Titles

Creating the Titles

In order to conform to horror trailer conventions, our trailer needed to include titles relating to the plot. This was especially important for us as there was no voice over, so we needed to supply some context to the film. 

I started by writing appropriate titles in the font 'Downcome'. I chose this because it was legible but also had a horror theme. I then took a dirt overlay and applied this to the text only. 

I then duplicated the layer twice. On one of the layers, I removed the red channel and on the other I removed the blue and green channels. I then applied a motion blur of 10 pixels and moved one layer 5 pixels to the right and the other 5 to the left. I wanted the text to have a blurry effect so I removed the original RGB layer. 

I then wanted to use frame animation to make the text shake. I created a few different frames and moved the text slightly in different directions for a 0.04 seconds each. 

I then exported this as a video allowing us to put it into our actual footage.

I also had to make a screen displaying social media links for our film, in which I used the same technique. 

Overall, I'm happy with the outcome as I think they fit our trailer and also I used the same effect with the channel layers that I used on the poster, which I feel ties together our promotional package. 

Poster - Louise Hyam

Film Poster:

Here is our finished film poster:

For this film poster I contributed through taking the photo. I took the photo of the pig mask with blood dripping off of it. This required me to consider a lot of things for example one of the first things I had to consider was ensuring that it was the correct lighting. The correct lighting had to be considered in order to make the poster effective as it helps to convey the genre. The lighting had to match the other side of the face that another member of my group took the photo of. This had to be done to ensure that the photo matched on both sides and was also clear. This is because the photo is an important part of the poster as it is the first thing that is seen and therefore it needs to be suitable for the genre and this requires the lighting to be appropriate when the photo is taken in order for it to work on the poster when it is put onto the poster. therefore when i took the photo i ensured that the lighting was rather dark as the other photo that was taken the other side was done in a dark environment however i ensured that the features of the pig mask were still able to be seen as this is an essential part of the film trailer and therefore the viewers of this poster should be able to see this clearly and note it is important. The dark lighting that is used surrounding the pig mask photo of the killer that i took is effective because it helps to convey a horror genre as dark colours and lighting are commonly used in order to help convey the genre of a horror film which has the conventions of mystery and darkness therefore this is why I chose this particular lighting. The lighting over the pig mask however is lighter in order for the pig mask (the killer) to be able to be seen in order to convey its importance and significance to the viewers. 

Also on our poster I made the tagline which is at the top and says 'Welcome To The Monkey House'

Lastly on our poster I also made the critics and date. For the date however I made the font and another member of the group added on the blood effect. 

Editing Practical:

 

 Editing:

For our teaser trailer we wanted to show small snippets of events that occur within our piece. This and due to our internet theme we deemed that adding a glitch effect would look the best. I decided to figure out how to do this so I watched numerous YouTube videos and read different articles explaining how this was possible on the editing software that we had.

 

Firstly I selected the clips that I wanted within the jittering/glitch and added the 'Gaussian' effect to them. This blurs the images, (however when playing around with the amount, blur, vertical and horizontal the image can be altered.)

After I had done this I then added the 'Bad Tv' effect to the clips, and then brought the amount down to around 7/8 to give a subtle effect of a webcam/video.

After this I then selected the 'blade' tool, and cut up each of the different clips into around 6-10 different sections depending on the length. This was done so each bladed section could be manipulated in a different manor to give the effect that it was altering and jittering.

To do this I brought the vertical button down to 0 on each clip, and the horizontal to 100. This was in order to jitter the picture.

Then on each clip I did a different level of the 'Amount' and 'Blur boost' in order to create the desired effect.

I also at certain points added the 'Bad Tv' effect up to 100% to create a very clear quick glitch amongst the jittering.

After all of this was done I then selected the clip and made into a new compound clip to erase any confusion with the amount of separate clips and also allow for it to run smoothly without any lagging.

 

Production Company Research:

Production company:

 

For our teaser trailer I chose to use the production company 'Rouge Pictures'. Prior to this I researched both high and low budget.

 

 

Blum House Productions:

 

BlumHouse was founded in 2000 its American film and television production company, founded by Jason Blum.

 

Blum House is mostly known for producing low budget horror movies such as Paranormal Activity. Therefore making it relevant due to our teaser trailer being a horror with slasher elements. budget slasher/horror.

 

Twisted Pictures (founded in 2004):

Twisted pictures is an American production company, which mainly produces films within the horror genre (therefore making it fairly appropriate. Examples include the Saw series, Mothers Day and Chain Letter.

