Day 76 : Aspects of Text + Re-doing Voiceover

- We were given feedback by our teacher to improve the voice overs of Flora featured in our trailer, so at lunch time using Movie Plus X3 I set up the mic for to re-record our actress and the quality came out much clearer and thus more effective. Previously it was muffled which destroyed the whole quiet and mysterious (sense of enigma) scene we were aiming to create. This is due to the fact that we wanted the start of our trailer to be the slowest, so that our audience are on their feet when the tension builds and the climax is reached.

- Here I added one of the first fonts I created with effects using Adobe After Effects, however the font was too
"chunky" and appeared not only unprofessional, but did not reinforce elements of the narrative which other real media texts do, e.g Psycho (1960) with the split text symbolising Norman's split personality.  In result we agreed not to choose this font at it did not have the aura we wanted to encode to our audience. 

- In terms of Web 2.0 we used a font website called "Dafont" which enabled us to find a
distorted and scratched font to reinforce our narrative in terms of Flora scratching out the pictures
of her loved ones, but also the idea that she is not like other children which is why the text is distorted.
This font is called "Skratch Punk".

- Here Prisiclla as she is in charge of creating the poster used the "paint bucket tool" 

to change each letter of our branded title to a medium coloured red which symbolises Flora's tainted innocence and the death of her father, which is why in terms of mise en scene we constantly portray red throughout. E.g trailer Flora wears red ribbons as well as the magazine.

- Once Priscilla had completed this text she saved it as a PSD,
then did "save for web devices" as a JPEG. This meant we could
then use it for our final poster, trailer and magazine. 

- As the background of our trailer was black Priscilla had 

to use the "paint bucket tool" in order to paint the background black.

This then meant the text would be easier to apply within Adobe Premiere, as if 

the background was white as an editor I would have struggled to incorporate it.

- This was the final product in terms of how our branded font "Insanity" looked once I added it. 

As you can see it looked extremely effective with the use of red  on a black background as it 

really stands out. This is the effect that we wanted to create as we want our audience to 

remember the name of our trailer and want to find out more, as well as go and see it.