Breakdown Of Ancillary Tasks & Trailers

As a group we came together in order to create our poster and magazine cover. We decided to produce them as a collective as, as a group, we work really well together and believe that by working together our final drafts would be to the best possible standard.

Here is a breakdown of what each person was focused on mostly during the ancillary tasks:

Emma Marshall - main images

Laurel Wilson - colour scheme

Gabriella Viltaki - fonts and overall design

Jordan Williams - titles

Here is a break down of what each person focused on mostly during the trailer:

Emma Marshall - cutting and transitions

Laurel Wilson - sound and voice overs

Gabriella Viltaki - sound and titles

Jordan Williams - the main order

Alternations Along The Way

Technologies I Used

Final Draft: Evaluation Of Audience Feedback

Here are my reflections after recieving some audience feedback on our final draft of our trailer.

WWW:

• The titles have definitely improved, they are all matching and are all relevant to the genre while sticking to the colour scheme.
• The narrative and storyline behind it is a lot easier to understand now, and there is a clear cliffhanger which makes them want to see the whole movie.
• The camera shots (especially those we had to re-film) are all really well done. The composition was well thought through, nothing was ever cut off where it was not meant to be like someone's head for example.
• The transitions (particularly the static transitions surrounding the news report) were liked and seemed to work really well.

EBI:

• Despite the target audience not mentioning this, I personally think that given more time, our sound could have been improved. For example, sometimes the ambient sounds are too noticeable.
• I think we could have included more titles which were quotes for example, rather than just those which help to tell the story.

Final Draft: Trailer - Audience Feedback

Lottie Sunner, 18

Charlie Lefever, 20

Gemma Jones, 17

Harry Jerome, 17

Matilda Ruto, 16

Judy Ibelhauptaite, 19

Final Draft: My Own Evaluation (YouTube Annotations)

To evaluate my final draft I made annotations on YouTube, discussing what I thought worked well and what could have been done better.

For longer annotations, pause the video to read it all.

Final Draft: Evidence Of Group Working On Trailer

Jordan finalizing the order of the clips

Laurel making sure the voice overs are in time with the clips

Emma adding some transitions to the trailer.

Ident Experiment

For this ident we merged two videos together. It was an experiment, which we are going to carry over to our A2 coursework.
The birds are a video from YouTube and the tree is a video we recorded ourselves. We added music and a voice over.

Idents should be:

• between 5 and 15 seconds
• image is usually moving
• sound should be used with the image (music and/or sound effects)

Colour Symbolism & Matching

Most Comedy Horror films have a colour scheme running throughout their posters and trailers (and any other texts they produce).

For example, in Comedy Horror film, 'Warm Bodies' they stick to three colours - red, white and black.

'Warm Bodies' poster

'Warm Bodies' trailer credits

By picking a colour scheme, and keeping the same font style throughout, it makes it easy to recognise links between the different products.

This has inspired me to make sure our different products link clearly and look professional.