pictures for my magazine front cover

These are the three pictures that i took for my magazine front cover. i decided to use the first image as the main one on my magazine as this is the one where she looks the most scared. i decided to use Rachel for my front cover as she is the main victim in the trailer and it links together well. 

issues we had whilst filming

whilst carrying out our filming for our trailer one of the many issues that we had was managing to get all of our actresses and actors in the same place at the same time. this was a struggle as all of our actors and actresses were from different year groups meaning that they were all available for filming at different times. to overcome this we changed the people that we were using in our film to try and make sure that they would be able to film at the same time. we also had to change some of the shots that we used in order to make it work. some of the shots we had to change to an extreme close up to ensure that the persons head was not being included in the shot and just the action was being filmed. Becky and i also had to stand in for some of our actresses at certain points during our filming. we did this for the shots that did not require our faces to be seen.

final name of the film

the final name that we decided on for our film was 'Rosie'. we decided that this was the name that was going to sound the best as our title. The name of the film is also the name of the victim in the film, in which our whole film is based on. we chose the name Rosie as it linked closely with the name Rose. This instantly made us think of the colour red which links to blood. this supports the idea of the victim being killed in our film.

voiceover

'This is Victoria, she's number one in our class, head of the prom committee and captain of the netball team- your classic over achiever'

'Megan- she's the gossip of the group- tell her anything and everyone will know by lunchtime'

'This is Emily taking narcissism to a whole new level, yet again'

'my best friend, Lauren- living up to the blonde stereotype'

'And my names Rosie'

we were inseparable, until summer last year when everything changed.

we decided to use this idea of a voiceover as it is very common in a lot of teen movies including teen horror movies. An example of this that we looked at was the popular teen movie 'mean girls'. we also wanted to do this as we believed it was a good way for us to introduce all of our characters to the audience as well as letting them know a bit about each of them. 

name of the film

I started to think of ideas of what i wanted to call the film. i decided that i wanted to call the film after a girls name. the name that we chose would be the victim of the film. I researched other films that had the same sort of idea, and that used a name for their title. the names that i decided to chose from were...

-Amelia

-Lily

-Victoria

-Scarlett 

-Ruby

-Rosie

Music in our trailer

During the editing of our trailer we couldn’t decide what type of sound would be the most effective.  At the start of the trailer we decided to have no music until the audience could see a bit more action in the trailer. We then watched some more horror trailers to decide what music would fit the best. We tested out lots of different ideas first but none of them seemed to fit the type of style we were going for. We than had an idea to use a cover of a popular song. We chose to use the song ‘don’t you (forget about me)’ from the popular teen film ‘The Breakfast Club’. This fit perfectly with out teen horror film. To ensure that we are not breaching the terms of the copyrighted song, we used a cover of the song as well as attempting to contact the original producer and artist. 

changes made to the trailer

when we started to film our trailer we realised that were gong to have to change a lot of our original plans. this included the character we were using, the types of shots that we wanted to do and the locations. WE first decided that we had to change some of our characters as it was hard to find a time where there were all free to film due to other commitments that they had. we then decided to use characters that were a bit younger than we had originally planned as they were less likely to have work commitments and school deadlines. we kept three of the original chapters and the other three we had to change. we also had to change the shots that we wanted to use. this was because when we first filmed them we decided that they didn't look as good has we had hoped and they were not as effective. to try and make our shots more effective we added more close up shots to create a more tense atmosphere. another thing that we discovered when we started filming was that we were going to have to change our locations for the trailer. our main location for the trailer was an abandoned house in the local village. however when i went to view this house it was 30 minute walk on a muddy track which would have made it very difficult for us to carry all of our equipment there carefully and safely. when i reached the ouse and went inside, although it would have been the perfect setting for our film we realised that it wasn't safe enough for us to film there. it would have also been difficult to film there as we would have to rely on the natural lighting which would have ruined the effect of the footage. instead of filming in the abandoned house we made a decision to film in our schools drama studio. we decided to film here as it is very accessible and it is safe for all of the actors and actresses. using the drama studio as one of our main locations was very useful as it also meant that we could take full advantage of using the good lighting and position it the way that we wanted. the hide the fact that the location was the school drama studio we used black curtains around the room to block out the natural light and make it look as if it was in a dark scary house. the black curtains were also very useful as they gave us a plain background that we could film against. another thing that we had to change in the trailer was some of the props that we were using. during the trailer we removed all of the props that could be used as weapons. we did this as it wouldn't be safe for us to use these around the school and it could us and others to have an accident.