Preparation Of Taking Photos.

Harold opperating the lamp, setting it up in a position to get the required result. Also Harold opperating the camera, doing some test shots for the poster.





We have proceeded to taking photos for our film poster. in order to get the desired shot we took a number of photos, all taking turns operating the camera. We decided we would like our poster to be in silhouette form as this adds to the mysteriousness of the poster . In order to achieve this we had to make use of the lighting equipment. We had to turn off all the sorrounding lights and close the curtains so that only the source of light was from the lamp. In order to create the silhouette effect I (ryan) had to stand in front of the lamp and we had to test a number of shots to get the lighting right for this effect.

We switched roles frequently so everybody could have a chance to use the camera. This enabled us to

notice who was best when using the camera and is able to take the best shots.

After a number of shots we were able to get the desired result to use for our horror poster

Feedback-

Harold-  the point you have made in that last blog post is not lost on me- but please don't make comments like that. Remember you get marked individually.

the blog posts you made over the Christmas holidays are good, so don't give up or lose hope.

Progress Update 13/01/2011

Horror movie trailer nearly done.

Adding finishing touches.

Haven't been able to complete it due to doing ALL the work in media and outstanding work in other subjects.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Progress Update 1/1/2010

I can start off by saying...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

the festive season is over.
During the course of this half term holiday I have been doing plenty of editing regarding our Horror Movie Trailer. It is half done.
The following screenshots were taken during editing of the movie trailer.

This is one of the intro shots. I have added a soft colour grading and a blurred marquee around the shot to give it a soft look before the real horror starts.

Here is the shot where I added the 'Bad TV' effect.

Alot of dark colour grading to add the horrorful

One of the titles added saying the date and a little catchphrase

SETUP : Lighting

Here are photo's of Ryan (One of the team members). We set up a white spot light so the we only see light on the main focus so that it looks like this:

This footage has not been edited/retouched at all. It is the RAW footage, so you can still some of the left over blue from the backdrop.

Ryan adjusting the height of the stand that the light goes on

Ryan making sure the light is properly adjusted on the stand, ensuring it does not fall off during the course of the filming


Again, here is Ryan adjusting how much light is being let through the flaps for the light. Not too wide or to narrow. Just enough for the light to give the spotlight effect

Test Footage Before Shooting (Applying Make-Up Before Shooting/The Final Look) PART 2

Here are the Make-up artists applying some make up to our Actor Annabelle Nyguen

Here is a close up

Our Beautiful Make Up Artist At Work. Ife

Annabelle Being Waxed Up...

Some More Shots....

In total this preparation period took 1 half of the lesson to complete. Which was 45 Minutes. Because we were tight with time we had to rush the make up that was being done and hurry it up.

It was a fun process but we had to be efficient and swift about how we worked.

Test Footage Before Shooting (Applying Make-Up Before Shooting/The Final Look)

During the course of shooting this trailer before we did any filming we would apply makeup to the nessecary areas. Here we need some on his hand. Like in The First Test Footage we could see that there was no tone on where the blood was, so I asked our make up artist Ife Adeyemi if she could apply some more tone to where the blood was.

She then proceeded to what I like to call "the darker stuff" to the hand. This way it gives it more tone and realism. Adding the bruiser allowed the hand to look way more damaged and realistic so that even when colour grading it will look even more believealbe.

Towards the end of the footage we did the final test and also a colour graded version. The colour grading was done very quickly and hardly any time was taken on it , but in the final production of the trailer it should look amazing. From the little colour grading I did I applyed a preset called "Merlin". This is a bluey shade of colour. It looks good on a quick colour grade, imagine how good it will look in the final.