Original location for filming - abandoned college

We dabbled with the idea of a few locations to film our trailer, taking into account the story line and genre and what would look good and effectively stage our plot in the way we wanted.

Originally we wanted to film it at the abandoned Hastings College. It has not been used for many years and we felt it would be ideal because in our plot we wanted our protagonist to have just moved to a run down house or flat that looked old and had a creepy feel to it (keeping with the horror genre).

The abandoned college ^

Our original idea was to use a section of the college to film in so it looked like our protagonist was living in a smaller house, as she is young and realistically wouldn't afford a huge house.

After visiting the site to try to establish what parts we would film in and to get an idea of props and such, we saw it was in very bad condition and looked very dangerous to enter. For our own safety we decided it was not a good idea to film in there as well as we later found out it would have been illegal anyway. 

Halfway through project - evaluation

As we are halfway through our project, our media teacher gave us a few questions to answer to see where we are at with our project and do an evaluation to ensure that we are on track and progressing well.

Horror Magazine analysis - research

Magazine analysis - research

Proposal for film and promotion using PREZZI

FILM PITCH on Prezi

Initial magazine cover promoting our film

This is my final draft for a magazine cover. I decided to make it a free magazine from our local cinema because our film is very low budget and not highly promoted therefore it wouldn't be picked up by any major magazines such as Empire or Total Film. 

I used words such as 'terrifying' to promote the films genre, and to promote the film itself the coverline 'Local film preview special!' to make it sound exciting, and as if it is an exclusive insight into the new film. 

I used dark colours to try and stick to the theme of the film to some extent, as well as trying to make them fairly neutral so that because my film wouldn't be on the cover every week, these colours will work well with all types of film poster or cover that could be advertised on it in the future.

CHANGES:

I have made some changes to the magazine cover from the flat plan. For example the flat plans' magazine title is 'Local Talent'. Due to the fact that the magazine had to specifically be a film magazine I changed the name to 'ODEON - Under the Radar' to still give it the same local, lower budget feel, but incorporating the film aspect.

Also the poster looks a little different and this is because I hadn't created the poster when I made my drawn flat plan, and I changed the idea when coming to make the main poster. 

I also made the caption that is shown below the drawn flat plan in a plug rather than a caption because i felt that this fitted the cover better and made it look more authentic. 

Initial poster for our film

This is my initial poster idea for my film. I wanted the poster to be simple and not have too much detail because I want the film to keep a mysterious feel to it so that the audience has to watch the film if they want more detail.

The caption "They wont let you leave" is very cold and direct without any room for compromise, which is the feel i wanted to give the film in general... a pure horror film with  seemingly no way out.

I think that the poster could be improved as it looks a little too much like a DVD cover at the moment and not so much like a promotive poster, but as this is only a first draft I will do another version at a later date.