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Centre Name: Norbury Manor BEC

Centre Number: 14343

Candidate Name: Ellesha Martin

Candidate number: 8112

Unit: G324

Evaluation 4

Evaluation 3

I created this video using MoviePlus Starter Edition

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 1

Final trailer

Final poster edit

Final magazine cover

Front cover photo shoot

Here is a video of the photo shoot we had for the final girl's magazine cover

Focus Group and Audience Reaction Video

Here is a video we done in pairs when researching what scared people the most about the horror genre, etc

Feedback: 101

At the early stages of post-production I created this fake article which is featured in our trailer to help our narrative flow well and so it was easily understandable to an audience.

We got feedback for our teacher to change the "Olden Times" to just "The Times" as it doesn't make sense label something in the past as "Olden" because it would of been the present at that time. 

In regards to this we changed it and this is the new version which we will be using in the trailer. We also noticed that the colour on the first article created wasn't readable on screen, and so we made the text bigger and bolder and changed the intensity of "Sepia" tone which makes it look old.

It's important to double check!

Tickets for our premiere

The meaning behind 'Chained Souls'

The name 'Chained Souls' - our films name has a double meaning.

• One being a literal chain, whether it be the chain Sammi wears around her neck or be it being actually chained to someone. 
• The other meaning is using the idea of being chained as a cycle, the ghosts are going to continue killing more and more people.

The ring idea?

As Our trailer is named 'CHAINED SOULS' with its double meaning, we thought it would be a good idea for us to put some sort of chained style ring on the magazine as a sticker so that our media texts can link.

After that we researched magazines with the same idea and came across the one that used it

After that we searched for rings that looked like chains to go on the cover

These are some rough and very new ideas and so we will look into it more and have an update post about how successful this was.

The music

As we all know the sound and music to a horror trailer is very important as it could be the difference from making the film actually appear scary. when doing a survey about what scares people the most, sound was one of the top answers and so this is very important in order for our trailer to be successful the sound need to be impactful. here is a short piece of music I created to go into our trailer. I used high notes which makes the music sound creepy and very repetitive rhythms that intensifies audiences as seen in horror films such as psycho.

Out cuts? .. Shots we're just not using

During the filming process, we recognised that we wouldn't of had enough clips to put in our trailer so we thought of filming an 'interview section', similar to the Blair Witch Project trailer. With this we gave an actor some dialogue saying:

"I would never visit that house, its been on the news that you shouldn't!"
"I've heard that, once you go in, you never come out" 
"I don't even want to talk about the story of Annabelle and that house"  

After doing this, and adding it into our trailer we asked Ms Ryder-Owen for feedback - her opinions and feelings towards the clip. she replied saying the following:

 "It didn't work well"

"It was filmed handheld and the camera wasn't stable"

With this feedback as a group we thought about filming this scene over but after careful consideration and the feedback given we realised that it was necessary to our trailer and didn't help tell the story well. so we decided to take this clip out.

Editing process... continued

Screen shots of editing from ellesha26


Here is a short slideshare of where we are right now as a group during the editing process of the trailer.

Feedback: 104

Tomorrow is our premiere and Shria has created a questionnaire to give out to people after the showing so we can get feedback on our trailer as whole as things we struggled on in the making of the trailer such as sound and how effective it was.

Poster Research