Timeline Task Sheet

Creating a timeline task sheet allowed us to see which tasks have been completed and which tasks had to be completed before going onto another task. For example; the tasks that we had not completed had been colour coded Red, allowing us to focus on those tasks instead of the ones in black. By creating a to do sheet it allowed us to create time efficiency between us which was crucial at this stage as we needed to balance out filming the footage we needed and editing the footage we already had. Each individual member of the group had different tasks to complete as some had more than other. We had formatted it into a table as it showed us clearly which tasks had to be completed. We used this sheet regularly to colour code the ones we had completed and read the ones that we have not.

Product Plan Task Sheet Schedule

Costumes

The costumes in our trailer should fit conventions of our genre. When researching different trailers we had decided to just research on the costumes. For example; often Disney trailers would have their princess dressed in a fanatical way. Often dresses is associated with disney pixar films. Our costume for our genre and theme will stay casual due to the target market we have. 
Actors
The actors that we have will consist of 3 girls and 1 boy, originally we had wanted a a big group bet kept it small.
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 going to 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.

Music

We had used garage band to create the different element of music on our trailer. The audio we were going to have within our trailer will be consistent and sharp shown in most documentary thriller trailers. Often the audio heard within the trailer will be the dialogue that the characters will say. Using Garage band and iTunes we had created dark suspenseful music for our trailer, this would often occur when the crucial scenes were happening to capture the audiences attention. The melody we had made had been successful and after our target markets feedback we then added an extra walkie talkie garble during our billing block to finalise our trailer.

Printscreens of Garage band

Creating a new project

Saving Project on itunes

iMovie Analysis

Before we had started editing our footages for a trailer we decided as a group to experience the tools on iMovie as some of my group members have not used iMovie in their AS but had used final cut express. By going through iMovie it had allowed us to understand the variety of tools that we could use for our film media trailer which therefore allowed us to create a professional finish for our trailer that somehow I could not achieve during my AS when I used final cut express. We had used youtube to look into effects that was not obvious when we looked into iMovie, by using youtube it allowed us to broaden the knowledge we had on iMovie as we were not experience, by finding different tools we could then apply it for our trailer. For Example; we had used youtube to figure out how to delete the audio but keep on the film. We had tried different methods until we used youtube. By clicking on the right mouse iMovie will give you the option to remove audio from the film, this will allow us to see the audio separate underneath the film which we can delete without deleting the audio. Therefore this allowed us to have the film playing without the voices which we could then place the itunes music on.

Print screens on Imovie

Split Clip

Deleting Audio

Play Voiceover

Transitions

Titles 'Left bottom corner'

Inputting itunes music

Dragging clip into selected area

Inspiration from Blair Witch Project & Paranormal Activity

Shady Woods (Left) , Blair Witch Project (Right)

When researching into trailer I believed that this very scene in the bale witch project was captivating. The angle and close up position of the hand held camera allows us as the audience to be pulled out from our reality and understand the pain she is going through at that very moment. As a group we had decided that we want to create a similar scene like this, as our genre is documentary thriller we ha wanted to create a way for our target audience to know that it is a documentary by having the camera angle like this they will comprehend because a professional movie would not do an angle like this. However our context and scene for this will not be the same as the Blair witch project but the camera angle and positioning will be so our main character is the focal point within this scene.

Paranormal Activity (Left) , Shady Woods (Right)

During our trailer I had noticed that most documentary thriller had the location of the characters. Both catfish and paranormal activity showed their location and we had wanted to apply this convention into our trailer as we believed that the location would make our target audience interested and make the movie relatable for them if they came from the location or they knew it. We had changed the font and size of our text compared to the paranormal activity one as theirs had been narrow and we had wanted it bold and bigger to capture the audiences attention.

Blair Witch project (Left) , Shady Woods (Right)

Having a mid shot of another character is also important for any trailer. It allows the audience to see the location, often with an establishing shot, but also the character itself. Non verbal action from a character can tell an audience about how the character is feeling at the scene. In this scene Ayyaz is standing in a tough position but with a confused look on his face, combining this with Laura Mulveys theory of active male this scene further on shows how Ayyaz protects Lauren.

Titles

During the process of creating a trailer we had decided that the name of our media product will relate to the narrative or location of our medial film trailer. Before creating a focus group we had asked people their opinion on the following possible title for our trailer. these were:

• No Entry
• Shady Woods
• The point of no return
• Restricted
• The Holiday

The final decision for our titles had been the point of no return, but was soon changed to shady woods as there had been copyright restriction for 'the point of no return'. We had rejected the others as our target market had believed that 'The Holiday' gave them the impression that it was a Christmas festive film, No entry and Restricted had been rejected also as it looked too simple. We had researched into different trailers from different genres and realised that there had been different ways as to why a movie had a particular name for example when looking into animated films, as a group we had realised that often the name of the character will be incoperated with the title itself such as James and the Giant Peach and Matilda. However we have decided not to do this as we had many characters in our movie and it was not just focused on one protagonist. The name of our film trailer will be:

SHADY WOODS

Creating potential movie poster

We were inspired by many thriller movie poster, from the Blair Witch Project to the Paranormal Activity to create this however we had decided that we really wanted to make sure that our target audience understood that it will be a paranormal thriller that will be documented from the actors and actresses perspective. This is why we had come up with different ideas that our movie posters will be. Our original image will be developed differently as we want to put other images into our poster too. We had drawn different ideas of the magazine