Thursday, 12 May 2016
Evaluation-Question 3
Overall, from my audience feedback I learned about what was perhaps needed to make an effective Post-apocalyptic trailer and what we needed to include in our trailer to make it effective and appealing to our target audience and make it an effective promotional tool. From my focus group results I learned improvements and enhancements that could improve my trailer as well as my poster. This helped me improve my package to make my promotional package that best I could make it. Audience feedback played a pivtol role in the creation of my promotional package as it helped me make it the best promotional tool it could be.
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Developing Soundtrack-Final for Defiance Trailer
The soundtrack was difficult to produce as it was difficult finding available times for the Music Suite. Once I approached my teacher with this difficulty I was introduced to some pre-existing free of copyright sound clips which could potentially be used to create the soundtrack for defiance. I listened to some of these clips to see where they could potentially fit into our trailer to see if they could enhance the soundtrack. This development of the soundtrack cam immediately after our focus group where we were told the could be more of a "dramatic flare." So after listening to these sound clips I decided to cut them down, so that I could get different elements of each clip to match different clips. I spent time carefully editing these clips so that they could compliment the shots we produced in our trailer. My teacher introduced me to 'fade outs' and 'fade in's' as well as 'audio gain' which helped to improve the dialogue from the characters within the trailer so that it could be heard over the soundtrack and clear to the audience. Being able to edit the clips ensured that I was able to develop a sound which complimented the clip and created a more lasting image within the audiences mind, so that they would take more away from the trailer. I looked at existing trailers for ideas, the Maze Runner played a big role in creative decisions for our soundtrack. One shot in particular where we mimicked the Maze Runner was our first scene where our character is waking up, the Maze Runner also has a scene at the beginning where the main character, Thomas,m is waking up. I felt that the music at this point worked effectively with the shot and I looked to see if I could create a similar effect. I also mimicked the heavy bass background from the Maze Runner which adds tension and distortion to our trailer. Overall I feel that the soundtrack works well to compliment our trailer and helps add more atmosphere and chaos to each scene.
Creating our Production Company Logo
We wanted to add a conventional company logo to the beginning of our trailer so that we could get a more professional feel from the beginning of our trailer. I was in charge of designing this logo, shown below. After thinking about what we could potentially call our production company, I decided that the prop of the 'company logo' for 'Pro-Tech' may be of use. As the company logo my partner and I created isn't used much in the trailer, and it is a very prominent image, I felt it would work well as our production company logo. Using the 'eye' image we decided to call our company 'ICU Films' we felt this worked well with the image and both collaboratively worked to create a lasting image in the audiences mind. The logo shown below is the final logo I created for our production company.
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Monday, 21 March 2016
Developing ideas for soundtrack
In order to develop ideas for the soundtrack I met with members of the music department and discussed with them what they felt would be the best for our soundtrack. I asked them to listen to the soundtrack for Divergent which is similar to what we would like for our trailer and then asked for their advice on what they felt would be the best equipment to use for our trailer. This helped me to develop my ideas further in order to help create the soundtrack for our trailer.
Saturday, 27 February 2016
Second Shooting-26/02/16
Below are photos from our second shooting again at Goytre Wharf, this time with only two actors, using the shelter pictured below and the rock wall.
Sunday, 21 February 2016
The Final Movie title for Defiance
Below is the Final Movie Title we decided upon for our film Defiance;
Trial runs for our Movie Title-15/02/16
We decided to look at possible ideas for our movie title. To do this we started with a letter 'D' and trialed different effects and colours on this to see which one we felt worked best.
We decided that the blue worked best as it also matched with our billing block and company logo we created. We then looked at existing movie titles for inspiration. We decided following 'Divergent' we would make the first letter of our movie title bigger than the rest. We then decided upon a text which was similar to the one used in the 'Divergent' movie title. Even though the blue was our favourite we decided to try a number of effects within our movie title to make our final decision, they are shown below;
After trying all of these we still felt the blue looked best and would fit in with the themes we had created so far. So our final decision was to use the blue title. We decided to create a word within our title being 'Die' so that we could create mystery among our audience, we also felt it would help our title to stand out more on a poster and on the trailer. Our decision to take the line away from the 'A' came from the Maze Runner movie title, we felt that it looked more aesthetically pleasing and would fit in with the sci-fi part of our genre.
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