Photos and locations for my film poster

Here is a second location that i have used in my film it is an old cemetery just up the road from my house i decided to use this location as it looked very eery and it had old grave stones that i could use in my film. Below you can see photos that i took of my brother the ones in his pajamas are the test shots that i did to decide on the poses that i wanted him to do and the other images in the grave yard are the actual photos that i am going to use for my poster.

Audience feedback

Here i have explained the concept of my film to two of my friends and i have asked thier opinion on my film, i have also asked others but i did not get a chance to film them. I asked people who were my target audience which was late teenagers early twenties so about 15-20 and all of them liked my concept and thought that it was a film that they would be interested in seeing.

Filming update

With my filming i have various parts of scenes that i have already filmed but i need to tie up the loose ends an i have had an idea i have thought about my original idea of using the hand camera technique within my film and i am going to use that in my film revolving around my main character like he is making diary entries about his survival. I took inspiration for this idea from Danny Boyle's 127 hours where the main character's arm is stuck between a boulder for a number of days and he uses the camera to leave messages to his loved ones. I think using this in my film would make the audience empathise with the character more also we could show his emotions throughout the trailer in this way.

So i will continue to film these scenes and interaction with the other characters in the next week then hopefully at the end of this week i will be ready to edit my film.

Sight and sound

For my magazine cover i have decided to use sight and sound, i have chosen to use this magazine as they look at all different genres and languages of films and dont have a specialized type that they focus on.

Here we have the cover that they had for 'Inglorious Bastards' where they have Quentin Tarantino in an unusual pose pointing at the camera, this pose shows that he is trying to connect with the audience and that this could be seen as people want to buy it asd they are being approached in this way. the color scheme that is used is ver dark with reds and blacks that refelect that its about a dark film also it reflects that its a film about war. This darkness contrasts to the 'sight and sound' banner even though its the magazines house style it contrasts nicely with the layout. The rest of the layout is very spaced out with different typeography that looks as if some one has written it then there is a quirky way of adding some text too with the gun shot i thought that this was a different idea that worked really well.

In comparison to this cover which is a completely different take on the magazine its very bland with just a plan blue background the house style with the titles is used again and contrasts nicely the typography that is used s very sketchy and looks as if it has been written, this works becuase it says on the cover than he is talking about roald dahl's book fantastic Mr. fox and the interview is about the film so i suppose its in Dahl's style.

With sight and sound they tend to have a bland background with an image then they use typography that refelects to the theme i think i will use this in my magazine as it will reflect well with the horror genre and i could play around with different layouts that they use.

First try at filming

Last thursday i had my first go at filming i just filmed different scenes that had came to my head that i could use in a zombie apocolypse. I had one of my zombies biting into a person, some one getting pulled away from a zombie and various zombies up against windows. Most of the shots turned out good first time as the time of day was early evening so that it gave the dark effect yet you could still see everything. For these scenes i have used my house and outside it and i have used myself my brother and my dad in the scenes. I will continue to use shots like this also i have some sound effects like ones from horror films etc. that i have been given which i will play over the top of some of the scenes. I dont have an overall filming plan for my film as its pretty much when i have a free moment setting it up and doing it. The scenes that i need to do now are just various different running scenes and scenes with special effects such as the use of blood packs and stuff like that and bits just to fill in the trailer itself.

Storyline

I have decided on a vague storyline for my trailer i want it to start with a couple announcing there engagement and you hear in the background like a family cheereing and congratulating them then i want it to jump to lots of different shots of the couple running for thier lives and trying to survive this zombie apocolypse.

make up test

As i wasnt able to get hold of the camera for the holidays i decided to do the test make up here i have used my brother and have only used basic face paints to create this effect. I like this make up as it is very easy to do not time consuming and looks very effective.