Similar aspects from Black Swan....

After watching the film black swan for my own leisure last night, this gave me good inspiration on how to produce our own film. This too is a psychological thriller with strong suspense music and tense lighting effects. The camera  movement and shots; the mise-en-scence in the film such as drink, sickness, beautiful cinematography on the stage; makes this a really powerful movie through dance.






The shot at 7 seconds is a really powerful shot to the audience watching....just admire it.

Search for music

An important part of the film is sound effects and of course the non diegetic music. Good use of music gives a whole new dimension to the film.




This is from the end of the film The Prestige, it uses a piano and in a low key at a slow tempo and becomes faster at the end as it shows the building on fire. This works well with this film as it makes it more dramatic and builds up, however it wouldn't work for the majority of our film apart from the end where Andrew is dead and Maria is writing in the diary.
For the end of the film the music should be slower and low key and during the action parts where there is faster editing quicker tempo music and higher key.

In modern comedy films i.e. American Pie series and The Hangover, they tend to use either rock or pop songs which often have a fast tempo. They are usually popular songs which is obviously unavailable to our film and would not match the genre. We would be looking for slower tempo music in low key and gets faster and higher key in certain situations i.e. killings and the kitchen scene where Maria has the gun.

Searching for music....

In our search for different types of music we can use for 'Killing Between the lines' we obviously want something tense and powerful to make our audience be on the edge of their seats.... Not like this;

https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/summary/play.cfm/crumb.4/crumc.0/sound_iid.345390

But like this;

https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/summary/play.cfm/crumb.4/crumc.0/sound_iid.496407

Other examples include:

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Horror/Haunted-Children-Nursery-Rhymes/Hes-Behind-You/460161

We could use this when Andrew Francis is following one of his victims. As Andrew Francis gets closer to his pray the music gets faster with a louder tone for the climax.

Radio trailer

Radio trailer for 'Superman the movie'. this radio trailer uses sound from within the film and the theme music. It also quotes reviews and mentions the age certificate of the film.
In our radio trailer we may incorporate sound from our own film i.e. the narration and perhaps the gun shot.

MOVE OVER HOWELL!

As a moment of inspirational genius my media teacher suggested I take over most of the editing of the footage and really take charge of what parts we need to re-film due to the lighting and what looks good and how to use cross-cutting effectively to bring a strong, tense outcome!

Today...

We shall be continue filming the beginning scene in Andrew's study office and updating the shots that went wrong which we accidentally filmed in DV. We will continue editing the thurnscoe scene.....it seems to be going on forever...c'mon lets get motivated!!!...ughhh..

Progress.... it's like Take That!

We have continued editing our film 'Killing Between The Lines' We are really happy with the lighting from the kitchen scene and our new location at Thurnscoe.

On the 6th February we shall be having a lesson from a university lecturer on how to make our own film poster using photoshop to promote our film. By analysing and researching different posters, which I posted a few months ago on this blog; it has given me some idea on how to create my own.

To create the conceptualisation, design and production of an original film poster it has to:

STAND OUT

Have a catchy tagline: "Oblivious to everything."

The Lighting has to be right to promote the mood of our film and give the audience an idea on the genre of the film. IE, Thriller; Tense, Jumpy, Twist;Suspense;Tension. (Aesthetic)

The TITLE of our film must stand out to get people to recognise and watch it. (Focused))

I want the overall look of the final poster to like a we are promoting a psychological thriller.

I want the poster to be well ordered and sequenced: Large Title, large image.

I want to use a high resolution such as 300dpi. because if we were to print this off and place it on a billboard it would be in a large format. Other things I could place on the poster are:

Leading Cast

Classification

Director

Producer

Distributor

I would also like to use photography as the prominent piece of the design in order to try and explore different aspects of media.

Our poster should allow the audience to take in all this important information instantly in order for it to be a success. Therefore Psych productions can create more films in the future!...and make more profit. ;)

This website has given me inspiration for my own as these posters are bright, colourful, big photography shots and most importantly they stand out and instantly get the message across to their target audience on what the poster is promoting!

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/extremely-creative-movie-posters/

This video also helped greatly.

"The eyes will always focus on the middle of the poster."

Actors first below the title. Below that - film crew.

Director always named last.

The question I am going to ask myself when we finalise our poster is: Does this poster promote our film easily to our target audience; if I were in their shoes? I will then know if it will go on and be a success.