Shooting Session 1

Our first Shooting Session consisted of the filming to set the scene for our main character. Here we took a variety of angled shots to show our character putting on significant items of clothing and revealing her "swagger" to the audience.
We did not really have any major issues when we were filming but getting the tripod to be at the correct height and ensuring that the camcorder was straight on the tripod was surprisingly tricky. We realised that we weren't as comfortable with the camera as we thought and if anything we were a little rusty. However, we got everything done in the end and we were happy with the work produced
We were determined to film to a better standard and so put alot of effort and time into our filming session.

Music

Our initial ideas for music/soundtrack was a voice over narrating the story. However we felt as though it was rather predictable, something the viewers would expect from a teaser trailer. We also felt it would give away too much of the story, which defeats the objective of a teaser trailer.

We tried many different sounds, and from this we came to the conclusion that a children's lullaby would suit the concept and fitted all criteria's, as we are able to change the sounded.
So we settled for the famous 'Twinkle twinkle little star' and edit it a bit, so that it adds a spooky concept to it as well as being the famous children’s lullaby.

Can we get away with this?

You're probably wondering why on earth we've posted a picture of a more than fake looking foot ! Well we saw this while Prop shopping and we thought it looked childish and oddly realistic. We are not too sure about putting it into our teaser trailer but then again if we plan it correctly, we could just get away with it.

What do you think?

Should we take the risk ?

Props

Here at LNC, we've been breaking the bank with all the props we need to make our teaser trailer as riveting as possible. Unfortunately, due to our current ages, neither of us have any childhood toys lying around the house so we made a trip to Poundland and purchased the most fun yet gruelling props available.

Here's Some Pictures Of Our Purchases:

This Here is Ursula's signature Bat which she uses on her victims. It's a soft toy and we thought that the bright designs splashed all over it really emphasised the childhood aspect of our storyline.

The Ball is essential for allowing us to travel around with our child. It is red in colour and bouncy again to highlight the significance of youth in our trailer.

It was hard to find the Candy Bracelets we needed for our main character. The bracelets are a clue left by Ursula once she commits her crime so we didn’t stop looking until we found them in the weirdest of places...Claire’s Accessories :/

For our set design, we need to put blood on our props to give the audience subtle hints as to Ursula's actions. We purchased many varieties of Fake Blood and will experiment with each of them on the most realistic purchase.

The Skipping Rope is another clue in our trailer. Supposedly one of the toys used on one of Ursula's victims, it will be filmed as background scenery, bloodstained.

The bloody Knife will not be shown in much detail as we are using it for Ursula to scrape across the railings as she follows her next victim. By hiding the content of her hands, our viewers will be wondering what it is that she is doing and for this reason, they will be more shocked when they find out what she does.

This is the Birthday Cake that the lonely childhood Ursula will be seen holding and then blowing out at the beginning and ending of our trailer. This is to show that Ursula has been trouble from an early age.

These are the various items of Ursula's Costume. The Lacy Gloves are a feminine alternative to cover up her fingerprints once committing her crime. The Bracelets are a collection of which she leaves on her victims as a sort of souvenir. The Sunglasses are to ensure that we never see the full face of Ursula and her facial identity remains hidden.

Nikkie's make up

Believe it or not but Davids' make-up was not planned the slightest, infact the amazing idea sparked from Davids' little head himself.

She started off by using the fake blood make-up kit to create the illusion of a nose bleed, Creative, aye ?
which amazingly looked believable ..
Aaaah Nicks, work of art is just amazing!!



After applying the illusionary nose bleed, David came back in and insisted we added a black eye, and boy was it a greaaat idea :D!!







And because of Davids' greaaat idea and Nicki's great work of art..
We were all satisfied and got greaaaat images..

LNC's Key Concepts

Poster scribbles

The time has come for us to start planning our poster properly. Thanks to our images, we already have a pretty good idea on how we want our poster to look but there's no harm in a little experimenting ;)

This Poster for the movie Salt is of a less traditional layout. The main character is pushed to the far right with the images providing her location blurred. This allows the audience to not only focus on the main character image but on the text also which emphasises the A-List Star, Angelina Jolie. We tried this in our sketching with our character to the far right and a blurred background of a playground but we didn't believe that this was dark and menacing enough to suit our trailer. Along with this, our film is not based on A-List celebraties and so such a big bold font highlighting the name of our main character will not have a huge effect on the turnout as the audience will not already have an idea of what to expect from her.

We ♥ this poster. The image of a strong striking female is emphasised in the lack of distraction in a background and the pure close up. The colourscheme is also very simple with a jet black background acting as the character's hair and white text. We will try and emulate the black background created by our character's hair...However, if this does not work...we will use a black sheet as background. In terms of colourscheme, whilst our background can be black, our text must be colourful for the childlike theme. We will have a tagline along with our website advertised on the bottom to have as little but important text as possible.