Evaluation

Truth or dare

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Link to the website with the embed trailer

This is my website with the final cut of our trailer embed onto it:

http://www.stmaryleboneschool.com/studentsite/media/2011/sonia.html

Truth or Dare: Behind the scenes and Bloopers

These are the behind the scenes footage and blooper reel of Truth or Dare.
Please excuse the voices...

Updated Project Plan

This is the updated version of my project plan:

project plan - updated

Audience feedback from the first screening and posters

We showed both versions (without the phone and dialogue and the one with it) and had a quick survey with a show of hands. In the end, the version without it won with a difference of 2 hands; the results were 10 - 8. And so, seeing that the results were close, we decided to keep a few features of the dialogue in.

Here are the feedback we got for our teaser trailer:

Feedback

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The first screening of our teaser trailer

We made to versions of our trailer. The first one is without the answering machine and dialogue, the second one is with it.
Which version do you prefer?
Without the answering machine and dialogue:

Truth or Dare Media Teaser Test from St Marylebone Media Studies on Vimeo.

With the answering machine and dialogue:

Truth or Dare with Phone from St Marylebone Media Studies on Vimeo.

Coding my trailer within my website

First of all, in order to make the website, we had to upload our teaser trailer unto vimeo.com and customise the embed options to suit the size of my website. In my case, in order to fit into my website, I changed the size of the embed video to 350x252 pixels. I also set the video so it would autoplay when you visit the homepage, it would play automatically.







  

Adding the JPEG file of our website to Dreamweaver and
setting the background colour



After setting the video to the way we want it, we then had to make the actual website. To make it we used Macromedia Dreamweaver. This contained basic A-level ICT involving coding to embed the teaser trailer onto the website and placing it in the right position. To do this we had to enter the code:

(<)style type="text/css"(>)

#place{

Position: Absolute;

top: 200px;

left: 550px;
}
(<)/style(>)

The number of pixels entered next to 'top' and 'left' will determine where the trailer will be placed.



This is the result I got :






Music Ideas

These are the music ideas we found on Jamendo.com. For our trailer, Ama took some parts of the music and edited them to suit our trailer in Garage Band.


Part taken: 0:43 - 1:50


Part Taken: 0:08 - 0:50


Part Taken: 0:00 - 0:25 and 0:35 - 0:42

Garage Band

Final design for my website

This is my final design for my website. I've only made a few minor changes such as alining the logos to match the billing box and deleting the green box filling the place of where the teaser trailer is going to be placed.

First draft of the website: home page

This is my first draft of the home page of my website. It follows the standard codes and conventions the home page of a website for a film would have (film title, navigation menu, social media buttons etc.) however, looking at other film websites within the same horror genre, it seems that this home page looks a bit too crowded to fit the horror genre. As well as that, during this stage of the production of the film - when the teaser trailer is released - the website shouldn't hold too much information about the film. The navigation menu also seems to be in an ackward place.
I used the same image and fonts from my poster to show consistancy and so the audience would know that they are related to each other.

This is another version of my homepage for my website. I am experimenting with the layout of the page to see which would suit the genre of our teaser trailer.
Which version do you think is better? Are there any improvements I could do to either one?

Film posters in their environment

These are the posters I've made, photoshopped into their desired environment.



Poster 1: Advertised at a bus stop

Poster 2: Advertised in the London Underground

Posters 1 and 2 combined to create one big poster for a billboard



First Draft of my posters

First Poster

This is the first draft of my first film poster. It contains the usual codes and conventions for a standard film poster such as the billing box, lead actors, film title, strap line, dateline, website and the sponsors' logos. I found that a Sans Serif font would work better for a Horror based film - this also links with what I have found out during my research and planning.

Original image

There could be more improvements if necessary. For example, if the strap line and lead actors' fonts are unreadable, I may have to change them, or if the text is too big for the poster.

This is the original photograph taken on location. In order to achieve the effect given in the poster, I had to change the contrast and brightness as well as the hue and saturation to give the 'drained' effect. I also softened the edges of the image so it would fade into the background by using the gradient tool.

Second Poster

This is the second poster I made. I thought that it might be more suitable as a billboard poster found on the platforms in the London Underground. This is a good poster, however I could make more improvements on the image, for example, using Gaussian blur so make the image more smoother.
The image of the bottle spinning was originally a series of photos of the bottle in different positions when it is spinning. I lowered the opacity for the first few images, gradually increasing it as it gets nearer to the current position. I also added a motion blur on to each image of the bottle to make it look like it is spinning.

Photoshoot plan and Photos

This is my photoshoot plan. The photoshoot will be taken place on location.

Photoshoot plan

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These are the photos we have taken on location:

Photos

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Using Final Cut Pro

In my group, we have started editing the footage we currently have. Compared to the software Windows Movie Maker, we found that Final Cut Pro was more complicated to use, however it did contain more characteristics in terms of visual effects etc. which makes it more useful than Windows Movie Maker.

We have managed to log, render and order our current footage and add a few visual effects to it.

One example would be fading the selected footage to black. We used this technique on our bottle's point of view shot. In order to fade to black, we had to point out which part we would want the fade to black effect to start and end. These are symbolised by the dots placed within the 'opacity' section in relation to the timeline above (shown in the second image). Using these two dots, we are able to control the speed of visual effect using the middle dot.

Final Cut Pro allows the user to take control of every aspect it can operate so the footage would be more to the user's liking.

I would say that Final Cut Pro is more user friendly in terms of its features and techniques available to the consumer than Windows Movie Maker.

For the last scene, we had to change the beightness and contrast to make the shot more darker. This is because we found that the shot was too clean and so we changed the tint colour and hue and saturation to get this result.

Organising filming times among the cast

Filming during the autumn term:

 Filming during the Christmas holidays:

Shot Log

This is a shot log of what we have done so far and added to Final Cut Pro for editing.Shot Log

What have we been doing since November?

As you can see we haven't been updating our blogs since November. This is because we were busy preparing and filming our teaser trailer on location and recently we have just started editing our footage. We still have a bit more to film, which will be done soon. But after that we will be able to put our footage together and add in the effects - there will be a post on this once we have done it. Until then, we will log in the footage we currently have and put them in the order we would like them to be.