Rough cut ancillaries complete

Here's the rough cuts of the two ancillaries, there a likely to be improvements across the two of them to produce the final copy.

Poster:

Magazine:

Update

I'm on track for finishing my ancillaries by the time i go back to school on the 5th january, an then about a week after that i will finish my trailer and start the evaluation which will give me a couple of weeks for that.

I've now got all of the photos and i've chosen the ones i will use.

I also decided that the poster looks better without the image of alex himself on it. I will still, however, use this image on the front cover of my magazine. This means that the main focus of the poster will now be the BMX bike in the centre, coupled with the title above. I did, however, take some screen shots of me cutting out the image of alex in photoshop and i have posted these below...

This is the original photo. The background uses a variety of colours which made it a little tricky to cut alex himself out. To begin with i tried using the 'magnetic lasso' tool on photoshop, but the range of colours made this a tedious and painstaking task. I then came to the attention of a different tool of which i can no longer remember the name. This tool allowed me to colour around alex in red.

Here is what the photo looked like after i'd coloured the area i didnt want in. From here i was able to select the outside of alex and delete the rest, leaving a white background.

By this stage i could select alex and copy and paste him to where i needed the image.

These are the photos i have chosen for my two ancillaries...

I felt that of the photos i took of the actor, that this was the best one. This was simply because on his facial expressions. I intend to use this photo on both the poster and the front cover of the magazine to establish a link between the two and make it look like some kind of marketing strategy.

I have chosen this one because the BMX is in the far left of the image and it engages the rule of thirds.

This shot was meant to look quite amateur as it will feature on the magazine front cover as one of the 'extras'.

This image is the same as the above in nature. I chose these too out of the selection that i took because the character is central to the photos and they look quite casual.

This was a second idea i had for the magazine front cover, although i dont think i will use this. It's a back up plan of sorts.

This photo has a lot more space around the bike and it is for this reason that i chose it. It is different to the other one in that it would allow me to use more of the fence and ideally, work it into the poster.

I have chosen this selection of photos for  various reasons. I may not use them all and there may be a couple of different ones that i use, should i end up not liking any of these. But for the mean time i feel that these photos are easy to work with, and could hopefully produce so decent ancillaries with a little editing.

Ancillary photos

Here are the photo's i took today for the two ancillary tasks:

Update

Just a quick update as to where i am now...

My trailer is pretty much finished now,  managed to do a lot of work on it in the last week of school, so all there is left to do now is put the title in place. I have to film one little bit on the green screen to do this and then make the the title with it in after effects. I'm going to use the idea of having a BMX ride through the title. After that my trailer will be finished. A for the ancillaries, they will be finished over these christmas holidays as i have photoshop at home. My actor has been in England for the last 6 months or so but he's back now, so i will be able to take some photos with him and select the best ones to use for the two ancillaries. As you already know, i've done a lot of the little things for the ancillaries so all that really remains that will take time is the photos. The rest is all quick and easy. This means that as soon as i have finished my title on the trailer i can move on to the evaluation aspect of the coursework, which means i will have about 3 weeks to do it in.

I'm currently editing together a construction documentary which i will upload at the end of the construction sequence. This will show you how i made all of the project, including the two ancillaries. 

Evaluation...

I need to start thinking about the evaluation section now, and i will do this as i put the finishing touches on the trailer. I can't properly start this until the trailer is completely finalised, but i have up till the final deadline (21st january) to do it. I won't be able to do anything to my trailer until i'm back at school on the 5th of january, because i don't have the software at home to edit it, which will set me back a little. However, i am confident that i will have enough time to do everything in the three or so weeks between then and the final deadline.

Ancillary Tasks...

Now my rough cut in finished, i can concentrate on the ancillary tasks. I can do these over the holiday's because i have photoshop at home so that allows to to use the time instead of being sat at home with nothing i can do. I've done a bit of work on the two tasks anyway as i've previously posted so there isnt too much more to do.

On a positive note, i have been to find a fence for my location down at the skatepark and there is one covered in graffiti which would be the perfect location for the photo for the poster. This means that the skatepark will be the location for the main image on the poster.

Rough cut complete!

I finished my first rough cut on friday and you can follow the link below to it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxYo0fa5iUk
It's not the final copy and, of course, there are parts that need sharpening up and things like the title and the work sections that still need to be edited in. But the main structure is there to work with.

I'm not 100% sure about the music for it. It fits the genre well but it was thinking about taking a different spin on it and putting some completely contrasting music over the trailer. This would create a more abstract effect and hopefully would have a more memorable impact on the audience.

The next thing for me to do is import the rough cut into aftereffects and put the remaining components in it. This shouldn't take too long and i should be finished in a couple of weeks. As soon as im done with this i will put together my construction documentary and post it up on here.

Today

I continued to edit the rest of my trailer today, and there's not a long way left to go now. One thing i did realise today was that i needed some more musci for the end of my trailer because it was a little to quiet and the mood needed to be established. I spent about half an hour looking through soundtrack pro before finding an appropiate sound clip. I wanted something that sounded emotional and involved a pianio.

Theres 4 days until the first rough cut deadline, so i'm on track to have that completed on time. I willl post a construction documentary at the end of the month to show the various stages of me constructing the trailer.

I also had a new idea for the title of the film, i want to have the bike essentially riding through the title, and to do this i will need to filom over the green screen. I wont be able to have this done by the end of the week so i have arranged with mr.dowson to do that as soon as possible, instead of for friday.

New footage

I took the footage for the new shot i have thought of today, and i now plan to have the voice over playing on top of it, and a little less over the heart beat effect. I think that the voice over is better spread between different parts of the trailer to build excitement and tension throughout. Anyway, here is a screen shot of the new footage:

The trailer...

i'm now over half way with the trailer, i've finished the middle section of the trailer now and i'm well on track for the deadline, despite the problem we've had with the weather over here in the past week. I have, however, decided to make one change to the start of the trailer. I now plan to add an additional shot before the heartbeat begins, where Alex is lit up from the back in the dark. This will establish him as the centre of attention for the film.

The music issue that recently occurred is now totally solved and i've sorted the music completely.

One thing i did have to do the other day is straighten out a shaky image in after effects. Below you can see a few screen shots of me doing this, and in my construction documentary you will be able to see footage of it.

Whilst dealing with my music problems, i tried a different approach. I thought about having an abstract take on the trailer, with more orchestral music. An example of this kind of media is the xbox advert that was banned. You can see it by following this link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuRQmvykwk

It didnt work very well with the style of my trailer, and the music clashed with the video. You can see this abstract draft of the trailer by following this link to youtube.com...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHCRfX-AY8I

Ancillaries

Right, i started to put my ancillary titles at such together the other day, i wont be able to get the final photos until mid december due to the actor being away, but that's not a problem as i can sort out the rest and finalised them when the final photo's have been taken.

I'm sticking pretty much to the final drafts and i'm planning on using the same text as i have in the trailer for the movie title to make it more recognisable across the different media.

I've taken a few screen shots to show the work i've done so far with the ancillaries, minus of course the title which will come at the end when i've sorted the title for the trailer.

The magazine screen shot you see below is one i started to make at the very start of the year before i had created drafts, which explains why the title is wrong. I intend to use the title that you see in the final draft.

Music developments

Right, it would appear that after searching through the websites there is nothing that i deem to be appropriate for my trailer. However on the bright side i have found something i could use on soundtrack pro. It's a style of backing track which is quite common with films of this kind and so is well suited. I will edit this to what i need and use this.