Potential Poster

We created a poster for our Facebook page in which we will use to help our demographic recognise our thriller. A poster will allow us to promote our thriller and may lead to further views. In the real industry promoting the thriller is really important as money will be made by doing this.

This is one of the potential posters we wil be using. We decided to put a 5* rating at the top of the poster as we feel that the audience will feel like it is a really must see film. This could boost our viewing count.

It displays three different images of male silhouette figures. The villain is a different colour outline than the other characters and this is too really emphasise his authority over the film. We decided to use a silhouette because it will hide the identities of the figures untill the film is released, this may create tension to our audience and may want them want to find out who the characters really are.

The title is really bold and stands out from all the other parts of the poster. This is to catch the demographics eye and hope that they look out for our film in the future. A choice of faded text in the background was used to enhance the overall effect of the title.


We feel it was important to exclaim to the audience when the thriller will be available to watch because that way they can look out for it in the future. We used blood dripping text to potray some of the horrors that may appear in our film.


James Kinsella-Brown

Editing Software - Sony Vegas

Sony Vegas editing software allows clips to be edited and ordered in a simple way. The timeline enables clips to be viewed before they have even been rendered. The thriller will be put together on this program before it is transferred into Adobe After Effects to add all the extra effects.

The sounds will be done on Vegas as its quite complicated to do on After Effects. We will use a soundtrack throughout the thriller to build up tension and suspense, extra sound effects such as door slams and other sounds associated with horror may also be used.

Before the colour grading is done in After Effects a simple brightness/contrast colour correction will be applied to all the clips just to improve the quality and the overall look of the clips.

The final thriller will be rendered out in 720p at 15fps as that is what the camera films in. This will assure that we get the best quality possible out of the camera and will make our thriller look a lot sharper. The size of the finished thriller will be 1280x720 and will uploaded to both youtube and vimeo.

Alex Cirino

Editing Software - Adobe After Effects

I am going to use Adobe After Effects CS5 when editing our thriller. The software enables me to create ground breaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects which will improve the overall look of our thriller. 

I will use After Effects for the colour grading/colour correction as we want a scary vintage style look to the thriller, the colours used will make our thriller stand out from the rest and become more original.

After Effects will also be used for the opening title scene as lots of motion tracking is going to be used on the text so that it stays in the right place. The text is going to be masked and will come out from behind different trees. 

For one of the slow motion close up shots which we are going to use I am going to use a plugin called Twixtor. The plugin enables super smooth slow motion which will make the edit more clean looking. 

Another plugin which we may use is Knoll Light Factory. This plugin is used for fake lighting such as sunsets/moons etc. This may be able to enhance the overall look of our thriller and make it more creepy looking. 

Alex Cirino

Marketing Our Thriller

To help make our film as good as possible we have created several social network pages on sites to help promote our film. By doing this we open ourselves up to a wider audience, and helps create buzz around the film. This twitter page will be giving a daily update on the film's progress, offering a personal character people can approach about the film. Here we will upload pictures, videos and create a diary to help document our film's progress.

This is a screen shot of our page.

Tom Smith

Fonts

The font which we will use to advertise the film and use during the film helps to set the mood of forthcoming events. As our film is a horror thriller called Blanc we needed a simple but effective font to portray our film. Above is a selection of different fonts which match the horror genre. As a group we will decide which font is going to be used for the film and which font is going to be used for the poster.


Alex Cirino

Characters

We have decided upon who will play certain roles within our thriller for various reasons. In the opening sequence, only 3 characters will be involved. We feel that this is important so that the viewers can understand certain characters without being overloaded with too many faces. The actors for each role are explained below:

Alec is a male actor who will act as a vulnerable character being chased. He is appropriate for use in our film because he has acted in many school productions and achieving well in A-level drama. We told him the acting role that he will have to play and he feels that he will be able to carry it out effectively. Having an actor that can successfully play the role of a vulnerable person will enhance the film. His height is smaller than the villain and so can be seen as inferior easily by the audience.

James is going to play the role of the villain in the film. We feel that he will be able to play the role well because he is quite tall and therefore can be clearly seen as the villain in the thriller. He will be wearing the white boiler style suit and the blank, white mask in the chase scene which should add mystery about this character. James also exceeded in drama during lower school years but did not persue it because he wanted a more academic approach to his studies. As he enjoys acting it will help us be able to create an effective chase scene.





 Tom is going to play the role of the boy who wakes up from the nightmare which has turned into reality. He feels that he will be able to effectively look scared in the clip which is important to draw the attention and feelings of the audience in. Although never studying drama, because he is more than willing to act in the scene it helps us improve our thriller.









Thomas Steer 

Storyboard - Thriller