Animatics.

After completing the storyboards for our trailer and are happy with what we are doing we made the animatics. As we haven't done the background music we just added sound effects and dialogue. We found that when we uploaded the clips they were very short but we knew they were going to be longer when we do the actual filming. From our AS coursework experience we know that we may not stick to the storyboards fully because we may think that some shots may not fit or are not filmed very well. Of course if the shots aren't filmed very well and we need them we would have to re-film, because we did that in our 2 minute opening last year. The animatics have helped us visualise what order our trailer is going to go in. I think we need to write a script for Megan to follow because we just improvised in our animatics. We made sure we had different angles to make the trailer more interesting. We discovered on final cut that we could do a split screen and thats what we are planning to do in ours. I feel that with the animatics it will be a clear plan to follow when we film

Final Magazine Front Cover.

This is our final magazine front cover. Overall I am happy with the result I think it has all the conventions of a film magazine. We researched a lot into 'Empire' and 'Total Film' and saw they had lot of different sized fonts and sizes. They usually had a colour scheme as well for the font its usually 3 colours. We decided to go with the colour white, grey and red. We chose the white and grey because they appeared more times than any other colour in our magazine research. The red went with our picture as the background has colours of orange and yellow. We chose this particular picture because we liked how the background was slightly smudged and out of focus creating an uneasiness and suspense. We also liked how her neck was on show so it showed vulnerability as the neck is the most vulnerable part of the body. We decided we wanted a character shot rather than a shot of the actress because most of the  pictures in the magazines are character shots rather than a beauty shot.

Magazine Planning.

Theses are two drafts of our magazine cover from the pictures we took of megan. We made sure we had a lot of different shots of Megan so if we didn't like our original idea of Megan that we had, we could change it. This is one of my favourite images of Megan that i wanted to use as our final picture, however we didn't use this because there were several things that didn't make the picture effective. First of all most of the picture is of Megan's coat so people would have their eyes drawn to her coat as opposed to her face. Also she isn't using 'the gaze' which we wanted originally as we wanted the shot to be in character as if Megan was in the film. However by having Megan not look at the screen you cant really see much of her face and people may not recognise her. We liked the effect of part of the picture being blurry as it creates an uneasiness in the picture. But we decided that this isn't the picture that we could use because of the position of Megan and her facial expression.

Learning to edit using Photoshop.

In class today we learnt to edit our posters and film magazines on photo shop. As we had already taken pictures for our poster and arranged them how we wanted them on PowerPoint we knew what kind of image we wanted our poster to have. We first got our image of the main character, Megan and edited the picture a little, airbrushing her face a bit and getting rid of any parts of makeup we disliked about the picture. We chose to crop the image a lot so the poster would literally be filled up with her face and nothing else. We did that so we could see the vulnerability in her face and eyes. After editing Megan we decided to get an image of a chess piece from the Internet. In our final draft of our poster we wouldn't use a image from the Internet, we would take a picture of the chess ourselves, but we just wanted to see what it would look like. I used the magic eraser on the chess piece to get rid of the background and sharpened the image as it went blurry when we increased the size. After that we added text using fonts from Photo shop just because it was too complicated to get a font from a website and edit it so there wasn't any white spaces as the fonts were quite intricate. This is the finished product of the poster. We were experimenting with the colour of Megan's picture and when it went black and white we decided we liked this better than when it was in colour. obviously because this is still a draft we are not completely decided that we like it in black and white so we might change the colour again for our final poster.

Film production company.

20th Century Fox is a very popular film production company. the most notable films produced this company are Star Wars, X-men, Home Alone, Night at the Museum and The Sound Of Music. All these films are family films and I think 20th century fox is quite mainstream doing very popular films and not many independent artistic films. I think we will not use 20th Century Fox as our production company because it doesn't really fit our genre of film.

Paramount Pictures is different to 20th Century Fox in the fact that it produces a lot of different genres of film. the most notable films of Paramount Pictures are: Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones, The Godfather and Forrest Gump. These films are very different to each other with the genre and age certificate. For our As coursework of a film opening last year we used Paramount Pictures as we thought it was fitting to a Romantic comedy but I don't think we will use it again.

Dimension Films is a production company within Miramax Films. Dimension Film company is not as known as 20th century fox and paramount pictures and we liked that. Dimension films have produced films such as: Scream, Spy Kids, The Others. From my research I have concluded that Dimension Film do more horror/thriller films than any other. We have decided to use this production company because the genre of films they produce are similar to ours.