25/03/2012 - Design for Magazine cover

20/03/2012 - Final Cut of the Film Trailer

Here is our finished trailer!

13/03/2012 - Transitions/Storyboard for final cut

13/03/2012 - Rough Plan for the Poster

I have drawn a rough plan of our ideas for our film poster in pencil. It is perhaps difficult to see but we scanned it in to photoshop and tried to make it darker so that it can be viewed better.

02/12/2011 - Film Title

Below is the mind map that we have produced containing many film titles that we have suggested for the film trailer that we are making. It shows the process in which we came up with the names as we drew them directly from the centre and they are mainly single titles with some branching to more than one word. As a group, we would prefer to use one word to name the film as we feel that it would give more of an effect as it is simple and would be much more memorable; without giving too much away.

To find some of these words we used an online thesaurus and typed in relevant words to our film trailer which is a thriller about someone being taken. So we looked up synonyms for these words and added them to our mind map so that we built up a bank of potential film titles to choose from.

We are yet to decide on a name for our film title but I feel that creating a mind map has helped us to think about the perfect name for our film trailer. We will hopefully ask for other peoples' opinions on which title they prefer and feel is the most effective.

06/12/2011

As a group we narrowed down the choices of titles from the mind map and decided on 6 titles that we liked by picking two each. From this we crossed out two which we felt were irrelevant and not effective enough to use as the film title. With the final 4, we asked 20 people of a similar age group to us which word they liked the best and thought would be appropriate for our film trailer. The simple tally chart method proved that 'Seized' was the most popular, so we settled for this film title as it has a sharp sound to the word and because it would be memorable.

27/09/2011 - Time Line for the Trailer (Part 1-3)

06/09/2011 - Using Premiere to edit video clips

Using Adobe Premiere Elements, I was able to practise and learn how to use the programme in order to help me edit my future filming for my trailer.

At first, I found it difficult to use the programme and manipulate the clips. I began to select three clips and cut them to suitable lengths and to pinnacle points. I changed the colour of the clips to a clinical blue shade to create tension and unease for the viewer. From this I added effects to the layers and made the first clip distorted and the next clip kept to a normal speed and frame. The final clip in the sequence focuses on the hand open the door handle close up and the effect added to it is distorted. I am still learning how to use premiere and how to link each clip to make a short film.

20/07/2011 - Basic Plan and Storyboard

Below, I have scanned the initial storyboard and synopsis of the film trailer. As a group we had a few ideas but all of them started with a girl returning from a night out and going missing. The story board explains quite briefly how we aim to construct the trailer and of course we need to spend more time on certain aspects and the camera angles that we will use. We have decided to keep the amount of characters in the film trailer to a maximum of three and that our film trailer will be a thriller. The synposis also gives a brief indication of what the audience can expect from the trailer and we have also discussed the colours, clothes and setting of the trailer as well.