References

Post 15 – References

Images:

DVD Cover Background - (Anon., 2014)

Badger – (Anon., 2014)

Cottage – (Anon., 2014)

Flames – (Anon., 2014)

Tiger – (Anon., 2014)

Back Cover Background - (Anon., 2014)

Disk Label Background – (Anon., 2014)

Skull – (Anon., 2014)

Flames - (Anon., 2014)

 

Video and Audio  Sources:

Abandoned Cabin – (Anon., 2014)

Horror Forest Chase Scene – (Anon., 2014)

Lost In Forest – (Anon., 2014)

Forest Of The Blair Witch – (Anon., 2014)

Scary Forest – (Anon., 2014)

 

Works Cited

Anon., 2014. CG Textures. [Online] Available at: www.cgtextures.com [Accessed 15 March 2014].

Anon., 2014. Science Badger Unleashed. [Online] Available at: http://sciencebadgerunleashed.blogspot.co.uk/ [Accessed 15 March 2014].

Anon., 2014. Tiger Day. [Online] Available at: tigerday.org [Accessed 15 March 2014].

Anon., 2014. YouTube. [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoICfsCNieQ [Accessed 01 April 2014].

Anon., 2014. YouTube. [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUB4fikjm2M [Accessed 01 April 2014].

Anon., 2014. YouTube. [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXG6N3gsYBk [Accessed 01 April 2014].

Anon., 2014. YouTube. [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyKI700S_P8 [Accessed 01 April 2014].

Anon., 2014. YouTube. [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmwYleMXxQ [Accessed 01 April 2014].

 

Evaluating My Trailer

Post 14 – Evaluating My Trailer

When I watch through my trailer, I find myself on the edge of my seat and even though I know what is coming next, I still find that it shocks me every time. I think that the clips are in a good order, starting out slowly, with the abandoned hut and then gathering pace around the middle with the scenes of a chase through forest. I think with a horror trailer it is important to start a little slower, because you can’t just jump straight into the action. It would be fair to say that most trailers, regardless of genre, would have a flat, calm clip(s) to begin with so that they can build to some sort of excitement. The chase scene used in my trailer I was so very happy with, it is exactly the way I wanted to show the film to the consumer.

Evaluating My DVD Cover

Post 12 – Evaluating My DVD Cover

I am very happy with the way my DVD cover eventually came together after such a long time spent on it. It took me much longer than I thought to work out exactly what I wanted to do with the cover, but I’m pleased with final result. I think it’s difficult to say you’ve ever done enough but I think the cover has everything I would want to include. I was very happy with the main title I created, when using features of illustrator. I think it really does set the tone for the rest of the project, as it is one of the first things you see. I spent a lot of time trying to blend the badger into the forest and come up with a result I was happy with, but every time I go back to it I alter my opinion a little. I look sometimes and I’m really happy with the way it blends together, but there have been occasions I’ve opened it back up and felt like I need to tweak it around again. I like how the forest comes through the white of the badger but sometimes I’m just not sure about the way black parts of the badger blend with the forest, although I think it’s important to keep it how I have because the badger is quite an integral part, both to the front cover and the film, as a main character of The Wind in the Willows.

I’m also very happy with the logo I created in illustrator for the production company logo; although I don’t think you ever see it in its best light on the DVD cover. To fit on the spine of the DVD it needed to be very small, and it would have looked out of place had I made it any bigger on the back cover. In its full size it does look like a really nice artistic piece, so I’m only disappointed I don’t feel it really came across as I wanted. The picture at the top on my back cover is another one of my favourite parts of the cover and I think this is just for the way it all seemed to go together so well. It didn’t actually take very long to do, although I probably used more tools of Photoshop on that image than any other. It was originally a daytime shot but now seems to look as natural as a night shot in the middle of a blaze of flames.

