Podcast script

Podcast Script Question 4 

Research Stage  

While researching, I used Apple Macs and YouTube to improve my knowledge of conventions within horror trailers. I watched the trailers and studied the way that they used conventions, such as low angle shots to establish power, which I eventually used in my trailer. Before creating my trailer, I created a music video to familiarise myself with the Canon camera and the iMovie app, both of which would be used in the filming and eventual editing of my trailer. I used the website Blogger as a resource to record all of this research as this would ensure all my information would be in one place. I used Google Chrome to access any necessary online research, as Google is the search engine that I am most familiar with. 

Planning Stage 

 For my planning I started with creating two different versions of a storyboard and began by forming a draft storyboard on paper, drawing my own individual frames and shots, before creating a more technically accurate version on I-movie. The I-movie storyboard allows me to plan specific timings for each of my shots, so this is very useful for giving me a sense of whether a shot is too long or too short, and overall speeds up the development of the complete trailer. I then began to plan where I was going to be filming my trailer, and finding a location that was appropriate for the trailer I was making. I decided to go to a area called Tower Grounds, and I did this  

Construction Stage 

The Camera that was used when shooting the film was a Canon camera. This was an expensive camera, and therefore this led to a decent quality of image, which helps when trying to make a decent horror trailer, or any trailer for that matter. When it came to the editing of the film, I used     I-movie for Mac OS, which gave me several tools in which to enhance my film. Firstly, I incorporated different filters in order to improve the look of certain shots. For example, there is a brief action shot that when editing, looked too bright for the type of trailer I am creating, which is horror. So I decided to use the filters in order to make the shot more appropriate, eventually choosing the sci-fi filter, which worked in my trailer. Another tool I used was the text tool, which was really useful in creating elements of the trailer that are considered conventions, such as the title of the movie at the end and the cast list. This tool proved to really useful as I could change the font from a comic style to one that more appropriately suits my genre of film.  

Overall the progress I made in construction was made possible by my research on trailer conventions and their features, as well as my planning by learning how to effectively use I-movie.