Astral Studios - The Flesh Eaters Trailer Rough Cut

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Creativity Essay

Research & Planning Essay

In my AS year, the task I was told to complete was to create a music magazine, based on the music genre of my choice; which was Hip Hop/Rap. The conventions of this kind of genre of magazines were deep, dark colours, making everything appear grimy and rough. For my A2 task, I had to create a horror trailer, and also construct a horror magazine and film poster in the process, which links in to what I did during my AS year. For both of these tasks, a lot of things came from research and planning, which was to look at other magazines and watch horror trailers and more.

AS and A2 research work included a series of individual work, which was based upon the subgenres of horror. From my AS year, I can say that my individual research skills have improved greatly, as in AS I only looked at one other college magazine that I was given by my teacher for my preliminary task; and that magazine wasn’t done to high standards, as it by another student from another school – meaning that my research was very limited for my preliminary task and no creativity was spurned from it. This is in contrast to my A2 year, as my research included watching other film trailers and full length horror films from different subgenres of horror to gain more ideas for a horror trailer concept. The fact that I looked at different subgenres of horror meant that I could incorporate different ideas into my horror trailer, as my research wasn’t limited, which meant I could be more creative by using existing ideas and mould them into one. This highlights the over the course of the two years, my research skills have greatly improved.

Diary Log 30/11/2015

Currently, I'm editing my own version of the film trailer; I'm getting used to using final cut pro as I didn't use that last year. As I've been editing, I've noticed that we need to film more shots, as once I cut the shots, I realised we in fact needed some more of them. Soon we'll be filming extra shots in different locations (Paynes Wharf, Deptford and Elephant & Castle) so we've filmed in more than one place and so we got more footage to put into our trailer. I'm editing out 2 of my Q1.A essays to get them at a higher standard as they were not up to scratch before, and I will upload them before the lesson on Thursday.
In my group we need to allocate different roles to each other to ease the work load a bit for us all.

Locations: Recce and Risk Asessment

Locations: Recce and Risk Asessment from aishales

We did the location shots to familiarize ourselves with the locations we're going to use. By doing this, we learned that there are some risks that we'd have to avoid and prevent from happening. For this risk assessment, we went to McDonald's, which is the location we will be using for the beginning of our trailer. I saw that this McDonald's has a very spacious entrance, which is suitable; and outside of school time, its not too be busy to film in. I believe that this is the right place to film, as it  fits well within our story.

Astral Studios - Make Up Test

We did the make up test to test out how to use horror make up that links in to our horror sub genre, which is zombie horror. By doing this, we learnt the do's and don't's of horror makeup, so we'd know how to do the make up for our actors and actresses on the days of our shoots. We also did this so when we actually do the make up, it wont take as much time as it did during the make up test; as we have a lot of actors and actresses playing zombies, so we'd have to know how to spend less time on doing their zombie makeup.

Magazine Audience Research Answers