Magazine Draft 3

Now that I have done a few drafts containing the text of my magazine review, I've decided to take it a step further and format it as a the website I based it on, which is IndieWire. As you can see, I took the basic layout of Indie Wire and changed the titles and pictures to help fit my film. This is draft 3, and may turn out to be final draft after I have gotten some feedback on it.

Reflective Comment:

I have moved myself forward massively by creating a third draft for my magazine review, and I am happy that I have formatted it the right way to match the website I decided to base it on. I think that this review works well and looks believable to any readers. To make it better as whole, I could possibly add more photos or change the text slightly, and after I have received my feedback I plan to act on what is said.

Film Poster Draft 2

Today I spent some more time working on my film poster and have created a second draft to move me forward with this part of the ancillary task. I did some quick research online to see what my poster was missing to make it look more conventional. I used this poster below as an example just to notice some of the general conventions a poster has. As you can see from my first draft here, the poster I have already created follows the conventions of having the actors names at the top, the background image as the general location, and the main actors/actresses edited onto that background. My title is also in large font and stands out. The one thing my first draft didn't have that this poster and most poster do have is the small text at the bottom which is hard to read as it is squashed together to fit. This text normally goes through the studio names and distributors, as well as mentioning all the actors in the film and everyone who worked behind the scenes to help produce it. This was something I decided to add to my poster, as well as changing around with the font to help create a second draft.

The second draft for my poster is below:

Reflective Comment:

I think that I am making good progress with my poster and I think that the next post of it is likely to be a finished version as there isn't much else I can do to improve it. Obviously I will need to continue to play around with things like the font and size to ensure that it looks as good as it can, but generally it is nearly finished. My next steps with it are to get some audience feedback so that I can see what people think of my poster and if they see it as looking real and believable.

The Stranger Draft 2

With a first draft completed, I've now moved on and added some music at the start and end of my film to experiment and see how it fits. At the start of the film, I've added some copyright free music I found from research online. I used a website called Purple Planet (http://www.purple-planet.com/horror-old/4583971268), which had a number of free soundtracks I could use, specifically scary sounding tracks. I used one called 'Insidious', and put it at the start of my film just to see how it would fit with the opening scene. I then took the already recorded guitar tracks I created with my Dad and began playing around with them and seeing how they sounded at the end of my film where we see Clare's Mum over her dead daughters grave. I found that these all worked well and helped create a more sad ending. For this draft, I've added the 'Insidious' music at the start, and also one of the guitar tracks at the end just to show how my piece will look with some music. However, I do still need to record the foley sounds and add them in, so this is by no means a final draft.
The second draft is embedded below using Vimeo again.
Media from Josh Coe on Vimeo.

Reflective Comment:
I am much more happy with my piece now that I've added some music. I am not entirely sure whether or not the music featured in this draft will be used for the final one, because I do still plan to play around with some more tracks to ensure that it sounds and fits as well as it can. This draft could have been better with some foley sounds throughout, however I haven't quite got around to recording them yet, but as soon as I did I will create a third draft with these added in and perhaps some different sound tracks just to show how I have tried different things.

The Stranger First Draft

Now that I have put together all of my scenes for my production, I've decided to post a first draft of the whole film. Because this piece is only a first draft, there isn't any music in the film. At the start where you can see my main character tapping her feet, I plan to have some introduction music to help start of the film. And also at the end of the film where we see Clare's Mum standing over a gravestone, I plan to add the music I previously recorded of my Dad playing guitar. The post with the soundtracks I made can be seen by clicking here.
The draft itself is embedded below using Vimeo (it seems boring and quiet but sound will be added).
Media from Josh Coe on Vimeo.

Reflective Comment:
I am very happy now that I have managed to produce a first draft for my film. There are some aspects of it that I think may need changing or things that will need adding. Obviously as I've mentioned I need to add sound at the beginning and end, as well as foley sounds throughout to make it seem less quiet and bare. Also, I am unsure whether or not I want the opening scene to be my actress Heidi tapping her foot, or if I will quickly reshoot something else for this part. As a whole, I think I've edited the clips together well and will be experimenting with some sound over it soon.

Film Poster Draft 1

Today, I finished my first draft of the film poster. I spent time super imposing Heidi's image onto the background of the alleyway we filmed at, and tried out different effects with the colours and brightness, as well as trying out different font types as the titles and actors names. In the end, I've finished with a first draft. Below you can see two pictures, one with a slightly lower brightness than the other. I decided to post these two as my first draft to show the difference in visibility of the dark figure at the end of the alleyway. To create this figure, I found an image of a figure from the internet and drew around this figure to give me my own and avoid any copyright issues. As you can see from the pictures, the visibility of the figure is different as I'm not sure which one I'm going to use yet.

Reflective Comment:
Completing a first draft for this was good because it has moved me a step forward with the ancillary tasks and meant I can now focus on my editing and extra filming as well as looking at starting my magazine article. I think that this draft went very well and demonstrates how I want the poster to look. To improve this task, I could have obviously spent longer adding effects to the text and perhaps more to the images, however because this is a first draft I just wanted to get an initial idea for the style and look of my poster.