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Masked Murderer final

Magazine analysis

Magazine Analysis

filming

Today my group and i filmed the last section of our teaser trailer which i believe went well i will upload pictures later to show the filming process

Magazine cover

For the magazine cover we have created an Empine magazine cover using a photo we took of one of our films main characters. The image was then taken to a website which specialises in making magazine covers aafter we had gone through this process we edited the magazine cover on photoshop addin the 007 logo and the batman logo as extra layers we had also added the 4 1/2 stars as a quick review for Batman the dark knight rises which is set to be released in the summer, but as we have our film  to be released in october 2012 we made it seem that magazine was the september 2012 edition

Merry Christmas

Sound/Foley

Today during our lesson we watched the opening sequence for a film called "Rain Man" whilst the opening sequence was playing our teacher played three different types of music which were not the music which was used for the film, while this was playing we were given the feeling that the film was either a romance or fantasy when it should really sound like a drama also the fact it was only music playing there was no background noise (foley).

After watching this opening sequence with different music being played in the background we listened to it with the actual music which seemed to fit in much more as there was foley and the music went with what was happening on screen also gave the feel of a Drama which the film actually is.

This excersise let me know just how important sound is in a film because whilst making our teaser trailer we do not want to give the audience the idea we are making a comedy or a fantasy when infact we are making a Psychological Thriller so we have to carefully pick and chose the sound and music we will use and to avoid having the wrong sounds we will make our own music.

Filming

This weekend my group and i filmed a few scenes from our teaser trailer we traveled to wapping to film and had got some very good footage which we will edit on a later date. We planned on fliming our process of filming but the spare camera i had in my bag i had left on and it died so we decided to take photos instead. we got some great shots of the killer walking away so the face can not be seen, we also got some shots of the surroudings which do not seem modern which is the look we are going for i think it has been a productive day and i can not wait to start editing right away

Empire Magazine Evaluation

Today in our media lesson we was given two film magazines as a guideline on how to make our own film magazine one of the two magazines we were given was an Empire magazine which showed an image of a film which is set to be released soon the image shows Tom Cruise who is the highest profile actor out of all the actors/actress among him. Then in bold writing the words "MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE 4" is shown and beneath it the talk on the topic on which the article about Tom Cruise is on.

The word Empire is in Empire magazines signature font and colour but the letter "P" is in not shown as it is covered by the head of Tom Cruise this is an effect which is usually used by magazines with the letter O which is the most circular letter.

At the very top of the magazine there is a strip going across which says "Lord of the rings 10th birthday" The words "lord of the rings" are in the signature lord of the rings font and colour the the words "10th birthday" is in the signature Empire font next to this is a image of a charcter from the lord of the rings (Smegol)  this gives the reader the impression that there is a secton within the magazine devoted to Lord of the rings.

At the bottom of the magazine the it shows even more about the lord of the rings with even more images and captions such as "Watsons unseen art" which gives the viewer the impression they are going to see something no other person has.

Poster Feedback

After creating the final draft of the film poster i printed it out and asked for feedback from people both within and outside of the sixthform centere. The feedback we receieved was mainly positive and some people believed it was an actual film poster for a film yet to be released. Some of the feedback we received was.

"One to watch,the picture does not give away much"

"Nice , simple yet effective"

"its creepy &Simple, really good looks professional!"

"I like the way the M is coloured and bloody it gives an idea what the film may be about when is this set for release?"

"The words Masked and Murderer should be bigger"

This is a fraction of the feedback that was given but out of all the feedback that was given there was only one critisicm which was to have the words "Masked" and "Murderer" bigger but besides that our poster has only received positive feedback.

the poster mistake!



I made this poster on a website called http://www.picnik.com/ it took me roughly 2 hours to find the right font and size, i also had to recreate the poster twice as i had made a few minor mistakes as you may be able to tell from the photos above. I decided to go with this font as it had blood dripping and in the title the word murderer is present within the title of film which, gives the impression there will be blood involved in the film.

Back to the topic of the poster mistakes i had put coming soon when i really should have put a date then i also put the wrong date when putting as my date of birth instead of my birthday in 2012

MAGAZINE COVER

This is the  first magazine cover i created trying to replicate the font and style of a empire magazine. I believe this is a good attempt and i will also have members of my group create there own magazine cover to see which one looks as if it could be sold in he shops.

creating a magazine cover

Today i looked at a few film magazine and begun to replicate them and make it my own i started by finding the correct font whichh was "Georgia", after finding the correct font i began to look for the correct shade of red which was not to hard to do. The next step was tp make sure that what i was writing on the magazine over was that of what is usay on the cover, for example the issue the date and even promotion for other films besides the main image. The magazine cover is stil in production but what i have done so far seems to be on track for a great magazine cover.

