Final Products: Film Poster, Film Magazine and Film Trailer

 On the left here is my final product of the Film Magazine Front Cover. This was done using Photoshop and using some fonts from the website www.dafont.com
All of the aspects on this product have been influenced mainly through research into other film magazines where they have featured a up coming film. As well as the normal magazine layout and features such as the bar code, issue number, price and website.
The image in the background of this was taken prior to filming for the trailer so costumes and setting are both accurate to the setting of the film.
As for the fonts that I have used on this, I have tried to keep the fonts similar, with the exception to the film title. This is because the font for the film title has its own identity with it so having that in the same font would not be authentic.
As for this I have tried to conform to the norms of a similar working media product to achieve the best possible standard for my work.

On the right here is the Film Poster that I have made for my film 'Forest Massacre'. This still image was taken also before shooting so again the setting is accurate and true to the film. As for the production companies, I took into account the ident that our group had chosen to put before the film trailer, so therefore I put Lionsgate on there. As for the Miramax logo, I found that on a lot of other horror film posters there tends to be two productions companies names on there so this is why I added this in, for authenticity.

As for both of the above media products, I kept the same font throughout for the title of the film. I felt that this is important because every film has a particular font that suits the title of the film and therefore is always associated with that film. Therefore keeping the same font throughout helps to achieve this consistent house style.

As well as these, I also had to create a Film Trailer, which me and my group made a YouTube account and posted the trailer onto that website for public viewing. The link is as follows. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49QXlvQi71g

Evaluation

Here is my evaluation done on Prezi. Please Click Here to view.

A2 Submission Sheet

Problems When Shooting (Chapter Sheets)

Scene 1 - Panning Shot of Forest.
Problems: In this scene when we first filmed it, the person who was filming did not have a very steady hand to therefore the footage was not what we wanted. To resolve this we simply filmed the same shot on a different day, and somebody else filmed the scene, aiming the improve the smoothness of the shot.

Scene 5 - Walking Shot of Teenagers
Problems: This scene only had one issue and that was the shot angle. Our idea was to have a low angle shot and for the first take, this was not the case. After looking back at the footage just after it was shot, the group realised that it was not what we wanted for that particular scene. This meant that it would have to be filmed at a lower angle, which meant the person behind the camera had to crouch down more in the bush.

Scene 11 - Steve Walks Away From Group
Problems: There was only one small problem with this scene and that was the actor playing Steve looked at the camera whilst he was walking towards it. This wasn't too much of a problem because when he does it is only for a split second and he doesn't react to it. If the actor smiled or kept looking at the camera, then the group decision would have been to film again, as this wasn't the case we decided to keep it in the trailer.

Scene 13 - Group Becomes Aware of Their Missing Friend
Problems: The problem here was that in order to get the desired shot angle, we had to get one of our group to climb a near by tree. This was done out of the group members choice and the shot was done as quickly as possible because of the risks behind this. This problem did not affect the way the film was shot, but instead made it better because we as a group wanted to get a variety of shots where possible.

Scene 15/16 - Teenager Finds Steve and Alerts Group
Problems: This scene was filming inside a run down building so it therefore had some sort of shelter to it. This meant that on top of the already dark atmosphere, there was a lot of shadow in this area. This meant that we had to edit the brightness on the Apple Mac to be able to see the footage. This turned out for the better because it makes the scene look 'grainy' which fits the horror feel to the trailer.

Scene 17/18 - Group Goes Looking for Steve 
Problems: This scene was filmed at the very last minute before it would have been too dark to film. This lighting issue became a very big problem for us. We resolved this by filming for 40 minute periods everyday until the filming was done. Another way in which we resolved this issue would be the fact that we brought flash lights with us. Although this doesn't help in terms of the background, for the feel of this certain scene it worked very well therefore we decided to keep it.

Scene 20 - Teenager Sits Down On His Own 
Problems: This scene, as well as scenes 15 and 16, was very dark. This was again because of the very fast sunset. This problem was also resolved by editing the footage to make it brighter, this again added the 'grainy' effect I previously spoke about.

Scene 21 - Teenager Running Away From Unknown Figure
Problems: When we had filmed this scene and looked back on it when editing. We as a group felt that the running wasn't as quick as we thought it should have been. This problem was resolved by speeding up the footage using the editing features on the Apple Mac. We only sped up this clip by a small amount but we feel that this has improved that particular clip to fit in with the rest of the trailer.

