UPDATE!

Following the construction of our Production Company we have been editing our film:

So far we have inserted the green certificate at the beginning and the Production company. We then inserted a clip which is our establishing shot.

 Provides the beginning of a story for the audience, an image for the audiences head and an immediate expectation of what kind of genre the trailer could be due to the eerie, haunted impression the house gives. 

   We then added in text which we forgot to include on our storyboard which reads:

'YOU CAN NEVER BE SURE'

We then inserted our point of view clip of the camera looking over the wardrobe behind china dolls and watching the victim:

 We then inserted more text which the cut to the main character being on the phone:

We did however change things about our storyboard when in production as we felt that what we were putting together fitted better and looked more effective. 

After adding in the scene where our main character is on the phone and the ghost girl is first seen coming out of the wardrobe, we added more text: 

 As you can see the next piece of text read, 'following your every move'. This was then followed by the mirror scene where the ghost girl is then standing behind outside the window. This scene was followed by a succession of fast cuts which consisted of the clips and a white flashes which were achieved by inserted a white image and cutting down the play time to 1 second.

 After this the fast cuts stopped and were followed by the main character (Alex) screaming behind the wardrobe and banging a china doll. A clip of the ghost girl then followed which merged into the title 'The Wraith' followed by 'Coming Soon'

 SOUND: 

Sound was then added after we had completed the editing of our footage.

We trawled through the internet in order to find copyright free music we could use for our trailer. The first we found was one called incomputech.

  Through this website we were able to look for eerie music that would fit our trailer. You could browse by genre so we clicked horror to see what was on there.

Me and Alex found a sound clip called very 'very low note'

After hearing this we decided this would be effective to use at the beginning when we give our establishing shot. 

After inserted and played, we decided that this would be a lot more effective if used throughout the entire trailer.

  

After having a long look on this website we couldn't find anymore sound we thought would be effective enough for our trailer. Long deliberation we decided upon using a popular Children's rhyme as well as the low note to open our trailer.

We found a website called 'Free Sound Project' in which we found suitable sound that give a very spine chilling feel.

 This is how the website looked.

 

We also found other sounds on there like loud banging which we used for the succession of fast cuts and laughing for our production company.

Amongst using copyright free music, we also recorded short dialogue (for when Alex was on the phone) and heavy breathing which was used for the point of view scene on top of the wardrobe.

 

CONSTRUCTION AND FINAL POSTER

I have finally started the making of my movie poster, first I took photos of which I put my camera on self timer and took photos of, like for my magazine, myself.
These are what i came up with:

This photo is what I thought could be most effective and one I could play with the most:

Using photoshop I edited this poster completely, adding fonts neccesary.

Firstly I changed the image to black and white, then added different shades of red blood splatter under the feet as this was conventional of the horror genre.

I added text over the blood splatter that I created in photoshop, using text that I downloaded for photoshop called 'Trajan Pro'. I edited the text by rasterizing and blurring it to give a ghostly feel.

This was my first outcome:

I achieved the main image by merging these 3 images together:

 

I took the idea of having the doll and dress visible like in this picture, however I didn't like the quality of this image. As the skirt which was still visible and of a high quality in this I decided to cut it out, paste and adjust to fit the image below.

 

 I also used this image of my hand holding the doll for the top of the main image. After resizing it and adding shadows around the picture both the skirt and doll looked as though they were part of an original photo.

I wasn't quite happy with my first poster so after tweaking parts, it then looked like this:

I thought making the due date bigger and everything below the title centred made it more eye catching to the audience.

ANALYSIS OF POSTER

Here I have looked at the film poster that was chosen to be the favourite by my audience. I feel this will help me making my poster.

QUESTIONNAIRE ANALYSIS

RESULTS

 

FILM Poster Questionnaire

Male        10                    Female      10   

16-18           9              18+           11

What area of the poster attracts you to it the most?

What film is featured             6

The main image                    12

Text                                        1

   Released date                      1  

Which of these do you think is most effective?

  13

   2

  3

 What makes a film poster most effective?

