Research & Planning - Film Idea Group Meeting.

After meeting with Lucy, we decided on a final film name, we played around with a couple of the names, however wasnt too keen on the them, we decided to think of using a two word title. We finally decided to use 'After Dark' for a couple of reasons, that it was not too obvious especially in connection to the narrative, the use of dark connoataes horror, the message of everything doesnt go to plan after, we could play alot with the editing around the name.

Research & Planning: Production Schedule

screen grab of my production schedule.

This is my production schedule, this will help me throughout the entire year to keep control of when I need to complete certain tasks to produce a film teaser trailer, a poster and a magazine cover.

Research & Planning: Film name ideas

Here I have decided to come up with some possible name ideas for the teaser trailer

• Myth
• Provoked
• Captured/ Capture
• Curse of the crow

these are just a couple of ideas, a starting point, I will now go back to my group and discuss what would work best.

Research & Planning: Cinema trip Paranormal Activity 3

Over the weekend, Lucy and I decided to watch the latest Paranormal Activity 3 (15+) at the cinema, we thought this would be good research as it's the same genre as our teaser trailer. 


Before the film began there was a Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) PG-13 and Justice  these were different genre's however built suspense and made me want to watch the entire film due to its montage of shots and quick editing.


When watching Paranormal Activity 3, I really liked the use of hand held camera, as it built suspense and seemed that I was there rather than watching, which is what effect I want with our teaser trailer. The editing with the Rec and time symbol is what effect we want to use too. The blue ting of colour throughout the film gave it that thriller/horror dark atmosphere too.

Research & Planning: Newsreader conventions

Here I have two videos from YouTube that simply show some of the key conventions of a news report, by researching this it will give me an outline of what structure my news report should follow in my own teaser trailer. These are the main conventions I have found

• It begins where the news reporter is sat at a desk in main focus, where no editing is taking place
• The news reporter is always center frame- main focus for the audience.
• Commonly Mid Close ups are used.
• A straight cut is often used to show the other reporter on the screen behind, when a follow up is used at that scene.
• The newsreader is commonly well spoken and clear.
• When they're reading the script they use breaks between lines to build suspense in the story.

When the report moves to the live scene:

• Sometimes begins with an establishing shot with a voice over.
• Filler shots are used whilst the reporter describes the news in much more detail sometimes with facts and figures.
• A static camera is used showing the reporter in a mid long shot, where she goes further into detail about the news topic.

Research & Planning: Animated Storyboards

This is an animated storyboard of how I want my teaser trailer to follow, first of all in our group drew the shots one by one, then took photographs of these where we then imported these onto Imovie, where I (as the editor) placed these in an order and placed transitions between these and how long a shot and edit would last.


However I've not uploaded this yet as there was a problem uploading I'm going to after half term.

Research & Planning - Treatment changes

Today whilst creating my animated story board, Lucy and I decided to make some changes to the teaser trailer as we realized some shots/edits would work better.


The new treatment:

• MPAA warning : approximately lasting 3 seconds.
• Cut to a production title: (VisionTwist productions) 3 seconds.
• Static: approximately 2 seconds.
• Cuts to hand held camera -showing the character's feet whilst running. 
• Cuts to a mid close up of a news report "breaking news.. over to the scene"
• straight cuts to a medium long shot of the other news reporter at the crime scene
• Rewind footage back- speed it up.(4 seconds)
• Equilibrium: the teenagers sat around the campfire talking about the myth using hand held camera, calm atmosphere
• Flash to a subtitle with newspaper article: Class mates missing! (sepia effect)
• Cuts to black 
• Subtitle Myth of the scarecrow: "dating back to the late 1960's" and a photo of the scarecrow (sepia effect)
• Montage of shots where the teens are in panic..
• 'coming soon' title frame
• Canted framing, where you see a body being pulled across the floor as looks like the scarecrow pulling it.
• Quick cut to title of the film.