Credits (Mori)

Today i am looking at different credits of films and how effective they are, this is useful research and will therefore help us analyse the best credit style and size and animation for our particular type of genre.
Once again i used The Final Destination to look at as it is the film which is closest to the genre of our film and therefore will give us the best idea of what is effective.

I find this title very effective, it has the blue smokey effect aound it giving it a sinister feel, but apart from that it is very simple giving audiences little to focus on other than the name of the film, this in turn would mean they will remember the name of the film and therefore go and see it is if they liked the trailer. Also having the first word 'The' on the top line, above 'Final Desination' adds extra emphasis on the second two words implying importance.
The effect added to this title is also very simple but effective, it is the tirle coming slowly towards the front of the picture gradually getting bigger.

This is the second film trailer i have been looking at, it is for the film 'Zombieland' which is a favourite of mine, i love the captions in this trailer, they have effects on them such as swinging down as if it was a sign or one letter falling off as if the sign was old and falling apart. In the screen shot to the right you can see that the caption 'This October' is made to look as though it is actually in the film judging from the shadow on the writing, i think this is very effective and looks very high budget. I thgink the only problem we may face in putting captions in like this is the fact that they are expensive and this film is actually although fairly scary a caomedy and therefore these effects may take away the tension and horror/mystery feel from out trailer.

This is a screen shot from the same trailer but it is another very well done caption, the title has been made and put onto this little world, the animation connected to this title is brilliant, it has a fair grounf fide swinging round ith this ball on the end of a craine sort of thing and then when the titlt comes into shot it all slows down to show the animation on the ball and the words in the title. I think this if possible to make a graphic aninimated title would be very effective but it may prove too epensive.

Filming (mori)

Last weekend Aaron and I started to film our trailer, we chose to do our most complicated scene, in terms of location, the scene at the beach is the hardest so we decided to get it done. It is the furthest away meaing that in order to do it correctly we needed to do it when we had a lot of time on our hands, therefore we did it on a sunday. This gave us plenty of time to get there to the exact location we yhad previously chosen. There are some difficult shots in this scene because she is on the edge of the cliff so we had to be very careful in making sure she didn't get too close to the edge and risk her safety, this meant we had to trick the camera. To do this we took shots from low angles so that you could see her body and only the ground she is standing on and then the sea in the rest of the shot making it appear as if Lucy our actor is closer to the edge and therefore the sea than she actually is. We also used close ups on the back of her head again witht he sea in the background to get the same effect. Also we used the syncronous sound well in this shot because we were very close to the sea we can hear the sound of the sea below, this is very effective as it makes the audience believe where she is more than she might and it also puts ideas in their head which the images may have already inspired, for instance her jumping off the cliff, this therefore adds a great deal of emotion and suspense tension which slowly builds through the trailer as this scene will be at both the beginning and the end of the trailer. We also used the sun to our advantage on this day, it was shining down fairly brightly but it was quite a clod day this meant lucy's face was lit up and the wind was blowing her hair back away from her face and the sea, all three of these factors helped us to get several great shots and i am confident that they will look effective and moving in the trailer.