Log Book




September 4th- I have chosen to work with Eden Isaacs-Lonie as my partner for my A2 brief. We work well together and have a range of ideas that we want to put into practice. 
We chose the following brief: a trailer with a film magazine and poster and started to brainstorm some potential ideas for our trailer. Our initial target audience is for people our own age : young adults. 

The first idea we had was for a horror film. The idea for this film was the film to be filmed like a handheld camera for parts of the film. It will be set in a local quarry and be based around a group of teenagers who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Our second idea is a feel good family film.This is based around a group of friends who make a pact and meet up every ten years . It will show a range of scenes: arquements, marriages,laughter.

Our third idea is about two lesbian girls making it through school. It will be set in a bad neighbourhood and show their struggles but also good moments of making t through their teens. 

We have decided to research more on film genres that we could potentially use for our trailer.I will go home and look into a range of film trailers and hopefully we will have more ideas for our next meeting .

RESEARCHING INTO HORROR TRAILERS 

Me and Eden have also created a site to update and keep a log book.

http://edenisaacslonie.wix.com/edenjuliamedialog#!home/mainPage

September 6th- after talking to Eden the other day I went back home and decided to preview a range of trailers . I mainly focused on trying to watch trailers and films make by independent companies rather than commercial companies as they . I felt more drawn to the horror trailers however as they seemed more intense and i got a thrill from watching some of them .I still looked at a range of videos from comedy to adventure to action and will post some information about them onto my blog. 

We have decided over the weekend to look at various horror films and post a blog about our first finds.After this we will think more in depth about our trailer idea. 



September 10th- Me and Eden have made a questionnaire over the weekend and have handed it out for results to people who fit the criteria of our target audience.We also made a powerpoint with the basic information about a trailer and what we intend to make.

September 12th - Analyse some certain horror trailers :

  • Trick r treat 
  • Troll Hunter - Handheld camera film 
  • Saw -the most successful horror franchise in decades- it will e a great idea to analyse a range of trailers from their seven part  franchise and see how  year after year they are able to attract viewers to pay to watch their films. (catchy tag lines )
  • The Blair Witch Project - cinemavereta 
September 17th - Eden and I have had a chat about what we need to do next . We have decided to research into methods of distribution of our trailer e.g. in the cinema and publish this on bubbl.us as we have not used this website to present our work yet. 

September 18th -We are going to research into the BBFC(British board of film classifications) and age classifications. This will help Eden and I to define our target audience because as we are intending to make a horror trailer we will need to look at the what we can include in it without our trailer being classified as 18.  


September 20th - We have started to analyse horror trailers.By analysing real conventions of media texts we will have a better understanding before making the foundations of our own trailer.

September 24th - Today we have discussed the 'Uses and Gratifications' theory by Blumler and Katz and how we need to apply this to our trailer. We have decided to work on a power point of this.

September 25th- In our discussion today , we have spoke about Richard Dyers star theory and the proposed celebrities we may use for our trailer.  

September 30th - We have decided to research into the legal side of the film industry.

October 1st - Our discussion today was about the release date for our trailer. At the moment we are thinking of exhibiting it in the summer time (July or August) or for Halloween . However after researching our ideas may change if we see a pattern in our results.

October 2nd- Eden and I have started to create our main storyboard for our horror trailer. We will need to focus a lot on the types of shots we use ,how long these shots will be and hope by doing this it will clarify our ideas and help us point out any problems that will occur when filming. 


October 4th - In our discussion today we have developed our storyline and added more detail to the first few scenes. Eden and I have also decided that we are going to create a more in detail questionnaire compared to our previous one which helped us with the basic genre choice.  

October 6th-Today I have started to create a bubbl of basic ideas for our questionnaire.

October 9th- In this lesson today we have started to to develop our storyboard.We are also going to look at font styles for our title names . This will be a big part of our trailer as we want the font to suit the title name .It can also make a big impression on the viewer as it will be the second to last thing they see.

10th October - I have made a questionnaire in Word of the questions I planned to ask . We will hand this out to people in our age group and will display results soon. 


October 12th - We have handed out our souvenirs to get the results from our target audience . We are going to ask about 20 people as it is a good even number which we can get good range of results from. 

October 15th - We have received back our questionnaire results from our twenty people and will now look at the data and see the results and any patterns we can see in the data. The difficulty we face here is trying to find a pattern in our data as even though twenty is a good number the more people we could have asked the more reliable and accurate the data would have been. 

October 17th- we will research into how films are funded and figure out how we would possibly fund our trailer .

October 20th - Today we have finalised some title fonts for our trailer. We have used photoshop to create 'The Quarry' title font.It was difficult trying to use Adobe photoshop as we haven't used it since last year and have forgotten a lot of techniques.

October 21st- We have created a powerpoint about why we have chosen our specific title and the connotations of the name. 

October 23rd -  Today we are going to finish our overall synopsis to a good quality.We are also going to look at how we are being creative in our work.This will be our tasks to finish for over the half term.

November 3rd - We have finished our overall synopsis but have realised that our initial storyline has to be adjusted due to weather conditions.Our first storyline featured the characters jumping and swimming in the water and after careful consideration we have decided that this will be to risky in the winter months and the water will be extremely cold and a health risk.We have decided to change it and not feature the water but a camp fire instead .this will be safer. 

November 6th- We are going to post the overall synopsis onto our blogs. The changes have made our trailer more achievable. We have already started the storyboard a few days ago but now we have decided to format in a better way so we can go into more detail. We will upload a empty table of what we are going to use for our storyboard today. We have also looked at how are company will be structured and created a prezi for that. The challenges we need to overcome is creating a detailed storyboard for our trailer which follows horror trailer conventions. To improve this we will once again take a look at other horror trailers similar to the theme / storyline of ours to get some ideas 

November 15th - We have set  a deadline to finish our research and start our filming and product. Today we will start to look at the clothing, props and shots we can use in our trailer ( the miss en scene).These will need to relate to our genre and our previous research will help us with our decision.

November 16th - Today we will update our previous research into similar products.We did this previously but haven't yet had the chance to improve it and post it.

November 25th- I have started researching into conventions of horror posters as me and eden are making the last few corrections to our storyboard and will post it soon . 

November 26th - I am going to create an action plan and        . I have created a collage of some other horror posters. 


November 27th - I have started analysing  a range of horror posters to pick out and find any convenions that are regularly used in the posters. This will help me with producing my own poster in the later stages of this process.

November 30th- I have started a prezi that states the obvious conventions that are included in horror posters.

December 4th- Today I have started similar research into film magazines .This research will be similar to my poster research as I will need to look at the conventions mainly used and apply them to my own magazine I will make.

December 12th- The previous week I have completed some basic research on film magazines. I have annotated 3 film magazines (similar products) and created  prezi that labels the conventions and includes similar images. I have also created a layout plan after looking at a range of magazines . We have not started filming yet due o problems with finding actors and weather conditions. However we hope to start soon and finish filming before the holidays. Today I will start planning my masthead for my magazine and also look at the colours I may use . 


December 17th  - the past week I have used photoshop to create a range of mastheads.The ideas came from researching into specific film magazines mastheads and creating similar masthead that follow conventions.I have also created a magazine profile that states the cost and sale location of my magazine.



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