The spirit film poster

The poster for the spirit (Gabriel Macht) (2008) shows the main character in the foreground with his body in silhouette and his face partially lit. This is a great effect  because the only thing in colour is the main characters tie which is red a colour which is mainly used for film noir films this is a great example of one as the title “The Spirit” is also in red and in the same font as “sin city”  another film noir, The main character standing in the foreground seems to be wanted as there is men with guns in the background pointed at him and there is also something which looks like a police helicopter pointed in his direction. Although there is so much commotion going on behind the character, he stands; firm and strong making him seem like an independent character.

In the background, there is four billboards which show four different characters with the name of the name of the actor in red a popular colour for film noir. As I mentioned earlier the characters are also in black and white besides the lipstick of two of the women which gives  the effect that there is an element of sexiness  in the film. Also the poster shows quotes of the four characters in the background for example Eva Mendes’ character who looks provocative says “do I look like a good girl?”

The poster would make more people want to watch it by the actors/actresses starring in the film such as ; Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes , Scarlett Johansson and Sarah Paulson. These actors/Actresses have all been in successful films that would make people want to watch it more as they have experienced actors in the film.

The background of the Poster is ain a sepia tone with darker areas in the dingy corners the streetlights are the spots that light the posters.

The bottom of the poster has information such as the title in big bold red writing, a slogan “He’s something the World Needs…” the release date “Christmas 2008” this does not gve you an exact date but an insight to when the film will be released. In addition, above the release date it shows the production company and actors and other people involved.

poster photos test shots

Today we took the first photos for one of our ancillary tasks, making a film poster. The photos we have taken today were test shots and have turned out rather well some of the photos we took could be used for the poster as the quality and standard was high.

The images we took today showed the "Masked Murderer" close up only showing the mask this image can be placed ontop of another image to create a background or even faded into another image.

A poster created by a group member

Technical difficulties

During the Half term my group and I went to our location to film at night but faced a major hurdle which we could not over come as the camera could not pick up any footage due to it being to dark outside. although there is no visuals in the footage we will upload everything shot and blog about what we have leearnt.

Prop List and costumes

Props and Costumes

Moodboard Three

Moodboard Three

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Shot List

shot list

Different Posters

posterss

Audience Research

Presentation 2

Alternate Storyboard

 The above images are from our alternate storyboard, made from Jelly babies and post stick notes illustrating the paper to create the scene. The first two images show sthe murder list of the masked murderer,the two images below display two different victims murdererd with the signature mask and rope.

magazine covers

Magazine Covers

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bathroom murder

While spending some time at my friends house i noticed his bathroom light flickers alot which darkens everything everyother second. i asked permission to film in the house and the permission was granted but a problem we face is that the light will be fixed on the weekend so we need to go there and film as soon as possible

The above images are magazine covers all published by the UK's leading film magazine "empire" my group and I will have to create something similar, so the images shown are pretty helpful as we can use this as a guideline for how a a film magazine cover for a blockbuster should look. you can also see that the colour of the tittle and other writing shown on the magazine chnages to suit the character shown this is a great help as we can create more then one film magazine cover with different characters shown with differsnt colours which will give the viewer an insight about the charcter.The two charcters we can use is the masked murderer but not showing the face just the mask, detective garcia and his "side kick" Taylor James. Two out of the three magzine covers show feature an extreme close up of the charcters face an idea my group and I will take on board.

On the way home from a night  out on the weekend i noticed this church tremendously lit up. i decided to take photos of this church because even though it was lit up the surroundings were still dark this is a striking image and creates a sinister atmosphere. as we are also doing a crime detective teaser trailer i think this building could be very useful.

Then getting closer to home i approached Wandsworth common which is normally not a great place to film but in the evening it creates a mysterious atmosphere due to the lighting and the dack sourroundings

Location

The images above are places we plan on filming the reasons for these locations are that we could easily make it seem if this is set in the 1960's

The above images are props we would like to imitate we believe we could get all besides the vehicle. which should not be a problem if we choose not to have vehicles in our teaser trailer.

SiN CITY (Frank Miller) (2005

1st Film Pitch

Detective L.Garcia is a young man in his early 20's. He was dropped from the force due to his ruthless methods, although his unconventiallity is what gets the job done. The maze murderer is giving the police force a whole lot of trouble. His identity is unknown as he wears a white mask which he leaves at the scene of the crime. His signature is to leave the rope he strangles his victims with, next to the body.

