'The Surgeon' Trailer Final Cut

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Final Website and Teaser Embed

http://www.stmaryleboneschool.com/studentsite/media/2012/debbie.html

Poster Mock-up and Photoshoot Plan - Change of Idea

I completed a mock-up and photoshoot plan for my poster before I had come up with a proper idea that I now have.

THE MOCK-UP:
The mock-up was of a surgeon and for it to simply say 'The Surgeon' at the bottom. However, this was before I had done me research into other film posters and found out that other factors such as a billing box, actor's names etc needed to be present in order to be a conventional film poster. During the production process, things had changed and new ideas had sprung from other factors such as getting new props (like the surgeon-like tool and images of the female protagonist present in my poster) which then led me to my final poster.

THE PHOTOSHOOT PLAN:
The photoshoot plan was thus based on the ideas I had before my final one that I went for and are details of how I would've taken those images and edited them. However, I am more confident with the images I took for my final idea and went through the same process when thinking how to take the images and how to edit them also.

The Surgeon poster third and FINAL FINAL draft

Although they were minor changes, I made a third draft for my film poster. I changed the details located at the top of the poster such as the actor's names, date line and film tag line to the same font as the film title on the poster (Urban Jungle).
I did this so it could match exactly with my film website. I initially thought that the font was too hard to read and wanted the details to be clear and legible but after testing the font out, I found it was easily readable once zoomed out and viewed at 100% - the typical view when looking at website. Therefore, I left the font in Urban Jungle so the entirety of the poster would match and to heighten the overall branding of all my productions.

In addition to this, I also moved the position of the website link and the film company logos: Dolby and THX so ensure they're all in line. I used the Grid Tool to help me do this.

The third and final draft of my poster can be seen below:

Second/Final draft of 'The Surgeon'

Making the (2nd draft/final) poster

I had to re-draft my poster as I made the original on Picnik using one of their fonts. I therefore encountered a problem when making the website as I had to do this using Photshop and they did not have the same font as I originally used on Picnik. I made a new poster adding new aspects to the old one, such as actor names and managed to cahnge the font to match with the font that is featured on my website and to keep the branding of my film consistent.

Making the poster 2 nd draft

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Making the website process

Making the website powerpoint pdf

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My role so far this week...

Today I made the website for my film 'The Surgeon'. After I made the final touches to the website background image (changing a few names in the billing box and the positioning of the social media buttons and text) I then opened Macromedia Dreamweaver and commenced to make the website itself.
A link to the website will be be uploaded in a future post...

The Surgeon First Draft Trailer Feedback

We showed the first draft of our trailer to a Year 12 media class and printed them a questionnaire of 10 questions in order to get their feedback. This was effective as we got to see what people thought of our trailer and it also gave us direction during the editing process after showing them. We got feedback from 16 people and below is an interactive version of the feedback sheets. The first page is blank in order to see the questions that were being answered by the audience.

Open publication - Free publishing - More surgeon

The Surgeon trailer: FIRST draft

The Surgeon from St Marylebone Media Studies on Vimeo.

'The Surgeon' Poster First Draft (+ billing box)

Making the production page: Miami Canal

We both contributed in the making of this production page. We picked an image from Google on which we both agreed was best and then also edited it using Photoshop and Picnik.
A print screen of the final product can be seen below which will feature near the start of the trailer:

Making the production page: Knight Studios

My filming partner Tibyaan made the production page for trailer feature of 'Knights Studios'. We brainstormed effective words that could look good with an object image such as apple, keyhole, sky and raindrop, but eventually settled on a knight,in the chess piece context. After choosing the best image of a knight piece, she then edited it in Picnik where she also added text and saved the final product in order for it to appear in our trailer.
A print screen of it can be seen below:

Making the mpaa screen

I made the mpaa screen which is the green coloured opening page you usually see at the start of American trailers. Using an internet example as a template, I made the screen on Photoshop by dying the background green and copying the texts from the template as well as the drop shadow.
A print screen of the final product which will feature at the start of the trailer can be seen below:

Images from the previous filming shoot

'The Surgeon' Inspiration from real media texts

Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.

Yesterday & Today :

YESTERDAY...
Me and Tibs rounded up filming. The scenes which were filmed yesterday were:
 - Polina hiding from the bodyguards who were chasing after her
 - The bodyguards running and then separating to look for her
 - The bodyguards dragging her into a room
 - The bodyguards watching over Polina in a caged room
 - A close-up on Polina's feet as she's being dragged
 - The moon!
 - Polina in the foreground and the bodyguards in the background running towards her...and she collapses (improvisation) 
 - Polina running into a Phonebox and frantically making a call
 - Polina at the canal
All the above shots were filmed many times over from different angles and different proximities and images we took during the time of filming will be added soon.

TODAY...
We logged and captured all ^ that footage onto Final Cut Pro and continued editing.

'The Surgeon' Poster First Draft

This is my first draft of 'The Surgeon' poster. I used the website 'Picnik' to edit the image and this is the final product. A billing box will be added at a later date, perhaps in my second draft. The process of how I created the poster is outlined in a powerpoint below.

The Surgeon Poster Editing Process

The surgeon poster editing process

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Re-shoot Images For The Poster

I narrowed the images I took down to 6 pictures to choose for my poster. After asking peers on their opinion, I decided to choose the first image to edit.

Today...

After feedback from my initial images from my poster, I was then advised to re-shoot as my first pictures were too busy as there were a lot of things going on. Also, another piece of feedback was that the unorganised, messy (blood splatter and hand print) contradicts with the neat and organised (block of photos in the middle).
So...today I did a re-shoot taking the feedback on board by making the whole shot look messy and unorganised with less things going on - by not applying a bloody hand print - which will then make space for the film title as well as the billing box.
The images will be uploaded in a future post.

My filming partner Tibyaan and I have also been continuing with the editing of our footage.