Evaluation

Here is a link to my Presi evaluation:

http://prezi.com/v_2mmxyz1ju0/a2-media-evaluation/?kw=view-v_2mmxyz1ju0&rc=ref-28742819

Video

And I now present our video trailer for Slender, straight from Vimeo:


Slenderman Trailer from MonkseatonMedia on Vimeo.

Website homepage

Another one of the ancillary products I was required to make was a website homepage. I needed to conduct some research and look at a couple of film website homepages and talk about them, such as what they contain, for example, the colour scheme and the tone.

 

 

These are the first two draft ideas of my website homepage, shown in a very simple way. As seen in the images, it shows what goes where, naming it. My first idea shows a very traditional idea of a website homepage, with the buttons down the side, the title logo at the top and a relevant image in the top-left corner. My second idea shows a more unique idea, with a large image taking up most of the page. Underneath go the buttons and further below are the company logos.

 

 

The next two drafts show the same ideas, but this time they show what the homepage will look like. On these ideas, I said what each button is: button 1 is 'home', 2 is 'the film', 3 is 'gallery', 4 is 'news/reviews', 5 is 'trailer' and 6 is 'cast & crew'. The image shows the Slenderman standing in the forest with the Slender logo overlaid.

 

Here is a large image of the Slender website homepage. For reasons unknown, the background as shown in the image below will not appear on the link. This is why I have inserted an image of what the website actually looks like.

 

http://www.monkseaton.org.uk/A2%20Work/bousher/Slender.html



Poster

One of the ancillary products I was required to make was a poster. Firstly, I needed to conduct some research and look at several posters and talk about the types e.g. teaser, billboard and what they generally contain e.g. credits, company logos etc. When I started to make the actual poster, I first had to make some rough drafts. I had two ideas - a teaser poster showing Slenderman standing in the woods all alone and a main poster based on the notes found in the game.

These first two drafts showed the poster ideas in their most simplistic way. It basically showed where the things in the poster went, simply saying what it is in a box.

 

These other two drafts were still the poster ideas, but this time drawn up, to see what they actually looked like. Obviously, on the first poster, it still says 'credits' where the credits would normally go. The reason for this is because I couldn't really be bothered to write out of the people's names and what they did, mostly because it would waste time.
 

This is the proper version of the poster, done on Microsoft Publisher. As you can see, it is based on the notes found in the game. What I did to do the tagline 'don't look...or it takes you' was that I used the 'scribble' selection on the shapes tool. I also did the same thing with the release date 'October 31'. The background was done using a texture already installed into Microsoft Office and the lines were just done using lines, split apart every 1.5 centimetres (or whatever it is). I also put in the Slender logo, which wasn't created by me, with the background removed and the BBFC rating (15) and what it contains.

I also made a variant of the poster, which wasn't really the intention. All I simply did was paste the original variant into Paint. But then, for the hell of it, I inverted the colours. I showed Adam what it looked like and he really liked it, saying that it looked it was written on a chalkboard. Everything is essentially the same, but the colours are just inverted, there have been no changes at all.

Credits font

As we all know, most film posters use practically the same font for their credits at the bottom. I think they might use this particular font so they can fit the credits at the bottom. The font I used for the poster credits is Steel Tongs.

 

 

There were a one font I did have look at called SF Movie Poster. I downloaded it at home and used it on my poster when at home, but it didn't actually look like Steel Tongs, so I didn't use it.

 

 

Film ratings

Obviously, our film needs to have a BBFC rating and the most common of these are the over-PG ratings 12, 15 and 18. Me and Adam have been thinking and we've decided to go for a 15 certificate, because despite the fact there is no extremely gory and/or s*xual content, if we did actually make a film lasting 90 minutes, there would potentially be a lot of foul language, e.g. f**k.

The 12 rating is a very uncommon certificate for horror films. Most genres that go towards 12's are action, thriller, teen comedies, mature cartoons (e.g. The Simpsons) and superhero films. In terms of mature content, sexual content can only be brief and discreet, moderate language can be used (strong language may be used only once or twice) and violence can be moderate, but not putting emphasis on injury detail. Blood can be used, as long as it's not extremely gory (for example, blood featured in the final Lord of the Rings film when Gollum bit off Frodo's finger). The only horror films classified 12 upon cinema release include Van Helsing and The Woman in Black, possibly because it didn't have much in the way of blood and the level of violence.

The 15 rating is a fairly common certificate for horror films. 15 rated films (whether it's horror or action) usually contain occassional bits of gore, for example, Hot Fuzz contains lots of gory scenes. Strong language can also be used, but the strongest forms can also be used, as long as it's appropriate. Horror films that are classified 15 include Drag Me to Hell, The Shining, The Ring and its sequel, The Ring Two.

 

The 18 rating is the most common certificate for horror films. 18 rated films show extremely mature content that is for adult viewing only (so that's appropriate for some of us). In 18 rated films, s*xual content, violent content and foul language will be very strong and frequent, but because our film would not have the first two of these if it was filmed completely, this wouldn't be the rating we would go for. Horror films that are classified 18 include The Thing (1982), Alien, Friday the 13th and its many sequels.

 

Filming plan

Me and Adam have decided on a filming plan. We planned that we will film Monday 29th October, Tuesday 30th October, Friday 2nd November and Tuesday 6th November. The following list is what scene we're going to film on these days:

• 29th October - quarry
• 30th October - car scene
• 2nd November - underpass
• 6th November - bedroom scenes