Organisation

Makeup tutorial vid needs to be uploaded here .....

Planning

The photos which are now cropped to use for my magazine cover need to be pictorial representations rather than photographs.  I have found a few wesbites where you can edit images so that they look drawn or painted. 

www.cartoonize.net

kusocartoon.com

www.befunky.com

I have edited a few pictures just to see the quality of the final images.

Planning

I have looked at what we have done so far and tried to analyse good and bad points so that when it comes to the final stages of editing, Hannah and I have a good idea as to where we are aiming to finish. 

I have created a table which shows the differences between the initial story board, what we have done differently in the trailer so far and why we have made the changes we have made. This will keep us on track and it provides an explanation and thought process behind the decisions we have made.

(file won't upload from my laptop, will attach in lesson) 

Organisation

To try and re-create a wall of pictures created by a stalker, we have printed some photos of the main character. 

We have used black and white ink which isnt a problem as we are going to have these scenes in black and white anyway. This is obviously a figure of the girls imagination seeing as the stalker doesn't really exist so the use of black and white throughout the trailer will try and foreshadow the scenes which the girl is imagining in her head to the audience.

Planning

We looked into stalker films and programmes and found that many featured a wall of pictures of the victim/victims. We liked this idea and decided to try and adapt it for our own trailer. We have already completed some of the filming however we think that this will be an easy scene to shoot and slot in. The use of a wall of photos which the stalker has created will involve the stalker character a bit more as we found when filming that the main focus was on the girl and the stalker character was left out of quite a few shots which we had planned him to originally be in. 

I think that it is very effective in the photos which show a light being shone up to the wall. This is something which we will experiment with. Our stalker character is going to be stood standing looking at the images however we want it to appear to be a dark figure. We will play around with the editing software and lighting whilst filming to achieve maximum effect.

Drafting

Due to the quirky style of the Little White Lies magazine I have tried to interpret my images in a slightly different way rather than just showing the full photo. By cropping the images so that the hand is shown, I feel, retains the mystery and is a little bit different to what you would typically expect on a magazine such as Empire or Total Film.

Drafting

This is a mock up of a magazine cover. There are multiple things which need to be changed however I felt it useful to create this so that I had a bit more guidance as to where I want to go. For example the masthead is covering some of the image which is fine in most cases however this masthead is quite large, which means that it could potentially look a bit out of place. I also need to change the masthead so that it says 'The Tormented Issue' which is the typical single cover line of a little white lies cover. The image had to be cropped quite a bit which meant that it had to be decreased in size also. This has created a slight blur on the picture, which is something I will need to work on. 

Planning

I have changed the font to the same font which I have used on my magazine template. I may change it to 'The Tormented Issue' 

Planning

I have been thinking about the compilation and creation of my magazine cover. I have taken a photo which I really like. I have also looked at 'The following' (shown in a post before). There are also things which I need to take into consideration such as the idea that Little White Lies covers are normally pictoral representations. I am going to find ways in which I can either cartoonize the photograph taken so that it looks like an official edition of a cover, which is the aim, or a way in which I can get somebody to draw a representation of the picture for me. Another problem which has been brought to my attention is the fact that the photograph is landscape which obviously will not be suitable for a portrait magazine cover. However this will only prove to be a problem if I chose to edit the photo rather than use a drawing.

Planning

Something which I am going to change is the font I have used here. I realised after doing further research that newer and more contemporary horror/thrillers have kept the fonts very simplistic compared to older horror films where there are a lot of different and quirky fonts. I want my trailer and ancillary products to be very much 'now' rather than them looking dated. Due to this I have edited the poster and I am going to edit the magazine cover so that it follows a house style. 

Organisation

When we carried out the filming Hannah and I both took our own individuals photographs which followed the seperate ideas we had had for our ancillary products. Hannah did the makeup of the actress/actor and I focused on getting the setting/location ready to film. For example took control of the lighting so that the photographs and footage were of a good quality. We both shared split responsibility of both filming and directing, one of us would film and the other would direct vice versa. I feel we have worked effectively together so far in the project and have kept very equal roles.