22nd Dec Tilting

Readers,

Today I have been making our titling for our film using Photoshop.
Beth and I decided that we wanted to use the font Courier to make the text look like a typewriter. We liked this as it gave the trailer a more "rustic/hand held" feeling.
I started off by looking at a range of different horror film trailers and seeing when and what type of titling screens are used. I found that the newer the film the more screen titles are used as well as the trailer being longer. Jessabelle and The Possession which were made in the last 2 years both have 9 titles in their 2.30 mins trailers. While Dog Soldiers made in 2002 has 7 titles but has a shorter trailer of 1.52 mins. In our trailer we are going to use 8/9 tiles. This is to keep with the codes and conventions of film production companies.

            

To make my titles I used the programme Photoshop. I started off by creating a new project and putting it into Film & Video preset. I changed the Width to 1280, the height to 720 and the resolution to 72. The background was changed to transparent so that when I put it into the film I will be able to layer the screen over the footage easily.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

Phoebe

Title Scenes

Today Phoebe and I discussed the title scenes within a trailer and what is typically within a trailer.

We counted about 11 titles scenes including critics reviews and the name of the film plus the release date.

We watched the trailers for Paranormal Activity (2007) and the Blair Witch Project (1992) because these are handheld and amateur like our film.

We thought the trailer for Paranormal Activity was especially good because it showed the audiences reaction and is definitely a good technique because it entices the viewer to go and watch the film.

Phoebe and I considered making our trailer similar to the Blair Witch Project but we didn't want to copy it too much because we want to make a new idea.

We looked at the screens to decide on a font for our own titles. We looked at the trailer for Deliver Us From Evil (2014) and liked the type writer kind of font so we are going to use that.

The opening for the trailer for the Blair Witch Project looked believable and realistic. We've decided to put 'in November 2012, two paranormal investigators visited Westonbirt School'. However, this may change because it is really similar to this opening.

The critics make the trailer better so we are going to add some but we are going to make them up.
We are also going to add 'based on true events' to make it believable.

Beth