Taking the poster pictures of the bear

Today, we took pictures for our poster in our location with our main prop which will be used on our poster. We decided to get a close up shot of the teddy bear on the tree to make the bear look lost and abandoned, We also had the perfect lighting to it makes the area look more spooky and haunted as the lighting was very blue toned which contrasted with the colour of the bright baby doll teddy bear which again relates well to the theme of child horror. We made the bear look scruffy, not well kept and slightly sad looking as we made the bear sit slouchy to suggest how it is not an ordinary doll but a doll that is associated with threat and danger. 

Audience feedback for radio trailer

Updated film poster idea 1

From the feedback I received from my poster draft, I decided to make the colours i used for the poster darker in order for it to look more horror film like ans scary. I made the edges of the main image glow so it attracts the audience and stands out so their focus is drawn towards the image. I kept the title the same using soft pastel colours to transmit the child horror theme and adding pinks and blues. In this poster i added the tag line "I play with you, you play with me" to give a little of what the film is about to the audience.

FILM POSTER IDEA 2


FILM POSTER IDEA 3:

Bitter Revenge Radio Trailer

Audience Feedback!
What the audience liked:
The audience liked how our radio trailer told a story and how it quickly introduced what was going to happen in the movie without giving too much away. Moreover, they enjoyed the sudden sound effects such as the heat beat sounds, the scream and the witch voice which really creep them out. 
What we need to improve:
The audience suggested to add a line from the police officer to tell the audience that our film ends in a murder scene so a line from the police officer should inform us about what will happen. Moreover, they suggested to make the sound of us laughing in the background flow better so it can start off by being quiet and build up to become louder as they thought the laughter sounds was quiet sudden and interrupted the flow of our radio trailer. 

POSTER FEEDBACK FOR IMPROVEMENT

 From the feedback I revived for the improvement for my poster, I need to change my background colour to black to make it more scary looking and so that the main image is the main focus and main colour in the poster. Moreover, I need to add a glowing effect around my main image in order for the audience to grab attention to the poster and make it look deadly and the glow/flashing light around the image of the poster will indicate how the main image of the girl connotes danger and threat! I also kept the writing and font of my title, but will change the position of the title and put it right at the top of the poster. This is because the title should be noticeable to the audience and it is more likely to grab their attention if it is at the top of the poster.

POSTER DRAFT 1

recording our radio trailer!

 Date: 12/1/15
Today, we recorded our radio trailer by using a deep voice of a man with an American accent to narrate our trailer as we thought a man's voice would be best to present our horror movie. We also recorded ourselves laughing in the background as in the trailer it states how "it all started off with teenagers living in an ordinary world." We used ambient sound to portray how everything went from happy and exciting to terribly dangerous and when things started to kick off we changed the music to a more dramatically fast pace and added many creepy sound effects like screams, heavy metal clashing etc. in order to engage the audience and let them know how frightening it was. We also got the little girl who played Naila to record herself giggling in a spiteful and vengeful way in order to portray her character from the film. We changed the pitch of our voices to record a scary, deep witch-like voice saying "Where are you" and added an echo to it to make it sound more dramatically and spooky.

audience feedback

Today we presented our offline edit so far to our target audience they thoroughly enjoyed watching it and gave us some improvements these include.

1. Lana will press play so the music starts so we know where the music is coming from

2. Music ends when Lana’s phone rings

3. Close up shot of Lana putting on lipstick so we have a range of camera shots 

4. Point of view shop of the bullies running around Naila in a circle to show how irritating it is for her to be bullied in this constant circle 

5. Flashback colour change, so it would represent an unhappy time, the colour red which will be used links back to the horror genre 

These improvements will be added on to ensure our target audience are satisfied with what they are watching.