NOTE TO PEOPLE IN MY GROUP
Don't worry bout the whole trailer thing, cos Mr Babu said that he'll make us a copy of our original one when the exams are over!
Farah
Friday 11 May 2007
Thursday 10 May 2007
And now I am sad, because the wrong trailer was put onto the DVD! We made one and copied it because we needed to make alot of changes at one point and because both of them had the same title Mr Babu got confused and accidentally put the wrong one onto the CD! It's no one's fault but it's a dissapointing situation so if it doesn't look that good you know why...
Farah
Farah
Monday 7 May 2007
Farah's Final Progress Report!
December 2007
Finally we have completed our production and were given positive feedback. Thankfully our trailer did turn out kinda like we had imagined it would be and it's really satisfying to see all of our hard work paying off...actually we need to find out our grade first! Me and Lamia came in last week to sort out the final things that we were told to change including removing one institution which we changed totally by bringing in a new institution, '20th Century Fox'. So in the end it all turned out great and I am very proud of us!
December 2007 Sunday 6 May 2007
Practical Production Evaluation - ‘The Pulse Of Darkness’ 2007
For my practical production I worked within a group of four people to create a
Hollywood horror movie trailer called ‘The pulse of darkness’. Since we have
used the word ‘darkness’ in our title, it was important for us to emphasis this
within our trailer by using many of our low key lighting shots in order to convey
this to the audience. Our trailer revolves around a female protagonist who is
also the villain of our story, out to get her vengeance on the woman who
destroyed her life causing her to turn to the ‘darkness’ for her sanctuary. The
audience that we will target will be working class female adults of all ethnicities since our trailer will portray two females in the key roles with one
being Caucasian and the other being Asian, while being set in an urban
working class area therefore serving a purpose of personal identity in some
form.
As we have chosen to produce a Hollywood trailer we’ve used ‘20th Century
Fox’ as our institution as it is recognised as a usual Hollywood institution and
this therefore gives our trailer an authentic look which may appeal to our
target audience due to the fact that they may have a liking for Hollywood films.
Our working title to start off with was ‘Blind Date’ and we began to realise that
throughout the editing process the narrative of our trailer had to be altered
since we decided to replace our lighter shots with our low key lighted ones in
order to relate our trailer with the study of ‘film noir’, therefore removing key
elements of the proposed storyline. This was also useful for us to create a
sense of enigma within the trailer in order to keep the target audience on edge
and eager to view the film on its release and also to relate our work to Barthes
theory of gripping the audience throughout the text by using enigma codes.
We decided that the best way to go about our editing was for the whole group
to be present during each editing session as we found that when we tried to
work separately, there were aspects of our trailer that other group members
did not like or differed on. By all of us being there we were able to give an
equal input into our production and make mutual decisions such as changing
the narrative of the trailer to make it better suited to the genre.
However, we also found that the music that we had chosen to accompany our
trailer was not parallel to the final product and therefore did not link to the
genre. My job was to therefore search for music that was better suited to our
trailer and luckily within a day I was able to come across some useful piece
of music and sound effects that juxtaposed well with our narrative.
We were also given constructive criticism and were told that in
order to give a real representation of Hollywood, we would have to add an
authentic Hollywood institution to our trailer and this is when we decided to
choose ‘20th Century Fox’ as this has been an institute for successful horror
movies throughout the years such as ”The Omen” (1976) and “The Hills Have
Eyes” (2006). Hasnaa then took the responsibility of finding the institution and adding it to our work. I took the responsibility of structuring our trailer and estimating which shot was worth keeping to make it appealing to our target audience. Lamia and Valeria were mainly on hand as our technical helpers and were very accommodating when it came to working the Adobe Premiere Pro which made it easier for us to complete our trailer on time. They also gave their personal input into the production. By working closely together we were able to gain a sense of group achievement.
As we have seen in many Hollywood movie trailers the use of a voiceover has
always been present, but we decided that it would be interesting if we did not
follow this stereotype and let our trailer be self explanatory through it’s linear
narrative with the help of titles in between shots to stimulate the minds of our
audiences and draw them in to find our more about the film. However, our
montage sequence does not involve any titles in between or any music,
instead we have used the sound of a heartbeat which slowly builds up the
tension leading to the revelation of the film’s title.
