Bethan O'Rourke A2 Media: January 2013

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Research and Planning: Pictures From Another Source For My Poster

These are the pictures that were used in the shed scene and I decided that I wanted to use them in my poster to exploit the stalker element of the film. Some were taken by myself, some are taken by friends and some are stills from filming so it looks as though the villain is infatuated by the victim. In the post below you can see what I have done with these pictures on my poster.

Research and Planning: Filming 28/1/13

Yesterday we filmed the climax of our trailer at the car park. I think that the footage looks really good however it took a few attempts to get it right as the scene involves the villain putting the victim and a car boot and we wanted to do it safely however we wanted to look realistic. The footage below shows what we did. Also, there was multiple problems when filming- the first car park we wanted to use was unsafe so we decided to move to a different one where the traffic wardens told us that they were locking up before the closing time. Thankfully we managed to get everything we needed to film however we were unable to take pictures for my film poster due to the camera not working and limited time.

Research and Planning: Magazine Progress

Research and Planning: Film Poster Progress

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Research and Planning: Filming 27/1/13

These are pictures from the shed scene which is my favourite part of the trailer, there were some hazards due to tools but they were not a problem. I am looking forward to editing the footage and I will experiment with this scene, i may add a blue tinge over the footage to make it seem eerie.

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback

I posted my magazine cover on Instagram and asked people to give me feed back. I will take on the advice people have me and try and improve my work.

Research and Planning: Genre Research

I analysed the trailer for the film 'Disturbia' earlier in the year. I then decided to watch the film as I felt that it would give me influence for our film trailer. I felt that the dark lighting used during the tense action scenes will be similiar to the one we see a clip of in ours. And the characterization for the villain in some ways matches how my group wants the stalker to be.

Research and Planning: Film Poster Changes and Progress

I realized that after getting the pictures for my magazine i would not be varying the shots, all the pictures would be close-ups. So I've decided to use my second draft. The title will include pictures of the victim from the film and from pictures I have taken previously. I may take a picture of the wall in the shed scene as that will be the effect I am going for. I will take a picture of the victim in the car park scene and maybe some of the stalker and use that picture as the background.

Research and Planning: Looking At Trailers For Sound

Research and Planning: Filming

Due to our main actress having a big show this week she has been unable to film over weekend and throughout the week. We aim to finish filming by next week but the snow has made it very icy and slippy so it may be unsafe to film in certain places.

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Research and Planning: Organising filming

This is a screen shot of a conversation between my group on Facebook. We are attempting to sort out when we are filming but due to work and exams it is hard to find a day where everyone is free including the actors.

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Research and Planning: Film Tagline Ideas

This is the tagline for the 2012 film 'House At The End of The Street'. The phrase connotes the theme of horror and it also gives the audience a subtle hint of what the film is about.
I analysed the trailer for 'Disturbia' earlier in the year so i decided to look at the tagline for it. As the film involves a killer who acts in a stalker-ish manner I thought that the tagline 'every killer lives next door to someone' appropriate.