Detective Garcia decidedes to take it upon himself to capture the killer. He brings in his trusty but dopey assistant Taylor James to help. Its a race to find the maze killer before he gets #Victim number 6. Will his assisstants mishaps, his love for women or his turbulent personal life lead him to the trouble he trys to avoid

Props

As my group has decides to do a crime thriller The teaser trailer will have to indicate that a crime has been comitted or something along those lines.Whilst searching on the internet i came across novelty police tape for sale which is an exact replica of the real thing so before we begin to film we shall order some of create the atmosphere of a crime scene.                                           

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Senna Teaser Trailer

The final teaser trailer we watched in class was Senna a Biopic film on the life of  Ayrton Senna the f1 car racer. I would say this film was aimed at males from 21-45 the reason for the wide age gap is that males of the age of 21 usually like f1 and films based on cars, the older viewers will know Senna and will be attracted by the actual footage, They will also be drawn in wanting to know more about the life of Ayrton Senna.

Last years research process

Last year whilst studying AS media, we had made many mistakes regarding audience. The first mistake we made was our survey we sent it out individually instead of using a site such as http://www.surveymonkey.com/. This was a major setback as less people would take our survey due to it not being mutiple choice and they also had to write/type, this year we only went for multiple choice questions which meant the survey could be completed with just clicking a mouse. My colleagues also suggested that we do more then five questions but less then ten so we decided to go with 8 questions which is enough to give us the information required without having to much questions for the participants to answer.

Our feedback from last year was poor, this was due to us printing out the survey and having participants write their answers down this gave us less feedback and careless answers. Now that we are using the website "surveyMonkey"we can put the survey on our personal profiles of social networking sites  such as (Facebook,Twitter,Blogger and bebo) this gives us a wider audience.

I've also discussed with my new colleauges about their past expirences, Malika who did not study in Ernest Bevin last year told me about her expirence. Malika described her colleauges last year as "lazy"  she told me that the course started well but as the year went on her colleagues began to stop working leaving her with the work. She also informed me that the filming schedule was poor as they could not get the same free lessons the only time they could meet up was after school, and the time was limited. Then when they had reached the editing stage her group did not want to help leaving Malika to edit by herself although Malika passed her media studies AS course she believes the grade could have been improved if her group decided to help.

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Transformers: Dark of the moon

After watching the teaser trailer to "Age of heroes" we moved on to "Transformers : Dark of the moon" directed by Michael Bay. From watching this teaser trailer i would estimate a target audience of males from early teens - early forty's (15-40+). The reason for the major gap is that the main character played by Shia LaBeouf  who is famous for starring in children's show "Even Stevens" which means he will attract a younger crowd , also the fact that The Transformers comics were released in the early 80's along with an animated series means an older audience will be attracted to the film not forgetting the footage of the "space race" which took place between 1957 and 1975 which should also attract an older audience . Unlike the "Age of heroes" teaser trailer the Transformers teaser trailer has much less action and dialogue most of it shows three men walking through space. The first sighting of a transformer in this teaser trailer is the uncovering of a massive face of a robot done through  a low angle shot, throughout the clip no footage of transformers in action is shown this could either leave the viewer wanting more or complaining that it was not good enough.

Poster ideas

If my group and i decide to do a film noir teaser trailer, i would like it to look something like this so we could use this as a guideline. I think that this is a good poster for a template as the words are capitalised which grabs  a persons attention and the words "the spirit" which are not as big as the others are in red which also corresponds with the name. as the name suggests the city has a lot of crime causing people to scream

Mood Board

Mood Board 2

Mood boards

As my group and i have had many ideas i will be uploading different mood boards relating to each idea.

The first teaser trailer we watched was "The age of heroes"directed by Adriana Vitoria. From watching the teaser trailer i would say the film had a target audience of males in their late teens-late thirtys (18-35+) the reason for this is that the film looks rather violent which is gives a sense of masculinity and as the film is violent it will most probably be aimed at people who are of the age of 18 or older. Throughout the teaser trailer only one female is seen which gives the indication that this is a male dominated film. Most films aimed at males are "action pumped" this film looks as if it has plenty action as just about everybody seen in the teaser trailer is holding a firearm.There is also a one liner by one of the characters saying "Do you want to see some action". Going back to the target audience i have selected this target audience because of the actors in the film younger viewers may know Danny Dyer from films such as "The football factory" and slightly older viwers may know Sean Bean from films such as "golden eye" or even more recent films such as the "Lord of the rings triliogy".

First media lesson

In our First A2 media lesson of the new accademic year, we were given our task which was to make a teaser trailer along with a magazine cover and poster. But this is a long process as we have to do audicence research to then come up with an idea a pitch mooodboards and plenty other actions. we also watched a few teaser trailers and annalysed them this gave us an idea of what teaser trailers should look like.

Introduction To A2 media

welcome to my second blog. This blog ha sbeen created for my A2 media on this blog i have post such as; questionnaires,surevys,moodboards,teaser trailers(uploaded from youtube),my poster,my magazine cover and my very own teaser trailer. I will also hae=ve post explaining what i have done in my media lessons and if i believe i have accomplished something within the lesson. i will also post about how i feel my coursework is going or if there is any setbacks which could lead to slower production of our teaser trailer.