We decided to open our trailer with an establishing shot of the setting in order
to grab the viewers attention and then led this to shots of the villain in a vague
image in order to create enigma. We then wanted to change the speed of the trailer from slow to fast so that we could offer something more interesting to
our audience. This proved to be very successful as when we had the mentors
view it, they agreed with this decision and admitted that it kept them hooked
on the trailer to see what would happen next.
Once our production was complete we found that one of the shots that we
used were a little too dark and therefore could confuse the audience in
recognising the image that they are seeing. Another weakness that we found
in our final piece was that the montage sequence may have been a bit too
long and may also seem give the audience a chance to lose interest in the
events occurring. However, we feel that it may be useful in building tension
and enigma as many other horror trailers do.
The strengths of our production I was the soundtrack. We found that
when people viewed it they were first to comment on the impact that the
soundtrack had on trailer. We also felt a great sense of authenticity when we
saw the opening of our trailer as it involved usual Hollywood conventions of a
trailer’s opening such as the representation of our institution of ‘20th Century
Fox’ and the establishing shot as we had seen many times throughout our research of horror movie trailers.
As I wrote in my brief, even though the narrative of our production has
changed we still believe that it would be a movie most likely to appear on
channel 4 or ITV as it still appeals to a more younger variety of audience and
those who seek to be entertained as well as informed therefore accepting
violence in their movies as a form of entertainment.
For my practical production I worked within a group of four people to create a
Hollywood horror movie trailer called ‘The pulse of darkness’. Since we have
used the word ‘darkness’ in our title, it was important for us to emphasis this
within our trailer by using many of our low key lighting shots in order to convey
this to the audience. Our trailer revolves around a female protagonist who is
also the villain of our story, out to get her vengeance on the woman who
destroyed her life causing her to turn to the ‘darkness’ for her sanctuary. The
audience that we will target will be working class female adults of all ethnicities since our trailer will portray two females in the key roles with one
being Caucasian and the other being Asian, while being set in an urban
working class area therefore serving a purpose of personal identity in some
form.
As we have chosen to produce a Hollywood trailer we’ve used ‘20th Century
Fox’ as our institution as it is recognised as a usual Hollywood institution and
this therefore gives our trailer an authentic look which may appeal to our
target audience due to the fact that they may have a liking for Hollywood films.
Our working title to start off with was ‘Blind Date’ and we began to realise that
throughout the editing process the narrative of our trailer had to be altered
since we decided to replace our lighter shots with our low key lighted ones in
order to relate our trailer with the study of ‘film noir’, therefore removing key
elements of the proposed storyline. This was also useful for us to create a
sense of enigma within the trailer in order to keep the target audience on edge
and eager to view the film on its release and also to relate our work to Barthes
theory of gripping the audience throughout the text by using enigma codes.
We decided that the best way to go about our editing was for the whole group
to be present during each editing session as we found that when we tried to
work separately, there were aspects of our trailer that other group members
did not like or differed on. By all of us being there we were able to give an
equal input into our production and make mutual decisions such as changing
the narrative of the trailer to make it better suited to the genre.
However, we also found that the music that we had chosen to accompany our
trailer was not parallel to the final product and therefore did not link to the
genre. My job was to therefore search for music that was better suited to our
trailer and luckily within a day I was able to come across some useful piece
of music and sound effects that juxtaposed well with our narrative.
We were also given constructive criticism and were told that in
order to give a real representation of Hollywood, we would have to add an
authentic Hollywood institution to our trailer and this is when we decided to
choose ‘20th Century Fox’ as this has been an institute for successful horror
movies throughout the years such as ”The Omen” (1976) and “The Hills Have
Eyes” (2006). Hasnaa then took the responsibility of finding the institution and adding it to our work. I took the responsibility of structuring our trailer and estimating which shot was worth keeping to make it appealing to our target audience. Lamia and Valeria were mainly on hand as our technical helpers and were very accommodating when it came to working the Adobe Premiere Pro which made it easier for us to complete our trailer on time. They also gave their personal input into the production. By working closely together we were able to gain a sense of group achievement.
As we have seen in many Hollywood movie trailers the use of a voiceover has
always been present, but we decided that it would be interesting if we did not
follow this stereotype and let our trailer be self explanatory through it’s linear
narrative with the help of titles in between shots to stimulate the minds of our
audiences and draw them in to find our more about the film. However, our
montage sequence does not involve any titles in between or any music,
instead we have used the sound of a heartbeat which slowly builds up the
tension leading to the revelation of the film’s title.
