meeting 9

Organisation: BluWhisky

Members: Morin Keshiro, Tiffany White, Cheyenne Dwyer

Date/Time: 05/01/11 - 1:45pm

Notes on the agenda

*Skills development- In preparation for our evaluation, as a group we discussed the skills we have developed from the start of our project. We decided that we will blog about the four different aspects of producing the teaser trailer which include: Research, Planning, Production and Post-Production. Seeing as we have all developed skills in all the areas, we will all have an input into each section.

*Filming and Editing- At this point we have successfully finished filming our trailer including shots that we had problems with before the Christmas break. Editing will now continue progressively.

*Sound- We have now begun to put down ideas for what kind of background music we want our trailer to have. Recording voiceover of newscaster should take place at the latest by next week.

Equipment used during the process

- Canon EOS 7D (Video Camera)
- Canon EOS 400D (Photographs)
- Track
- Kino Flo lights/ dimmer
- Vinten Tripod
- Soft Box - To take the shots for the poster and magazine cover in the studio and other locations. The lighting was dimmed for a darker effect on the magazine shots.

Unmanipulated Pictures

These are some of the unmanipulated photographs taken for our Magazine Cover and Poster. They vary in location and lighting i.e High key and low key.

Meeting 8

Organisation: BluWhisky

Members Present: Cheyenne Dwyer, Morin Keshiro and Tiffany White

Date/Time: 03/12/10 - 2.15pm

Review of progress - We encountered problems with our trailer which included some shots that were 'out of focus'. We as a group concluded that the errors were irreversible through editing and that re-filming and possible, slight change of storyboard was inevitable. Although this course of action would set us back to some extent, we feel it is the best decision to get the best possible trailer. Re-filming will take place as from next week and after the Christmas break.


Editing - The editing of our teaser trailer has been slowed down a bit so we can focus on the magazine and poster.


Magazine and Poster - We have decided to take the photographs again, so we can use the lighting more effectively and make use of our surroundings to give us a more realistic effect.

Shooting Script

Our shooting script has 5 main scenes. In a normal trailer it will have more than this however since we are creating a horror trailer we wanted to minimise the amount we tell the audience.

Scene 1 Close up of mouth

Location – in media corridor in front of red door
Dialogue – none
Sound - cannibal soundtrack

Shot description
These shot are a series of three shots spread out through the trailer. We created these shots to tease the audience by not revealing full shots of the killer. We only revealed a close up of her mouth with blood covered and her beating chest also cover in blood. We wanted to film in front of the red door because it displayed continuity since red s our main colour used in out media products.

Scene 2 Victim

Location – in a cleaning cupboard
Dialogue – none
Sound – cannibal sound track

Shot description
These were a series of 3 fast shots of the victim. We made sure the audience saw the victim and the cuts and bruises to the face. This was helped link the trailer to the horror genre. The close up of the victim allow the audience to see an attack had been made.


Scene 3 Sink

Location – sink
Dialogue - none
Sound – cannibal soundtrack

Shot description
Weapons. In these shots we reveal the weapons cannibal uses. We also reveal the football that is key because it shows that the victim is stereotypical male. And finally the finger that helps connote HORROR. We have also used a sink covered in blood to link our trailer to specifically slasher, horror sub – genre.

Scene 4 Screaming

Location – media classroom blue screen
Dialogue - screams
Sound – cannibal soundtrack

Shot description
A brief finale shot of the killer screaming. This shows the craziness of her character.


Scene 5/ captions
All the captions used in our trailer were all red and the same font to portray continuity. The font we used for ‘Cannibal’ was the same as the font used on the poster again linking the media products together.


Filming script

1) White noise fussing in. cuts to 2
2) Moves to close up of the chest. This synchronizes with the sound of the heartbeat starting. Cuts to 3
3) Writing fades in ‘when everybody’s gone. Fades to black then 4
4) Writing fades in ‘she traps her victims. Fades to black then 5
5) Quick flash of weapons. Fast fades to 6
6) Quick flash of football. Fast fade to 7
7) Quick flash of fingers. Fades to black then 8
8) Extreme close up of the killer mouth covered in blood. It features the iconic fingers. Fast cut 9
9) Writing getting smaller ‘one’. Cuts to 10
10) Flash of victim. Cuts to 11
11) Writing getting smaller ‘by’ cuts to 12
12) Scene of victim clearly injured in shock. Cuts to 13
13) Writing getting small ‘one’. Cuts to 14
14) Close up of victim. Allows audience to see damage done to victim. Cuts 15
15) Cuts to extreme close up of killer with blood dripping and fingers.
16) Killer screaming.
17) Title ‘cannibal’
18) ‘Coming soon’ and credits.