Venue Release Forms

These forms which are filled out by the actors in the film Forest Massacre, have signed these to say that they are happy to act in it. This is important because all actors are entitled to deny the role if they do not want to do it, therefore this is proof that they have consented to be filmed.

Production Schedule

Date	Task	Problems (if any)	Was it Completed
11/10/12	Actors List	Character change. This was put into place when we did the re-shoot.	Yes
11/10/12	Venue Release Forms	None.	Yes
14/10/12	Props List	None.	Yes
14/10/12	Costume List	Had to make sure everyone wore the same clothes because we had to film on multiple days.	Yes
15/10/12	Risk Assessment	None.	Yes
17/10/12	Daily Planning Sheets	None.	Yes
14/10/12	Location List	None.	Yes
30/09/12	Storyboards	None.	Yes
03/10/12	Film Pitch	None.	Yes
5/11/12	Poster Plan	None.	Yes
5/11/12	Magazine Plan	None.	Yes
23/10/12	Running Order	None.	Yes
30/11/12	Final Poster	None.	Yes
30/11/12	Final Magazine Cover	None.	Yes
2/12/12	Shot List	None.	Yes
	Chapter Sheets	None.	Yes
22/10/12 – 30/10/12	Shooting For Film	Weather and lighting, took several days to complete.	Yes
30/11/12	Trailer	Using software completely new to us.	Yes
1/12/12	Evaluation	None.	Yes
3/12/12	Production Schedule	None.	Yes

Shot List

Scene	Description of scene	Shot types etc.
1. Panning Shot of Location	In this scene it shows the general setting of where the film is going to be set in.	Establishing shot, fades into the next scene using dissolve
2. Panning shot of water	Here is shows another aspect of where the film is set. In particular a river which gives the feel of a natural setting.	Mid shot of the water. No transition to next scene
3. Teenagers on bridge	This scene gets the group of teenagers entering the location by crossing over a bridge.	Long shot
4. Alternative angle on bridge scene	This scene shows the bridge crossing scene from a different angle, but also links in to the previous scene in terms of flow.	Long shot
5. Walking shot of teenagers	This shows the teenagers walking to their destination, but it is shown through the eyes of someone ‘watching’ them in a bush.	Mid shot, low angle. With a effect which darkens the edges of the shot.
6. Teenagers in camp	This shows the teenagers having reached their destination, and are sat around talking	Establishing shot, with zoom.
7. Alternative angle on teenagers in camp.	This shows the teenagers a little bit closer in the camp	Panning shot of the whole camp and the group in place.
8. Teenagers talking	This shot shows the group having general talk as though nothing has happened to them yet.	Over the shoulder
9. Teenagers talking	This is the reverse shot of the previous scene	Over the shoulder, fade to black into the next scene
10. Steve walks away from group	This shows Steve walking away from the group	Scene is shot behind actor, mid shot.
11. Steve walks away from group	This again is a alternative angle of Steve walking away from the group	Scene is now shot with the actor walking towards camera
12. Steve is leaning on tree	This scene shows Steve leaning on a tree with the ‘unknown figure’ stood behind him without him knowing.	Mid shot, Fade to black
13. Group becomes aware of Steve’s disappearance.	This shot shows the group wondering where their friend has gotten too. This scene involves dialogue	High angle shot of camp
14. Group goes looking for Steve	This shot shows the group walking through the woods to hopefully find their friend.	Long shot
15. Steve gets found	This shot shows Steve being found by a member of the group	Mid shot
16. Teenager alerts group	After finding the body of Steve on the floor, the boy alerts the group and they come rushing over	Mid shot, fade to black
17. Teenagers looking for a way out	This shows the group looking around the woods for a way out, this shot has flash lights in it now because it is now dark. Shot is taken from in front of the group.	Long shot
18. Alternative angle of teenagers looking for a way out	This is a similar shot to the one previously, but this time is it shot from behind them.	Long shot
19. Unknown figure is seen	Unknown figure walks across the shot in the spotlight of one of their torches.	Long shot
20. Teenager sits down on his own	This scene shows one of the group on his own sitting down when the unknown figure walks across the screen.	Long shot.
21. Teenager running away from unknown figure	This shot is taken from the ground with one of the teenagers and the unknown figure running over the camera	Low angle
22. Teenager running	This shot shows one of the teenagers running away	Long shot
23. Teenager panting	Teenager is shown to have been running away from the unknown figure and is filmed panting whilst holding onto a tree	Mid shot
24. Unknown figure emerges	Teenagers are trying to catch their breath, while the camera shows the unknown figure creeping up behind them	Long shot