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Centre Name: Norbury Manor BEC 

Centre number: 14343

Candidate Name: Jodie Smith 

Candidate Number: 8167

Unit: G324

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3 -

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Some props usedin our trailer.

Props used throughout our trailer.

These are some of the props we used for our trailer. We used the tiaras and wings as part of our characters fancy dress costumes for the party. We used party poppers, shot glasses and clear plastic cups for the party scene to show what kind of party they were at. we used the rope as a weapon for the hooded figure in which she appears in the trailer with. We used tomato ketchup as blood because it was more effective than fake blood. The CD case was used to film some footage to make it look like the two girls were being spied on. 

Edits within our trailer

Edits within our trailer

With this edit we put footage we film on top of other footage because we thought that the party scene filmed wasn't as good as we wanted it to be, however we wanted to include this in our trailer so we decided to layer them together because it looked good on top of the other piece of footage and was relevant to each other. This is effective because we are able to show where the girls were coming out of and it made sense as too why they were covered in party string and why they were dressed up.

We decided to edit the footage of the girls burying the body and made it black and white to show that this is a flashback. This is effective because it shows why the girls are going through what they are and it also shows a bit of what the text they received outside of the party was about. 

When we edited this piece of footage we decided to make it black and white to show that it is a flashback and we also made it flash to show that this was when everything was all good and they were all innocent and hadn't done anything wrong.This is effective because it shows that before everything went wrong the girls were close and they were walking through college without a care in the world.

Final Magazine Front Cover

 

Final Magazine Front Cover

 

 

 

Survey and feedback

This is the questionnaire that I made and gave out at the film premiere to get and insight of what people thought of our trailer. We gave out ten questionnaires and this is one of them, everyone said yes to watching it at the cinema and that the trailer was effective and didn't give too much away.

Premiere

Film Premiere

We did a film premiere on Friday 14th February where people could come and watch our trailer and the other groups trailers. This was created to advertise 'Twisted' and to get people to come along and watch our trailer.

We took this as an opportunity to get a bit of audience feedback as well so I decided to create a questionnaire for people to fill out after they had watched my trailer. this would also be useful for question 3 of the evaluation.

Film Trailer

Final Film Trailer

Photos

This is the original photo we were going to use on our magazine front cover however we came across a few obstacles. Because we were trying to use a picture of five people we came across the problem of not having anywhere to put any text. To over come the barrier we decided to use the three main characters on our magazine cover.

This is the final picture that we decided to use. We cropped off each girl from the side because we felt that the faces of the other characters were appropriate for the type of film twisted is. We also used these three girls because they are the mail characters.

deconstruction of poster.

Deconstruction of poster.

deconstruction of magazine cover.

Deconstruction of magazine cover.

What influenced our trailer?

The main influence on our trailer was 'Pretty Little Liars'

Pretty Little Liars is a series of TV programmes which follows the lives of four girls who are best friends. The leader of the group of girls goes missing and this is when everything starts to go wrong and they begin to receive texts from an unknown person and themes such as bullying, murder, drug addiction, underage drinking, eating disorders,homosexuality, peer-pressure, infidelity, and mental illness unfold.

Finished Filming

After four long, hard and pressuring weeks my group have finished filming for our trailer. We have a variety of clips from party scenes, to burying scene, to the girls running and being tortured.

I think our footage is very good and effective and has been carefully thought about and shot. We had many push backs and hold ups during filming because most of it was done in the dark so it was hard for us to get the camera focused all the time which meant filming the same thing over and over again until we had a good final product.

We shot our scenes in a variety of different locations including corridors, studios, fields and gardens. We also used a variety of different costumes including fancy dress and different props such as blood, paint, ketchup and CD cases to get our shots to be effective.

These are the outside locations we used to film our clips for the trailer.

Final Film Poster

Final Film Poster

 

This is our final film poster. We chose to make it landscape so that our image wasn't affected by the layout. we didn't want out poster to look all squashed together and having the landscape layout enabled us to space out the titles, credits and film certificate.

Our poster links well with our trailer because its all about the four girls and the fact they have killed the other friend boyfriend. So the idea of them looking into a grave links in with our plot. The mis-en-scene of Aisha holding the shovel also links in with our plot because the girls are trying to cover up what they have done in every way possible.

We named our trailer 'Twisted' because there is a twist in the story when the girls get found out even though they have been hiding it do so long. Twisted also represents the relationship the best friends have because they have killed their best friends boyfriend but they have kept it hidden from her and lied to her so it is a twisted relationship that they have with each other.

The tagline we chose to use is 'the truth will never stay buried' and the reason we chose to use this is because in the trailer it shows a text from someone saying that they know what they have done and they are going to pay for what they have done and therefore their secret isn't hidden anymore even though they may have buried the proof and they will get found out in the end. We decided to make sure that the tag line isn't very long because when its short and quick it is more memorable to the audience.

The credits at the bottom of the poster have been edited and all names have been changed to the cast we used and people who helped us out during the process, so for example people who gave us props we may have used. And people who did things behind the scenes for us like flashing lights and holding things in place.

Our Landscape Poster

Our Landscape Poster 

My group decided to make our poster landscape. As this is rarely seen in posters I have found five different examples of where a landscape page layout has been used for a poster.

I think that having a landscape poster was better for our group because of the amount of people we have in the shot. We have 5 people in our shot and when the page is portrait the picture looks too squashed, too stretched or people are cut out of it.

To make the poster effective we didn't want the image stretched, squashed or people cut out so to overcome this we decided to use a landscape layout. Having the landscape layout meant that our image was not affected and there was enough room for the title, tagline and credits to fit on the page without it looking too squashed together. 

Progress on our products.

Over the past few lessons we have been editing our trailer and creating our poster and magazine cover to go with it. so far we have finished our poster, we are halfway with our trailer and we are beginning to make progress on our magazine cover. We have chosen all the appropriate pictures and film to put on our poster, magazine cover and trailer we just need to organise it properly and add in other bits to make our products look up to scratch.

The Main Characters Outfit

The Main Characters Outfit 

This is our main characters outfit. We decided to make her wear this because she was meant to play the role of a popular girl who is fashionable and is the leader of the group of friends. We thought that having her in a short dress and heels would show was kind of character she is because the other girls were more covered up than she was. 

Conventions in our trailer.

Conventions included in our trailer

Rate Card

Producing company.

Credits at the end.

Titles throughout

cast

This is a group picture of our cast being themselves. (Left to right - Seda, Stephanie, Aisha, Tiffani and Leyla)

Character Profiles

These girls are the cast we chose for our horror trailer. They are 5 best friends and each have a different personality which reflects the way they are portrayed in out trailer.

 Aisha is the main character in our horror trailer and she plays the role of a 'fashionista and play girl'.

 Leyla plays the role of the 'innocent' character.

 Seda is the 'shy and nerdy' character.

 Stephanie is the 'motherly church girl' of the group.

Tiffani is the 'cheeky adventurous' character.

story board

Story board

This is our story board for our trailer. This is different from the narrative because this only includes the events in which we are including in our trailer whereas our narrative explains the whole plot of our horror movie. Our story board took us long to put together because we had to carefully think about what to include and what not to include so that we ensured it looked like a horror but it didn't give too much of the story away. our story covers the important parts of our narrative in order for our audience to gain an idea of what our horror is about.