First cut!

Green Screen Test #3

We tried a third green screen test with our actress Lauren Bradley. We tried using a moving background, however we decided that it may be distracting of attention away from Lauren and her speech - also, this particular background didn't loop so effortlessly, after about six seconds of zooming in, it would snap back to it's original position so we needed something that we could have on a continuous loop. We also made sure that our actress' make up and hair was flawless preventing the light problems we'd previously had and smoothed down her fly-away hairs, which previously the greenscreen hadn't quite permeated, leaving a sort of green halo around her head. The key issue with this was the noise in the background - I think an extractor fan, which we hadn't realized was quite so prominent when filming, but the blue of the background brings out quite a lot of red in Lauren's skin and we want her to have a very pale, perfect, almost clinical feel. We experimented at the end with having her greenscreened on top of herself which though gave a quite cool, trippy sort of effect - again the flyaway hairs corrupted the image behind.

Experimenting with editing!

TRAILER: The Strangers

Trailer Deconstruction

Within this trailer, I really liked the way they conveyed the idea of being watched through the use of the non diegetic camera clicks and the use of a projector show reel. It gave it an interesting old fashioned feel through the jitteriness of the picture. This intensified the tension within the trailer through the quick editing.

I feel it is a good trailer to take influence from as it shows that just through special effects and editing, we can easily make simple camera shots seem effective in creating a type of mood to scare the audience.

The use of whispering combined with an eerie airy sound within the trailer works extremely well at intensifying the mounting tension within the film. It makes it creepier than simple silence, as it is more foreboding and realistic to real life.

There is also an interesting shot that would be good to take influence from where the word 'killer' is written in blood on glass. I like the way the glass is made to look realistically scratched and the positioning of the word on screen means that through the quick editing, the audience is able to see a flash of it, just enough to leave them intrigued.