The main image              14

Text                                5

The colours                     1

POSTER QUESTIONNAIRE

I did a short quick questionnaire for people to fill out in order for me to see what captured the audiences on the most of a film poster:

FILM Poster Questionnaire

Male                Female     

16-18           18+

What area of the poster attracts you to it the most?

What film is featured

The main image 

Text

Released date

Which of these do you think is most effective?

 What makes a film poster most effective?

The main image

Text

The colours

I have made my questionnaire quite short as I only want to know certain bits of information from my target audience as most information was found out from my magazine questionnaire.

CREDITS AND CERTIFICATION

Following my research on film posters I noticed there is a section of writing that features on every film poster:

This is what I originally thought was briefly included:

______ Pictures Presents

A ______ Production

A Film By ______

'FILM NAME'

Followed by the six or seven most important actors' names in order of the importance of their roles.

Produced by ______

Written by ______

Directed by ______ (again, the director's name, the same as the "A Film By..." line).

Upon looking closer at a DVD at home, I read the text actually says e.g:
This was taken from a DVD, DISTURBIA

Dreamworks pictures presents in association with Cold Springs Pictures a Montecito Picture Company production 'Disturbia' Shia LaBeouf  David Morse  Sarah Roemer and Carrie-Anne Moss  casting by Deborah Aquila csa and Tricia Wood csa  music by Geoff Zanlli  costume designer  Marie-Sylvie Devaeu  edited by Jim Page  production designer Tom Southwell  director of photography RogierStoffers nsc  executive producers Ivan Reitman Tom Pollock  produced by Joe Medjuck E.Bennett Walsk Jakie Marcus story by Christopher Landon screenplay by Christopher Landon and Carl Ellsworth directed by D.J.Caruso

However on a DVD or film poster it is presented like this:

DREAMWORKS PICTURESPRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITHCOLDSPRINGS PICTURES  A MONTECITO PICTURE COMPANY PRODUCTION 'DISTURBIA' SHIA LABEOUF  DAVID MORSE  SARAH ROEMER AND CARRIE-ANNE MOSS  CASTING BY DEBORAH AQUILA, CSA AND TRICIA MOOD, CSA  MUSIC BY GEOFF ZANELLI COSTUME DESIGNER MARIE-SYLVIE DEVEAU EDITED BY JIM PAGE PRODUCTION DESIGNER TOM SOUTHWELL DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ROGIER STOFFERS, NSC EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS IVAN REITMAN  TOM POLLOCK PRODUCED BY JOE MEDJUCK E.BENNETT WALSH JACKIE MARCUS STORY BY CHRISTOPHER LANDON SCREENPLAY BY CHRISTOPHER LANDON AND CARL ELLSWORTH DIRECTED BY D.J.CARUSO

I used the font 'Birch Std' is in my Microsoft Word 2007 software. I used fonts sizes '12' for the larger fonts and '8' for the smaller.

I noticed that all the important names are in the larger font and that all lettering is in capital letters.

From this research it will make producing my film poster alot easier and of a higher quality as all these little touches make it look more professional.

I also noticed that there is a picture of the production company and certification logo:

As my trailer will be a 15 as this will make it viewable for my target audience of 15 - 18. I shall try to make my own certificate on publisher for my movie poster.

As you can see the production company is usually featured next to the 'credits' on the film poster.

Therefore I will be including my newly made production logo onto my film poster:

CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF POSTERS

Now that my magazine poster is complete I have now decided to complete my other ancillary task of producing a film poster:

I first researched into different film posters of the horror genre that were currently out there:

First of all, I noticed the reccuring theme of darkness used within horror film posters which represents the evil of the character and creates a sense of mystery

I have also noticed that the text within nearly all is white to contrast against the dark background, however there is an element of a dark red colour used for some text this is related back to blood which is prominent throughout the film of a horror genre.

Also within all these posters featured the main character is the focal point whether it being the victim or the 'predator'.

Whilst creating my film poster I shall try to challenge some of these conventions.