Total Film cover 1

Total Film cover 1 a photo by LaurenDarlenePhotography on Flickr.

Here I have used flickr to make notes on this Total Film magazine cover, which I will use for my task of creating a magazine cover.

Childminder teaser trailer 2011

Final Poster

Above is the final copy of my finished film poster for the film Childminder. 

Example Horror Poster

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I chose to analyse this image as it would directly relate to my own poster as the main antagonist is a doll and i intend to use an image of the doll to demonstrate it as the antagonist and as the central role. This poster also uses an interesting tag line. The colour's in this work well as they are all primary bold childish colours.

Example Horror Poster

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This poster for Skeleton Key represents a conventional horror poster, the film is well known and the poster is very intriguing. I chose to post this poster as it demonstrates conventional horror in that there is a close up of an eye, shadows are used in the close up of the skin and the trees in the image that appear to be surrounding the man in the wheel chair. The house in the background is clearly large and isolated, further more the man in the wheel chair shows disability which would connote being trapped. Also the different use of fonts is key, the tittle has the effect of looking through a door, while the star credits of Kate Hudson is smaller and largely spaced to show her importance.

Storyboard

During preproduction we (my group - Jennie Smith, James Connoly, Kristy Hughes) used a shot list in order to create storyboards, this helped us so that we could plan shoots by shot numbers and scenes we were planning to record. These are the story boards from the opening of the trailer (excluding tittles) the story boards made recording easier as we knew what we were going to shoot before going out and we had instructions of the kinds of shot needed, this also helped in editing as we had already planned the editing and just needed to stitch things together. On shoots we used a 'shooting schedule' to plan out who was going on a shoot, what time we would film, the probs needed as to not forget anything, what shots we would film numbered from the story board.

 

Shot List

Diegetic sound of footsteps (black screen)
Low angle shot of 3 pairs of feet on a pathway
Camera pans up to Matthews face

Matthew: (quizzically, looking up to the right) Where are we going?
Camera zooms out to see all 3 characters walking
Chrissy: (smiling down) We’re going to the park today
Fades down.

*Creepy non-diegetic soundtrack (kids music/laughter?)
*POV low angle shot from trees of family walking into park and walking toward bench.

MS of Dylan or Matthew
Kid: (Holding his arms) it’s cold here
Close up of Chrissy smiling
Blurred shot of an arm throwing
Something unidentified flying through the airChrissy: (Smiling) Don’t worry it’ll be fu-Close up of Chrissy’s head as a ball/snowball hits her
Chrissy looks around and sees no one who could have thrown it.

Chrissy: Don’t go too far, stay out the trees…
MLS of Chrissy on bench, studying
Camera pans to the right and zooms into small feet, for about 3 footsteps
MS of Matthew walking through the hole into the tree’s
Post recorded speech/VO Chrissy: …There could be anything lurking in there.

CU of Chrissy looking up
Camera jerks back to MS
Jerks again to LS/ELS establishing Matthew is not there.
Chrissy: (Shouting) Matthew?!
MS of Chrissys face level with Dylan, Dylan’s arm raises and her head starts to turn
POV of Chrissy turning to where Dylan pointed Matthew emerges from the hole in the wall

POV low angle shot from wall, distorted. Chrissy bent down Chrissy: (sternly) I told you not to go in there
Matthew: but someone called me
Chrissy: just go play and Stay where I can see you this time!
Matthew glances back to where the POV is coming from and walks away.
*VO/post recorded speech from Parent: They’re perfectly well behaved, you’ll get on fine, though Matthew can get lost in his own world, his imagination gets carried away…”

MLS of Chrissy casually packing her studies away, she glances at Dylan almost asleep by her and smiles then looks around.
LS Chrissy gets up and looks around
POv from Chrissy of a shadowed figure in the hole in the wall.
POV from the doll up to Chrissy walking towards her
Chrissy: (stern) I told you not to go in there! What’s that in your hand?
Matthew doesn’t move or answer her, Chrissy starts walking forward quickly.
POV of Chrissy Matthew smiles at her weirdly, she then looks at Dylan
Chrissy: Put that down it’s dirty. (to Dylan) Get your things we’re leaving.
Continued POV back to hole in the wall Matthew either walking away or gone completely.
MS Chrissy get’s Dylan, camera pans as she runs into the hole and runs through trees
Fade to black

Fade up from black, low angle, Chrissy heavy breathing looking around
fade down
Fade up, from different angle/location Chrissy’s breathing
(repeat a few times)

Chain of Events

Quick Low angle shot of feet walking
Cut to high angle looking down on C+D from behind (vulnerable shot)
Match on action of Chrissy taking her phone out
ECU of ‘no service/signal bar’
CU of Chrissy's scared face, eyes glancing around
ELS, High angle lookig down on her
Sound track non Diagetic, Child laughter.