Shots we have taken/ Prepared.

Beginning to make the movie:

We have taken lots and lots of clips on our video camera, i am now going to show you what we have been doing, i am not going to put every single clip on my blog otherwise it would take hours and hours to load, so i have screen shot how many we have taken.

Here are a select few we think that will make for a good overall movie trailer:

Practice chair moving.

-You can see when we are practicing this shot we are using a Medium Shot because if it was close up we thought it wouldn't look realistic enough, and when using a medium shot its easier to from the angle we were at as we were doing a hand held shot.

Practice Interview Stages.

-When we began this stage we had to Zoom into the clock, we thought this would create tension tot he viewers, we then Zoomed out and tilted the Tripod down so we had a nice close up on Rosie's face, this gave is lots more feeling of emotion like the research said it would.

The Scary 'Thing'.

-This was my little sister in a nightey, and all her hair was brushed forward, this made you look similar to a Horror character called The Grudge, when shooting the clip, we had to use a hand held camera so it looked more like a 'home video'. We used a medium/full shot where you could see her from head to toe, this created a scary atmosphere because you got a good glimpse of what you are shooting.

Other Scary Clips:

You can see we tried to use many different shots and angles to try and get a scary feeling from the audience.

Website Production No2

http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/how-to-make-cinemagraphs-photos-that-move/

This is how we made the eyes move on our foreground of our web page, if you look at that, it gives a slow step by step of how to do it, its really simple and effective so there was no need to write it all down again on my blog, so i pasted the website i received the information on.

This is the main feature when you open our webpage.

This is the final webpage we have created, with the original video added on.

On the same page but when you scroll down you also see.

This part is just basic information about the film, like its cert, and other information such as a synopsis.

When you click the download page.

That image fades away and another comes in its place, they are different posters that we made, and people can download, this creates a more likable factor of your website because people who can get free posters are more likely to come to your website.

http://www.sushkelly.co.uk/abandoned/

Website Production

As one of our options, we chose to make a webpage to go with our trailer and poster. 

From our research, we know that most webpages for trailers have links to social networking sites eg - twitter, facebook and youtube - So we knew we had to make sure our page had those things too. 

We've used the same picture throughout (my face) so that our products are consistent so we used the same one again for our webpage as the background but edited it much more so that it was the same picture but looked completely different.

Making the Webpage.

First to make the background for our site, we took the original image and dragged it into photoshop so it was ready for editing. Then we de-saturated it - making the photo look weak, pale, wash-out and dull. We did this so that the 'survivor' looked all of the above so it fitted that particular scene in our trailer. We wanted our target audience to be able to tell how 'she' was feeling and by de-saturating the image, we achieved that.

Next, we added another layer - another copy of our image on top - and used colour dodge tool: washes out colours on image. We used this so again, the survivor looked washed out and tired. 

The Colour Dodge blending mode decreases the contrast to brighten the base colour.

We then used divide layer which allows us to split up the two previous images and add other colour layers such as shadow or black and white to change the overall image.

In this case, we added white to make the face look paler and more frightened.

After that, we developed a footer - the bottom bit with the writing -  we did this so that we could write who the website and trailer was made by and other details. After researching other webpages for trailers, we knew that this was necessary.

We also added an effect off photoshop called 'ghost' which is the people/shadows that you can see behind to the left of my face.

We thought this looked good, almost like these three figures were haunting the survivor which makes the target audience more curious  about the trailer.

The next step was to place the trailer onto the website, we did this on 'HTML'.

However, at the point of making our website, we hadn't quite finished our trailer so we used an example one off youtube for the time being and then added our title at a later date.

We also added text on the bottom of the footer saying 'follow us if you dare' to add suspense. As we haven't made a facebook or twitter page for our brief, we haven't linked these to any sites.

We then added all final touches while the webpage was up and running.

We added 'downloads' so that our target audience could print or download posters for ABANDONED straight off the site.

We added a '15' certificate so people know that they have to be age 15 to view our trailer.

We also moved the social networks and text to the top of the site so that we could fit more information into the footer.

The site we used to make our website was called Dreamweaver HTML, we used this because after using an apple computer to make a website for GCSE IT, we ere already aware of how it worked and how to get it up and running on the internet. 

