Febuary Checklist

Here is another one of our checklists for this month. As you can see it has changed alot since our last checklist, as a group we have progressed in our work and the things that we had to get done. We have now blogged more about our plan of action like the actors we are using and the lighting we are going to use. We have also started to flim our trailer but we have not finished filming we still have to flim the last parts and also start to edit our trailer.

Poster Mood-board

When you look at all of these posters there is some similarities between them all. The main similarity between them all is the colours that has been used, the main colours are Red, White and Black the reason why this could be because is red is the main colour that represents danger and also blood, the colour Black represents death and darkness, by using this colours i think that it is very effective because it lets the audience know what the film might contain and what events might happen during the film. The colours that have been use all links with conventions of the thriller/horror, so when it comes to us creating our own movie poster these are the factors that we have to think out what colours we use and how are these colours going to link with our genre. Some other similarities that i have noticed between these posters are the way that the main character is the central focus of the poster the reason for this is because by having the picture as a close up or a full body shot it allows the audience to catch on who the main character is going to be and also it catches the audience attention and draws them into the poster. 

What the film companies have done to there advantage is they have used a famous good looking actor/actress to put on the front by doing this it also grabs the audience attention. This is another factor that we should take onto our own poster because by having a close up of the main characters face it makes the audience know who is in the film and also they remember the face more so when the trailer is released they remember the face and the poster.

Magazine Mood-board of different magazine covers



Here I have put together at mood board of some past magazine covers 

Target audience for poster and magazines

When thinking about who we should target our poster and our magazines too we had to think about a range of different factors, that could determine who will be attracted to our poster and magazine, one factor that we had to think about was the language that we was going to use we had to choose what we wrote on the front carefully in order for the target audience to understand what we are trying to say. For example if the target marker for the magazine is aimed at teenagers aged 13-19 then the language that the magazine is going to use is going to allow them to understand what is being said about the movies , one thing that the writing shouldn't be is if you have targeted a younger target audience what you write shouldn't be too literal like newspapers are. This is one of the major factors that we should take into consideration.The text and the features that we use in the magazine and poster have to relate to the narrative of the film but also attract the attention of the audience. If for the title of the poster we need to think the type of font that we use, we need it to be bold and we need it to reflect our trailer. The type of font that we use has to grabs the audiences attention and it needs to bring them into the poster and make them pay attention to what is one the poster.  Some research that we done was we went through some old film magazines that was targeted at a range of different target markets for example one of the magazines that we look at has a actor on the front he was good looking actor (Chris Hemsworth) this was more targeted at the interests of the girls, even though it could be targeted at boys as well they might not find it as interesting as a young girl would. The next Magazine that we look at targeted a different target market they went for boys and men market, the way that we could tell this was because on the front of there magazine they used Megan Fox who is a very attractive women even though women might also be attracted to this magazine it wouldn't be as strong as the male target market would.
Overall we have decide that the people who we are going to be targeting is the same target audience as our trailer which 16-25. The target audience for our magazines might be differ from the target audience for our movie poster, we might end up targeting the two sides to our original target group the people aged 16,17,18 and then the older part of the group.When thinking about this we thought that we should make two different movies posters to target two different parts of our original target audience, so one of our poster might attract the audience aged 16,17,18 and the other poster might be aimed at the top end of our target audience aged 20,21,22. When thinking about if this was going to be the same for our magazine we just decide that we was going to make one magazine but try our best to target the whole of the target market. When we are creating our magazine and our poster we have to think very careful on the types features that we use for example we have to think about the colours that we use because the colours that we use have to relate to the genre that we are doing, if we was to use the colours red this often relates too the genre of a thriller or a horror so if it was to be used in another genre like animated films like Disney story it would not look right due to the stereotypical conventions that are linked with the colours. 
another thing that we have to think about is the subheadings that we are going to put on the front of our magazines we have to think about are they going to catch the audiences attention and our they going to capture their interests. 

