First draft - Movie

This is the first draft of our teaser trailer.

Improvements that we could make:

• Could feature a voiceover
  
• Maybe a bit of dialogue from the film

Production and editing

The project was filmed over 2 days. By planning each day of filming and by using the checklists, we were able to get straight into filming on both days.

We worked well as a team by each having a role to play; Me being the actor, with Adam and Tim being the camera/sound men. We were able to use some of the skills and camera shots we used in are AS project,as well as some new shots; to show how we have developed our media skills.

We used the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot methods in our trailer. An example of the shot reverse shot, is when Valeo is looking at the grave stone in the grave yard; it then cuts to a medium shot of him from distance and then back to a over the shoulder shot of him looking at the grave again.

Overall, both days of filming were successful. This year we used iMovie on the Mac's to edit our trailer part of the project. This made the editing process much easier compared to last year when we had to use Adobe premier which constantly crashed.

I combined my ICT and graphics skills to create a magazine front cover and film poster which we are really pleased with. By looking at other film posters and magazine covers we able to incorporate the same features that made those posters and covers successful into our project; to hopefully make our project a success as well.

We were really pleased with the soundtrack we found, which we felt fitted our movie perfectly. Our target audience research stated that a good physiological thriller must create suspension and tension and we believe the soundtrack on our trailer helps do this; by having dynamic volume changes to keep the viewer on edge and by being fast paced.

Feedback from Questionnaire

The most common age group was the 15-20 bracket, so we our aiming are film at people of this age.

We asked an equal amount of males and females are questionnaire, as we want are film to be suitable for both genders.

Suspension, confusion, and tension were the three most popular answers that people thought created good physiological thrillers.

A soundtrack that creates suspense, fast paced shots and suspension.

Inception was the most popular movie choice.

Questionnaire

1) How old are you?
10-15
15-20
25-30
35-40


2) Male or female?

3) What makes a good physiological thriller?


4) What would you expect to see in a physiological thriller?

5) Which of these physiological thrillers is your favourite?

Shutter Island
The Dark Night
Inception
Psycho
The Sixth Sense

Storyboard video

This is our story board that we scanned in and edited on iMovie. This allowed us to add transition effects to show what the trailer could roughly look like when finished. This will hopefully help us with our timings and make the shots and order we could use.

Initial Poster Design

This is the initial design for our movie poster. This is just a rough drawing to help us work out what layout we could use for the poster and roughly what it could look like. It hopefully will help when making the poster in Photoshop as we wont need to figure out where everything needs to go.

Storyboards

These are our story boards for our teaser trailer. This is just the initial stage of planning so the teaser trailer could change quite a lot depending on decisions we make, however, this will help as a rough guide when planning our filming etc.