The Official Trailer

Corrupted Karma Trailer from Kerim Aytac on Vimeo.

Evaluation: The Prezi

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Ancillary Product 2: Magazine

This is our final magazine spread.

Ancillary Product 1 Poster

This is our final poster.

Poster Development Presentation

Poster Development Presentation by kerim5

Making of the Magazine

The Making of the Magazine by kerim5

Rough Cut

We have been working away on editing our film and have been making some great progress. Here is the link to the rough cut of our trailer. We like the opening clip of our lead in the torture chair, because it immediately draws in the audience and adheres to thriller conventions. However, we are not so keen on the music, because we don't feel it fits in with the mood of our trailer, as it is up beat and our trailer is supposed to be haunting and dark, so are thinking of changing this when we next edit.

Editing Process

We want our trailer to be fast paced and exciting therefore we will use some of the best bits of the film to attract our target audience and highlight the most engrossing moments without giving away the plot. In the film our lead character Tom Banks undertakes a series of trails and challenges before the final scene where all is revealed. In our trailer we will include footage from these key moments. For example we are going to use the scene where the USB arrives in the post, we will include zoomed in shots of Tom's letter box where an anonymousletter containing the USB will arrive, this shot will leave the audience wondering what is inside this letter. The trailer will also show images of the 'torture chamber' in which Tom finds images of on the USB he receives in the post, we are either going to use photograph stills or actual video camera footage of this room along with slow and tense music. This will leave the audience wondering what this strange dark room is and what is going to take place in this room,encouraging them to want to see the film. We have decided to show this scene using CCTV footage and it will be full of glitches and will be distorted in black and white. Another scene that we will show in our trailer is the scene where Tom and his new friend Bryan attempt to destroy the body which Tom has killed. This scene will show the two men making friends and then Bryan and Tom disposing the body usingsulfuric acid. The body in this scene will be wrapped up so the audience will have no idea of the identity if this body or why they are destroying it. The next clip that will be included in our trailer is from the scene in which Tom meets Tracheal,the sister of the man he has killed. We will see Tom turning up at her house and introducing himself, as well as a clip of them falling for each other. The audience however will not know this girl is the sister of the innocent man Tom murdered so will be asking questions about their relationship.

Ancillary product-poster

I am very pleased with this final product and think that it fits in very well with our other ancillary products and main task. We used Photoshop to edit the image and a Canon EOS 600D to snap the shot. The film title on our poster was written in bold black writing with a red wash around the words, this proved successful as created a spooky horror-like theme, almost producing blood connotations and appealing to our target audience.

  Our skills in Photoshop have developed considerably since AS, and the tools we used were: crop, clone tool, merge, cropping, manipulating colours, levels and curves (adjust lighting) colour editing including ‘red wash’, hue and saturation, levels, hardware (A2 - PC), jerky style font- gave poster an edge.

The screen behind Declan's head on our poster is shining bright white, which we emphasized in photoshop, this immediately stands out and creates super natural images, as computer screens are never just completely blank and glowing like that- these super natural connotations appeal to our target audience and adhere to the thriller genre.

The words 'Coming' written in red in combination with the black words suggests horror almost suggesting it is 'coming' for you.We shot this image as night so that it was completely dark outside, this again suggests horror and fear as well as making the computer screen stand out, as this is key in our film.

Shoot day

Overall, the filming of our theatrical trailer went pretty well. The locations were a great success and we managed to get some exciting footage. We managed to get all the footage shot on one day, which was very intense but brilliant.

All the footage came out very well, especially the shot in which we placed the camera in the top corner of the 'torture chamber' where we were shooting and held it up on a tripod so it was completely still, we then shot our lead character struggling in the torture chair and are going to turn it into black and white so it looks as if it is CCTV footage. This well adhere to our thriller genre. Shooting at college was also really successful because we shot in the main office which looked exactly like the type of office our lead character would work in as a journalist with lots of papers and folders everywhere.

There were, however, some minor problems with our footage. For example, the footage of the boss firing our lead character was not completely in focus which meant we had to discard much of the footage. The hand held filming of our lead walking down the stairs of the torture chamber also proved quite difficult because it was a very narrow staircase and keeping the camera at his exact shoulder level was quite difficult.

Poster Development Presentation

Poster Development Presentation by kerim5

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule by kerim5

Shot List

SHOT LIST

Colour coded to location:
Blue- Sandra's uncle's house
Yellow- Jennie's office
Pink- Karl's house
Orange- Garden at college

Scene 1
Sandras uncle’s house
1. Distant shot, heavy breathing (possible canted angle)
2. Extreme close up with chains around arms
3. Extreme close up of mouth and nose (including heavy breathing)
4. P.O.V Shot (blurry sharp movements)
5. Foot shot



Scene 2
Jennies office
1. Long office shot
2. Medium of the two characters.
3. Over the shoulder shot of the Tom Banks
4. Close up of Tom banks to help the to increase identification with the audience.
5. Over the shoulder shot of the Boss.
6. Close up on Boss your fired lines.

Scene 3
Karls house
1. Walks to a living room of some sort
2. Notices a small letter / parcel through the letter box. (slow mo perhaps as it drops)
3. Extreme close as it is picked up.

Scene 4
Karl's office
1. Opens the letter to finds USB,
2. Extreme close of USB to bring high significance to the USB.
3. Extreme close of Expression on Banks’ face and as to why there is neither address nor sender.

Scene 5
Karl's office
1. Medium of computer room of a kind, and banks sits down.
2. Extreme close of banks putting in the USB into the computer / laptop.
3. Medium that includes banks and the screen showing the computer


Scene 6
 Karls house (make sure footage of cell is on screen)
4. Extreme close of glitch screen
5. Extreme close of banks reaction
6. Zoomed shot on the can that leads banks to the location of the cellar.

Scene 7
Sandra's house

1. Banks opens door to dungeon, medium long.
2. Close of hand opening door.
3. Close of feet as they step into the door.


Scene 8
Sandra's house
1. Banks walks down the stairs, medium as he does so.
2. Shots close of his feet to help bring suspense.
3. Close of his POV and increasing suspense.
4. Finds banks, long including both characters.


Scene 9
Sandra's
1. Close up of Brian, his chains, and face.
2. Medium as banks unties him.


Scene 10
Garden at college
1. Banks and Brian become friends, they drink a pint. Close up of drinks,
2. Medium of the two.


Scene 11
Jennie's office
1. Banks is fired, as he fails to find a story to sell to his boss, medium of boss, saying he’s sorry but you just had to go.
2. Banks medium of packing his items
3. Close of him picking up an old article on brains past, a photo of Brian and how he was a killer.
4. Banks is shocked and leave immediately, medium of him running.


Scene 12
Sandra's
1. Banks is in the chair again, monochrome, tied up again.
2. Close of chains
3. Close of heavy breathing of face.
4. Last shot of panning out close up shot of breathing and then cut.

Poster Mock Up

This was made so we had an original idea of what we wanted our final poster to look like: