Final Trailer Print Screens

These three print screens were made from Final Cut Pro. The third print screen at the bottom shows an early stage in editing my final trailer. The timeline in this screen grab shows only the initial selection of shots prior to any audio being added. The timeline is illustrated as the horizontal pane in the lower third of the image and is a graphical representation of the edit.

The second print screen contains music, some sound effects and early title layers.

The last print screen shows the timeline containing the final edit. On closer inspection, several layers have been added to accommodate the production logo and intertitles. Also, by this stage the audio levels have been adjusted so the sound plays back correctly.

Final Production Logo

My individual production logo was created in Final Cut Pro. Prior to this, the group’s production was a more general and conventional aspect. However, I created a production logo that constructs itself to a more specific role, aiming towards the horror genre. This is evident from the red and black colours, along with horror style lettering and the tombstone representing death. Although these are less common in the modern day film industry, I still wanted to make a production logo to for fill my potential and have a sense of professionalism. However, I have also kept the ‘AROA Productions’ to maintain that sense of teamwork and meaning within the group. I found this fun and creative, which will reflect key skills in media.

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Today, I thought to mention to the group to create an individual production logo, which can can be seen in the trailer. This further includes to keep the same name as 'AROA' but just to alternate the design and style, which also included how it is presented. This was a very useful idea that was agreed with all the team players.

Production Logo

The production logo is very important in the media industry, especially coming from film institutions, such examples are:

Warner Brothers:

Universal:

Paramount:

These production logos consist of images that have been used for a long period of time, causing them to be well connected with their audience. This has an effect of making the audience visually see what the logo is and will easily converge the visual logo with the common, well-known name. This has a knock on effect, as the target audience know which institution created the film, this will apply the viewers interest on a higher scale towards the film.

Our production logo consists of a camera having an effect that ‘AROA productions’ is being emitted from it. This is deliberately done as we wanted to get a visual aid of the filming industry to be clear and direct, therefore containing a camera in our production logo. In further detail, the production logo is simple which has an advantage which gives the logo no specific genre attached to it. Thereby telling the audience that ‘AROA productions’ produce a variety of film and attracting a wide range of audiences.

However, I will create a new production logo that supports my trailer, reflecting the horror genre and creating a more required and specific production logo.

When breaking down ‘AROA productions’, it is the initials of the first names of the group members. A- Anil, R-Rishi, O-Omrick and A for Ashwin. This created a visual aid and shows evidence of who made the film. On another level it also being the group together and enhances the groups moral.

Intertitles

Intertitles are very a common convention which are useful to the audience as they give information about the film. Intertitles such as, 'inspired by true events', 'must see' or 'nominated for three academy awards' are all common in horror trailers.

Other horror trailers also include intertitles, which involve other director's names. e.g. 'From he director who brought you' followed by another horror film. This has an effect on the audiences whereby the people who enjoyed the previous film directed by the same director will make it even more appealing through the audiences' interest.

Some examples of intertitles that can be considered in the trailer are as followed:

• Inspired by true events
• An AROA production
• Nominated for 3 nominations
• A Rishi Nahar film
• Coming Soon

Title Fonts

'The Vanishing' was chosen by the whole group as the title for our trailer. Font will also be a significant key selection of the film title, which are shown:

Font Titles on Prezi

Film Names

Horror films consists of having titles, obtaining some meaning of elements of horror which can be extracted by the audiences from the title. The group created a few names for our film. Here are the results from family and friends when given the different choices of the film:

Bat Killer 1

The Stalker 4

Forest Hunter 6

The Vanishing 7

Travel of Hell 5

Psycho 2

No Help 0

Forest Breh 2

Disguise 0

Cloak Man 0

Unstoppable 6

From these results 'The Vanishing' was a clear favourite and was worked out well as it was also a group favourite.

However, I also thought that the name of a film should be looked at and chosen with great care, as the title can contribute to a USP of the film from the audience's perception. From this great significance of a title an first impressions of the audience I have created my own table of names, including the option of 'The Vanishing' to see what other individuals would think.

Yet again 'The Vanishing' is still the clear favourite from my table above, showing 8 people like it. In further detail, when asking people what their opinion was, I deliberately asked individuals who were aged 15 to 35. The reason for this, is because the film will mostly likely apply to the targeted audience aged 15 and above, as opposed to the first questionnaire where the group asked a whole range of people.