Magazine Second Draft

This is my second draft of the film magazine front cover.

First Draft Magazine Front Cover

This is my first draft for my magazine front cover, obviously this isn't yet finished, but this is what it will roughly look like. The front cover will consist of a big photo covering the whole of the page, like most of the film magazines do, and big titles put over the photo.

Feedback for the Trailer

So the trailer is finished, and i have uploaded it to Youtube.com. Now I had to get some feedback form my audience. I thought of different ways of doing this, one of which was to post the Trailer onto my facebook, and asking people for their opinion. This worked very well and i managed to get two, in depth, comments about what the people liked and disliked about the trailer.

The first comment was by Marta, she said, "I like the soundtrack, it keeps a very good tension throughout the trailer and gives the mood. Camera is not very steady which is the biggest minus here. The lighting is good, fog and dark shadows help create the mystery. If you'd actually make that film i'd watch it :) hope this helps!"

The music I added to the trailer really did it's job properly. The idea from the beginning was for the music to add tension and a scary atmosphere to the film, and that is exactly what it did. As for the cinematography, the camera was difficult to keep steady in some shots because they required the camera to be moving or tracking the subject. for example, the first shot we see in the park was supposed to be like a dolly shot, however, due to budget, the group and I could not get hold of a dolly track, so I tried by best to move the camera, but keep it steady at the same time.

The second comment on the feedback was by Greg, he said, "I like the idea alot, your creativity is there but could be improved in pre-production planning with a shooting schedule. Some very nice shots in the trailer though. lip syncing was abit out with the dubbing aswell. Also typeface needs to be changed to suit the genre. pretty good though mate hope that helped :)"

The lip syncing in the trailer is a slight problem, this was due to the fact that my camera did not pick up the sound very well, so I had to add the sound separately in post-production. The sound was recorded using a separate microphone.