Filming practice

Since there was problems getting the big camera for our media film, we decided to practice on the flip cameras, to see how our film will look like if we filmed on them, because we know one group in our class did their entire film using a flip camera. Below is footage of us practicing outside, but you can hear the problems in the clip i.e. zoom and possible solutions i.e. borrowing another camera.



Below is another clip of us trying to do a tracking shot on the flip camera:

Final Poster

After receiving our audience feedback, we looked at our poster and tried to see if we could make any of the changes suggested to us on the poster. We was told that the font used for the tag line would be better if it was the same font that was used on the lower part of the poster. Another bit of advice given to us was to shorten the tag line, our teacher felt that the long tag line at the top of the poster did not look like conventional posters. We changed our poster in concordance with the advice given because we felt all of the feedback was good and sensible. We changed the tag line from 'have your ever felt that you are being watched' to 'your being watched'. This seemed much more effective than the previous which was too long, considering our film is a suspense film, and long sequences kill the suspense in movies, so we thought we should apply this to the tag line as well.

Radio Trailer Feedback

Poster Feedback

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Radio Trailer

For our media coursework we were supposed to do two ansilery products for our short film, before we start doing our production work for our film. We decided to do a radio trailer and a poster. The Radio Trailer This is the link above we found on the internet, we foing the website useful as it gave us good advice on how to create the radio trailer. The link was set out clearly, so we found the instructions easy to follow. Below is the image of how to link on the website looks like.



Reading through the link, we found that we had to create a script for our radio trailer, this is below:

Radio ad scrpit

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After we were satisfied with our script, we decided to go and find someone, who we felt voice would be well suited for our radio trailer and did some practice runs, so we could have a rough idea of how it would sound, we used a flip camera to do this


After we did some practice runs, we decided to create the radio trailer, by using the apple Mac in our school, we used an editing programme called final cut, which we will also be using later to edit our film footage. We recorded our teacher reading our radio trailer script on the flip camera, and then transfer the recording onto the computer and imported it onto final cut and then we took the audio from the clip and deleted the video, because we could only see his feet as you can see on the previous clip and for radio trailer you do not need a video. We then put some background music ontop our audio and then also recorded someones foot steps and put this sound into the start of our radio trailer, because we thought it linked nicely to our film idea, because the main plot is someone is being followed.

Below is a clip of our finished radio trailer:



Also we did some more audience research to find out what our target audience would like the title of our film to be the results are below:

Teaser poster

Our teaser poster is below, we decided to keep it simple by having it on a black background with white footprints to indicate that someone is being followed:

Ideas for the poster

We were looking at the internet for ideas for our film poster, and we came across this poster which will be shown below. We like to idea of the poster as it is dark, and shows a sense of fear, as it looks like someone is running away because they are being follow by whoever is in the truck. I like the use of light on the car and would use this concept and put eyes on our poster to show our main actor is being watched.

Poster Research

Our second ancillary task was to create a poster for our short film, we found that there are two types of posters in the film industry. One is a teaser poster, this is an early promotional film poster that has a basic image or design, but does not reveal too much information about the film. The second poster is an advertisment poster which is used to draw the audiences attention, the image is usually big and eye catching, with important information like who is starring, the film company and the tag line for the film. Our group decided that we wanted to create both posters, below is two poster images from the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the image on the left is a teaser poster and the image on the right is the advertisment poster, you can see the difference between the two posters.