Day 80 : Final steps of Postproduction

This post highlights the final stages me and my fellow group members have taken on this course. Which includes using Adobe After Effects, Web 2.0 in terms of online converters and Adobe Premier. Today I exported our final trailer which I had finally finished editing along with Priscilla. In the future I will post our final trailer, but also address what I think needs to be improved and what worked well/what I have learnt through the process of creating a Horror trailer.  

Day 80 part 3 : Adding credits

- This slideshare represents the creation of credits but also elements of adding the crack to our poster, in terms of post-production using Photoshop and Dafont.com.

- Our teacher suggested that Priscilla prints out our poster so far, so that we could annotate different elements that we want to change. This enabled us to use this print out as a check list once we had made the changes, as you can see above Priscilla done ticks by each element, e.g from feedback our teacher said the 15 certificate was too large so we made it smaller to follow the conventions audiences expect to see. (If there is an extremely large film certificate they will see it as odd and most likely disengage from our product and in result our film). 

- We were also advised by our teacher that we should make "How far would you go to protect the ones you love" (Which is text featured in-between our trailer to reinforce the mystery of our narrative) longer on a trailer which I edited and made longer using the speed manipulate settings in Adobe Premiere. 

- Here is the final version printed once we added all the changes as expressed on the first poster print out above. By making these changes our poster now looks more professional, as the layout isn't overcrowded as it was previously, the fonts our more readable (which is a key element as the audience has to be able to read it in a short amount of time), the credits no longer take attention away from the crack which is a really important part of our poster (in terms of informing the audience about Flora's double personas) and the text within the credits looks more aligned and clear. Clarity is key throughout the creation of film posters as the audience must be able to read every aspect of your poster, in order for them to decide whether or not they want to see your film. 

Day 79 : Using Adobe After Effects to develop text used in trailer

Today me and Priscilla took turns using Adobe After Effects to develop and improve text which will feature in our trailer. Below are pictures which represent what we have done within After Effects but also the reasons behind it, e.g  using particular effects to reinforce elements within our narrative.  

Summary

I have developed my skills using Adobe After Effects throughout the past couple of days. I now know how to put different effects on text, which is an aspect I struggled with last week. In the future I wish to learn how to create motion/animations within the backgrounds of After Effects, even though this particular effect will not be featured in our trailer. 

Image of creepy child drawing : http://blog.psprint.com/featured-post/designs-cute-things-evil/

Day 79 part 2 : New dates for our production (20th November)

We decided to choose our film to be released on the 20th November 2015, however originally we were planning to market our release on Father's Day to symbolise Flora's relationship with her father.

When given feedback from our teacher we realised it would be too insensitive to put our release date on Father's Day as it is a time of happiness (and our narrative is dark and unsuited to this day) and choose to do the 20th November instead, which is globally a day to celebrate Children. We agreed as a group that this would be more effective as Flora looks sweet and innocent like other children but really she's strangely mature and twisted.

This date will be featured within our final trailer and poster.

Day 78 : Changing the colour and background of our text

My fellow classmate Kimberly Young introduced me to using text effects on Adobe After Effects. It was easier learning from a peer than YouTube tutorials as they are often daunting, however I did learn elements of text from tutorials but I found the effects tutorials very confusing.

Gong Minji fanart credit to : http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/157081590/fanart?view_mode=2

Day 78 part 2 : The creation of our Poster (Insanity)

This post represents the creation in terms of postproduction of our final poster. This slideshow highlights the decisions we made, as well as our development of the poster.

*It is written in first person as Priscilla wrote it

Creating horror poster (Insanity) from Princess Priscilla

Day 77 : Editing using Premier & Adobe After Effects

POST-PRODUCTION PROGRESS

I created an image below which presents elements I had edited out of the trailer, but also my 

experiences using Adobe After Effects. This week I will continue the editing process by adding finishing touches through text and sound (re-recording voice over as it was muffled). I will continue to post about what I have learnt but also the difficulties I have faced editing.

*Please click on image to make bigger it if too small

Here is a hyperlink to the YouTube tutorial for creating text with effects on Adobe After Effects below

Adobe After Effects Tutorial for Text