Creating a timetable.

We had to decided to create a timetable to help us plan our in work in advance far more efficiently as we included all those involved in our piece with their free periods laid out clearly.

Elements Of A Movie Poster.

After looking at various professional film posters such as The Dark Knight (2008) we noticed the inclusion of 'Billing Block' at the bottom of the poster which included the Director, actors and other members of the production team. We copied the text and edited our own version (with our names as various roles) into our poster. We included a link to our blog as the real posters had a link to the official movie website, we included a fake mock up of a 'Galaxy Media' logo to replicate the Warner Brothers logo and we also included a fake release date as 'Coming Soon' (we may make an actual date in the future).

Movie Poster Idea/Inspiration.

Continuing with our movie poster research, we came across the French drama La Haine (1995). The poster appealed to us mainly due to the fact that the eyes were striking and there was minimal elements on the poster. The bold black undercut of the poster shows off the text and helps the picture to stand out, as there is more colour to the picture.

Elements such as the text were also interesting as what we saw in posters and this one in particular is that the tag line/review was at the top and the name of the film at the bottom.

Research into film magazine covers

We looked at several magazines including Empire and Total Film. Our group observed that the magazines who's front page was solely based on promoting one motion picture film;

• there was a huge picture of the film of the main cast in dramatic poses.
• the words were limited
• the font was big and bold
• A date of issue
• they featured minor information about other films
• the background color varies from the intensity of the main picture on the cover

Second Draft - Evaluation

We have improved our original draft in several ways:

• We included two different musical tracks to accompany the scenes.
• We added two voice-overs
• We added a sequence where key scary scenes were shown in whilst rewound. This was done to travel back to a 'significant' scene involving the killer and his victim which should show the killer from a new point-of-view.
• We included a evil breathing sound effect for the killer in the last few seconds of the trailer.
• During editing, we made sure to time each scene's progression to the way the music changed. E.g. when Wilson gets dragged away, we timed the song's progress to intersect the precise moment he gets dragged for a more dramatic effect.

Second Draft

Non-Diegetic sound effects

Since the killer is featured with a gas mask as part of his appearance, we considered using sound effects that can be implemented into the trailer during editing. Members of our group suggested that we included a ragged breathing sound to play whenever the killer's scenes appeared or perhaps when the killer strikes. We also came up with the idea of using the Wilhelm scream to play when Wilson is dragged away over the floor. Charles conducted some research to discover that it was a "cinematic sound cliche, and by 2011 had been used in many instances, including over 225 movies." He also mentioned that it would be easily identifiable within the horror genre, thus targeting the right audience.
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream