Filming

Today my group and I went to the woods to do our second lot of filming for our teaser trailer. We hadn't been able to film for a few weeks before today because we had to find a camera that was available to use and also that everyone is able to attend. We managed to do shots in the woods, of high angles and long shots. Even though most horror films happen at night, we  have filmed during the day in Oxshott woods, by setting our location in the woods we have been able to give a horror feel to the scene which is what we were hoping to do.

My group and I have found that as we are doing a teaser trailer this year as opposed to a two minute opening of a film, we need lots of shots that we are able to edit altogether as opposed to making long shots. We have found that within some shots we need only 2-5 words in a shot instead of long dialogue conversation. By making a teaser trailer, it has made my group and I realise that by going by our shot list, script and story board it is going to be fairly difficult as we didn't quite realise how many shots we are going to need need to make it a realistic teaser trailer. So far we haven't managed to stick to the story/shot list as much as we hoped however, this does not matter too much as we are making a teaser trailer that doesn't need to tell too much of a story.

Below I have added some of the location shots from todays filming;

Statue memoral - this is going to be included into our teaser trailer (locationed in the woods)

High angle shot of the woods and a long shot of the house

Filming

Over the last week we haven't been able to film, due to numerous reasons. My group and I have come to a group decision and have decided that we will not be using Matt for our film, so we have decided to use David instead as we know he will fit the character perferctly for our film. With not being able to film at all this week, we haven't been able to go by our filming schedule, which I had produced last week. The plan is to start filming the first few scenes next Tuesday.

Research and Planning - Film Poster Taster

Today in our media lesson we were shown how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and we were given a step by step instruction of what we had to follow to create a draft film magazine poster, this was just a test run to show us how illustrator works, so it's not all new to us when we start to make our final pieces.

There were many different subheadings that had roughly about 3 steps under each subheading which we had to follow to complete our task. The different subheadings included;

Layout and Construction
Photoshop tips
Removing the background
Illustrator tips

Photoshop and Illustrator are both complex programs, with more features than we need to use for the ancillary task. A simple way of looking at them is to think of photoshop in terms of photo/image editing - preparing your image for poster/cover; and to use Illustrator as a tool for laying out the elements that will make up your printwork.

- Most film posters will have the following basic elements: Title, Tagline, Image and Billing Block
- Many will also have one or two of the starring actor's names prominently featured
- The image may be a photograph, a drawing or a stylised logo.
- The billing block is essentially the credits for the film studio logos, and film classification logos will also be arranged as part of the billing block.


Below I have attached the brief draft that I produced in my media lesson;