Experimenting with more photos

We were worried our poster was too simple and plain so we experimented by taking screen shots of Emily in our film and putting them onto our poster very faintly to add a bit more detail.  However we felt it cheapened the look of our unusual poster.  We also felt it gave the poster more of a horror element which isn't the genre of film we have made and would give a false impression.  We decided to remove them and instead work hard on creating really professional looking text.

TA DA .... WE FINISHED IT !!!!!!!!

Finally after weeks of planning, filming, editing and stressing we have finally finished our teaser trailer.  The 'finishing touches' took us a lot longer today then we had hoped! We thought our music would be a straight forward affair of recording a music student playing the piano to fit the song Molly had sang.  WE WERE SO WRONG. Trying to fit music to the singing was so difficult and we ended up with a piano piece we really weren't happy with.  We then played around in garage band ourselves to try and come up with something to go with the singing.  Finally after a couple of hours of stressing we decided to use a backing track to the original song.  Although it is sort of like using the original music we have tried so hard with our sound.  Making sure some parts are louder or more quiet and making all the singing fit perfectly was a challenge too.  We have also included voiceovers which needed adjusting once the music was in place.
   We are so pleased with our final outcome.  It is better then any of us expected because of the music, the interesting shots and the titles with the beautiful underwater photos we took.

text text text text text

Today we have been working on our text.  As our picture for our poster is quite subtle and mysterious we have to work especially hard on our titles to make the poster look professional.  Using the 'Rabbit Hole' for guidance we came up with our credits.  We liked the layout most posters use of having the persons title e.g directed by in very small lettering and on word being on top of the other.  And then their name e.g Daisy Sloman to be larger an more prominent.
   This has been quite challenging as it has required us to have each work on a new layer and this has become quite confusing.  Particularly when we decided we wanted to move it all slightly to the left.  We are now happy though with what we have achieved and we do think it looks like existing posters credits.
    We also like the layout of this poster and are now beginning to think about where the rest of the text for our poster should go.  We think having all the text at the bottom or on the left of the poster as it is the plainer side.  We have also thought about experimenting with the colours of our titles.

 We originally thought we wanted the titles all in white but as we want to draw attention to Emily's face which it might take viewers a while to spot on our poster we thought using an orange or red might help make her face more obvious.  We will begin to experiment with colours next week.

Completion of Titles

Me and Molly stayed behind tonight, and applied the photos to the titles with the correct font. They look really nice, better then we could have expected. We exported these and applied them to our teaser trailer. They go exceptionally well with the overall aesthetic appearance and mood of the trailer.
They add depth to the titles, allowing them to be more integrated with the teaser trailer as suppose to being individual from it.
We have watched our pretty much completed teaser trailer through and are really pleased and proud of the outcome, a massive improvement from our already good attempts at AS level.
The only things left to do tomorrow, will be the music which has already been sung, we just need to apply the piano to the music.
We would then be FINISHED !!

Titles

Seeing as the photos have come out unexpectedly dark and mysterious we have decided to use them for the background behind our titles, as we still wanted to incorporate them into our teaser. Here are some screen shots of how we have combined them with our titles. We are really pleased with the outcome of them, as they make the titles more interesting and give them a unique look.

Fav photos

Here is our shortlist of the photos we want to use for our poster.  We were unsure as to whether we liked the photos when we first saw them as they weren't what we were expecting.  However because they are so dark they have an exciting mysterious feel that will really work well for a poster and magazine cover. We have narrowed it down now to 3 that we think will work really well for a poster and 3 for a magazine cover and can now begin experimenting on photoshop.  We are hoping to overlay the photos and use the transparency tool to combine our photos and make an really intriguing and unusual poster.  We will also experiment with text and layouts and using the photos in different combinations to see what works best.

When shortlisting our photos we began to get really excited about the photos we have taken.  Also they are all upside down and turning them the right way round gave us completely different visuals and made us notice things that completely change the look of the photo.  For instance one of our favourite photos actually has Emily's face on it but we didn't even notice until we turned it the right way.

The top image is the original image that was turned upside down, we really liked it this way. 

The image below is the rotation of the image above, when we discovered that you could see the outline of Emily's face and expression we liked it even more. Initially we would like to use this as a main image for our poster.

Under Water Photos !!!!!

We have at last received our underwater photos, however how we thought they would look is not how they have come out. The issue is that the light level of the photos have distorted the overall appearance of the photos, but there is always a silver lining. The pictures that we have got are abstract, mysterious and actually quite beautiful. they are not necessarily appropriate to be in our teaser trailer but are entirely perfect for our poster and film magazine cover.