We decided to open our trailer with an establishing shot of the setting in order
to grab the viewers attention and then led this to shots of the villain in a vague
image in order to create enigma. We then wanted to change the speed of the trailer from slow to fast so that we could offer something more interesting to
our audience. This proved to be very successful as when we had the mentors
view it, they agreed with this decision and admitted that it kept them hooked
on the trailer to see what would happen next.
Once our production was complete we found that one of the shots that we
used were a little too dark and therefore could confuse the audience in
recognising the image that they are seeing. Another weakness that we found
in our final piece was that the montage sequence may have been a bit too
long and may also seem give the audience a chance to lose interest in the
events occurring. However, we feel that it may be useful in building tension
and enigma as many other horror trailers do.
The strengths of our production I was the soundtrack. We found that
when people viewed it they were first to comment on the impact that the
soundtrack had on trailer. We also felt a great sense of authenticity when we
saw the opening of our trailer as it involved usual Hollywood conventions of a
trailer’s opening such as the representation of our institution of ‘20th Century
Fox’ and the establishing shot as we had seen many times throughout our research of horror movie trailers.
As I wrote in my brief, even though the narrative of our production has
changed we still believe that it would be a movie most likely to appear on
channel 4 or ITV as it still appeals to a more younger variety of audience and
those who seek to be entertained as well as informed therefore accepting
violence in their movies as a form of entertainment.
Farah Khan
Friday 4 May 2007
Progress Report
This past week, Hasna and Lamia gave me the feed back from whether we need to make any final improvements to our trailer. Fortunately our trailer proves really good and no final changes need to be made. I am really happy with the end result and hopeful that we will get a good grade as we all worked really hard to produce it. All the extra editing we did really made a difference and as a result our trailer proves realistic as it conforms to the horror conventions.
By Valeria
By Valeria
Thursday 3 May 2007
Practical Prodution Evaulation
My Practical Production evaluation- ‘pulse of darkness’
My practical production is consisting of four group members in which we all worked together to produce a film trailer entitled “Pulse of Darkness”. Our trailer embodies a horror genre which features a disillusioned female protagonist who murders innocent victims-purely for her own entertainment in her mental state of mind. From the use of ‘darkness’ being present in the title on a conational level it emphasizes negative occurrences which mostly takes place in the dark, which enforces the creepy environment strongly associated. The use of ‘pulse’ indicates the emotional anxiety which will result in the victim’s heart beat increasing from feelings of tension experienced. This as a result would force the viewer to identify with the victim’s tense anxiety created as they are witnessing the pain.
To ensure every group member had an active role during production, we all cooperated and worked together which resulted in experience gained by everyone involved. However, in terms of editing the production my group were assigned a lap top to edit, in which on countless occasions we experienced technical problems as it kept freezing, however everyone was motivated and therefore worked hard together to ensure the completion of editing.
After studying “Triumph of the Will”in Module Two, the use of parallel music present which as a result proved effective and complimented the action occurring. This influenced our decisions to use a parallel soundtrack, which is to coincide with the creepy atmosphere created. This is easily identified throughout the trailer in shots depicting horror and tense emotion, in which the music proves eerie and creates suspense. We also used point of view shots which are also prominent in “Triumph of the Will” in the hope that the audience can identify with the victim and as a result adopt the tense, scared emotions that the victim embodies.
Horror conventions were followed, we ensured a variety of close ups were used of the victim to illustrate her fearful facial expressions, this shot was used to capture the blood stained knife to invoke fear from the audience as that naturally would raise alarm and create enigma as a cut occurred thereafter. Films such as “Halloween”, “Silence of the lambs” and “Saw”. These three successful horror films all influenced and instigated relevant ideas for our linear narrative. Our trailer conformed to Propp’s theory from the use to include a hero and a villain which was made aware and therefore prominent in the running scenes illustrating the strong effort experienced by the victim to escape the villain. This was further portrayed in the close up of the victim screaming “help!”.
There were many strengths present, they are existent in the mise en scene which was present. It was accurate as it complimented the horror genre and complimented the horror genre and suited the codes and conventions which are actively present in horror films. This was easily identified from the blood stained knife- an icon greatly used by the villain to inflict pain in the history of horror films, also the blood stained victim, which created the illusion she was really injured. This resulted in the trailer proving realistic. Another strength, is the fact that we chose to include a female to represent the villain, as in most horror films, the male tends to adopt this role. Therefore, it obliterates stereotypes surrounding females and challenges the patriarchal ideology. A last strength was the villian’s face being obscured in her hood, which created enigma, which conformed to Barthe’s theory of enigma. This would appeal to the target audience as their perceptions of a horror film are being satisfied as they are engaged in the sinister shots.
There were however weaknesses in our production, in the form of the setting which was unoriginal, as many horror films have located in a house therefore reduced the feeling of authenticity. We should have located in an original setting to enforce authenticity, which therefore would have proved interesting.
The two suitable institutions for our trailer will be Miramax and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. This is due to the fact that they are both two successful important studios in which they have produced a range of successful films. Miramax is well known to have distributed flourishing horror films such as “Dracula 3” (2005) “Hellraiser”, (2005) and “Scary Movie 4”. (2006) Metro Goldwyn Mayer distributed many thriving popular films such as “Hannibal”, (2001) “Amityville” (2005) “The Brother’s Grimm” (2005) and “The Vampire Hunter” (2001) such films helped in providing us to use various devices in our trailer, some of which are included in the films stated, such as pain, suffering, torture and blood being an iconic symbol.
Therefore, “Pulse of Darkness” aims to fulfill its aim to entertain its primary target audience in the form of evoking fear and enigma throughout the montage sequence. Working together as a group ensured the success of the trailer. It proved enjoyable, however stressful at times, as we has to be dedicated to complete the editing. It we had the opportunity to produce another horror trailer or film, we would relocate to somewhere authentic and unique to create realism, we would also use a voice over which was not present in our trailer, this would therefore prove more realistic as it would add to the audience being engaged and conformed to trailer conventions.
By Valeria
My practical production is consisting of four group members in which we all worked together to produce a film trailer entitled “Pulse of Darkness”. Our trailer embodies a horror genre which features a disillusioned female protagonist who murders innocent victims-purely for her own entertainment in her mental state of mind. From the use of ‘darkness’ being present in the title on a conational level it emphasizes negative occurrences which mostly takes place in the dark, which enforces the creepy environment strongly associated. The use of ‘pulse’ indicates the emotional anxiety which will result in the victim’s heart beat increasing from feelings of tension experienced. This as a result would force the viewer to identify with the victim’s tense anxiety created as they are witnessing the pain.
To ensure every group member had an active role during production, we all cooperated and worked together which resulted in experience gained by everyone involved. However, in terms of editing the production my group were assigned a lap top to edit, in which on countless occasions we experienced technical problems as it kept freezing, however everyone was motivated and therefore worked hard together to ensure the completion of editing.
After studying “Triumph of the Will”in Module Two, the use of parallel music present which as a result proved effective and complimented the action occurring. This influenced our decisions to use a parallel soundtrack, which is to coincide with the creepy atmosphere created. This is easily identified throughout the trailer in shots depicting horror and tense emotion, in which the music proves eerie and creates suspense. We also used point of view shots which are also prominent in “Triumph of the Will” in the hope that the audience can identify with the victim and as a result adopt the tense, scared emotions that the victim embodies.
Horror conventions were followed, we ensured a variety of close ups were used of the victim to illustrate her fearful facial expressions, this shot was used to capture the blood stained knife to invoke fear from the audience as that naturally would raise alarm and create enigma as a cut occurred thereafter. Films such as “Halloween”, “Silence of the lambs” and “Saw”. These three successful horror films all influenced and instigated relevant ideas for our linear narrative. Our trailer conformed to Propp’s theory from the use to include a hero and a villain which was made aware and therefore prominent in the running scenes illustrating the strong effort experienced by the victim to escape the villain. This was further portrayed in the close up of the victim screaming “help!”.
There were many strengths present, they are existent in the mise en scene which was present. It was accurate as it complimented the horror genre and complimented the horror genre and suited the codes and conventions which are actively present in horror films. This was easily identified from the blood stained knife- an icon greatly used by the villain to inflict pain in the history of horror films, also the blood stained victim, which created the illusion she was really injured. This resulted in the trailer proving realistic. Another strength, is the fact that we chose to include a female to represent the villain, as in most horror films, the male tends to adopt this role. Therefore, it obliterates stereotypes surrounding females and challenges the patriarchal ideology. A last strength was the villian’s face being obscured in her hood, which created enigma, which conformed to Barthe’s theory of enigma. This would appeal to the target audience as their perceptions of a horror film are being satisfied as they are engaged in the sinister shots.
