Extra Marketing

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Our lecturers found a website (http://www.cbsoutdoor.co.uk/Our-Media/Visualiser/) in which we could make a video that included our poster in real life situations such as on the back of a bus or in an underground station.
We made a video for a poster in an underground station and are very happy with the results as our poster looks very good.
We had to recreate our poster because of the shape of the advertising space. We decided to make it simple as this would be most effective in this situation.
Here is the poster :



We also found a website (http://photofunia.com/) in which we could put our poster onto adverts etc...
Here are some of the photos we created through that site:

Final Poster

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We have finished the final poster for our trailer.
We added credits, the South Downs logo, reviews, a website address and star ratings to the teaser poster and took away the date as it was not necessary.
We researched what other credits looked like and did our own take on them, we also searched common film reviews to get an ideas for our pull quote and made sure we used current, well known reviewers/print based media as reference for the pull quote and star ratings.
We are extremely please with our final poster. We are going to ask people to comment on it and then act on their opinions if they think we could change anything to make it better.

This is our final poster:

Uploading Our Trailer

Blogged by Naomi

Now that we have finished our trailer we have uploaded it from iMovie onto Youtube in order for us to gain audience feedback. We can now resume working on our ancillary tasks, starting with the full movie poster.

Trailer Feedback: Lecturers

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We have finished our trailer and so we showed it to three of the college media lecturers.
They said that we had good sound and narrative.
They told us that the angles we used were very effective and that it built well to a climax.
They also said that they thought the music was similar to Inception and that it worked well with our footage.

Adding Audio

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After we found the party sound effect and the music we wanted to use, we put them onto our trailer.
We decided to add a black screen at the beginning of our trailer that lasts two seconds, we felt that it would make the audio fit better with the footage.
We layered the party sounds and the music to create a convincing piece of audio for our trailer.

Sound Effects

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Although we were unsuccessful in finding the sound effects for our party scene/ending last week, we were able to find two sound effects today that would be really effective in our trailer. The first is the sound of a group of girls talking and laughing as though they are at a party, which we will use at the beginning of our trailer to imply that there is a party happening out of shot:

Party Sound Effect

After finding a sound effect of a door creaking, we added it into our trailer but was too long for the clip we wished to place it over. We then shortened the sound effect to fit in with the clip but because the sound was cut short it did not have the same effect. At this point we decided to search for a 'bang' instead as this is a short sound effect that will hopefully be more effective in provoking an audience reaction (i.e. making them jump), rather than them simply witnessing the protagonist's reaction and not engaging with the trailer. However we decided once we watched it back that a sound effect wasn't really necessary and it was effective the way it was.

We also found some music to place over the party scene, in particular the shot of the protagonist drinking from:

Party Music

The music is called 'Snapsphere' and is royalty free.

Music: Party Scene

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We are now at the stage where we are looking for a short piece of music that will fit the beginning of our trailer. As previously mentioned we were unable to obtain a small group of people who were able to film at the same time, so we need to find a piece of music that implies there is a small party out of shot, essentially including voices as well to add authenticity.

We have used Youtube and various free music download websites, looking for appropriate music/sound effects. We have also looked at various party scenes in TV shows such as Skins, Misfits and Gossip Girl. However they contain copyrighted music and so we are unable to use this material.

After quite some time we have found a copyright free clip we wish to use, but we are having trouble downloading it. We have tried recording the audio on our phones and then using bluetooth to transfer it to the mac, but we are also having trouble getting a connection. In order to resolve this we are searching for similar sounds again on Youtube.