First Draft of Accidentally in Love!

Bad quality is due to uploading issues. We are aware of the sound problems!

ENJOY!!!!!

-Helena and Lizzy

SUPREME DRAFT.

-Helena and Lizzy

Magazine Cover Progress

This is a screen shot of us working on our magazine cover in the program serif page plus. We have been working hard to make sure every thing is in perfect postition and have been trying to make it as professional as possible at the moment.

As our film is set to 'release' on valantines day we decided to make the cover a valantines theme. This also meant we could carry on with the theme of Red and white which is prominant throughout all three of the media texts we ahve created. This gives a sense of continuity and familiarity to it, making it more likely that the audicence with recognise it.

We made the title of @ccidentally in love quite large to catch the audinces attention, and have caught the attention of Rob by writing a small feature on him. As well as this we have included a Photo film roll. This was something we had wanted to use on our website as we had great photos that we didn't want to go to waste. We ended up finding the image of the camera film on a website and were able to copy into onto our poster and adjust the sizes without a problem.

We also chose to include a the feauture of a free movie poster. This meant we could use a small picture of our poster on there, pnce again connecting our three texts and making it recognisable to the audience.

As well as this we we chose to add some writing on two other current and popular films, as a film magazine does not just focus on one film. It also keeps it up to date and interesting.

We chose the same Supreme as it's a bit of a play on the word empire. It denotes power and authority, making our magazine more likely to be taken seriously.

When chosing a picture to put on the front we had many choices as we have done two photoshoots. Two of the main contenders were:


As you can see we chose the photo on the left. This was because although the picture of them on the right is very nice and captures the essence of the film well, it has quite a few problems to it. One being the fact you can't really see much of Lucy's face. This is not wise for a magazine as the front cover is meant to really sell the poeple on it, therefore although it's a very sweet picture, it would make it more difficult for an audience to recognise her later. They are also very close to the camera and the top of the page. When putting out title at the top this could be an issue. As Lizzy say's in the post below, our magazine is not as old and established as Empire or Total film, therefore would it be wise to have their heads covering bits of our words?

The huge amount of colour on this picture would also make chosing a colour scheme difficult and whether or not it would show up on different colours.

The picture on the left how ever is perfect. The simple backgound has space around it for us to write things on in a simple colour scheme of our choice. It's also a natural and a 'real life' photo shoot, in which they are not in character. This is popular for a magazine to have it's own photo shoot with the cast if they are doing a main feature on them. As well as this the other pictures from this photo shoot fit in well with the colour scheme and look fitting when using them as small images on the front.

The large space at the top leaves us the space to establish our magazines name and theme of that month. This is important as this needs to stand out.

Overall our process of using serif page plus for this is going quite well. It enables us to move things in well and use text. However we cannot crop photos on this, which means we have to do this in other programs, this can cause issures when measuring the size of the page etc. As well as this there are a limited amount of fonts. However we have managed to fing quite a good one on it called Gill Sands Condensed, which is similar to empires, but quite different too. We like it becuase it's bold and has a similar feel to that of the font used at the bottom of film posters. This keeps the theme of movies running all the way through.

-Helena

Magazine research!

This Magazine Cover is from the Magazine "Total Film" one of the biggest Film magazines rivaling Empire on the market. The example I have used here is promoting Sarah Jessica Parker, associated with her most famous show "sex and the city", which is written in very big bold red (sexual connotations) writing next to her picture. This grabs our attention, we will be using a similar method, getting the reader to connect the picture with the text beside it that matches.

We have been having trouble design the magazine cover, we find often that these magazines are aimed at men, and to promote a Rom-com on the front of one is very daring, the cover I have found of Sarah Jessica Parker is a rare exception, we hope to make it work and appeal to both sexes.

There are many decisions we have to make, where we want the picture to go, does it go on top of the magazine title or underneath? Empire magazine chosen between this freely, but our magazine is meant to be new and unheard of, is it sensible to put a photo on top of the title? Other decisions we have to make is the colour scheme, do all the sub titles match the main title, what will the title of our magazine be? Possible ideas are "Realm" and "Supreme" (puns on the name Empire)

Here are some more examples we looked at:





From these we are able to see the vast majority of choice we have, the colours match the picture and theme of the film, it is important for us to get this right in order for our magazine to Sell.

-Lizzy

Magazine Front Cover

CHANGE OF PLAN.
We have decided against doing a website. This was because after doing further research on the specification we found that it's only the home page of the website that is marked. We feel that this would not give us enough realms to explore. With a film magazine cover we are able to look at our film from a different perspective in which we are magazine editors, trying to sell our magazine, rather than the film itself.

On this magazine cover, we hope to show our persuasive and design skills that we are exposed to so much in todays media, and therefore have learnt from this.

We have put together a template, in which we shall expand into a draft in due course:



-Helena and Lizzy

Garage Band and further editing info

Garage Band is an apply aplication on the mac computers that allows the user to edit music, this could anything from changing the volume to taking singing out of a song, it could be very usefull. We could use it to edit sounds for our website! -Lizzy

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We used garage band because we have a voice over in which Lucy is Narrating at a small point at the start of the trailer. We also have a small bit of dialouge in which the sounds needed to be quiter too. To make this quiter we simply had to drag parts of the song higher or lower in order to make this quiter or louder. We the first time we did it we made it too quite a abrupt, it was very noticable to the people watching. Therefore we went back and editied the song, we made it go quiter more gradually so it was almost not noticable to the audience and also kept it at a level of volume in which you hear the talking but still feel the song. After the dialogue we then faded it up gradually but really well. The point in which we were doing this in this song was perfect as it was a small interlude in which the song was naturally meant to get louder. It was also leading up to the chorus of the song, this was great as it was the start of a new part of our trailer where we have a montage of Lucy and Ben smiling and on dates etc.

