The editing process

To complete the film package we need to have a complete trailer, poster and magazine cover. to do this my group and i spilt and decided to work on different things. Today I helped edit the poster for our trailer.

Here shows a variety of pictures where we edited the eyes on our model to make her look more 'horrified'. this goes through the steps of where we started and how we got to the last result for her eyes specifically. we did this by changing the opacity of her eyes, using the blending options we changed the colours by using a colour overlay. we also changed how we blended the eyes by using a 'colour dodge'. we also decided to use the blood on the hand in the poster as the poster is black and white. to do this we used the lasso tool to to get the blood from the hand to show the actual colour. by doing this it allows the poster to pop more, also the colour red is a massive convention of blood, so we thought it would be a good idea.

The Blair Witch Prelim

Changes changes changes

So we've decided to change some of the things in our trailer as we have a short amount of time to do things we wished to in the beginning. Stay posted for updates!

More editing of the poster

Here are some screen shots of what shria has done today while editing the poster. When deciding whether to change the background colour of the poster, both shria and I tried it with the normal and black background to decide, then we asked the other members of our group and as a whole we decided to go with the black background.

Inspiration and research for Annabelle's Look

So to create Annabelle's look we did some research on ghostly make up and came across the following;

These pictures have given us inspiration for her look as she is supposed to look ghostly. it has also shown us what we don't want her to look like because she is still a child character we want her to look as pure as possible. So, the images with the heavy dark make up are ones we are not going to use as we feel it will not be appropriate to use for a child - even if their decease.

Poster flatplans

When researching posters, we tried to find ones that easily linked to out title 'CHAINED SOULS'. 

One member of my group came across this poster

After asking the opinion of our group, we agreed that we liked it. however we also understood that to used this as inspiration we would need to find the link to the title. 

Below is the initial flatplan for our poster

So, the link between the poster and the title of our film is that the person in the middle of the poster will be Annabelle as she is now the 'SOUL' and the hands will represent those before her (previous ghosts) - symbolising the 'CHAINED' effect.

Props, Equipment and Costumes

This is the initial prop, Equipment and Costume list

Prop list:
A necklace - Sammi wears to complete her costume (mise-en-scene)
Diary - Which Annabelle used to write in
Doll - Used to be Annabelle's favorite childhood toy
Candles - for scene's which are done with Sammi reading the diary

Costume list:
White dress - Sammi, the final girl will wear this as white symbolises purity
Flowery head band - To complete Sammi's 'innocent girl' look
Red top - Worn by Regina as it symbolises danger and lust
Cardigan - Casual clothing, a conventional teenager would wear
White and black dress - Used to clothe Annabelle as it symbolises the fact that she is still an innocent child - white, but also that she is haunting Sammi - Black

Equipment list:
Tripod - To ensure our camera shots are stable
Camcorder - To film the trailer