Poster Research

When it came to start research for our movie poster we looked at a range of different thriller poster to see what sort of things that they put on them and see if we could take any ideas from these to put into our own poster. the first poster that we looked at was REC, as you can see i have go through the poster and picked out the conventions of a thriller poster. The sort of things that i picked out from this poster is the colours that have been used and how this links to the genre of the film, i also talked about how they have taken the picture and how this effects the audience and also why they might of done this.

Actors

Before we could start filming for our trailer we had to think about the people who we wanted as our actors. The factors that we had to think about is if the actors could reflect the narrative and also if the audience could relate to the actors that we was going to choose like the age of them, the way that they act and also the personality of the actors. 

The actors that we want to be in our trailer we want them to be around the same age as our target audience, as we want the audience to be able to relate with the actors and sort of feel the same emotions that the actors our feeling. We want the audience to be able to understand what is happening to the group of teenagers and also understand the relationships that the group has with each   other. The actors that we choose for our trailer was one boy and three girls, the reason why we made this decision was because in most thriller there is also a group of teenagers together, also the reason why we wanted a male in the trailer was because in most thrillers it is seen that the male is the leader of the group and seen as the more dominant person in the group. This reflects by using the girls because they are seen as the passive female the weaker ones in the group that need leading and looking after by the male.

We have started to think about that we might need one more male to make it up to two males, the reason for this is we felt like the number of girls out ruled the number of boys.

Costumes

For the costumes that we have decide for our actors are just casul, everday clothes the reason for this is we want it to look like a group of teenagers out of the blue have all come together to all talk about  what they want to do now that the exams are over. For the girls we have thought about them maybe just wearning jeans and a jumper seeing as it is still winter and it is cold and for the boys we thought they could wear the same bottoms and maybe just a hoddie.

When it comes to the scenes when they are filming themseleves in the woods we talked about how they are going to need to look like they have prepared themseleves for the time away and they are wearing warm clothes. So in the end we said that they should wear the same as before but just a maybe a hat and a coat and because its goingto be muddy they should wear something like boots.
Some other things that they could have as part of there costume is thing like a camping bag or a backpack, as this would make it look more real that they are going on a trip away.

Location

Before we started to film in our chosen locations we first had to experimented with different locations around the area to see what locations had the best lighting and also we had to find out what locations didn't have a lot of noise going on in the background. The reason for doing this is because we didn't want any of these factors to effect our filming and the way that it would turn out. To show you what the locations are going to look we took some pictures with a professional camera, some of the pictures that we took we are thinking about using them in our movie poster and also magazine cover. When deciding the location of where we was going to film we had to think of a location that was going to fit our storyline of our trailer but we also had to think about if we could get to the location easy without any hassle.  Here are some pictures of our chosen location, we have decide that we are going to mainly film in the woods. The first location that we filmed in was in a woods located behind my house, the reason why we choose these woods was because we like the way that it was set up with the stairs that let you go deeper into the woods. Plus we also like the way that the woods was set out with paths leading in all of different directions and some dead ends. Another factor that we liked about these woods was we like the way that you didn't know where you was going or what was around the next corner. This added to the narrative of our trailer as our narrative is based around the character not knowing what is going on and where they are going within the location. However we are not only using the woods as part of our trailer we also have a second location that we are filming some of the other scenes. The second location that we flimed at was at Laurens house, in this location we just filmed the basic scenes of the group taking about what they wanted to do and how it lead them to the first location of the woods. this location was easy for use as a group to get to and it allowed us to use diffferent rooms to see where it would be best to film. The reason why we wanted to film here was because we liked the lay back feel of the location and these added to the way that the characters acted.

Production schedule update

Within the month of February our production schedule has changed a bit the reason why this is because the weather that we have been having has not been the best and it has not aloud us to go out filming in the woods and filming our outside shots. Some of the days that we have been having have been nice in the mornings so in the period that we was meant to have media we deicide that we was going to go and see how much of the outside filming we could get done so at least we had some footage there, even if we was only going to use a short second of it.The way that we overcame the weather situation this is the days that we was meant to go outside and film we decide that the best way to be productive about our work is to film the inside scenes and get them all done.