There were however weaknesses in our production, in the form of the setting which was unoriginal, as many horror films have located in a house therefore reduced the feeling of authenticity. We should have located in an original setting to enforce authenticity, which therefore would have proved interesting.
The two suitable institutions for our trailer will be Miramax and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. This is due to the fact that they are both two successful important studios in which they have produced a range of successful films. Miramax is well known to have distributed flourishing horror films such as “Dracula 3” (2005) “Hellraiser”, (2005) and “Scary Movie 4”. (2006) Metro Goldwyn Mayer distributed many thriving popular films such as “Hannibal”, (2001) “Amityville” (2005) “The Brother’s Grimm” (2005) and “The Vampire Hunter” (2001) such films helped in providing us to use various devices in our trailer, some of which are included in the films stated, such as pain, suffering, torture and blood being an iconic symbol.
Therefore, “Pulse of Darkness” aims to fulfill its aim to entertain its primary target audience in the form of evoking fear and enigma throughout the montage sequence. Working together as a group ensured the success of the trailer. It proved enjoyable, however stressful at times, as we has to be dedicated to complete the editing. It we had the opportunity to produce another horror trailer or film, we would relocate to somewhere authentic and unique to create realism, we would also use a voice over which was not present in our trailer, this would therefore prove more realistic as it would add to the audience being engaged and conformed to trailer conventions.
By Valeria
Wednesday 2 May 2007
Hasnaa's final progress report....
Last week myself and Lamia attended a meeting with Mr. Bush for last minute feedback. On that particualar occasion we were told that our prodction was complete and the only thing that was to be done was to put on a cd. Furthmore, we were told by Mr. Bush that no changes need to be made. He was pleased with the end product and we feel elated by the fact that we everything is has been done to out best ability. Thankfully there will be no more late night editings not that i ever attended anway however all my free periods where spent doing editing, which has created more self motivation for me to continue to work hard in not only this subject but in others also.
Last week myself and Lamia attended a meeting with Mr. Bush for last minute feedback. On that particualar occasion we were told that our prodction was complete and the only thing that was to be done was to put on a cd. Furthmore, we were told by Mr. Bush that no changes need to be made. He was pleased with the end product and we feel elated by the fact that we everything is has been done to out best ability. Thankfully there will be no more late night editings not that i ever attended anway however all my free periods where spent doing editing, which has created more self motivation for me to continue to work hard in not only this subject but in others also.
LAMIA'S PRACTICAL PRODUCTION EVALUATION
Lamia Hakiki 12A
Practical Production Evaluation
(1,275 words)
For my practical production, I worked in a group of four people, we decided to make a horror trailer, we all agreed on the idea to make a horror trailer, and our trailer is called “Pulse of Darkness”.
The horror genre was used in our trailer by the storyline; because the whole story was based on that genre and by the shots we used that were low key lighting.
In relation to what we have studied in module two “Film and Broadcast fiction” we decided to make a horror trailer and using the convention studied in texts such as “Bullet Boy”(2005)and “Kidulthood”, we used the convention that “Bullet Boy” used a lot which was the low key lighting and the issue that both of those movie had which was murder, and that we have used in our trailer as well.
In addition to those texts, we did some more research on horror trailers such as “The Omen” and “Saw” we then got a lot of ideas, we saw that we needed to use the convention such as low key lighting and a lot of dark scenes as it is one of the horror conventions. We chose to search and investigate on those particular texts because they both had a similar genre to our trailer, so we found that useful and it really helped us.
Our working title was “Blind Date” and that was the first title we came up with at the beginning of our production, we had a different story line which was about a woman dating innocent men and killing them after wards, but then we found out that the genre of that was not really horror as it was romance as well because she was dating and it did not include horror conventions such as dark scenes etc, and then we changed our title to “Sweet Revenge” which was because the murderer was revenging from her past, but at the end we got the perfect title for our production which was “Pulse of Darkness”.
During our process of filming we came up with different ideas that were better and we changed the story line, and we decided to change our title to “Pulse of Darkness” this title looked more as a horror title, because it included the work dark which is related to horror conventions and pulse which is like a heart pulse when the victim is running her heart is beating, this title really matches the narrative of our trailer.
