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RESEARCH ON FILM POSTERS

• Again, the prominent colours found are dark blacks/greys/greys, which is evidently the most used colours for our film genre.
• The face is the focal point- telling the audience who the main character is, making them aware of the film's 'trademark' and therefore making the film more recognisable. 
• The unsettling typography and reviews provide an ominous and eerie tone, highlighting the emotions the audience will endure whilst watching the film.
• A tagline is also found in this poster at the bottom of the poster this time, both placing are still as effective.

* Today was our 5th filming day. We returned back to our tunnel location to re-do our 4th film day shots.

*Here, everyone looks more united as an image, since Olivia's new mask fits more with the character's persona/shadow personality.

* Took a long shot of all 4 characters in the tunnel, did this about twice to gather extra footage to edit and play around with.

* Olivia's mask here is much more appropriate to her character than the bag that we had last time. Took a hand held shot with Olivia positioned to the right of the camera's view


* Also attempted to position the camera as a character, took several shots of this.

* We also got long shots of all 4 characters doing some random things around the waterfront, which should make an excellent addition to the rest of the trailer



*Having this location at day and night is quite poignant, as it does reflect the difference between the persona/shadow dynamic within the characters.


Overall, today was a successful re-shoot!

Monday 9th January 2017- Filming day 6

NEON TYPOGRAPHY

Whilst debating on what kind of typography/font we would use for our trailer, we dug throughly into a wide range of trailers in search of finding something different and unexpected. Coming across the trailer of 'The Monster' introduced us to the idea of boldly coloured letters for our reviews and title. The bright pink contrasted beautifully with the dark background; the letters stood out and the title became easily remembered. 

From this discovery, we decided to ponder deeper into more trailers who used bright/neon colours and fell in love with the idea of it. The trailers below were our main source of inspiration for our own trailer.

INHERENT VICE

Inherent Vice was the trailer that made us aware of using neon letters against a bright daylight background, considering in 'The Monster''s background colour was black dominated. This helped us be certain that with our shots that are not in darkness, the neon lettering can still be effective.

THE NEON DEMON

The Neon Demon focused more on having neon objects in their shots rather than the font being neon; it was more like 'The Monster' with being brightly coloured rather than complete neon. Regardless, it was still a solid piece of inspiration to use to take on board with our own trailer in terms of colour choices and placing.

DRIVE

Drive's trailer did not include neon typography, only in the advertisement did neon dominate the pictures entirely. Again, this gave us ideas of what the best colours of neon are to use; and gave us clarity that choosing neon is the best idea for our trailer. Neon really does evidently make everything stand out and hopefully will leave our aimed target audience to be fascinated and intrigued with what our trailer will involve of.

EXTRAS OUTFITS

*Mid-shot of V&S (AP)

*Mid-shot of V seperately
*Low angle shots of V&S (focus on sunlight)
*Long shot of V&S walking towards camera- graphic match
- Graphic match should be in the same place as last shot. If not, re-film that shot to match it
*High angle shot of Edge of stairway, use 3 grid technique to stylistically place characters



*Day 3: 12pm-3pm (before sky darkens)
- Everyone was on time today! Camera did run out of battery towards the very end. Used Phone to shoot last 3 shots
- Oxleas Wood, Shooters Hill

*Long shot of Makeshift campsite- Focus on sunlight and colours of green/yellow highlighted, re-visit in Post production
*Tracking shot (Tripod) of area
*Tracking shot( handheld) Following V&S (Do this at least twice, then pick best one for footage)
* Spinning dolly- follow S whilst going 180 degrees around the characters in the centre (do this as many times as possible)
* Quick pan movement , V&S(AP) should walk closer every time pan is completed
* Establishing shot, V&S should look towards Vanishing point on the path 
- If any other person comes by during the shot, leave it in
*Handheld movements, Camera should now act as a character
*Handheld Movement, V and S coming towards camera and move as if the camera has been knocked to the ground- focus on sky once  V and S are seen looking directly down at the camera 

*Figure-of-8 handheld movement, Long shot and Mid-shots of V and S laughing into nothing and or dancing -> re-visit in Post production, try to match with still with serious expressions

*try using a colour filter on top of the camera to experiment with new shots
- if this is too blurry, take it off and edit in Final Cut.

*Day 4: 4pm-7pm (Dusk until Night )
- Everyone was a little late today, so we missed an opportunity to shoot some footage at dusk, when shadows are most prominent. Majority of shots done today are at night, no blue sky is left.

-The Tunnel, underneath Sun-in-the-Sands roundabout

*Midshot of all 4 characters (do this twice)
*High angle shot of all 4 characters- should crouch and turn towards the camera slowly
* Tracking shot of the tunnel moving - if the floor of the tunnel is too bumpy, remove dolly and try this handheld
*Extreme close up, 360 degree dolly shot, -> re-visit in PP, speed this us if you need to
*Close-up of Olivia - reflect craziness of chara.
* Close-up of Prelates -> do something that reflects craziness of character
* Long shot of Olivia skipping down path way -> outside tunnel, be careful of being too in the dark 
*Figure-of-8 handheld movement following Prelates running
*Long shot of olivia turning and running towards the camera
*Try a Canted angle of Olivia crawling towards camera
*Panning shot following Prelates outside the tunnel
* Establishing shot of motorway- > could turn this into Birds eye view Shot if you can (don't drop camera)
*Handheld movement, Midshot of V&S putting on disguises then walking away from camera, out of frame. ->If this doesn't work, get rid and re-film a still shot of the same thing

Audience Survey

When a film/trailer is released, the audience feedback is imperative and necessary to dictate how successful the finished product actually is. The main goal is to have it sold, and the only way to do this is by making sure you create something the target audience will love. So we decided to create a survey that involved of five questions about the genre and what they would expect:

(The link to our survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LN7ND36)

2. Font is a big part of a trailer, we must make sure it looks as professional as possible and suits the whole aesthetic. The 'messy' option won- the audience expect the theme to be hectic.

