before and after film poster

This is my before and after final ancillary task film poster on the right. I decided to use a quote on the top line in a thin font as this font is the one that matches the beginning opening of my film. I then looked at some different film posters and seen that the majority of them had a quote with a star rating about the film, underneath would be where it was from, so on my film poster I used "the guardian". I also then decided to give it a slight blur so the mask would look more professional and as I had to add two oval shapes in to the eyes it made them look more natural and faded in. I used a red black and white scheme as I think bright positive colours aren't very suitable for my genre as a whole. I also added in a billing block in which I made on a website as I seen it on lots of posters and I thought it looked professional. The red colour I added in throughout can connote blood and death, which relates to my film. The name stalker I think links well with the rest of the film poster, the mask of the person is the stalker in the film but his identity is never revealed which gives it a sense of mystery in which we are trying to create from our film. You can also see in the corner I included the age restriction my film is.

existing films i have used

This blog post is showing the different film posters I took ideas from to make my own. The main one is the middle one called the babadook. I liked the quotes on either side of the main image so I decided to do this on mine. I also liked what the little film quotes said like "truly frightening" so I used these on mine. I also then used the stars underneath and added the star ratings of my film and then who the review was from. I also then needed to add in my age restriction so people could see what age it was, mine is a 15 which means you need to be 15 to watch it. I noticed on most of the film posters I looked at specifically in the horror genre they always have a main image in the centre of the poster, standing out this is mostly the main character in the film, or the killer. These images are also really zoomed in which is what I done with mine. I also noticed the colour scheme in most of the existing ones are red black and white, these are the colours I used in mine to connote different things. We got our inspiration from the mask from the original film "V for Vendetta" which is a killer horror film that we liked the look of the mask from (top right) as it was a bit more interesting than the original scream mask. We didn't want to copy the v FOR vendetta film poster completely so we used the lighting differently and had different fonts.

ancillary task progress

Here is a few pictures I print screened as I was building up my film poster. You can see I began to adapt the different things I got from existing magazine covers I changed it a lot, deciding things like if I should keep it blurred or clear which would be more affective. I also then changed around the different fonts and colour schemes I could find, I added in different things and then took things away like the text box at the bottom, whether it should be bigger, add more information. As I was making this I was researching existing posters, in which I will show in another blog post but also getting feedback from people around me and showing them it progressing.

feedback interview with target audience

 This is a video I done to get feedback from my target audience on how they thought my film was going. This is christel blanchard who is the target audience, 18 years old. We asked her what she liked about it, what she thought we needed to improve on and if she thought it was suitable for the target audience. The things she thought we could improve on was speeding things up, changing the order of things, from this we then reviewed our film again and adjusted these things and it looked a lot better. We found this excersise really important and helpful as it meant we could continue to improve our film finding out exactly what our real life target audience thought. I am glad some of the things that was said in this film, the positive things as it meant I could reassure myself the film in general made sense because I had watched it so many times!! also we gathered a few more ideas we could possibly add like adding a twist on to it that the news reporter was actually the killer and by doing our film so early it means we have a lot of time to add if needed as our film at the minute is only 3:30 seconds long so we do have time and room for improvement and criticism.

intertextuality

Within my film there are a lot of references to previous existing horror films like slasher, we used a split screen in which we were inspired by the 1976 film 'Carrie'. We liked this as we thought it gave it an extra traditional twist, a thing you see a lot in horror films. We edited this on through the MAC using final cut pro and we also added a hazy affect on to it. The music that we used resembles 99% of horror films, its a mix of 'tiptoe in the tulips' and a innocent lullaby sound in which contrasted together to come across as an unnerving sweet tune. The fact that in our horror film we use a mask that is already in a thriller film, V for vendetta shows we have took inspiration from existing films I liked the creepy mysterious mask from that film and thought it would look better than the ultimate original scream mask. overall horror films are obviously influenced by films such as psycho, Halloween etc. 

 

Castings

Another person that auditioned was Christel Blanchard, who auditioned for the role of the killer/stalker. We liked how in character christel would be even though she had a mask on which was what we needed. She had a lot of enthusiasm which we liked and seemed passionate towards the role so we gave it to her. We were excited to start filming with her.
She also auditioned for the role of the news reporter however she was suited to the stalker/killer character rather than the news reporter as she wasn't great at remembering a log script.


















The first person that auditioned for the role of the stalker/killer was charlotte bowers. However after the audition we didn't feel like she was suitable for the role as she was very shy and not very confident. Also we needed the stalker to have an aggressive manor about them and she seemed too sweet and kind about it so we didn't give her the role.

This is one of our casting members, her name is Jessica bates and she is applying for the role of the teenage girl that is being stalked. We needed someone quite young and just to look like your average teenage girl like jess does. We liked her because she would get in to character and take it seriously and really fulfil the role. Jessica also applied for the role of the killer/stalker however we decided that se would be more suited for the role of the teenage girl as we needed someone a bit taller and broader to do it so the mask would stay on.

call sheets