Wind In The Willows: My Trailer

Post 11 – Wind in the Willows: My Trailer

In making my trailer I tried to look for a combination of different clips to use. I think it’s important in a trailer to have lots of different clips to move between and although having to create a minute long trailer sounds really short, but you need a variety of clips to really convey the mood of the film. It would be simple to place together a few long clips, but especially with a horror movie, the trailer is very often quite jumpy, regularly skipping from clip to clip to add to the tension. I have used around ten different clips at this point in my trailer all at a variety of lengths and rates. There are some quite intense chase scenes in the trailer, with howling screams added in to keep the viewer on the edge of their seat. I created some texts in Premiere, in white but with a blood-like red across the lettering. I changed much of the text properties from height, width, slant etc.

I used video transitions between some of the clips to give a professional, more natural adjustment from one clip to another. There are a wide range of video transitions available, although I found that ‘dip to black’ and ‘dip to white’, which are two of the more popular effects in television and film, were two that seemed to work well for me within my trailer. The bright white light is often used in horror films such as the Saw films, and I think it adds more to the tension and fright factor sometimes when moving quickly between clips. I also found the dip to black very useful in a very similar way. With a film of this genre, darkness is often a constant theme associated with danger and plays on people’s fear of the dark, so the dip to black transition worked well when dipping to my text screens that play between some of the clips.

An Introduction to Adobe Premiere

Post 10 – Adobe Premiere

Ripple Edit Tool – The ripple edit tool allows you to change the length of a clip but whilst not shortening another clip or leaving a gap. When the change is made, it ripples along, so if you shorten the clip the following clips would be brought forward by that length. If you lengthen the clip, the following clips will move back by that much too.

Rolling Edit Tool – Rolling Edit will extend the length of a clip but shorten the length of a following clip in return. So it differs from the ripple edit because it can affect other clips than just the one you are trying to change. The clips either side of where you click to make a change will both be affected. You will need to be careful because if you have cut the clip from a source, changing the start or the end will change your clip and bring in different footage than you selected.

Rate Stretch Tool – The rate stretch tool changes the rate at which the video clip will play. By shortening the clip, everything you selected will still be played, but at a quicker speed. Similarly, if you lengthen the clip, it will play the same footage at a slower speed.

Razor Tool – This tool allows you to cut a clip into two separate parts. Simply click where you want to cut the clip, and it will appear as two separate clips which you can then move independently of one another.

Wind In The Willows: My Disk Label

Post 9 – Wind in the Willows: My Disk Label

On my disk label, I wanted to try to do something different from the DVD cover, so moving away from the greenery of the forest I first looked for an image of a small dirt track. I wanted to give the view that this time you are looking down into the forest from above, onto a secluded clearing. I used the brush tool to subtly add a faint redness into the dirt as a typical horror effect. I included an unusual looking skull, which was given horns, and appears to be laid in the secluded area of the forest. An image of flames with lowered opacity and fill subtly spread across the skull and track to continue the theme from the derelict cottage on my back cover. The main title appears as it does on the front cover. I think this is something that should be consistent as it is part of the identity of the film, and I have included the catchphrase for the film, which I have altered using the ‘warp to mesh’ feature which I previously used to create the main title. I think the catchphrase has a more of an importance on my disk label, because the cover is quite busy in images already as it covers such a big area in comparison to the size of the disk label. On the disk label it is a focal point which the consumer is always going to see and read just before they play the DVD.

Evaluating My Disk Label

Post 13 – Evaluating My Disk Label

When I first completed my disk label I was pleased with the final result, but when I looked back at it again I feel like something had changed and that there is something missing. I know there is nothing missing from the work so I find myself wandering could I have utilised the space on the disk label any better, or was there something else I could have included?  All in all though, I think the disk label still has some great qualities to it, like the background I was particularly happy with. I like the way the ground appears with a definite tinge of red coming through which I brushed in. The flames are only very subtle, I’m just not decided if that’s a good thing or not. On the one hand, I don’t think it should be too apparent otherwise it will detract from the effect of the background. However, I think that the flames may be too subtle they are very difficult to necessarily pick up on when you look at the disk label.