Poster Font Decisions

When creating the horror movie poster, I used some tested different fonts theses are the fonts I ended up using:

Shots taken/mise-en-scene

These are all the images I took for the horror movie poster;

Medium close up: For this image the actress wears a baggy jumper in which she wears in the trailer, this creates a linkage to the poster and trailer. Her makeup is minimal to show a child like inosence. I decided to put the studio lights on my right hand side in order to create a dramatic shadow on half of her face.  

medium close up: this image is slimier to the last but she is looking to the right of the camera giving a sense of danger (something is coming). This is the image I decided to use as I felt it captured the emotions of the character well. 

 medium close up: this shot was again taking in the studio. the actress is wearing a green flannel to show growth and harmony, but her questioning face suggests she may nor remain this way.  

 medium close up: she is now facing away from the viewer to suggest something more important/dangerous is taking her attention away. 

 medium close up: this is the image I decided to use, it has a dramatic shadow (like the other images) and her facial expression shows shock and innocence. 

Close up: this image again shows through the facial expression disbelief and innocence. The red top shows that she is in danger and will possibly die later in the movie.  

 medium close up

 close up: this is the image I decided to use as it captures a face in fear, Is also has a dramatic shadow showing she is innocence but will enter darkness (like the others)   

medium close up: I then got her to turn to the other side to cast a different shadow, but I felt this was less effective as her fear did not stand out as much. 

Overall I am very happy with the images taken, I believe they will work very well on the poster 

Poster Layout/Flatplans

In this blog post I will be presenting the flatplans I designed and how they were created.

Horror Movie Posters Research

In this blog I will be presenting some horror movie posters that I think have a good aesthetic in which I could get some ideas from.

Construction Linked to Theories and Storyboard

When editing the trailer, it was important to refer to the storyboard and conventions to consider if we were changing some of our original plans and either subverting or conforming to horror movie conventions. 

Evidence Controlled use of the Camera and Exploring Shot Types

In this blog post I will be exploring the shots I took for the trailer and how and why I choice to use them.

Individual Contribution

Throughout the course of the trailer production and post-production my partner and I have shared out tasks in filming, editing, directing etc. In terms of my personal contributions, here is a presentation of what I did:

Careful use of mise-en-scene

In this blog post I will be looking at some of the main uses of carful mise-en-scene we used when filming our trailer scenes.

Evidence of Editing and use of shot transitions

In this blog post I have added a slides of the editing process I will also be going through the key editing going on in the print-screens.


Hibah jan's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Here is a video and audio of me going through the main editing:

Use of Sound Effects

Some of the sounds we used were first hand such as all of the dialogue and voice overs but for the audio we could not capture we decided on using sound effects from online.

For the glass smashing sound effect we found that this was the best piece of audio as it was not to loud and was realistic enough to fit the clip.

For the home phone ringing we wanted to use a modern ring tone as we felt a vintage phone ring would be cliche and unrealistic whereas a modern ring would fit the look of the phone and the beat of teh muic.

We used four voice actors to get all of the voice overs, each actor filmed scripted (dialog) and non scripted (shouts, screams etc.) audio. This allowed us to get a range of audio for the trailer and add in any extra audio that was needed.  

Titles and Font Used

My partner took the lead on font choices for the movie's trailer but we both put in some input to the final decisions, here is a slideshow of the text options and the process we went through to choose the text:

Titles and Font Used from hibah24

Changes 

After receiving feedback on the text, font and layout, we decided to change the titles screens to create more motion and to have a better flow. The new titles have a moving video of shattering glass in slow motion which not only links to our title but also to the smashing glass in the trailer. These are the new titles:

Overall I really like the text, it adds motion to the trailer while also linking to the plot and aesthetic of the film. 

  

Research into and use of music

In this blog post I will be showing you how we decide on the music for our trailer.


Overall I am very happy with our music choices they really help us with timing and to set the tone.

Evidence of Filming

These are some images of my partner and I filming the footage for our horror movie trailer. 

Creating A Monster

In this blog post I will be showing you how my partner and I created the monster look on one of our actors. We decided to go for a look that centered around the eyes as the movie plot we have created centers around illusions and how what you see is not always true. We also put the makeup on character who has had a dark past making the audience question the truth in what she see's.

   These are the materials we used:

This a video of us applying the makeup:

Creating The SFX

In this blog I will be showing you how I created the scratch marks for one of the shots used in the trailer, The materials I used and method can be seen in the last blog. 

Scratches from hibah24