Front Cover Editing.

The front cover above was done by Mahek me. Whilst Cleo and karwin were working on the trailer editing. The conventions have been met and has started to look like a magazine. An interesting thing I like about this is the film reel at the bottom to show upcoming movies and also a link in with the 'PLUS' and the movies below it. I had put in some input with the 'NO' spread all over effect and the Slenderman logo in the middle below the final girl.

Below is a another front cover magazine Mahek and I had refined through the old one above. As you can see there are drastic improvements and changes that have been made.

In this final print screen, is the most up to date one that I have done. It includes a colour change in the Slenderman logo to make it easier for the audience to guess what film it is, if they do not know. Fonts have been changed, but not all of them yet. I will be working into this.

Static Front cover .

This is another version of the front cover that has static over the layout. This was to imply the interuption with technology that Slenderman can create. This edit was not effective to be used in a magazine cover as it is not clear.

Front cover editing.

The front cover was done by me and Mahek. Whilst Cleo and Karwin were working on the trailer editing it and adding final touches. The conventions that have been met and has started to look like film magazine. The thing I lie in the magazine is the film reel at the bottom to show upcoming movies and also a link in with the 'PLUS' and the movies below it. I had put in some input with the 'NO' spread all over effect and the Slenderman logo in the middle below the final girl but the 'NO's are a bit too much.

Below is a another front cover magazine me and Mahek refined through the old one above. As you can see there are big improvements and changes that have been made.




As you can see, the film reel has been changed from white to black as I thought it would look better and more realistic. The link between the 'PLUS' and the reel has more of a connection. A better barcode has been added as the previous one was really blurry. I have changed the date to 2013. We have also changed the picture of the final girl as we feel that the old one was poor and cut outs were bad as this reduces the quality of the magazine.



In this final print screen, is the most up to date one that I have done. It includes a colour change in the Slenderman logo to make it easier for the audience to guess what film it is, if they do not know. Fonts have been changed, but not all of them yet.

Basic start of Film magazine

Slenderman Poster Ideas.

I have created slenderman titles for our poster and the idea was to create the logo in such a way that it could seem like it is a part of a forest. I have distorted a font on Photoshop and paint to make the words more twig like and we also had an idea of maybe making slenderman raise his long arms into the text so it looks like it is part of him.

Audience Feedback.

We had shown our clips to two sixth form students and as you can see, they really enjoyed it they especially also really liked the music and the heartbeat.

The other half of the video is response from my media class. As media students, they are more aware of camera shots and how things are taken, of course their feedback will be more in depth. They all really liked the trailer and thought that improvements should be made, just like the other 2 students.
So far, I think my group and I have made a great start to the trailer and we will be improving it daily and showing updates on what we have improved.

Rough Cut 1. A2 Media Studies

This is the rough cut that Karwin mainly made which includes a lot more scenes of the teenagers breaking into houses and wondering around and running. We really liked it and we all agreed that if this were to be merged with Cleo's rough cut, our final trailer will be outstanding. Personally  I think that so far, the trailer is good. I had learnt that the green screen 'R' rated part would need to be changed as it is American. Much more needs to be edited at the end of this clip as. A reason why the end is still unedited is because the filters where just a test to see which was more effective, filter or no filter. The filter Karwin used was the 'Sci-Fi' filter as long as changing the brightness, saturation and contrast of the picture.

Rough Cut 2.

This is our second rough cut. We show slender man in the beginning of this clip.

Rough Cut.

This is the first rough cut we have edited. We have used various shots, tried to create a scary horror tension and atmosphere.

Editing Slenderman For Poster.

This is the process of how Karwin had made our initial poster. We as a group have been taking pictures and the picture which Karwin used to edit was taken by me. The image is of the man was a business man from an iStock image and Karwin had taken the outline of it and transformed it into a longer and slimmer body shape which resembles Slenderman. Karwin then placed him behind a tree in which resembles to what images of slenderman is like on the internet. To put him behind the tree, Karwin cut and paste the section of the tree so he can be hidden behind it. Further adjustments will be added of different designs for a final refined poster.

Trapped

I took these pictures when I was in tooting. It was really dark and these gates I saw loo really creepy and it kind of reminded me of our trailer Narrative. Slender man chasing the victims and they finding themselves trapped. So I thought I could take pictures of my friend trying to get away from Slendeman. 

Extreme close up shot of the gates so that the images could create tension and so that we could we trapped ourselves.

Analysing Magazine Covers.

Conventions of front cover magazines;

• masthead 
• pull quote 
• cover lines 
• teasers 
• buttons 
• bleed outs 
• bar code & price 
• one main image 

Tooting Park (Trees)

Here are some pictures I took on my way home of some trees. I thought these pictures had really cool effects by the oranges and browns in the background of them.

Magazine Front cover.

Here are the ideas that me and my group came up with for our magazine cover.

We will use the Total Film instead of Empire
Using a glow-up masthead because it relates to the image, where the final girl will be holding a torch)
The website & issue number on top of the 'M' of 'FILM'
Main image. of final girl in foreground, and Slender Man hiding in the back
barcode on bottom right corner
We may add a spin.




Here is our flat-plan which Mehek drew, so that we had an understanding of what our magazine will look like.



Karwin added the conventions of 'Total Film' magazine such as the barcode puffs, plus signs bleed outs pull quotes and title of film. We still need to consider which one we want to use.

Photos of filming location.

Biggin Woods

These are the photos Cleo took in Biggin Woods. Mostly of trees which she may edit Slenderman into. She took pictures of paths and stairs in the woods.The pictures are very dark and creepy, we wanted to make the pictures are freaky as possible so they would create tension in their own way.

Time Lapse

Me and and another member of my group decided to film a time lapse. We used a the Video Camera 9 which it is a cannon HD video camera and we also used a tripod to keep the video camera still whilst it filmed.Filming a time lapse helped us test out whether using a time lapse in our trailer would work effectively as we wanted. We filmed our time lapse in collage on the the deck outside the study and we kept on checking if the video camera was filming constantly.

For our time lapse we recorded a setting of the sky, clouds and trees for 2 hours from 12pm until 1pm  We then converted the footage on a hard drive and edited it using iMovie to speed up from 2 hours to 7 seconds.

Character Profile: (Final Girl) Sasha

Sasha is the final girl in our film and we have chosen this name because it is a unisex name which in films, final girls often have unisex names. Sasha is your typical good girl in school, does her work, helps out for charity and does not do anything that is known to be bad. She is persuaded by her friends to research into an Urban myth which then leads to her going to a forest and breaking into houses.

Sasha is the only girl in the film without a boyfriend and is known to be 'holy' (the virgin). In my film, I am trying to portray that if you do bad things, bad things will happen to you, such as death (which is taking it a bit extreme to get my point across).

In the trailer, you may notice that Sasha will be the only one that is filmed in a scene with the villain involved and the others will not be seen with the villain. This is because Sasha will form some sort of relation with the villain whether it may be seen as good or bad.