Evaluation

Evaluation

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Whats on my poster

Final front cover magazine

New adapted trailer

This is a link to my new trailer 'Bad Influences'

Bad Influences trailer

Final poster

second mock up of magazine front cover without pugs and puffs

Research into similar style of movies

I have already mentioned the 2012 movie soon to be realised called project x, where a teenage boy has a house party when his parents are away to get more popular.

Similar films to this are

The hangover


this is because within the film they are dealing with the effects of drink, the after effects and how they deal with it. Also within the film and films (including the second film, handover2) they go back to the camera they had with them during the night and look back at some of the images and videos for example

the famous clip at the end of the first film, they look back at the photos that were on the camera and reflect on the past goings on.

Also in the sequel to the film they use the camera to look at past videos and pictures from the night before.

This is a very effective way of inlcuding comedy into the film and is what i will try to achive in my comedy trailer. The use of photos and videos illudes the viewer to believe that it is real and they assoicate the images with own past situations. This is where the comedy coems from.

spinal tap is legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.

'Rockumentary is a mockumentary'  is quoted by a critic.

This again is another good example of what my comedy film will include. A documentry type style, i will not do the same as this film and feature the filming through out but will have outtakes in there.

Enter the void (2009) is another style of film that includes a ten minute beginning filmed intially in a point of view shot. Now i will use this style within my trailer and is a very good example because the film last aprox ten minutes. Not that i will use ten minutes within my trailer but i would use aprox ten minutes of p.o.v shooting within my film. This is a good indication of what i will use.


Why have i done this ?

I have done this becuase i am showing my change of style from the start of the work. Im showing the adaption of my film and what it is becoming. Its different camera shots and how the comedy will come across. This is vital for the progression of my work.

Results and comments from my trailer

s you can see with these results I have had a mixed reaction. Majority of the votes are in the basic region, this me I have to improve my trailer for if I want it to be in the proficient section on the diagram. The main points that I will have to improve on dramatically are
• Holding a shot steady
• Framing a shot
• Varied shots transitions, caption and other FX
These points are marked low in the basic area of the diagram. I would have to improve them to get them to proficient or excellent.
Points that I have the best results with
• Appropriate material
• Editing for meaning
• Overall mark
These are good points and a mark to get on my film, the overall mark is crucial for my film. I would need to improve the mark by at least 5 marks to get into the excellent section.
I have a good amount of marks on my proficient section which is a good thing but would have to improve to get into the excellent section. The 3 parts of the criteria that I god excellent in were
• Appropriate material
• Selecting mise en scene
• Editing for meaning

Some comments I received-
“Small video, at the last clip was large”
“too dark in parts”
“change font”
“don’t understand some of the fonts and words”
“too much hand held”
“fix the sound”
“use tripod”
“use canted shot”
“add non-diegetic sound”

New style and updated trailer

The trailer that i have constructed was a sense of reality style. I filmed most of the trailer as a P.O.V shot or stedi cam, making it seem real life and as almost this footage was found. I got this style and idea off the upcoming film Project x where a a boy films his best mates party for him and it gets a bit out of control.

PROJECT X 2012

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636826/



This is the trailer of project x 2012

I did not film all the trailer in P.O.V but also in ordinary shots as well.
My plan for future filming is to make less P.O.V shots and make the trailer seem less like an documentary and more of a film. I also plan to include non-diegetic music in.

Updated Narrative

Beginning

Its beggins with the hangover of the night before, the day procedes as normal. Matthew beer is a student a brimingham uni and his friends are trying to help him get off the alcohol for him to concentrate on his work. The story starts with him over doing on his social life and not doing well at him university. You see countless times his activities on a night out and having house party, he begins to realize he is going to be chucked out of uni or serious drink problems.
Matt his reluctant to admit that he has drink problems or crazy on a night out so he asks a friend to record a couple of nights out with him.

Middle


Matt seems to know the error of his ways and tries to go cold turkey on his problems. Due to bad influences of drink, party's and friends he cant seem to shake his addiction to partying and gets dragged back into the same situation over and over again. Getting more and more worse. With only one term left the Uni decide to give him a last warning to change other wise he will be chucked from the uni. He friends try to sway him from the path which would surely end in bad things.

End

During the end of the term matt gets worse still, partying and not attending classes, his friends realise how serious this will be and try to stop him. But due to up coming partys and social outings matt is out more regulary. The university finally chuck him out of the university and suddenly matt has much more free time on his hands. At an end of a serious house party full of alcohol and women matt has an epithany and cuts down his outings.

The retreaved footage of matthew on a night out is found and shown to matthew.

What ive done in the last few weeks

During the last few weeks i have been filming and editing my trailer, at took a week and half to film the trailer and another week and half to edit it. I have filmed my trailer in the set locations i have mentioned, which the actor i have mentioned.

I have used the software ADOBE PREMIERE to edit my clips and turn them into my 1 and a half minute trailer.

This is a link to my trailer


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Mock up. Colour design

How i created my mock-ups

I used paint.net to configure my poster and my magazine front cover. Some of the effects i used in paint.net are

Magic wand : What magic wand allows me to do is take any image that i have imported onto paint.net and delete any colours or part of the image i dont want. For example :

with the use of magic wand below

Another thing i used on paint.net are the effects. The effects allowed me to design my magazine mock up front cover with the font. The writing ' what seems to be officer problem ' i used with an effect to make it seem sickly and as if the character is saying it. These are some of the effects i used to create the image :

DISTORT AND BLURS.



Mock up Front cover

Mock up Poster

Audiences preferred Poster

I showed 20 people the 4 posters i have created and asked which one they preferred and why?

Poster 1 ( 3 people preferred)
Poster 3 (5 People preferred)
Poster 2 (5 People Preferred)
Poster 4 (7 People Preferred)


Comments from the first poster :

• I like how the picture fits the text
• The picture is to dark
• The text is very funky and funny

Second:

• I love the picture, the space in between him and the drink is perfect
• The writing fits the picture
• To many colors in the back ground

Third : 

• The writing fits perfectly at the bottom of the page
• Background is not to good
• The characters facial expression fits the photo

Fourth:

• The writing in the center of the page fits perfectly with the image
• The slogan at the bottom of the page fits nicely with the text and image
• The colors of the picture and text all work nicely