Information we have chosen to include on website

HOME PAGE
On the home page, we want to include the name of the movie 'The Ouija Deal' in bold at the top so it is instantly visible and stands out to the audience of the website. The home page will only include the trailer because we want the audience to explore the website to find out more rather than find all the information on the one page.

GALLERY - CAST LIST
We decided we wanted the cast list page separated from any other page containing photos of the film. The reason for this is because we want the audience to know who the actors are and to learn a bit of background information on their lives outside of acting. This will not  only help them to be more interested in the characters but also the entire film, too. 

GALLERY - PHOTOS FROM FILMING
We want to include a slideshow of all the photos from the day of filming. This will help the audience to see some of the 'behind the scenes' of the day we filmed for the trailer. This will include: getting make up done, the filming of scenes, close up of make up. 

ABOUT PAGE
The about page will include an explanation on what the film is about and who it is created by. This will help the audience to understand the meaning behind the story of the film and exactly what the film will be about. This will hopefully entice the audience to watch the film. 

BOOKING PAGE
On this page, we will include all booking information. This means we will list the cinemas that our film will be shown in, links to the cinema websites to make it easily accessible for the audience to make their booking, links to our Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages and also contact information for Sombre Productions if people want to get in touch. 

Pictures of cast chosen for websites

These are the photos we decided to use on the 'cast list' page for our website. We wanted close up photos of each of the actors so that their image was clear to the audience. Ideally, we would have liked to have taken 'professional' photos or photos that looked professional, like Lizzie's at the bottom right. The only reason we would have liked to have done this is because it would look genuine and realistic on the website overall. 

Movie Trailer (so far) - The Ouija Deal (link)

Problems with coursework

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changes in sombre productions logo

Reviewing each group's work

Today each group in our class put their video up for every other group to see. By doing this, it enabled us to give feedback and helpful advice on how they could perhaps improve their music videos/film trailers.



This method of peer marking was particularly useful because it enabled us to see things that could be changed in others' videos and we could then apply this to our own work.

Use of transitions

CROSS DISSOLVE

We have used the cross dissolve transition between the two clips of the ouija board playing and the clip of Ashleigh's hand after playing the game. The effectiveness of this is that, as the two clips are actually linked, the audience being able to see both of the scenes merged into one (even for a second) helps them to relate the two scenes together.

Continuity Editing

CONTINUITY EDITING

The three clips shown here are another example of continuity editing which we have included. The shot of Lois coming up the stairs continues until she gets to the door to open it. The next shot is then filmed from inside the room as Lois opens the door and comes inside. I think the shot works really well because it shows both Lois getting to the location and then the audience can see where exactly the location is.

Editing

To keep to the conventions of the setting of a horror movie being a dark, eery place, we wanted to edit the clip above so that it was not too vibrant. When watching through what we have put together so far, the brightness of this scene just did not fit in at all with the genre. 

As a result of this, we decided to edit the clip by changing the exposure and brightness. To do this, we clicked 'video adjustments' and used the sliding bars to decide how dark we wanted our clip to be. By changing the brightness to -38%, it instantly made the clip appear as though it was filmed during a darker time, as opposed to when it was filmed in the daylight. 

Editing Process

In order to create a continuity of a shot within the editing process in iMovie, we used the crop tool to do this. What we had to do was keep adding the same shot in but cropping it each time so that it looked like we had zoomed in on my face using the camera although we didn't. The reason we didn't use the camera to do this was because it was difficult for Lois to steady the shot so we used the crop tool instead. Below are the print screens of the shot each time it moves closer towards the camera.

Make-Up Photos

Health and Safety

In order to be safe when filming for our movie trailer, we had to take Health and Safety into consideration. One part of our trailer involved the character of Lois setting fire to the Ouija board, using candles and matches. As a result of there being more than one character around the table, we had to ensure we were all a safe distance away from the fire. We chose the garden location to shoot this scene as it was outside of the house, away from anything that would catch fire easily. The image here is of the bucket of water which we had by the side of us to enable us to put the fire out if necessary. There were no problems with the fire, and no one was harmed by the flames.  

Photos from the day of filming

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