Meet Alice

Once again, because of unforeseeable circumstances, we have had to change our cast, and had to look for another actress to take up Jess' lead role in our production. A major thank you to Alice, of whom has found time to come and be our protagonist, whilst balancing her own work and her A levels! After speaking to her, we found that her availability is a lot less restrictive than our original cast. Our initial idea of having a protagonist with ginger hair of course will have to change, but Alice's dark brown hair gives a darker connotation, along with her dark eyes, connoting of the hard decision and darkness her character is yet to face in the movie. Welcome aboard Alice!

Cast Issue

After having availability issues with our cast members, we have had to change our cast, and find a new cast, including our protagonist, Jess, which means that we will have to change the Ancillary poster and Magazine both me and Faith have been working on.

Online Tutorials & Response

I decided to look at Final cut pro x once again, as i know it is a complex editing programme. Looking at different aspects of the programme would help become more skillful when editing.

I looked at the more advanced areas of final cut, including the colour correction. Colour correction can play a large role in the creation of an atmosphere as well as making a film look a lot more professional. Lighting up the face, of which is seen in this little editing piece can help to highlight the importance of characters and make sure that the focus from the audience is focused on the correct thing. Adding a blueish colour tint to a scene can drastically change the feeling the audience feel towards the scene. It can make normal things look a lot more isolated and darker. It also gives a more professional effect to the production.   Changing to low-key lighting effect, darkens the edges and makes it come across as much  ore of an intense and eerie scene making it a lot more sinister.
 

Jump Scares

During my lesson, i agreed with Faith that to make an effective yet professional trailer for a horror movie, we would have to include a jump scare. However, using a jump scare requires precision and the ability to keep the audience occupied with something else. To do an effective jump scare the music plays an important role, as it adds to the suspense and is what causes the climax of suspense, where it is more likely to make people jump. In a jump scare, it relieves the tension that has been built up throughout the horror film and gives the audience a break from the tension and adds an opportunity for them to laugh and take a breath before carrying on with the film. 

Cast issue- Faith

We have found it difficult to arrange dates with our cast member - although we arranged a date and it would be fine, we realise that due to her going to a different college, we finish at different times. This therefore meaning that meeting up to film is made harder. To give us more ease on filming, we have decided to cast our friend Jess Allured instead, due to her times meeting ours more closely. 

StoryBoarding

Together, Faith and I have been working on our Storyboards. We have been developing our ideas and writing down any useful shots that we believe would make our film trailer look more effective. We noticed that most of the horror trailers used a lot of blackouts, of which is a convention of the horror genre. We know that most horror films have a short scene, and then is followed by a blackout and loads of differently located shots and action points in the story.

Friday 13th January

Today me and Faith have been working on our story-boarding in our study periods, and the lesson, putting together shots that we think would work effectively together. I also finished editing an experiemental poster, putting everything i know about conventions of horror. This is NOT the sample of our final product, but a way of showing my progress in editing terms.

The red and the yellows in this poster are used to help connote the danger the character is in. The bright colours helps to attract a wider audience.