As the genre of our movie trailer is horror so it is aimed at a 16-25 audience of both genders from different ethnicities as our primary audience, and teenagers as our secondary audience, as it is a Hollywood trailer we want to appeal to a larger audience. our trailer is trying to create enigma throughout its titles and the phrases included especially “Pulse of Darkness” which is really a horror title and they will want to know why we have included those words in our trailer, we are trying to make the audience really wanting to know what is going to happen next and they are really wanting to watch the movie, so that is going to attract our audience and go to see the movie, the fans of this type of genre will be more likely to see the movie.
The trailer is about a woman trying to revenge from her past by killing innocent people, this woman is unknown, and she kills innocent females as it does in our trailer, she is trying to kill an innocent female, and this ideology is related to the theory of the hero and the villain, because we have the villain which is the murder and the hero which is the victim, both of our protagonists are females which is trying to promote a females ideology and showing how females are involved in murder in this society.
The female ideology can be seen as a binary opposition of Levi Strauss because we are opposing other movies which they mainly use men and teenagers as murderers as in “Bullet Boy”. To make our trailer different and stand out we have used both female protagonists.
Our cinematography was really good and effective, we have filmed the shots that we need, most of the filming by one person, but I was giving ideas on the ways to shot the scenes and what kind of scene to shot, we have used the low key lighting when filming the dark scenes, which really helped us when we reached the editing process, we used shots such as close ups on the murder’s face which included at the end our trailer to see how she is feeling and to identify with her.
When we first started editing, we shared the responsibilities in doing this work, so we were doing editing during our free periods and after school, at the beginning we had some problems when editing, the laptop used to get frozen every time we decided to start working, so basically we could not get any editing done, even though we tried many times but then we decided to edit at home but it did not work and we did not get anything done.
When the deadline was approaching we really did a lot of work we worked everyday to get it done, it was still a bit hard to finish off the last product because not the whole group was present sometimes, so we couldn’t do a lot, because if we did something and other members did not like it, we therefore had to change it, this was really hard to get it done, I was present in each session that we did editing and if I was alone I could not do a lot because not the whole group was present, when we nearly came to an end we decided to spent all the time we have got left and finish it off and the whole group needed to be present, we then got a lot done we came up with a final title and we also had difficulties to find the title sequences, we came up with many ideas but did not fit within the scenes, but at the end we got some really good titles that matched the scenes, this was one of the difficulties that we faced during the process of editing, we also used slow motion in our trailer to show the main shots and there we included the heartbeat soundtrack, we were showing the victim and the murder at the same time.
The music that we have used is digetic sound, I got the music at the beginning but then it didn’t really work well with the production and the scenes, and we changed because another member of the group got a perfect music which really fit within the trailer, we now got different soundtracks relating with each scenes.
When we came to the end of our production, we felt that there was something missing so in order to make it a perfect trailer we needed to include the institutions, we had about three institutions, but we felt it will be better to include only one institution and that was the 20th century fox institution which is a Hollywood institution and which is related to the type of trailer that we have made, the institution really made the trailer look so much better and look really professional because it included everything that was needed to make the trailer, and we are really proud of it because we worked really hard especially at the end.
Practical Production Evaluation
(1,275 words)
For my practical production, I worked in a group of four people, we decided to make a horror trailer, we all agreed on the idea to make a horror trailer, and our trailer is called “Pulse of Darkness”.
The horror genre was used in our trailer by the storyline; because the whole story was based on that genre and by the shots we used that were low key lighting.
In relation to what we have studied in module two “Film and Broadcast fiction” we decided to make a horror trailer and using the convention studied in texts such as “Bullet Boy”(2005)and “Kidulthood”, we used the convention that “Bullet Boy” used a lot which was the low key lighting and the issue that both of those movie had which was murder, and that we have used in our trailer as well.
In addition to those texts, we did some more research on horror trailers such as “The Omen” and “Saw” we then got a lot of ideas, we saw that we needed to use the convention such as low key lighting and a lot of dark scenes as it is one of the horror conventions. We chose to search and investigate on those particular texts because they both had a similar genre to our trailer, so we found that useful and it really helped us.
Our working title was “Blind Date” and that was the first title we came up with at the beginning of our production, we had a different story line which was about a woman dating innocent men and killing them after wards, but then we found out that the genre of that was not really horror as it was romance as well because she was dating and it did not include horror conventions such as dark scenes etc, and then we changed our title to “Sweet Revenge” which was because the murderer was revenging from her past, but at the end we got the perfect title for our production which was “Pulse of Darkness”.
