Edited Trailer

Storyboard

Linking our trailer with ancillary texts

Video Presentation

Final Trailer

Movie Magazine Cover

After looking at many different magazine covers, I realized they sometimes use the same photo that is shown on the promotional poster, so I decided to do the same thing. Earlier on I did a mock up of how I'd like to set out my magazine cover. Since then, I've looked at a lot more magazines and therefore changed what I wanted as my final product slightly. I wanted to make the majority of the front cover about our movie 'The Game.'

Movie Poster

I went with my original idea for my poster. The mock up I did earlier holds the general idea I ended up using. I didn't want there to be too much information. I felt I should use a lot of ratings as that is something most people look at when they think about going to a film or not. I've used conventional colours that are associated with horror/thriller movies and the expression on Rebecca's face I feel is very eye-catching and is a good advertisement for the movie.

Production Log

2nd April 2010 - Filming - Storyboard (Rachel, Rebecca and Sophie)
6th April 2010 - Filming - Storyboard and spontaneous filming (Rachel, Rebecca, Anthony and Sophie)

Story Overview

The outline of our story was that Richard killed Rebecca who trusted him. When another moves into her old house, he sets his eyes on her and the ghost of Rebecca is trying to warn Rachel. We tried to make the trailer ambiguous. For instance, we didn't want to make it clear if Rebecca was trying to help Rachel or if she was jealous of the attention Rachel was getting from Rebecca. However, we do know Rachel is the potential victim and Richard is a killer.

Costume List

The clothing used was casual/everyday wear the the actors/actresses would generally wear. We had to make sure they were wearing them consistently through certain shots. There was a also a jacket that Rebecca's character wore when she was killed, and she continues to wear this when she is dead/haunting Rachel's character. However this was only a subtle factor in the trailer, and is probably not recognized when watched only a couple of times.

Venue List and Risk Assessment

Spinny Woods (Kirkby)
Deyes High School (Maghull)
Spinny Close (Kirkby)

These locations provided us with the scenery and mis en scene that our shots needed. Some close ups we were able to do in Deyes High School as the background was not important. Long shots and panning shots were done in Spinny Woods and Spinny Close as we needed the mis en scene to fit in with the story or what was happening.

For risk assessment, we had to be sure that when running, there would be nothing in the way which could cause somebody to get hurt. So we checked the pathways where the characters had to walk. Also, we had to a number of high shots and therefore stand on a stable platform in order to get these shots. This was done in a safe manner, as we checked that the platform would not fail to keep the camera up.

Actor List

Actors in this our trailer where:

Anthony Killen (Richard)
Rebecca Taylor Williams (Victim)
Rachel Waring (Potential victim)