Media question 1
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Music for Video
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Flickr
I have just created a flick account so i can have a place to put all of the pictures our group has taken. Here is a link to the Good Intentions Media Flickr page.
Good Intentions Title Version 01
To create an authentic movie title for the trailer, with animation and non diegetic sound, I scoured the internet and looked for ways to do this. In the end i found a website call AE TUTS which had several tutorials showing how to do this. Luckily the program needed, Adobe After Affects was already loaded onto my computer. I followed this specific tutorial and changed the colour and text to red and Good Intentions.
I then added a thunder clap sound effect in iMovie 09.
This is the finished outcome.
Good Intentions Title Version 01
Friday, 12 November 2010
Titles Research
Here I will research some title fonts used in contemporary horror films, to gauge the factors which combine to create the final outcome used in posters, adverts and in the film itself. This bleeds into the whole theme that a film takes on, what i mean by this is that each film has a certain set of colours, fonts, and effects used their publicity campaign that are constant and dont change, and eventually become synonymous with the films itself. So the fonts i pick eventually will be used in every aspect of the publicity campaign.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Work from Teammates - Planning
This whole project is a group effort and there is lots of work that has been allocated to my teammates, but adding their work to mine would the blog to confusing so I am going to give a list of links showing the work that has been done by my teammates the relates to our group work.
Jack Dalziel
Alex Perez Davies
Monday, 8 November 2010
Work from Teammates - Research
This whole project is a group effort and there is lots of work that has been allocated to my teammates, but adding their work to mine would the blog to confusing so I am going to give a list of links showing the work that has been done by my teammates the relates to our group work.
Jack Dalziel
Horror Iconography and Ideology
Alex Perez Davis
Websites of Slasher Horror
Themes/Motifs/Ideology
Slasher Horror Costume Research
Jack Dalziel
Horror Iconography and Ideology
Alex Perez Davis
Websites of Slasher Horror
Themes/Motifs/Ideology
Slasher Horror Costume Research
Publicity Campaign
I am now going to make a study of current publicity campaigns of a movie (I didnt specifically focus on horror films due to the fact there a lots of similaritys between them and normal movies, yet whenever possible i will use horror specific examples) to gauge all the aspects of it, this way when it comes to our publicity campaign work I will have a real basis in which to use as a template. Nowadays when a film comes out publicity campaigns make use of every advertising outlet there is, and due to recent developments in technology these are far and plentyfull, reaching a wider audience of potential movie goers than ever before. I will go through this list highliting the advantages and disadvantages while giving examples in real life.
Social Networking
Billboards
Adverts
Trailers
Posters
Promotional Giveaways
Social Networking
Billboards
Adverts
Trailers
Posters
Promotional Giveaways
Research Location Settings
The location of horror films plays an integrel role in the generation of the atmosphere which is so definfing of a horror movie, due to the fact that our eventual horror trailer will have four diferent locations I will now research the salient conventions of the locations in contemporary horror movies.
Deserted
Dark History
The location could in some cases have had something terrible happen there long ago, this is ussually recounted by one of the residents and is used as foreshadowing the future events. This is done to plant the idea or theme of whatever horrific incidents the film revolves around into the viewers mind. A good example of this is in friday the 13th, in the loaction the young people are in, crystal lake, Jason mothers was murded years before.
Often Night Time
Deserted
The location as ussualy devoid of alot of humans and is thus devoid of humanity therefore creating a sense that the conventional norms of society do not apply, this again creates an tense atmosphere were alot could go wrong. Added to this lack of society in the location theres is no emergency services, this leads to a the feeling that if in the lickly case that something goes wrong there is noone to help them but themselves, there is a highly prominent theme in The Hills have Eyes
Dark History
The location could in some cases have had something terrible happen there long ago, this is ussually recounted by one of the residents and is used as foreshadowing the future events. This is done to plant the idea or theme of whatever horrific incidents the film revolves around into the viewers mind. A good example of this is in friday the 13th, in the loaction the young people are in, crystal lake, Jason mothers was murded years before.
Foreign
The Locations of horror movies are almost always foreign (just to make it clear, i do not mean that the location is in another country, though this can happen, I mainly am talking about a place in which the protoganist are not accustomed to) to the protagonists, this is done due to that facts that it creates an atmosphere in which anything could happen, so the audience will always be on edge as to what is about to happen. Though protagonistsare always foreigners in the location, there are always local inhabitants, these are often the antagonists, but not always. A good example of this foreign location plus local inhabitants dynamic is the 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which a group of travellers stop in a deserted Texan town in which the local inhabitants are acomplaces in the killing of the foreigners.
Often Night Time
Obviously wherever they are for the most part it will be night time. It may start as day yet, often coinciding with the level of tension aroused by circumstance and incidence it will gradually become dark. This is a horror movie staple and i doubt there is a salsher horror in history that doasnt feature this. Or if there isnt the concept of night and day, such as in space horror movies, it will be mostly dark. I beleive this plkays on the childhood fear of the dark, reducing the audience to the most primal of fears. A good example of this is the movie 30 Days of Night.
Friday, 5 November 2010
Titles
The Forgotten Life
This is in reference to how the antagonist has been forgotten from society, and is detached in this way, the bad side of this is it doesn't reference the main protagonist.
Father Death
This tackles the idea that the antagonist, William Fyles sees his relationship with Sarah as a father daughter dynamic but it is twisted by the death filled past.
Barbed Wife
This is in reference to the antagonists shady relationship with x wife. The problem is that the story doesn't revolve around this action.
Innocence
This is referencing both the innocence of the main girl and the innocence of the killer, who believes himself to be doing a just thing by capturing the girl.
Good Intentions
This is referencing how William Fyles, the antagonist sees his actions, but in reality there are morbid and disgusting.
This is referencing how William Fyles, the antagonist sees his actions, but in reality there are morbid and disgusting.
Me and the group discussed these ideas and we eventually decided on Good Intentions this was mainly due to the fact that it is quite subdued yet behind the surface it is a very creepy state of mind for the killer to have, our inspiration for this was films like The Lovely Bones and Hard Candy
Shot List Scan
Below is a story board that jack, Alex and I created over the holidays, it outlines every shot and details what event s happen in each along with visual accompaniment.
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Progress Review
Today we have reviewed our progress so far and planned out how to progress from here.
we were giving a marking scheme so that we could mark our current research and planning. My overall blog was 13/20. After this we were given an action plan so that we could specifically write every bit of work our group has to do in order to start filming.
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