1. How did you use new media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
2. RESEARCH At the beginning of the research part of the genre
horror, I began to look at web 2.0 which helped me gather important
ideas such as where the locations i could use in my trailer. For
example the main location that was important was the church which
gave me a hassle as I had gathered numbers of different churches to
ask if it would be possible to film a short scene inside the church
to give the religious feel to the trailer. The setting was so
important for us to be able to use into the trailer, with the help
from technology and the internet Google Map/street view I could see
my way around the area where we was going to film in.
3. Looking at other existing trailers made around the horror
genre, I found YouTube so helpful as well as IMDB which shows all
the trailers and other information explaining the narrative as well
as backstage gossip or names of actors/actresses used in the film
and what role they play. It gave me the chance to look into other
trailers to gathers ideas and inspirations from them helped me come
up with a layout of the storyboard and an idea of a narrative. If I
had to pick one trailer that I could say is very much similar to my
trailer, it would be Devil Inside. The movie which Ive been able to
watch includes a nun that is seen in the movie but isnt the main
character, this nun is used in the devil inside poster and she
seems to look evil with white eyes that tells me that she isnt
herself and something is wrong with her soul. I can say that the
trailer and our poster has used a nun and throughout the making of
all three products; my trailer to the poster as well as the
magazine front cover. The best part of the research had to be
looking into BBFC which is where this allows the trailer to be
given an age suitable group for each film that will be realised to
the public. For example looking at an old horror movie The Exorcist
which came out in 1973 and at the time it was one of the most
affective, horrific and terrifying movies that emotionally affected
the public as it was the first to shock people with the story line
being so dramatic and the true story behind it didnt help matters
for the public, they werent ready to see something so upsetting by
the possession affecting a young girl. BBFC had the right to ban
the movie from England but now looking back at the movie, it doesnt
create a big impact on the people as horror movies now have become
so big that the old horror movies have inspired to create bigger
and allowing the mind to be creative with ideas to blow viewers
away. BBFC gave the film certificate to be an 18! BBFC was helpful
to judge my trailer and what it would be, I finally thought that 15
would be much suitable as the only elements used in horror inside
the trailer was; blood, religious cross, church, possessed eyes and
the pentagram.
4. PLANNING The planning part of my journey throughout the
making of the trailer has played a great big role as without
planning from the start it wouldnt have been successful. I found
that the Prelim task we were set to do which was in fact to find a
scene from any horror movie and re-film the same scene to see what
we could produce looking at the angles used and the shots, the
props that we would be needing. This task was only allowed to be
done during a short space of time. This taught me a lesson to be on
time, making sure we had all props and equipment ready when in
need. This made me realise what to expect when we start making our
horror trailer. It helped me and prepared me! Social media has
played a big role to communication such as; Twitter, Whatsapp, Text
messages, Emails, Blogger, Web 2.0. all these have some way gained
more of an creative idea which allowed me to communicate with my
group as well as gathering information and ideas which would be
helpful for the making of DEVILS NOTE my trailer, poster and
magazine front cover. When it came to planning and organising where
each location would be I was the one in my group which had to find
the churches and search online for the addresses and telephone
numbers to call them up to see if it would be possible to film the
church scenes there. Mostly all had turned us down but we was lucky
enough to try one last time which we was lucky to film there in the
end. Our group kept each other up to date with what was going on
through messages being sent.
5. CONSTRUCTION All these programs and websites that Ive been
on with the help from searching the internet, I was able to
produce, edit and re-create something to help me with the making of
my three products; my trailer, poster and magazine cover. Using
DaFont helped me with the design and font I wanted to use for our
trailers name. In many ways was I able to change the style and
colour by saving the text and opening it in Photoshop which moves
to the next program which wasnt something I could live without
with. This program helped the poster and magazines front cover to
be produced. PicMonkey was another website to use to change a photo
to edit and play around with the lighting and look which we could
have used Photoshop to do this but we wanted to try out new
websites.
6. IMovie has been such a helpful program and simply amazing to
use within its tools and for its editing. We used this program to
edit our short video to build up on our trailer. With the help from
the music (soundtracks) and videos and the credits, transitions.
IMovie is very much the same to other programs such as Premier as
its allows you to crop a video, change the colour grading.Using the
SLR Canon Camera which was used for taking photos for our poster
and backstage behind the scenes. This camera is a high tech camera
which takes clear photos which appears to show off every little
detail a photo should have. This helped our images of our main
character to appear in full detail from her skin to her facial
expression.
7. EVALUATION The technologies which Ive overall used through
the making of the trailer, poster and magazine front cover Ive
noticed that they have given me the opportunity to try out new
programs. I was able to find my own away round areas which I had to
face going to churches which Ive never been before with the help
from Google maps and Google Street View which I was able to see
from a birds eye view of the streets to help me find my way around
to find where I need to travel my way to each church. As location
was so important for our trailer, it was where we could not say no
to the church, we had to find a church even if we had to travel
far. Are Mise-En-Scene was mainly set in a church as this was going
to help the look of the trailer to seem more professional.
Presenting each question wasnt hard but although there are four
questions Ive split each question into smaller part which meant I
used more than one way of presenting my questions. For example I
used; YouTube, SlideShare, BrainShark, Prezi, Animoto,
Playlistme.com and Slidely.