During our process of filming we came up with different ideas that were better and we changed the story line, and we decided to change our title to “Pulse of Darkness” this title looked more as a horror title, because it included the work dark which is related to horror conventions and pulse which is like a heart pulse when the victim is running her heart is beating, this title really matches the narrative of our trailer.
As the genre of our movie trailer is horror so it is aimed at a 16-25 audience of both genders from different ethnicities as our primary audience, and teenagers as our secondary audience, as it is a Hollywood trailer we want to appeal to a larger audience. our trailer is trying to create enigma throughout its titles and the phrases included especially “Pulse of Darkness” which is really a horror title and they will want to know why we have included those words in our trailer, we are trying to make the audience really wanting to know what is going to happen next and they are really wanting to watch the movie, so that is going to attract our audience and go to see the movie, the fans of this type of genre will be more likely to see the movie.
The trailer is about a woman trying to revenge from her past by killing innocent people, this woman is unknown, and she kills innocent females as it does in our trailer, she is trying to kill an innocent female, and this ideology is related to the theory of the hero and the villain, because we have the villain which is the murder and the hero which is the victim, both of our protagonists are females which is trying to promote a females ideology and showing how females are involved in murder in this society.
The female ideology can be seen as a binary opposition of Levi Strauss because we are opposing other movies which they mainly use men and teenagers as murderers as in “Bullet Boy”. To make our trailer different and stand out we have used both female protagonists.
Our cinematography was really good and effective, we have filmed the shots that we need, most of the filming by one person, but I was giving ideas on the ways to shot the scenes and what kind of scene to shot, we have used the low key lighting when filming the dark scenes, which really helped us when we reached the editing process, we used shots such as close ups on the murder’s face which included at the end our trailer to see how she is feeling and to identify with her.
When we first started editing, we shared the responsibilities in doing this work, so we were doing editing during our free periods and after school, at the beginning we had some problems when editing, the laptop used to get frozen every time we decided to start working, so basically we could not get any editing done, even though we tried many times but then we decided to edit at home but it did not work and we did not get anything done.
When the deadline was approaching we really did a lot of work we worked everyday to get it done, it was still a bit hard to finish off the last product because not the whole group was present sometimes, so we couldn’t do a lot, because if we did something and other members did not like it, we therefore had to change it, this was really hard to get it done, I was present in each session that we did editing and if I was alone I could not do a lot because not the whole group was present, when we nearly came to an end we decided to spent all the time we have got left and finish it off and the whole group needed to be present, we then got a lot done we came up with a final title and we also had difficulties to find the title sequences, we came up with many ideas but did not fit within the scenes, but at the end we got some really good titles that matched the scenes, this was one of the difficulties that we faced during the process of editing, we also used slow motion in our trailer to show the main shots and there we included the heartbeat soundtrack, we were showing the victim and the murder at the same time.
The music that we have used is digetic sound, I got the music at the beginning but then it didn’t really work well with the production and the scenes, and we changed because another member of the group got a perfect music which really fit within the trailer, we now got different soundtracks relating with each scenes.
When we came to the end of our production, we felt that there was something missing so in order to make it a perfect trailer we needed to include the institutions, we had about three institutions, but we felt it will be better to include only one institution and that was the 20th century fox institution which is a Hollywood institution and which is related to the type of trailer that we have made, the institution really made the trailer look so much better and look really professional because it included everything that was needed to make the trailer, and we are really proud of it because we worked really hard especially at the end.
Tuesday 1 May 2007
Lamia's Progress Report
During the last week, we have finished our production and the week before we had some feedback from Mr Bush on the things that we had to change, for example we had to add video effects, make the size of the font the same, we have worked on that last week and we finished it and we improved that.
again when we had the final meeting with Mr Bush last friday the 27th of april, we had a really good feedback and the production was finished, we didn't had to make anymore changes , it just need to be put on a cd and that is it.
we are really proud of it because we worked really hard to get it done, welldone to all the group.
again when we had the final meeting with Mr Bush last friday the 27th of april, we had a really good feedback and the production was finished, we didn't had to make anymore changes , it just need to be put on a cd and that is it.
we are really proud of it because we worked really hard to get it done, welldone to all the group.
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