Tuesday 7 May 2013

My Evaluation


The Dark Room Final Trailer

Final Trailer

Film Titles

Titles I made using After Effects.
Below is a title logo/animation I made for our production company Kiya Films. Kiya is a combination of Kitty and Yasmin and plays at the beginning of our trailer to make it look more professional. I created a smokey, eerie effect on the animation of Kiya Films I did this because if Kiya Films was a real company it would specialize in producing Horrors and Thrillers so its logo would need to represent this. I found using After effects to be really easy and interesting  to use once I had participated in a few tutorials provided and learnt the ropes.
I also made a title for 'The Dark Room' to be played towards the end of the trailer, I kept it quite simple, almost timeless just a cool dark grey that fades in towards the audience.

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Trailer First Draft Feedback from Teachers and Peers

Feedback from the questionnaires we made for everyone to fill out: 



 Extra Feedback Given :






Saturday 27 April 2013

Poster Changes


Above is my now new and improved final dark room poster. I edited it onto a bus stop to show what it would look like as an actual poster.


The reasons why my poster changed so drastically from the first two drafts was because the two above on had three poster conventions which meant it was very weak and limited. i wanted to use the pictures above as they were taken in the dark room and have the red and black tones i wanted to maintain through out my project. However the quality was really bad so I instead made a graded background on Photoshop using stamps and cookie cutters to create a red and black toned background (on final poster) so even though i got rid of these images completely I was still keeping the same color scheme. 


Above are the conventions the posters above needed to be more successful. 


Above I have pointed out which conventions i used in my final poster; as you can see there are a lot more than my first two drafts. 

Final Poster



Above is my final poster. Made using Photoshop. 

Friday 26 April 2013

Final Website Design Plus live Link




Above is the final design for my website made on Photoshop. I made all the adjustments given from my feed back they included; Changing the font (getting rid of the white background)
                               Adding a Billing Box
                               Adding production company logos
I feel my website is defiantly more conventional and successful since the changes. One conventional element I chose not to include however in my website was the tag line. You usually see a films tag lines on their website and poster but I tried to fit it in here but thought it overcrowded the website and couldn't find a correct position for it with out unbalancing everything else.

Below is a link to my live website page:

THE DARK ROOM

First Two Drafts of my Website


Above is my first draft before feed back.







Above is my second draft after feedback but it still has a lot of work to be done to it.

Friday 15 February 2013

Updated Synopsis/Plot

Because of the difficulty finding a dark room to hire and film in, alot of time was lost and our plot had to be altered as my partner and I didnt have time to film all the ideas we had planned. Below is the new Synopsis of The Dark Room !



Lux miller, a young award winning photographer has her life turned upside down when suffering a bicycle accident that left her self doubting her every move. after a series of developed photographs she cant remember taking, Lux is led to believe there is someone out there watching her every move. Looking for answers, she is forced on a scary journey finding this mysterious stalker. who is he? Is he real or it it just Lux's mind playing dark tricks on her ?

Poster Photoshoot



Film name: ____________The Dark Room ____
Shoot Date: 10/02/13

Item/Model
Shot type/angle/ distance
Macro,
Flash and Lighting

Background
Positioning on page

Details of editing
 Olivia Boren actress playing Lux Miller

 Mid shot.
 Outdoors
Park setting or dark/brick wall.
Inside a Polaroid frame. To look as if it was taken on a Polaroid camera.
Simple editing – enhancing certain aspects- edit the background to be grey and dark to fit I with the thriller theme.

Dark Room Hire Troubles


Over the past couple of weeks Yasmin and I have been furiously trying to find a dark room available for us to hire to film in. It has been difficult as we haven’t been able to find one at a reasonable price. We are currently hoping to use the dark room facilities at City of Westminster College. Below are emails sent to the current supervisor, it has been over a week since we last heard from her so it might be an idea to keep looking into other dark room as this one might not be available to us?

Friday 25 January 2013

Costume Decision

 


Locations Shots

 
 Below are locations shot I took myself. I have filmed sections for my trailer in all of these locations.



 
 Below are Locations shots for scenes that I havent yet filmed at but will be in the Trailer.