Location Recce

Bed used to show our victim sleeping

Stairs in which our killer walks up

In this location 'recce' we're showing where we filmed in our group members, Jouvan, house.
Whilst it may seem as if we haven't taken very many pictures this is because of the fact that we didn't film in very many places within the house. We used his bedroom for the main story and the stairs for a walking scene - hence the fact there is only 2 pictures.

Testing outro: Credits

An important part of any film or trailer is the credits. These give people recognition for any effort they've put into a film and also lets the audience know what production groups were part of the making stage of the film and who the film was written by etc. This made it clear to us that our production team will need to add credits to the end of our film so are audience knows who was involved in the making of it and gives the people, involved, credit where it's due. Below is the picture of what our credits will look like, once it's at the end of our trailer.

Testing intro: Alternatives

Just so our introduction isn't one dimensional, Harry also tried out a different possible introduction to see how that would turn out instead. Below is the result:

Testing intro: Green screen used

As with every trailer there has to be an intro to it.
So as a test, group member Harry decided to try out a video possibly for the start of our teaser trailer.
Please note that this is only a 'test' right now and is not defiantly going to be our final introduction to our trailer.

Green screen

From the majority of teaser trailers you see there is usual a 'green screen' at the very beginning of the clip like the one below.

This screen is done to quickly, at a glance, tell the audience/viewers who can view the movie and who has in fact rated the movie at the certificate it has been given.

Our group all decided we would like to use this 'green screen' to give our teaser trailer more of a 'real' feel. But upon looking into this we soon gathered some restrictions in us using this 'green screen'. One of these restrictions is the fact that copy right stops use from using it as we're using someone elses work and do not have the right to use it.

Because of this we all rallied together and decided that to get around this problem we would instead make a 'green screen' ourselves.

There were a variety of steps involved in the making of this but it took no longer than 20 minutes to make and so wasn't time consuming.

First step: Choosing the right tone of green
To make the screen like authentic our group member Harry tried out a variety of 'greens' to use as the background colour. I decided this tone of green was the best I could get and so the colour we choose was #007c00 on Photoshop.

Second step: The following preview
The next step was to begin writing text upon the green screen. As a separate layer, named 'text', I began to write "the following preview has been approved for" and used totally white colouring.

Third step: All Audiences
Next part of the text was to write "All Audiences" this was done to let the audience know who the film is intended for. Notice how this part is done in totally bold - so it stands out and people can quickly gather information quickly.

Fourth step: Slasher Inc
Giving a twist on the usual text of 'by the motion picture association of America, Inc' I decided to put the exact same writing, except to change the 'America, Inc' part too 'Slasher Inc'. This helps to promote our own Media production team and gain it a wider spread attention from movie-goers.

Fifth step: Websites
This step is done to put two web links up, where people can voice any problems they have with the certificate of the film. Again I changed the www.mpaa.org to www.slasherinc.com to further promote our production team - so our movies can be viewed by an larger audience and our audience can voice any concerns they have.

Sixth step: Changing font
From viewing previous pictures you can see that the font I used looked nothing like the font used in the actually official green screen. So this is where I decided to go back and change the font from 'Helvetica Heavy' to plain out simple 'Arial'. Although this can be seen as too simplistic I feel as if it works better and gives it a more sophisticated look. Notice how I also changed 'PREVIEW' and 'ALL AUDIENCES' from bold to no bold but just made their specific font size bigger, to make it stand out more from the other text.

Seventh step: Testing out drop shadows
In the original green screen you see a black shadow on the back of the text. I sought to achieve this in my text and so to do this I simply added a drop shadow to any text, I wanted, and simply tweaked it to whatever looked best.

Eighth step: Adding more shadows
I liked the effect the shadow was giving off and so proceed to add shadows to more of my text

Ninth step: Adding more and more shadows!
As the above step I decided it were best to just add this effect to every bit of text upon the green screen and you can see I have done this by looking at my layers column.

Finished: The finished article

Movie title font

One we had come up with the title of 'A Beautiful Nightmare' for our movie we had to think of a way in making it iconic. As if with many movies they all have their own movie title and the majority of them have their own font used to make the movie stand out and make an audience realize right away that that font belongs to that particular movie.

Font 1:

Part 1 of Filming: Importance of getting lighting correct

From our video below you can see just how important it is too get lighting correct.
Because if you don't then you could film the most amazing shot, in the world, but no one will be able to see it unless lightnings done properly. This shot just emphasis' the importance upon lighting as our scene was now way too dark to even begin to see what we were filming.