visual production evaluation

4 Years Later

Liam Aspinall (415796)

unit 6: visual production evaluation

-   Introduction

This unit is to explore the visual side of media a planning and preparation of get equipment to get the shot we want.

The other side of this unit is to make generic a DVD and poster and for this I chose the film diary of the dead by George A. Romero because it is a classic film and it comes out of the minds of one of the greatest directors of the horror genre and because it sort of relates to this course as it’s about media students.

2 Starting points

This image is from my mood board it portrays the style of genre I am aiming for.

The genre I am aiming for in my final project is apocalypse style of film, this photo show it by having one person it the shot being surrounded by decaying and destroyed structure emphasise the apocalypse genre so that why I pick the location of Erne farm for one of the reasons because of the fact it is abandoned and left to decay by weather which makes it suit the ideal place to film. The weather plays another factor in this because of how grim and bleak it look.

What gave me the idea of doing this for a trailer is my hobbies of Urbex (Urban Exploring) and my friends who just said to me to make it about something I love doing so that’s why I chose to do apocalypse style of trailer with help from them being the actors in it, which in return helps them in there get free promoting but I did have to pay them to help (I pay them in food)

3 Why

A lot of the shots I use was mainly stereotypical of a horror genre like the tracking shots so it focuses on the main protagonists more to conceal the identity of the antagonist for as long as possible until I thought he should be revealed to add suspense on why and who is chasing him.

I sort of never add the reason why he was being chased so the trailer sorts of makes no sense to anyone who wasn’t there helping... but the reason why he was being chased was because was immune to the virus and then saying that I never said how the apocalypse stared but if we get to make a short film I will be able to go in depths more.

I used other shots like the mid to wide and high angle shots to help show of the location of where we film it and to get more of the Action shots in one frame

 

4 What – description

We were asked to make a trailer with the minim of 45seconds but I was under that by 9 seconds with 36 seconds this is an improvement on my first attempt of it was 30 seconds. I normally edit along to the beat of music and the song I used was the ending of the song I used in my short film Stalker. The song is call cannibal by ross bugden I found on soundcloud. I found the song had a nice up beat to it that went well with the visual effects.

https://soundcloud.com/rossbugden/9-cannibals-bonus-track

5 Production

I decided to go with actors I know we took up a lot of the roles our self. I was mainly the director and camera man but Jared (the protagonist) help set up some off the shots because of the how the fight scene was choreographed in a small space and we didn’t want them to come too close to the camera. We did get help on the second day of filming by my friend tabby and girlfriend they both help in the scene where the respirator is thrown out of shot by Ethan, tabby had to catch it so it won’t break when it hit the floor and they was both sat on the sofa on the cut scenes back at my house

6 Creation

I decide to use Sony Vegas pro 2013 on my home pc to edit most of the trailer instead off the macs at colleges that use adobe premiere pro, because there was more effects I had available on my pc than there was on the macs like the TV glitching effect which I thought went really well part from the fact I had no controls on when it glitch in on the clip because I haven’t learnt how get them to work at the time I want them to. I did use Premiere Pro and Photoshop to make the title that appears both in the poster and the ending of the trailer. I did use a text maker for the letting online to make the text I use.

7  Conclusion 

Well what I think about this is project is that I could of done better there was a few things I could of done better but we didn’t try because of how long it would f took to get the resources there and set them up it would have been to late and dark it would of involve trying to get a 4wd truck in throw a small gate without draw attention and saying that the lights on the truck would probably be to bright and make the shot look shit.

I had another problem with lighting was in the living room you could see my shadow and the camera on the wall as I move closer towards the TV.

There was a few things I like was the some of the high angles and the tracking shots. The other thing I like was the black and white shot which I add more tone and vibrant to the shots by playing around with colour corrections to try and set the mood better.

The finally reason why I like it was the fact I got work with my friends on this project and got to travel and have the capable and the equipment to do this.  

Final Teaser Trailer (visual production)

Poster Print Screens 

The original photo is still shot from a unused clip because it was the clear still

I add multiply filters and colour layers to get the look I want   

 I Add some zombies in the background to add more effect to make it apocalypse horror

  I use text templates I found off google to make the title and the number 4  

Single Pre-Production Blogpost (visual production)

Mood Board Ideas 

The photos of my friends is because they are some of the best actors and cosplayers I know and they stood by me through the toughest parts of my life and always manage to make me look on the brighter side so I owe it to them to help free promote there talent and skills to help their career because they're helping mine

 The photo of the abandoned corridor is there because it symbolises my urge explore the unknown and the forgotten and to photograph the world from my perspective and to view beauty off the decay. My friend silhouette represents the past and  how do corridor would have been full of life.

The post-apocalyptic photo is there because I believe sooner or later the world is going to experience some sort of dramatic event that will wipe out alot of humanity and only leave a few survivors

I aim to incorporate all of this into my final trailer because a lot of this has be a big impact on my life since leaving High School.

Script 

 This is my rough script / storyboard.

 I had to change quite a bit of it for few reasons because some of it wasn't possible with the space with in the location and other parts required way too much editing and focus on detail to do with in a very short amount of time because some of the people were not available.

But i managed to keep it roughly the same as the original  story line.

Shooting Schedule 

Film Genre Analysis

Horror-
Stereotypical horror film is that it a lot of blood and gore and the odd jump scare that enhanced by music to add more dramatic in to the film.
a lot of the horror films use dark and dingy locations and often a lot of the scenes use the weather to its advantages for example the rain and fog can set suspense to scene in the movie

Comedy-
 A stereotypical comedy movie is often very bright and colorful. And often the leading acting roles are by famous comedians actors like Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, the list goes on.

 But comedy can go between to types:
-  Ones of children to understand that are often reference to as family comedies for example "Mr Popper's Penguins, Big Mommas House and Home Alone" which are made for children to understand.
-  Then you got adult comedy that often use a sense of humor that the older generation would understand the references more. For example the film "TED, Scary Movie and jack ass" all contain some sexual or drug references that younger people wouldn't understand yet.

Poster And DVD Cover

My original movie poster made in to a DVD case.

i use some of my poster image like the camera and i also use some of the original DvD text and description to save time on typing it out. i mess up with age rating because it is actually 18 but i put is a 12 for some reason.

DVD vs Poster Comparison