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Documenting influences on production

When planning for our production, we gained influences from other horror film such as Sinister, Paranormal activity, the conjuring. The director which we were most influenced by was Ciaran Foy as we thought that they way he presents horror film with his interpretation of his films such as the sinister and the squeal that continues with it. We thought that the way that his horror film were based at home or local area, as this is something that we can achieve making sure we adhere to the convention to a horror film trailer. Also the idea of how he presents clues in the film gave us an idea of how to create hints to the audience producing enigma codes which would allow the audience to be drawn into watching the film further. We also liked the way they presented the storyline by showing old photos of the past allowing the audience to gain a sense of idea of the background of the film and it prove the sense of it being based on a true story, making the audience more intrigues to find out how this film re-tells the film.

Final soundtrack

Welcome to horrorland

For our trailer we have decided to put together a few soundtracks as we thought it would better as blended quite well with some of the scenes that we had filmed. We also found a new sound track called 'Welcome to horrorland' we thought that it would be a good piece of non diegtic sound as we thought it contributes to creating more tension. We also thought that track would quite effective as it helps to build tension throughout the film as we have many enigma codes which are created for the audience as it will start to scare them.




Bent and broken

We had originally choose this soundtrack to use in our film as we thought that this one is the best one out of the ones we had look out, as we thought that it a great track which would help begin tension for the audience and a section we be quite useful in which was the birds which we thought we could use in order to show more of a mysterious look to our forest.

Making Film title

When making our title for our film we decided to name the film 'SNATCHED' as we thought it would suit our story line of our film. so we tried out some of the styles with that name, but then we decided to change it because we thought it would suit better with 'STALKER' as we though it would be better as it the style that we have put with the name of the film would suit better as the connotations associated with the forest with the reflection showing that there is something following the protagonist around, showing a direct connection between them.  For most of these titles they were created on Powerpoint using the wordart tool and selecting the forest to be place inside the text. The first title we used wordart and choose a a font which we changed to, which is called the book antiqua in the font 72  and we decided that it was going to be placed on a black screen. We thought that we would have a black screen for all the titles as we thought it would contrast well with the overall theme of our trailer as it is a horror, it would create a hidden effect. Then the second title we decided to experiment with having a reflection and this was the stage that we change our title of the film as we though the forest being hidden inside the forest would create mysterious look and makes it seem that there is someone spying on the protagonist and the audience from the woods and so this allows to create the atmosphere of which creates an obsessed antagonist being after the protagonist. Also with this title we decided to add a curve to it and we did this by editing it by using the change the text effect to a more curvy look, as this would suggest that this antagonist is very powerful and can get control of the people that it wants.The reflection of it suggests that it can manipulate other and again shows it strength. However we thought this film title was bit too wide and thought it wouldn't fit well with out trailer in terms of composition, we we thought that we wouldn't use this title.

The third title we decided to not use the curve and just have the title in a straight line, as then we can fade it in and out when putting it in our film trailer as we think it would look better with reflection revealing it slowly to the audience the title of the film. When creating this title we used the font called Bodoni MT Black in the font 72 and we thought that this would be a suitable font because when putting the forest inside the text, we can can see it better and it would look more prominent in the trailer. However we thought that title still lacked something and the outline colour just made the overall title very dull along with reflection. Then we experimented with outline of the title and we first used different sades of green to see which one would suit better, but when using the outline, It just camouflaged with the forest being inside the text, then decided to go for a more vibrant colour such as oranges and yellows and we looked at what would give the title a better contrasts so we then went for a bright orange which we though would suit best for the title of our trailer, as it creates a bold vibrate appearance of a our title, alongside of the reflection being added, which highlights our antagonist showing that it will be a dominant character in our trailer

Then we decided to have the same theme to introduce when the film will be out, as this is an important element to a trailer as it informs the audience on when the film will be released, but we have specified so have on the bottom corner of the screen putting the hashtag and the film website so it allows to keep the audience updated and aware for a more specific time of when the film will be released.
 During the trailer there will be a lot of cuts to leave enigma codes to the audience about what happens in the trailer. During this will have the directors from the lost locket to inform the audience about what other films we have done as it may cause some familiarisation with it.