Costume and Props

Below are some images of the costume and props that we used within our trailer, taken from stills within our finished trailer

Production logo

As you can see from our finished trailer, we now only have 1 production logo instead of the 3 we originally planned.This is mainly due to the fact that we were short on time after having to re-film so many times. Deciding to use one production logo to us was a good idea because, that way we could then make enough time to create a good trailer as well as one good production logo, rather than 3 slightly rushed ones.

Below is our finished production logo.

Bloopers

Below is a video montage of footage where things didn't go so well whilst we were filming.

Poster influences

Now we have completed our Teaser Trailer, we need to create a poster for it.  To get some ideas for this we have been looking at other supernatural films posters.

We liked this particular poster from The Woman in Black because of its subtlety of the face behind the two children, this makes it a fairly simple, yet highly effective horror poster. This is a big influence for us as we want to create a simple poster, but not too simple that an effect isn't given off to the viewer. Another reason why we liked this poster was because it didn't have too much text on it.  It just has a slogan related to the film and text to say when it is coming out.  This is good because it means not too much of the poster is swamped by text like some posters can have the tendency of doing.

As well as The Woman in Black poster, we liked the poster for rec.  We liked the idea of the camera and seeing a reflection in it.  For our poster we thought of the idea of having the main character, Alice, holding the camera and in the camera a reflection of the scary figure.  We felt this would be a fairly simple, but an effective poster.

Finished trailer

We are very happy to say we have finished our teaser trailer.  Even though we had many problems through
out making it we managed to complete it on time and are pleased with the final result.

Here it is

Our Titles for our Trailer

Below is a video of our titles that we have created in Live Type for our trailer. We had a few difficulties when creating them especially with the last block of titles. This is because we had so much information on one clip moving them about and making sure that they were the right size in such a small amount of space was difficult. However we have finished them and we are pleased with the final outcome. We decided to add an effect to the text that would reflect our trailer which is the white noise TV effect inside the letters. The effect is quite subtle in the sense it doesn't distract you from the actual text which is what we liked about it.

Final day of the Trailer

After many issues we faced whilst filming and editing our trailer we are relieved to say is finished. We are pleased with the final outcome considering it looked very unpromising at the beginning. We will upload the finished trailer next week.

Extra bits of filming for our trailer

Last Night, we filmed some last minute parts of our trailer as we found when editing our trailer there were not enough fast cuts. The last minute clips we filmed were that of a mirrror sequence in which words appear on a mirror after the lights go off, a clip where I am covered in blood (fake of course), the masked figure appearing behind a glass door and the word DIE appearing as individual characters on a chalk board.

We are now in the final stages of editing, which is taking quite some time but we are very hopeful and sure that we will finish for the deadline this week.

Day One of Filming our 'NEW' trailer

Today we started filming the main parts of our trailer, which went really well. Since our problem was getting the lighting right we decided to film it with all the lights on and during daytime. We have also had an idea that will enable us to use parts of the footage from the other two times we have filmed (the footage we are able to rescue). The idea is because our film is like a fiction/real life psychology experiment, we are going to include the other footage to give the idea that many experiments like this have already happened. However we will need to be careful that all the different footage doesn't look like 4 separate movies or our trailer could turn out very bad. We we will have to make sure that the order the clips are shown in reflect each other and create the suspense and tension that will make our film appeal to our target audience.

Titles for our trailer (influences)

We have been looking at different trailers for inspiration with our titles. These are from the films: The pact, The unborn, Prom night and many others. Below are the trailers for a couple of the films which we liked the titles of the most and a brief description of why we liked them.

The Unborn

We really liked this style of titles because of how there isn't really much to them except for the subtle spreading of ink from the bottom left hand corner. The fact the ink spreads across quite slow we felt created tension and suspense whilst watching the trailer as it the trailer has a few fast cuts in it.



Prom Night

We liked these titles as they are quite simple and doesn't distract the audience too much from the actual footage in the trailer. For our trailer we want to keep things quite simple and subtle to prevent from being compared to the typical horror cliche's that are used in today's films.




Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity which is a main inspiration to us in terms of our film now, has titles which we really liked. They would be very relevant to our trailer as it is based around a filmed 'real life' experiment. The camera fuzz effect relates well to the type of film it is advertising and adds tension to the trailer. We both agree that this will be the most likely option for our trailer.

Sound

Below is a prezi of the sound we plan to use for our teaser trailer.

*Sleepwalking Past Hope by HIM

Other Notes
We also want to use the song 'The Requiem' By Linkin Park at the beginning to form a slow introduction that will then be taking over by the quick cuts with the other music.

Change of plans.

We have had consistent issues with our trailer, to the point it has really given us a headache. First time we filmed it, the footage came out to light. We then re-filmed and the footage came out too dark. The footage was so dark we could barely see what was happening in the shot. We are now re-filming a third time this weekend and have changed ideas on what our trailer is about. We are now heading towards the path of a teaser trailer given we have a short amount of time to do it in, but depending on how filming goes this weekend we may still be in with a chance of producing a feature trailer. Our titles are almost finished which is a silver lining. In terms of what we are filming our trailer is now going to be based on a psychology experiment, using one actor.

A basic synopsis of this would be that the actor is sent to house said to be haunted by believed otherwise for an experiment. The experiment is to see whether your mind plays tricks on you when you are told somewhere you are is haunted. However being a horror supernatural thriller the house is actually in fact haunted.

We will keep you posted over this weekend about how filming has gone at the end of each day.

Below is our new filming schedule for filming over this weekend.

Facebook event

For the party scene in our trailer, we will be needing quite a few people so we decided to make a group on Facebook.  This means it is much easier for us to talk to all the people at once and everyone will know what is going to happening during the filming.

First day of filming

Today we filmed all of the inside shots of our trailer with Megan and Mark.  We had some problems with the lighting as we were filming during the day (as that was the only time we were all free) but our trailer needs to be in the dark.  We closed the curtains in the room and lit some candles to try and sort the problem and we thought that it was looking ok.  However, now we have watched what we filmed back we can see that some of the shots have different lighting, e.g some shots are very dark and some shots are very bright.  We have decided to re-film all of this again, but with different actors as it is hard for us to get Megan and Mark during the evening.
We are now using Alice and Ellis and are filming next week during the evening.

Below is a video of us setting up to film with Mark and Megan, as you can see by us trying to black out the windows, that we had issues with lighting from the start.