Text included in our trailer

The text we included in our trailer linked very well to our story line and through the text we were able to make the story line clear to the audience. The font of the text we wanted to keep the same as the font for the title of the film poster 'Twister', the font was found on the website dafont and it fitted perfectly with the theme horror. The font was called 'face your fears' and we used it throughout our trailer, film poster and magazine front cover.

The first line of text stated that there were four best friends and we made the word 'best' the colour blood red so it would link to our film poster.Although in our narrative there were five best friends the hidden secret was held by just four of them so we thought it would be more clear of writing four instead of five. 

This is where the tension in our trailer would start to build up because the first text was just informing the audience how many friends there are and this starts to build them up to something bad. The hidden secret tell the audience that the girls have a hidden secret that they do not want any one to find out. Again we have changed the colour of the middle text to blood red keeping the running  theme throughout all of the products we have created. 

This line builds even more tension because at this point the audience know that the trailer is about four best friends who have hidden a really big secret and this sets the audience up for something big, because someone who wants to get revenge is going to make them pay for the hidden secret. 

Costumes

We thought about the miss-en-scene very carefully because all the costumes had a reason why the girls were wearing what they were wearing. The idea behind the costumes were that they were at a fancy dress party where they got the first text and then that whole night their lives were turned upside down. Each of the costumes reflected each of the girls personalities.

Break down of our magazine front cover

Photo for magazine front cover

Originally  we were going to use a photo where it included all of the girls because we wanted that to be our running theme throughout each of our products. After we started creating the front cover we were acing trouble fitting all of the girls on the page and when we tried to fit it the photos either looked too long or too wide, so we have the decision to cut the girls who were on the edge in the photograph. This was a decision we had to make to improve the overall look of the front cover and it had things a lot easier for us adding the tittles and text around the edges. The reason why we cut the two girls who were on the edges was because one of the girls had a slight smile which would have distracted from the whole front cover and it would subvert the genre horror. Also the girls that we kept in the photo were the main girls that were featured more in the trailer.

Originally photo that was going to be used 

The photo we decided to use 

Twisted film trailer

How we created the grave effect in our film poster?

The inspiration for our film poster we got from the very successful American series call Pretty Little liars.

We liked the idea of the girls looking into the grave because it has a clear link with our trailer and what happened in the past of what the girls had done. The grave symbolises that they have buried someone but doesn't give too much away revealing who they have buried, and also it also shows that they have also buried the secret and because the grave is open it shows that the secret is going to be dug up. 

Creating the effect of the girls looking into the grave we used a rectangle box where we cut a hole where the lens of the camera would fit and it will reveal the sides of the box giving it the effect that it is a grave. 

The day we took the photos for our poster and magazine cover it was quite windy, so it made the box move around a lot and bend which made it harder to capture the perfect photo which was clear. I think this idea links to our trailer and narrative very strongly because we have running themes that link everything together and they help the audience understand the story behind the trailer. 

Film poster

Magazine Poster

Final version of our film poster

I think our film poster is very strong and links in very well with our trailer. The idea behind the poster was that we wanted the girls to be looking into a grave and it links to the trailer because they had done something very bad in the past where it involved them killing someone and then burying them and the secret. We were able to show this by putting the camera in a box and just showing the sides of the box. The original photo didn't have that much of the sides in it so I cut that part out and reflected it  and placed it where it was needed. The name of the trailer is 'Twisted' matches the personalities of each of the girls because what they had done in the past makes them twisted and nasty because they had just killed their best friends boyfriend, but they decided to keep it a secret between them.

The tag line 'The truth will never stay buried' is short and sweet. It matches well with the story line throughout the trailer, and it also has a lot of meaning as well, because the truth can only be hidden for a short amount of time until it is revealed. When the truth is revealed later on the consequences seem to be worser and the issue is bigger.
The credits I changed one by one adding each of the names of the actors, directors and all the people who helped throughout.

Poster and Magazine Photos

The photos we took for our magazine cover and poster turned out every well. Before we planned out the photos really well by trying our idea before, so we knew that it would work. The day before we informed our actors what they needed to wear and what they needed to bring, so everyone knew what they were doing and we could get to work quickly. After trying the first idea where the girls are made to look like they are looking into a grave, we found that it worked better when we were standing on a chair. We added some element of horror by applying mud to our actors making them look like they have been running though the woods and to make them look like they have gone through a lot.

Filming

Filming for the trailer has gone well, but there were some set backs that we had to over come as a group. The first week back after the Christmas half term we got most of the filming done, but looking through the footage we had to film some of the scenes again. The reason why we had to film some of the scenes again was of the lighting, sometimes the light was too dark which lost the quality of the video. Also of the actors were either smiling or laughing, this was the main problem we had with looking through our footage because most of the time our actors didn't have serious faces.

Filming tested how well we worked as a group because we needed to communicate each day letting each other know when we are free to film and to see what each of us had that we could use to film. Another set back we had to deal with was the weather, but this we could not control. For the first week of filming we were really lucky that it didn't rain and this helped us get all the filming done on time. On the second week of filming the weather wasn't too good, because on some of the days we were filming it rained so we had to finish early.