 

 

 

Dark Castle Entertainment:

 

Dark Castle Entertainment is an American film production label founded in 1999. Examples of this are Orphan and The reaping.

 

Rogue pictures:

 

Rogue pictures An American production comp,examples include

the strangers, season of the witch, the return

 

This production company is relevant due to producing horror movies, it also has a glitch effect which is relevant to our teaser trailer.                                   

 

Lionsgate:

 

Lionsgate founded in 1997, horror films include, Cabin in the woods, You’re next, Texas Chainsaw, Sinister

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion:

We decided to use 'Rogue Pictures' due to it being and looking very relevant to our teaser trailer. After we had chosen this we manipulated the colour to fit in even further with our theme making it tinted red.

 

Original production company:

 

 

Production Company after manipulation:

 



Editing - Sound - Louise

Editing; Sound

Editing of sound within our teaser trailer was a very important thing to ensure that we had enough sound and those sounds worked in the correct places.

For editing sound we had to had ensure that all the sounds layered together properly, for example we had to layer I'm the sounds that were already within the footage for example the scream of the young boy that is within the live stream we also had to layer I'm the carnival sound that is used also within the live stream. You can see in these screenshots below that's turned up the sound of the scream and had the carnival sound playing quietly along in the background.

Website - Social Media

Website; Social Media

For our website we decided to add the Facebook logo, Twitter logo and Instagram logo as links to our social media. However in order for these to fit in with the theme of our website we had to edit these images so that they worked well with the other things that we had on our website. I decided to take control of editing these logos within photoshop so that they worked well with the title and other things that were on the website.

For example our title was red and it had a glow up effect around the edges in order to create the sense of horror through the colour red being used and it flashes on and off by glowing up.

I decided to do the same for the Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram logo.

Firstly I downloaded the Facebook logo and put the image into photoshop to allow me to edit this within photoshop and make it suitable to then upload onto our website.

After putting the image into photoshop I then removed all the colour from the image to get rid of the blue in order to be able to make it red and fit the theme of other text that is used within our website.

I then made sure that the outline of the Facebook symbol had a relatively thick edge in order for the outline of the F to stand out when it will eventually look like it is glowing up.

After ensuring that I had changed the image outer layer to be thicker I then changed the outline colour to be red to help with the theme of red text that we have on our website and in order to convey the theme and genre that we have within our trailer.

At this stage I then blurred the image in order for it to look like it was glowing up eventually. I blurred it just enough so that the image of the F can still be seen and is easy to view by the people who look at our website.

Then after blurring the F I then needed to add red blur the whole way around the F in order to start building a sense of glow around the F shape. I selected size 60 on my paint brush so that the blur would b all around the Fand inside of it.

Here is what it looked like after I added the red around the F in order to make it look like it was glowing.

I then created this layer so that on the website the F can switch between being on and off so when it is off it looks like this image below and when the F is on which it flickers between it glows up.
The F will go from being off and on every few seconds which I later went on to do on photoshop.

These two images below show I how I mad sure that the image would go from not glowing up to glowing up. I selected how often I wanted the two layers which is the F where it is turned off and the second layer where the F glows up.

Once I had completed the editing for the logo within photoshop I then went onto the website and added it on where it looked suitable. As you can see the title and the logos match which look effective upon our poster.

I then went on to do the same for twitter and Instagram.

Editing Practical 2

Editing our Trailer

As we began nearing the end of the editing process, I made some final tweaks to the footage. I added the typography I made for the title and added TV glitch sound effect to fit with the broken sign. I also used the Ken Burns tool on Final Cut Pro to make the logo slowly zoom in for dramatic effect. 

I also added a sound effect timed to play as soon as the typography appears on screen. The video I'd exported from Photoshop was also a bit fast, so I slowed it down by 50%.

The videos I'd exported for the titles in the trailer were also quite short, but as I wanted to keep the speed of the text shaking I added multiple copies rather than slowing them down.

At the end of the trailer, there is also a final moment of glitching for which I added the glitch sound effect we'd been using throughout. For the end two title cards, 'Coming Soon' and social media information, I added a booming sound effect.

For lighting, I felt some of the shots were too bright to fit with our genre. To rectify this I decreased the opacity of these shots. Due to the background naturally being black, this lowered the brightness rather than making them more transparent.

Finally, my group wanted to add a TV turning off effect at the end of the webcam shot. I downloaded an effect from YouTube and bladed it just before the end. I placed the first part on top of the footage and lowered the opacity to make it seem as though the webcam shot was grainy. The part where it switches off plays after the shot so you can fully see this effect.