Diary Entry #11 - Poster Editing

I've began to start editing my poster for the film, I started by taking one of the photos I took and opening it in Photoshop. I then found the sun dance film logo from google and changed the hue saturation from dark to light to change the colour from black to white so that it stood out against the dark background. I did the same for the stars and then used the fill tool to fill in the star. I then used the gradient tool to make the right side of the photo lighter than the left. I think that adding the effects drew more focus to the main character and left a space to the right for the text and details to appear. 

Trailer Audience Feedback

I posted the first draft of my trailer onto Facebook so that I could gain some audience feedback.

                                       

After looking at the comments on the Facebook page about the first draft of the trailer. I realised that there was still adjustments I needed to make in order to create a professional trailer. I will use the criticism to add more footage with different locations, footage of Alba ignoring messages and including opening and closing screens.


I also showed a group of people the trailer and asked them to suggest improvements I could make so that I had different peoples opinions. They said that I should:

• Slow down the editing of Theo walking
• More footage from London
• Sort out the sound - videos that haven't been muted 
• The change of music where they argue needs to be more clear 
• Have footage of Alba ignoring his messages
• Review the music at the end
• More of an explanation of the story line (argument)
• Use some point of view shots 
• Inter-titles
• Bookmark the ending - use hashtags, coming soon etc.
• Make another institution for the beginning 
• Maybe use another voice-over
• When Theo types the text messages they appear as he's typing them 
• Add in a shot of Alba in the bath so it looks like they're together
• Add in a inter-title between Alba walking and me

Trailer First Draft

Here is the first draft of my trailer, I am now going to continue to edit and film to improve it based on audience feedback. 

I am going to re-shoot some of my footage where the characters are speaking and where some footage is a little blurry. I think that in doing this will improve the quality and make the trailer look more professional. Once I have shown my trailer to more people I will have more improvements to make.

Diary Entry #10 - Music Planning Update

I'm carrying on with editing the music for my trailer. I am using lots of different sounds in order to make the music fit my trailer and change with the different moods and tones.

I adjusted the volume of each loop I used so that they fitted together better and then faded out certain parts to improve the flow of the music.

Diary Entry #9 - Editing

I have started editing the first draft of my trailer, having looked at the footage I've filmed I have decided to slightly change my initial storyboarded idea as some clips look better next to each other than what was planned. This will make my trailer look more professional as I have thought about what works and what doesn't. For example, I was going to have two separate shots of the characters but instead found that it looked better if I splitter the screen so that the two shots were next to each other and synchronised them. 

Diary Entry #8

I have gone out filming again to film all the shots from Theo's house. I managed to get a few different shots from different angles and so this should help when I come to edit the trailer as I can see which clips fit well together.

Diary Entry #7

On the 2nd of December I went out filming following my plan of filming certain shots, most of the shots I wanted to film I managed to film. However I didn't film the last shot of Alba walking down the road lit up by streetlights as it began to rain and ended up being too late to.This means that I have rearranged another day to film this and so we will go out on the 13th of December.