Research and Planning
Before we started any filming we researched the horror genre and got different ideas from different types of horror films we noticed that there was different effects used but the typical conventional for a horror was repeating so we noticed what we had to do. We used youtube and apple trailers to watch them. we also analysed them as well this helped us with the typical conventions. We watched about 20 different trailers all of them were linear ones so they just went from beginning to end.
The Amityville horror was one of the main film we used as a guideline.
I also used google images to get pictures of the films just to see them as an example for when we started our magazine cover i also used this for finding a location because the pictures showed the establishing shots for a certain type of area where many typical convention horrors are normally filmed. Google was also used to view different types of magazine covers just to have a brief understanding of what is normal and what graphics,font is needed.
For the filming part we used an sony HD V1 camera to have clear and clean footage this also helped with the editing stage as it didn't really need much work done all the shots did appear separately so it was easy to delete them too. For editing we used finale cut pro.
The footage was imported from the camera from a sony tape deck and i just had to log and capture it onto the computer. On finale cut pro it appeared on a timeline so it showed how we filmed each shot and what we needed to change in each one and to cut any extra scenes from the footage.
When trying to film a horror trailer the scenes don't have to be in linear form so the shots had to be moved up and down through the timeline. Once i cut the the extra shots and put the footage in order i then had to edit the colours and add effects.
The three ways colour filters was used to change the lights to brighten or darken the footage with different fades and hard cuts into the footage. With the three way colour filters i had to play around with each filters to see what colour footage would go with each one and if it made any difference in the shots. The colour corrector helped getting the footage into the horror genre it was different using this but once all the footage was edited and put together it came together very well.
To design my poster and magazine cover i had to use Adobe photoshop this was very new to me as i have never used photoshop before so i had to do many different trials before i could start making my magazine cover.
With photoshop i had to learn how to use a whole new different technology so it was really hard to put things together. with making the magazine i had use different icons from google so it was hard getting them from there onto my picture but eventually it came out good it was a perfect cover but i had a finish one done to help promote my trailer.
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