We chose the song 'What the sun come up' By Example. This is becuase it is a feel good song with a fun vibe. It has a stong feeling of romance about it which fits our film perfectly. As well as this is is also a popular song. As our Film is a Rom com it's most likely directed at a mainstream audience, therefore chosing a popular song that they would have heard, is a good idea as it increases the chance them liking it and wanting to watch more of it. As we are not able to use a copyright song, we had to edit it a little. This was fine as we aloready needed to edit volume levels and fading in and out, so this dong is fine to use.

Recording the voice over was a lot easier than i thought it was going to be. We simply clicked on the part in which we wanted to record and then it would notify you when to start talking and we could stop it when we wanted. Getting this in time with Lucy took practice, but we managed to get it to the right amount of time which meant it looked great when said over the oxford city shyline shot!

Overall, I think the editing process has gone really smoothly. Lizzy and I worked very hard for a whole day. Once we had routhly edited it to the order we wanted the shots, we then edited them to perfection to make sure it had good continuity. For example, if there was a slight pause at the start of each person's line, we would be sure to carefully cut this out as it needs to be quick and sharp to make the conversation look natural and flowing.

We also had a shot at the begining that was very long. It showed the camera panning up Lucy's arms typing to her face, an introduction to both the main character and the theme of the film (internet love). This shot, however, was far too long and got the trailer off to a slow start. So we recently edited it so that as the shot moves up her arm, there are quick flashes of her hands typing inbetween this. This it a very quick thing and it goes perfectly with the music, in which there is a particulary quick beat. It's a quirky introduction, with a professional edge. It was quite fiddly to do as each shot is only 0.1 second each, therefore doing this on an apple mac with a difficult mouse was a challenge but we managed it.

We also changed the end again recently. It used to be a very conventional and funny ending, of Lucy walking into a glass door. It was an incredibly funny shot and the loud bang to end the trailer was a great dramatic ending. However the shot looked quite unprofessional and there was something that just wasn't quite right about it. I was also filmed in school, therefore the surroundings didn't really look believeable for our character of Lucy, who would be most likely to do this in a shopping mall or some where different. So in the end we decided to change it to a shot shot of lucy dancing by the lake in the park. It has a great mis en scene in which she is to the left of the screen dancing and the lake is on the other side. It's a far away long shot, wich captures the beautiful surrondings that a majority of the shots are in. It's an autunmy feel, which leaves you with a feel good feeling. Although not as funny as her walking into the door, it is still rather funny and ends the trailer on a high as it looks like quite a professional shot too.

We have also made the title cards look more professional too now. Before they were in a boring font that didn't look professional and was in just the colour white. Whereas we have now changed them to a similar font used in our poster to create a running theme and also put certain letters in red too. This creates a connection and continutity between our poster and the red also denotes love and passion which is a strong theme in this film. This also fits well as it is made Valentines day, therefore when writing the release date we were sure to make some of it in red. When showing the title was also used the same design as on our poster, this makes it regonisable which is an important selling point.

At the moment we have handed our film in as a draft and are going to see what the teachers think and take their advice on what we need to improve. We know we still need to add this to the start of the trailer:

We think this will give it the cherry on top for professionalism!

-Helena

Editing the trailer.

We have spent two separate days editing our trailer and it is almost done, only needs a few touch ups! Very existing. Although not without miss-hap's and complications of plenty!

The easy part was putting a rough cut together, simply placing the shots in the order we wanted, this was nice as most of our trailer is a kind of montage of Ben and Lucy's time together, we could pick and choose the best of what we had and enjoyed doing so, it gave us time to reflect on what we could have done better if we had had the time and patents. We went along with the story board for most of the trailer but found that in the end it was better to make shots more continues, so they gave out some of the plot line. We felt this was better for the audience as it would make more sense to them and thus more interested in seeing our movie.

After a rough edit we started to cut the shots to perfection, we needed to cut out small things like when Lucy looks at the camera and Rob entering a room at the right time, there were problems such as things being in the shots that shouldn't be there, this would have made the trailer look very unprofessional.

When are trailer started to look how we imagined it we had to find a song that suited it. This proved more difficult than we envisioned, Helena and I having diff rent taste and us having so many songs to test out. At first we wanted to use 2 different songs either fading them into each other or stopping the first one for Lucy's dialogue, we even tryed to edit the music and put it on a loop in the background but this sounded very unprofessional, in the end we found a song that we both liked "Watched the Sun come up" by Example we found it went with the trailer not only from the way it sounded but also the message it sent out about love. We used garage band something that neither of us had ever used before but we found quite easy to get used to and we changed the volume of the song in different parts so that when there was dialogue in the trailer and voice over (which is yet to be recorded by Lucy) the music was quiet etc.

The overall result was very pleasing, we should be finished by the end of this week, the only problems being the title cards which we would like to look more professional and the last shot which ends on a messy note.

-Lizzy