Trailer Updates

This is two versions with two different video effects on the tattoo scene. Im going to ask my target audience which version they prefer.

Magazine and Trailer

To match our house style the font used in the trailer and the font used on the magazine are now matches. By doing this is makes the audience identity the brand more easily it brings the magazine and trailer together. The font is bold and son serif  it has cracks in the middle which connotes that the main protagonist in broken and it also symbolizes the narrative that it isn't linear.

Updated Trailer Pieces

This is the new voice over used in our trailer. We thought by having this voice over it would made
the narrative more clearer for the audience and plants the idea of an revenge narrative for the future.

I        I added a red tint to the film in all of the torture scenes. I did this to make it more clearer to the audience that this is a flashback and this happened in the past.

I also added a two shot which gives variety in the camera shots in the trailer its more interesting for the audience to watch and it also shows the importance of the tattoo because this is the only shot that shows home touching it twice. 

         

Feedback on Magazine From Audience

My target audience have been leaving comments on these platforms and been giving me suggestions on how to improve the magazine.  These are a few of the comments.

-Picture is stretched make him a bit bigger in the frame 

- Make the text bigger

- The white border is difficult to see 

-Put a  black border around the edges then the thicker white one inside

-Allumer les Lumieres the style of presentation is really nice. 

- The image is too long

-The font choice could be improved

- Make the font stand out more. 

Comparing to Existing Mainstream magazines

When making our magazine we realized that it was becoming to mainstream and not independent enough. We started copying the conventions of an Mainstream magazine rather than following the conventions of an independent one.  Especially because our target audience are in the socio– economic group of B to E and some are individualist and would enjoy this film and an non – mainstream magazine to match.

So I plan to take out certain sell lines and the conventions and replacing them with smaller fonts and choosing another back drop. It would look more pleasing and unique.

Trailer Feedback

I've asked someone in our target audience their opinion of the film to get their feedback and see what improvements we could apply to our film.

Lastest Movie Update

Film Trailer ideas

This was only a rough edit but I wanted to give an idea of what the trailer could potentially look like. This was to give ideas to the group and experiment with the clips we got with the new title. I more like to think of this as an animated storyboard to just give an idea towards how the main edit can envelope some of the ideas used in this.

Crystal peak feedback summary

From the feedback I got from my media classroom we need:
To establish the villain more so the narrative of the trailer can make sense so the scenes that were in the draft before the last one needs to be added back in which is the old white ethnic background man on the newspaper where our protagonist is looking at. At the moment they just see a person being kidnapped in the past and in the current present situations they just a man running around. So we need to establish the villain more which on the newspaper so the narrative we want them to know and see becomes more clearer.

Furthermore they saw the teaser trailer's pace being to fast we need to slow down the pace in order for the audience to understand what's going on and to feel the atmosphere of the teaser trailer. In addition at the end of the bathroom scene where the protagonist hits the glass, they said that the sound of glass shattering doesn't sync in well with the punch and the glass shattering sound is obvious that it's a non digetic sound. One individual thought that scene was ending randomly, it was going to fast and it didn't really go well with the teaser trailer.

This is the scene that needs to be added back in and established more to make the narrative of the teaser trailer clearer.

Crystal peak movie feedback

Titles

Here is the title for Crystal Peak. I created this in Adobe After Effects and took approximately 2hrs to complete. I picked the stars for the background to establish the name "crystal".
This is a work in progress and will be a place format till a remastered version is created.

Draft 6 Poster

In my movie we play with the colour palette we used saturate colours for example: red, yellow etc.  So I thought I would be a good idea to apply some of that to the post so I made the image slightly  smaller and applied the gradient tool to make the image red. Because I made the image smaller I could also have space to rearrange the names of the actors inside the film. I also got rid of the ‘SUMMER 2016’ and replaced that with a coming soon which I placed at the bottom of the poster. The COMING SOON is in the same font (crackvectia)  as the title to create synergy.

Trailer note #2

These are the screenshots we took from our bathroom scene that we filmed the other day. This took awhile to find the right type of area we were looking for but this fit our expectation the most from the other places we looked at. After looking back on these shots they were (like the bedroom scene) dark in lighting in most areas and we didn't get the right type of shots we wanted either. Were thinking of keeping some shots from this shoot but were defiantly going to have to arrange another shoot with this scene.

Trailer Draft 5

This is the new edit with the added bathroom scenes to create a montage of scenes at the end.

Final Film Title

This will be the final edit for for film title and took around 3hrs to produce on after effects. With the help of a video tutorial from Video Copilot it was not too hard to produce and I only stumbled onto small minor errors.
The reason why I choose this type of effects was that my group was working around the Cracktivia font and I thought this will fit perfectly within the house style. I spoke to my group about it and they all agreed that this was a huge improvement and fells this will fit perfectly within our film trailer.

Draft 5 Poster

I also added stills at the bottom of the poster show that the poster could be connected to the trailer and so that the audience could have an idea of what is to come in the film. 

At first I thought that this would be my final poster. However, I conducted some audience feedback and they then told me that I could still add some more features and to improve and make my poster. 

Draft #2 Coming Soon

This was a request from Danielle of what she wanted for the coming soon title since the other one I made did not fit in the style of what we wanted. She asked for a quick 2 second coming soon title that just appears then vanish's quickly. 

Bathroom scene only

We had to replace the bathroom scene with new shots because our feed back showed that people didn't enjoy the way the bathroom scene was presented. So we had to re shoot the scene. I made the bathroom seem separately so I can formulate this part of the teaser trailer.
The blank gaps in this scene will have scenes added to them which was not filmed in the bathroom

Problem with the sound

New Updated Movie Edit

Sounds Development

During the trailer you hear a various amounts of sounds being used for example:
Glass Shattering, Drills most importantly you hear a constant ticking through out giving
the impression that time is running out for our protagonist. During our new action scene the music
heightens and goes to quite fast paced with a higher pitch which builds tension and it ends rapidly
with the title of our film.

Some of the sound research websites.

-YouTube
-Sound Cloud
- Magic Music Maker
- UJAM