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My 9 year old next door neighbour will be playing the young boy in our piece. We decided to use him becuase he is the right age and height for the character. He also enjoys acting so would be willing to help us out with our piece. He is also a good choice for this character becuase he looks similar to the person weare thinking of having playing the older version of him.
After trial and error with a few different sounds and tunes, we finally decided on this. It starts with a solo piano, playing a short minor piece, connoting that something frightening is going to happen or that there is something strange going on. There is a heartbeat style drum that is kept throughout the whole piece as I feel this makes the atmosphere more tense. I have layered different piano tunes on top of each other as this created a darker effect once I had adjusted the pitches to turn it into minor and for it to match. After much thought, we decided to scrap the teddy bear's picnic idea as we felt this would go better and that the teddy bear's picnic recreation would be too difficult to recreate with the software we have.
This is our film poster for our thriller film. We looked at other current film posters like The Purge to see what to include. We included the title, a tagline, an age rating, a release date, our institution name and a social media link. Overall we are very happy with our film poster as we think it looks professional and the font and the main picture works well together.
We decided to make a film poster to help advertise our film. If the film poster looks interesting, it will entice someone to come and see the film. It is a good way to show the genre of the film to our target audience. We used the teddy bear as it is the main prop in the film, so it would be a memorable part of the film. Queen Of The Damned is a vampire thriller created in 2002. The entire soundtrack was written by Jonathan Davis (from well known Nu metal band KoRn) and Richard Gibbs. Together, the two men decided it would be a good idea to use well known and famous bands and artists to perform the songs (as well as Davis' inability to perform them himself due to restrictions with KoRn's SONY contract) in order to increase the audience reached for the movie and to increase publicity. These bands and artists included members from the likes of Linkin Park, Orgy, Deftones, Disturbed, Static X, and the very well known (and highly controversial and popular) Marilyn Manson. Distributed by Warner Bros, the film's soundtrack was created into an album by Warner Bros own music label (Warner Music Group). Due to the nature of the film (dark, gothic, particularly with the protagonist being in a band) Davis and Gibbs created songs that were of a gothic nature and within the Nu metal, alternative metal, industrial rock and alternative rock genres. The slow, gothic style, heavy nature of these genres created a good atmosphere to the film and suited it's style and genre. By looking at the music in this film, we can analyse how the music has influenced the film, and how, by using well known artists to write and perform the music, the soundtrack can play a very important part in distribution and publicity. Hopefully, by realising this, we can use the music as an influence on our own for our opening scene. Here, I am working on music for our production, and getting myself used to Garageband. I have decided to create an eery sounding music and have put in minor in order to give it a scary and tense atmosphere. We originally wanted to create a particular tune in Garageband, but I have realised that this is too difficult right now, and could potentially be something we have to change due to the difficulty of creating an original tune using the software. We may use another programme for creating that one section of tune, however, this could potentially ruin the atmosphere of what we have already and we could lose the quality of sound if we did so.
We wanted a photo of the bear as it symbolises the innocence of the child in the film, but also the destruction of the innocence as we destroyed the bear. We experimented with different settings for the photo, including against a wall, a tree and a white background. We decided to use the wall as the final picture as we felt it looked the best, and the bear contrasted well against the red brick. We have tried editing the picture in different ways, using two different editing programs to see the effects we like. These are the possible film posters we came up with. Our story is quite dark, so we explored dark colourings and focused the attention on different parts of the poster to come up with something we all liked. The use of the teddy bear has strong links with our opening sequence as it is the main prop.
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