Update

things are getting there,im just adamant not to rush so i can do the best i can, im not gonna lie , using sony vegas to edit my footage is a challenge but its going to show how ive improved my skills form last year, as last year i used the video editing software on the imac, and sony vegas 8.0 is definately an software which is going to show how my skills have increased, but like i said before its going to be a challenge, and not an easy one. The things im finsing the hardest is getting the clips perfectly in time and putting what where, theres just so many editing tools!! i still need to get music and sound effects sorted, planning to do this on the imac, because theres  software called garage band which i am familiar with so i could create some pretty cool stuff. Im working on my Anicillary tasks for the brief now which is the magazine cover and the film poster. im using publisher for both, and they're coming along great, although it's been a tricky process getting the font sorted because i had to edit it alot. i'll post both the poster and the magazine on here so you guys can tell me what you think, so i can recieve some audience feedback. Keep posted guys!

Photoshoot!

Okay so tonight im going to be having a photoshoot and taking photos of the main character for the Main iconic image of the film magazine. I wanted to do this instead of just taking stills from the footage i have because from analysing actual film magazines , i have noticed that the main inconic image is very appealing and positioned in a certiain way to show certain things like status of the character, attitude and genre.i'll be going stacey's (the main character of my trailer) makeup to how it was in the footage and then taking pictures of her in certain styles and positions to fit in with the whole horror genre.

<< This is a still from the footage i got, it's stacey (the main character) in her demon form with the makeup i did for her.

check out this awesome blog from a media studies student

http://media.mrhurren.co.uk/blogs/wordpress-mu/ben/tag/media-a2-research-planning/

i came across this blog randomly when researching film magazines, but it was an excellent find!

lights,camera, ACTION!

okay so I got my filming done this week, I managed to capture a fair amount of footage and pretty much completely followed the storyboard with the odd tweak on certain shots as I went along. Originally i was to be the Main character in the trailer but I wanted to take complete control of the directing and filming side of things so i managed to get a friend to take my place. There were certain parts of the trailer that had to be shot many times as it wasn't that easy to get all the angles and frame work precise. There was a fair amount to do with the props as i needed to create a spiritual sort of board on the floor, it was fun to create as i had to use salt to create the pentagram whcih took like 5 times to get it correct! And then my house stank of smoke from all the inscense sticks and matches we had a light. The Main character had to have makeup done on her to show her demonic side, this was pretty fun, i just dabbed a load of dark eye shadow around her eyes to make her look rather posessed. So im going to now put my footage into the editing software "Sony Vegas" which is great for editing video. Im gonna add some transitions,Video effects,Text and then create my soundtrack on "garage band" on the IMAC and ass it to my video, than wooo i'll have my trailer sorted! :D

Media Trip to Atrium School of creative and cultural industries.(25/10/10)

what a day! an early start to the day at 8.30 and on our way to Cardiff Uni! Me and a few other media students attended a Media workshop at the Atrium campus , This is where all the Art and performance courses are. when we arrived we were shown a presentation on film production and how to produce films of certain genres, we were given the task of thriller. we didn't have very long to plan our films, we were given a list of a series of scenes to do and we had to choose which shots we thought would work well with them to represent the thriller genre. It was a good workshop, I got to use some high tech recording equipment which was interesting to work with. after we had made our media product we showed it to the other group and received feedback which was great for us to hear peoples opinions on our production. overall the trip was useful and interesting and I hope we go back there for longer soon :D. 

Garage Band!

This is a print screen of the Garage Band software i am using to create my soundtrack on the IMAC.

woo okay so i have been on the imac and checked out garage band, i am very familiar with garage band as i took a course in music technology in 2009 which i used garage band for my projects so im pretty confident with this technology. So i need to create a soundtrack for my trailer, and from researching and creating the soundtrack page on my blog, i have come up with a few ideas. The soundtrack needs to invovle some sort of rock based synth with some added atmoshperic effects of like suspense and thrilling sounds.Due to to copyright issues , it is necesary that the music used in the trailer is my own and i dont use another artists.

Story for the "Release Me Trailer”

Judy is a high school student, 18 years old. She is a bit of a spiritual person and a rock chick. she decides to for the fun of it, get a wigi board off this dodgy site. Her friend April isn’t sure that it's the best idea and she tries to stop her but Judy says threes no problem with doing it, so the package arrives at her door after she arrives home from school and she takes it out and begins, it all goes wrong and she begins to her blood curdling screams and devil like deep voices, she drops to the floor. She wakes up the next morning beside the wigi board with blood dripping from her mouth, she sits up and wipes it away in shock, she says nothing and just looks like she has had a hangover or something, her mum walks in and says " what time did you get in last night " presuming she has a hangover..

So she walks into school the next day looking rough, smoking and acting touchy and rude towards her friends, she puts the cigarette out on her tongue and smirks with her friends in complete shock, April tries to see whets wrong but she  beings to scratch the table in her lesson leaving deep digging marks in the wood and her work sheet filled with demonic symbols. Her friends don’t like the way she’s acting so they leave her and she walks back home alone through the park and sits there on the swing, creaking it slowly she squeezes onto the chain so hard she bleeds and blood drops down on her hand. she goes back home , on the way she begins to become severely agitated , her phone rings and she ignores if, April leaves a message on the answer phone. "Judy...Judy are you there? Please get back to me, that wigi board its messed with you I know it has, just let me know that you’re ok, please!"(during this voice over, there are scenes of Judy smoking, drinking and fighting, pinning someone up against wall The final scene is with Judy sat down in the distance as the camera jumps cuts closer to her a bit at a time and she then mumbles.."RELEASE ME..." black out. CLIFF HANGER ^_^ wooo well it is a teaser trailer after all :P