Our site name - www.sushkelly.co.uk/abandoned - its called 'sushkelly' because of the name that the computer was logged into already and we couldn't change it because we didn't want to risk losing all our work.

Overall, we're quite proud of our webpage for our trailer. We think it looks quite professional.

How we edited the poster images.

To edit our images, you can use several programs on your computer/laptop, however we decided to go online and see what was available, when we searched in Google, this was at the top, it is called FotoFlexer, it a really good online editor and it was free to you, its really advanced and our images looked really great. 

You upload the photo to begin with, and it helps you can click the auto fix button on the far left which makes your image look better quality straight away.

You can then use the other tools on the (fix) section which make you image look better, for example beginning the brightness and contrast brings out good qualities in your images and highlights areas which a dark, or visa versa.

You can then go on to change the Hue/Saturation of the images, this either adds colour into the images, or takes colour out of the image, this is really good when you want the images to look pale and lost.

This section is where you can change how sharp you images looks, by making it sharper or smoother, you can also select certain parts that you want to sharpen on smooth-en.  

I missed out a section which is where you can change the effects of the image, my using things like (Grayscale, Reverse Colour, Duo-Tone, Paint effect) this is where it directly changes the images by  making look completely different in colours shades and effects, some work really well, but we wanted to keep the image as real and scary as possible, here was the final outcome:

From this

To this

I think this image looks alot better because you can see the darkness under her eyes more, which makes her face look very pale, and the room also looks very gloomy, she looks very lost.

Here are the posters we made.

We decided to take the images we have created, and take 2 each (as there is now only 3 team members), we then came together and decided which one with though was the best. Our main aim was to try and created awkward spaces in term of the ABANDONED, we tried to relate to this in our posters.

Poster 1

When we discussed this poster, we thought that the open space was very effective, and we really liked the way the image was edited to gray scale, it makes the picture seem very empty, but haunting at the same time, the tree in the corner also looks good, it has no leaves so it gives a good scary foreground.

Poster 2

The centre of focus in tihs picture is the broken window in the middle, it looks mysterious in the way its completely black inside the house, also really liked the 'watch terror unfold' the way its almost lying across the roof, the problem with this poster is that the spaces created are not very large because your not really looking at a specific open area.

Poster 3

This poster has a brilliant open space, you can see high over the roof and the windows create a huge space being really far apart, i think however it looks slightly amateur with the red writing at the bottom not being very easily identified and i think the image should be a little dark around the edges because I'm not really getting the feel of abandoned.

Poster 4

This poster again has a nice open space, but I'm not so keen on the red abandoned title for some reason, i love how you can see the whole house and it looks quite frightening, i with the images was edited to look a little bit darker.

Poster 5

This poser has 3 windows in it, which does create quite a lot of space, and i think that the images also looked very bright and not scary, i really like the tree in the far right by the door of the house, however i don't think the image is scary enough.

 

Poster 6

I think this poster out of all the poster is my favourite, i think everything in readable in the picture, from her face to the writing on the picture, there is an awkward space in this picture, but it's not extremely big, but i don't think about that because he face it telling a story for, she looks lost, i don't need anything to sat that for me, we also thought it best to use this poster because when you look at her you feel something, like sorry for her in a way, and people will relate this more than the house, i also really liked the dark eyes and the pale skin, which make her look even better. We are going to use this image on our website also, because we want to have a reoccurring theme, and most other films do so.



Images For Poster/Website

We have taken lots and lots of pictures during this process, we have narrowed it down to 6 images that we would like to appear consisting throughout the web page and the poster, which would also be things like the DVD cover ect. The images will all be edited when making the poster they will not remain the original image. The Brightness and Contrast has a major impact on the setting of the photo.

 We were looking for images that had wide spaces, and gloomy looks, because our trailer is called ABANDONED, we want to convey a sense of suttle but scary emptiness in the images, by leaving nice gaps and dark and dull editing.

 

 

 

We really liked the stairs because you can see the footsteps that have been left, and we like how it looks almost dusty and old, which conveys the sense that someone is/was there. The picture of Rosie is also good because she looks so lost. We are going to decide when we make the posters which we prefer.

Sound Effects.