Video Storyboard

We have edited together a storyboard with music to give us a rough draft to work from as far as pace and layout goes

Script

Tom has posted the script on his blog- here's a link to it =]

http://tomcowlesa2.blogspot.com/2010/03/script.html

More unintentional similarities

I was just looking through Tom's blog (more specifically through his older posts) and i couldn't help but notice the ridiculous similarity of this poster with our final poster! On the bright side this poster is alot better for us than the the one for Twilight; however i have never seen this poster before, and found it ironic seeing as we were looking at the original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' as an influence for our film. The font for '2010' is almost the exact same as ours; and the poster in general uses a similar layout and choice of colours- mental!

Overall though I find this a positive thing, as we wanted to create a similar style product within a different context as far as budget goes. I like to think it reflects on the fact that this particular layout is really popular within film at present (Y)

Final poster =]

2nd poster draft-

First draft- twilight similarities

Photo for poster

Different types of trailer

It came to our attention that even though we have finished our main trailer, that wasn't really the end of what we needed to do as far as video content goes. Alot of other groups in our class are doing short films or music videos, so it seems a bit unrealistic to be marked on the same level as them, when we ourselves have only 30-40 seconds of footage to show. As a result, we decided to edit the footage into several different 10 second long vignettes. These are odften known as 'TV spots' which are shown to give a taster of the film in an even smaller way than in a full trailer. We have edited one to focus around the killer, which would be more aimed at late-night television advertisements as it is used to build excitement to a more mature audience. The other is focused around the Protagonist's dilemma of not doing enough to prevent all this; which is more about the plot, so could be aimed at a wider audience at an earlier time of day. We hope this will show a bit of variety to our footage =]

First reactions

We had an opportunity to show one of our more final drafts of our trailer to a few other students, and we decided to record their personal pro's and con's to our film in order to improve it:

Pro's:
- The build of pace was appropriate to the type of trailer
- The section where Tom 'flickers' in the dark
- The overlay of diagetic/ non-diagetic sound works well
- One example of the point above is the part where the knife is being scraped, sounds creepy
- The edit at the end where Tom 'freaks out' was effective
- Generally quite creepy



Con's:
- Kloe smiles slightly in the second clip she's in
(we will look at this and see if we can edit an extra second or so to remove this part)
- The beating up was unconvincing
(I suggested speeding it up slightly to appear more aggressive, and to loop it at one part to keep the duration)
- Where Ben walks away at the beginning takes too long
(This can just simply be cut)
- Tom's 'freak out' scream is too short
(Like with the fighting, we will loop a middle part of it to make the duration longer, and fade it out so it sounds less like it just cuts)