Lauren Davies' A2 Blog: March 2013

Sunday 31 March 2013

Teaser Trailer of Deprived

I decided to create a quick teaser trailer using imovie with my edited film poster image, I thought it was a good way to experiment using new software and different sounds to give me an idea of what would go well with our completed film trailer

Updated version of my film poster

Changes made to the image in the eye.

First draft of my film poster.

Improvements that I have been advised to make:

Change the font style as the film title is unclear and the tagline font reflects a western theme.
Reduce the size of the billing block and make it more central.
Resize the main image so it fills the poster.
Change the image in the eye as it looks a bit unrealistic and the murders that occur throughout the trailer are not caused by a knife.

Rough layout of my film poster

Chosen poster fonts

Filming schedule

Friday the 29th march- We filmed the final scenes of our trailer, using the characters Emily, Jack and Lauren. We were filming the high intensity shots and quick dramatic scenes that would make our trailer more frightening and effective.

Thursday 14 March 2013

How I edited the figure into the eye...

· I increased the contrast and brightness in Photoshop to the grey girl image. Then hit "desaturate" in Photoshop so it went completely black and white.

· Then used the "liquify" tool to push the eye open a bit and make the eyebrow look more worried.

· I then drew a circle over for the pupil of the eye on a new layer.

· Then placed the image of the shadow knife over it, from an image I found off the Internet, and resized the image of the knife so it fitted within in the eye.

· Added some shadow around the edges of the pupils.

· Then got a splatter Photoshop brush and used it for the red blood.

· Next I placed it over the main image on a "multiply" layer, adding the blood to the shadow knife in the eye and pasted it onto a black background.