUT NOW' because we do not want it to be a promotion poster we want to advertise the fact that it is already out. Personally I really like the little facebook links to our real websites we created at the lower end of our poster, finally I placed an age certification for legal purposes. 

Poster Draft 2:

In the second draft I was content with the picture, so from there I wanted to add the textual information. I started with the title which is in the font '28 days later' and has a colour burn and black outer shading, this is what gives the effect of it being branded onto her. I also added the names of our key actors as the unique selling point, the billing block and finally the release date.

Poster Draft 1:

This is the first draft of our poster for our film trailer. This is a picture of our heroine with another picture inside. This was also made in photoshop just like our magazine cover. In this picture you can see that I have cut out a picture of the evil entity against an iconic location in our film and made it fit directly in her eye. I have also applied multiple effects, mainly I have tampered with the levels of contrast and applied a 'yellowy/grey' filter which makes it look bleak.

Alternative Draft:

Here is a draft that we did not particularly like, the reasons we did not like it is because we had no filters on it which made it look very student made/fake and the blood looked way too over the top, moreover we did not have the skills to make it look professional. Although we did not like this we did use it as a base for creating the rest of our poster and took constructive criticism to move forward.

Rough Cut 3 - JB/EA

Above is another rough cut i've done. In this i've focused mainly on sound, finding the right soundtracks, and adding more effects as well as changing where voiceover sound was in the edit to help it flow better

Rough Cut 2 - JB/EA

Above is another rough cut i've done. This one i've used the majority of the footage we want. The sound however didn't flow right and even though the footage was almost exactly like it will be in the final piece the sound is still a bit off. We need to find soundtracks and more effects online to make it sound better and flow better. Hopefully once the sound is improved the film itself will look better.

I hoped to have had the rough cut done a few days sooner however sound definitely proved very difficult and so has taken as longer than hoped.

Script Lines JB

After having filmed all of our footage we still need a few fillers for sounds so i've come up with a few one liners that we are going to get our actors to say and we are going to overlay these onto the edit.


E
"Hey Kate want to come to the woods tonight? We're all going, it's supposed to be haunted, apparently a man died there the other night"

C
What's happened?
This isn't right
We gotta get out of here
Run!

T
Thank god you're here
What are you doing?
Thank you
What is that thing?
Hello?
Is anyone there?
Where's the path?

A
Leave him
We need to go
Let him go
There's nothing we can do

Rough Cut 1 - JB/EA

I've started putting together our trailer. In this cut i've included around 3/4 of the footage we have and taken no notice to sound. I hope to have a complete rough cut done with sound by Thursday 25th January.

Filming - Woods - Day 2 JB

Today (12/01/14) we had our second day of filming in the woods. We were in the woods from 11am-12:30pm and got a lot done. We filmed the rest of our woods footage needed, in total 13 shots.







We encountered a lot of obstacles on this day of filming the worst being the amount of mud in the woods. We had to change a lot of preferred locations for other ones because it was a health hazard the amount of mud in those places. On the whole the filming went well and we only have around 5 shots left to do at school.





Below is a short video of me directing Conor and Teresa during a shot of the two of them sitting down on a log.

Filming - Woods - Day 1 JB

Today we had our first day of filming in Sydenham woods. We ended up getting around two thirds of our filming done which is around what we expected. We filmed more than just our shot list so we have a few extra bits of footage we may use instead of the ones on our shot list. We started at 10am as planned and finished at around 2:30pm. It was hard to get everyone to show up on time but apart from one girl not showing up everyone was on time and arrived in suitable costume as well as behaving well. There were a few places we had to slightly change the location inside the woods because of wet benches etc. We are going to have to do one more day of filming in the woods, planned for Monday 23rd December but if there is rain that day we will have to reschedule.