This week

I have completed my planning for the film trailer including script and editing and on Wednesday/ Thursday I will do film the two main sequences of my trailer. Hopefully I should have filmed enough shots to complete my first draft and then on Friday 27th I will begin to edit my shots together. I have already established the music I will be using in the trailer. Today I will make the OSG that I will be using for the trailer and this mainly consists of the use of the word 'Incognito'.

Music for Filming

This is the music that I have chosen to feature in my trailer. There are 20 seconds of music from each composition and I have chosen two pieces of music, one for the first sequence in the party and another for the second sequence in the forest. I have chosen these because I think they are connoting the horror genre and the enigma's in my trailer. I think that this music will be a defining factor in the trailer as it builds up the tension in the seen and creates suspense amongst the audience.

Filming Update

On sunday, I started my filming for the trailer. Being that the film should be stereotypically dark, I acknowledged that I would have to do this but in an easier and more efficient way. I started filming at 4 o'clock whilst it was still light but it was dull. I will later on edit this scene in order to make it look like it was filmed in the darkness but by doing this, the characters are still more visible. I filmed the second sequence in my trailer of which the main character wakes up in the middle of no where and then starts walking around discovering the setting.

Todays Objective

Today I am going out with the camera to my location in order to start the official preparation of the filming section of my coursework. I will establish in the location where I will film each of my shots, for example, where I will set up the tripod. In the next couple of days , I will then use this practise in order to start the beginning of the trailer. Due to the fact my trailer is in the horror genre, a conventional factor must be that it is filmed in the dark. To prevent continuity errors, I will make sure that I film each scene in chronological order.

Targets and Evaluation of Peers

Now I have completed the research and planning stage of the coursework, I have now established some targets for the production section of my work. In the next week, I hope to have started filming the beginning part of my first draft but in order to do so, I will first go to the set and establish each camera shot and how it will be set out. Therefore by the 13th of January, I hope to have filmed the first 20/30 seconds of my trailer and then start to edit the shots using Sony Vegas Pro.

From the peer evaluation lesson, I have discovered things that will help and hinder my production and therefore I will take these in to consideration when I am filming. Things such as unclear narratives and poor lighting were main faults in the evaluation and therefore I will focus on these as well as many other faults in order to improve my work. On the other hand, Intresting camera shots and dramatic music were very effective therefore I will also take this in to consideration in order to fulfil the needs of the criteria.

Submitting final draft of R&P

Today I have submitted my final draft of Research and Planning work which I have made changes on since my first draft. I have added more detail to each slide on the PowerPoint in the form of explaining all of my ideas and explaining why they are a key convention of the genre horror of which I am using as my film trailer. Also I have now finished my storyboard which includes the sound, action and editing I am going to use in my production.

Blog Update

This week, I have finally acknowledged which actors will be participating in my film trailer and I have also narrowed down the amount of characters in the trailer in order for the audience to have satisfactory understanding of each of the characters. I have also started planning in reality how I'm going to film each of the shots in the setting and have established that due to the lighting in the horror film being almost pitch black, I will have to use an artificial light source in the form of iconography such as a torch/lantern. This will make the trailer look more realistic.

I have now decided that the production company will be called Slashergore Pictures in order to keep to the stereotypes. I got this idea from the production company of the Saw series, Twisted Pictures. Therefore once again I'm sticking to the intertext conventions in order to make my trailer appeal to the demographic.