Why use Shorthand?

We were asked 'Why did you use Shorthand?'
the man reasons we used Shorthand was because there was a really click free feel about the website that for us,  who are targeting a stereotypically lazy age group was very important. Shorthand had a large similarity to the Nerve website which we thought was a very effective website.

Theatrical Film Poster

We created two film posters for our trailer, the first was the long shot of ed standing on the pier over the lake. We thought this was a good trailer but didn't reflect our genre and made the movie appear to be social realism compared to the goal of a thriller. 

We changed the background photo of the poster to a photo of all the boys walking towards the camera out the door of a large house. we thought this was more effective than the previous poster as it involved more of the actors and made the poster appear as more of a thriller.

Final film poster

Title Changes

Website

Click this link to go to our website

We used Shorthand to create our website as we wanted it to flow down the page making it contemporary. A large part of what we wanted our website to be based around was the photos we took during filming the trailer, we found that shorthand allowed us to create a clean cut website whilst ensuring that these photos did not lose any quality. We feel that this will help attract the audience to watch our film and gain a better understanding of the genre, characters and themes throughout.

Make-up

During filming we had to apply makeup to the boys to ensure their features were clear and also to conform to professional standards. For every shot,we applied boys with foundation, foundation powder,contour, mascara, eyebrow gel and lip stain.

 On our first day filming we did not apply make up to any of the boys- when looking back at the footage we decided we would re film these sections as they did not seem professional enough.

There were a few of the violent shots that required more extreme make up to make the violence more believable. Here are some examples of us practising the make up effects:

 Here are some screenshots of when we used these makeup techniques within our final film.

Minimalistic poster

Draft

We thought that although this poster portrays our idea well, we thought it would be better with more contrast.

Final Poster 

The splitting up of the page from light to dark portrayed the battle between light and dark, which is a key part of our film trailer.

Music creation

We decided to attempt to create a piece of music that would reflect the tempo intended in our trailer. We created the music by gathering royalty free sound affects and added them together to create a drum and base feel, which related to the target audience of 15 - 25 

Poster analysis

Poster idea

Second draft

This is our second draft, it is a large improvement over the last draft but it is still not looking as professional as we would like. W-e have shown it larger audience for feedback, which we will work on to create the final product.

Website ideas

This is the website for Nerve. This was our main inspiration for our own website because we liked the fact that you could scroll down through the pages and we decided that we would try and emulate this. 

Click this link to go to the Nerve website

Additionally, because the storyline is set on the upper middle class we decided to look at some private school websites as we felt they could help us to create a believable layout for our own website and help us to choose fonts etc. 

Finally we also looked at the website for Fast 8 (the most recent film in the fast and furious series). Once we had done so we decided that we liked the option to find tickets and also the different layout and pages that are found. Thus when we create our website we will be trying to include these features. 

Click this link to go to the Fast 8 website