3. This answer to this question is most likely to change; it all depends on how the shots look and once we have done the experimenting is when we can decide what colour would be best to use. 

*Today was our 3rd filming day. We planned to do the shots where two of the main characters are seen doing things like laughing/ killing/screaming etc. here.


*We had to be mindful of the time we were there for, as daylight doesn't last past 4 in the afternoon.

* After walking a bit into Oxleas Wood, we found our desired location.

*Took a long-shot of this camp site, will revisit and colour match to the rest of the teaser trailer.


*More handheld shots were done today. Did a handheld shot, with the camera acting as a character running alongside V and S.


*Attempted 360 handheld spin around V and S whilst they spin around camera. After 3 Takes, this looks quite good, however will only use a couple of seconds from it.








* Also attempted another 360 spin from the outside going around the characters. This wasn't as successful as the first 360 spin so we decided to take that out



* Also attempted quick  180 pans from side to side. This was less successful with the tripod, so we decided to do this handheld. This ultimately looked better.







* Again, we had the camera act as a character. We took several shots of V and S coming quickly towards the camera and (fakingly) slapping the camera down to the ground.
Doing this with a long shot at first felt less personal, so we increased the zoom to change the framing into a 2 shot which makes its way into an extreme close-up. It was also important that the characters stayed central at all times to mimic a hunter trying to catch prey.


* Had two close-ups of V and S facing away from each other. Senem's hair is half down, half in a space-bun which symbolises both identities in her character. The fact that her space-bun is very loose symbolises her character's loose grip on reality. As well as this, the make-up (red veins, black contour, eyeshadow  etc.) is quite faint in full sunlight. This is meant to show that






* Its also good to notice that the main two characters are dressed in black and white against a natural green/yellow background. It makes the two characters stand out against the background, which is ironic, since the character's they are portraying are trying to fade into normal society. Its also ironic that the colours used here for their costume reflect the boundary between the persona and the shadow, as Jung explains. The character's boundaries are rather blurred into a grey space, which is why it was important to have both characters facing away from each other.

*Today was our 4th filming day, Today we were going to shoot all the shots where all 4 members of the group are shown.
 *Because we were a little later than expected, most of the shots are now at night time. Luckily the light in the tunnel allowed us to get the necessary shots that we needed.
* Took several hand held shots in a figure-of-8 of secondary characters in the tunnel location. This was good, apart from the shot on the left; it was much harder to get low enough for Olivia to crawl towards the camera.

*Took more hand held shots of V and S outside.
This was quite difficult, as there were no streetlights where we were standing, so we had to rely on adjacent lights from other streets. As a result, we decided to take this out
*Took a panning shot of above the motorway, a 5 min walk from the tunnel


*Also took spare shots, in case the 1st ones were not a smooth enough panning shot.
*Took a close-up of Prelate in his alternate persona or shadow (Jung). We only had to do this once, as the shot was pretty good the first time around.
* Took some photographs and straight cut shots of all 4 characters in the tunnel. what we noticed here is that everyone except Olivia's character fits in together. The problem was Olivia's mask, so we'll need another filming day to fix this .

SENEM'S OUTFITS

For our 'normal' selves, our group decided to simply portray this by wearing clothes we would wear in our ordinary day to day lives, to make the persona realistic. Thus, I decided to wear a pair of jeans, top, jacket and scarf.

The most important part was our alter ego outfits- this is there the stark change will be evident for the audience. Simply by looking at the difference at the two pictures, our personalities and characteristics have changed also. More detail on the outfit choice can be found on our moodboard blogs. But to summarise, I decided to rip up an old black t-shirt using tools such as blades and scissors. This rough look fits perfectly with my character's persona. To fit in with the black theme, I paired the top with a black skirt, tights, jacket and boots. Little details like the untied shoelaces all contribute to achieve the perfect look for my character. For hair, I decided to choose to do messy space buns- simple but stylish. 

Above, you can see closer into my makeup/hairstyles. To go further into the 'crazy' and unpredictable side of my character, the makeup represented this by having using black and reds. I put black eyeshadow around the perimeter of my face to give more dimension and also a gritty feel, to infer that we have been out for a long time doing acts in nature to make my face that 'dirty'. The red was watercolour paint, and was painted as a mix of veins/blood/bloody teardrops. Adding this across my forehead and under my eyes finished the entire look for me as it added a sense of danger and violence that my character represents. 

*Today was our 1st filming day. We were planning to do individual shot of our two main characters, Senem and Virginia, as they were easier to organise.

*Filming at Graffiti Location in Greenwich, took about 1 1/2 hrs to complete.

*Most shots that we had done on this day were simple Mid-shots showing the character's in their "normal" personas

* Although no colour editing has been done yet, the significance of choosing this location  displays how colourful their minds and personalities can be, in contrast to their  other selves or "shadow" as Carl Jung demonstrates in his theories about Psychological Horror/Thriller.

*Had several versions of the same shot using different angles to see which one will be better to use.

* We also experimented with panning shots, particularly with ones of the characters looking out away from the camera, as if to emphasise the character's want to "find themselves"

*Also did a shot where both characters walk towards the camera, then pass on either side. On another day, we will try to do a graphic match of the same shot, but with their other selves.

* At the beginning of filming, we also took some shots of Canary Wharf as some footage for establishing shots.

*No colour editing has been done yet, but may adjust it to reflect either side of character's psyche, once all footage has been collected.