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On Monday all four of us went to Pawlett to film the remainder of the footage. We changed our location from Brean Down due to lack of time, it would have taken too long to drive to and walk up to the end of Brean Down and we knew of another atmospheric and effective location that was more easily reached. Tuesday Phoebe, Emily and I came into the mac suit to upload the footage and begin editing. Today we perfected the editing and acted upon advice from our media teacher to improve the overall effect. Sam created the end screen for the trailer.    

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On the 25th November Phoebe, Emily and I returned to Brean Down to ensure that the first section of the trailer was completed and Emily and I added in the extra footage to iMovie and edited it. Today the three of us chose which titles we would use and added them to our trailer.

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On Friday Sam, Emily and I went to the Apex to film part of the wood scene and then on Monday our whole group went first to the Apex and then to Brean Down to record more footage. Personally I played a small role in the footage acting wise and helped direct. And today Phoebe, Emily and I uploaded the footage and began to edit and add effects and sound.

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Today Emily and I created all the titles we would need for our trailer on iMovie with more than one example for most so that we could decide which we preferred at a later date. We then uploaded it to YouTube so that we can take out and use the clips that we wish to use in our trailer and uploaded it, with an explanation, to our blogs.

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I have now completed my analysis of a monthly magazine, I chose to analyise an issue of music magazine 'Q' as it has a similar audience to that of a film magazine, meaning it will be valuable to compare the two. I created the analysis on powerpoint and have presented it on Slideshare and uploaded the link to my blog.

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Unfortunately due to unpredicted weather conditions we were unable to film in the half term but have met together as a group and decided upon a more appropriate time to film early next week. Today I have completed the analysis of our audience survey results on my blog and analysed the cover of an issue of women’s weekly magazine ‘heat’, presented it on PowerPoint and uploaded it to my blog.   

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Today I have analysed the results of our audience research survey and uploaded it to my blog, and added more content on sound to my video trailer analysis, which has now also been updated on my blog. We have also started to edit the footage to create some sort of framework and decided fully upon dates when we are able to film the sections at Brean Down as we will need more time there and it will take longer to get there, meaning it cannot be done in lesson or school time. We have planned to have our first filming session in Brean tomorrow as it is an inset day at school, so we will have the time. We have also looked up the weather forcast to ensure it will not hinder our filiming plans.    

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We re-recorded some of our footage to avoid unwanted items in our mise en scene and uploaded it to the iMacs so that we could check it.

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Today we went to a group members house in order to film some short clips of the antagonist running his had over knives and then picking the weapon he wishes to use. To filmed a few takes of the clip to ensure we should have enough footage to find some suitable for using in our trailer. We also decorated the mask a little so that it would appear more creepy and be more effective in creating the atmosphere that we wish to portray.

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Today we went to the location for the memorial scene and filmed some shots experimenting with different angles and shots, and managed to film some footage that should be useful however due to the wind we were unable to light the candles meaning we will have to return to the location on a stiller day to film further footage. We have also uploaded the footage to the iMac so that we can start editing and finding out what we do and don't want to use.

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Today Emily and I have experimented with transitions and layouts for titles on iMovie. And as a group we completed a page analysing on the organisation of actors, props and costume in our trailer and put it on to our blog.   

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Between Emily and I we completed the analysis of horror conventions and how we applied them to our trailer in the form of a illustrated report. Personally I completed the sections on lighting, characters, themes and sound. I have also analysed the titles from the three trailers I have already analysed. Today Emily and I have experimented with different fonts and colours that could be used for the titles in our trailer.

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Today I downloaded the Prezzi file and uploaded it to my blog. I also added a section on horror convention and how important it is to apply this to our trailer. I have also be updating my blog with exam work about the ASA and their rulings.  

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We have completed our target audience research and presented it on Prezi. Personally I completed the sections on the socio-economic scale and other interests of our target audience. I also wrote a small section about why we have chosen to put together a small questionnaire to present on our blogs to find out the opinions of people from our target audience. I have also uploaded the risk assessment to my blog.

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I helped check over and complete the risk assessment that is now finished and ready to be signed and then uploaded to our blogs. I also sorted out my blog by publishing all the pages and uploading Sam's magazine, poster and trailer analysis.

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We have completed our script, following film script conventions. I contributed to that by typing it all up with help from Emily at the start and then working on the rest independently. I also wrote about Todorov's theory, what it does and how we applied it to our initial, and final ideas on my blog.

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I have completed a written analysis on the 'Final Destination' trailer in relation to sound and uploaded it to my blog. I have also published all the pages on my blog and ensured the layout is the way I want it to look. I also completed my page on Todorov's theory and how it relates to or initial and final ideas, uploaded the shot lists and uploaded Phoebe's trailer analysis and poster analysis.  

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Today we finished presenting our storyboards, scanned them in and uploaded them to our blogs. We also completed our shot lists and scanned them. We recorded an animated version of our storyboards with a voice over. Personally Emily and I scanned all the story boards and shot lists and finished the shot list between us. Phoebe helped us to upload these to our blogs and looked up and downloaded  music and sound effects that could be used in our trailer. I recored the animated version which was voiced over by Emily and Sam.

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We have now completed our storyboards, personally I contributed to the ideas and did most of the written description, I also did some drawings on the fist scenes. We tried to be more creative with the layout of our storyboards by mounting the separate boxes on coloured card. We have started to put together out shot list and downloaded royalty free music and sound effects that we think could be useful for our trailer.

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As a group we have brainstormed ideas and come up with a new concept and story line for our trailer. We first watched other example trailers to help with ideas and then drew out a flow chart of our trailer from start to finish so that we would have a foundation to build upon when starting our storyboards. We have also started to draw up a prop list and have completed our first story board. We researched locations for our setting and decided upon an abandoned building within driving distance. Personally I have completed a written analysis of the House at the end of the street trailer in relation to lighting/colour and shots.    

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Today I have made sure all my blog pages are published and edited them aesthetically so they look how I want them to. Then I shared my work with another group member so that she could post mine on her blog and I could post hers on mine. So I now have two analysis's of each media on my blog, creating a wider and more accurate knowledge of how each media is used and their conventions when related to horror films.

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I have made improvements to my individual film magazine cover analysis and updated it on my blog. I have also completed my horror film poster analysis for the film 'The House at the end of the Street' and uploaded it too my blog. As a group we made notes and created a first draft for the storyline of our horror film trailer in the form of a flow diagram and watched other horror film trailers to help inspire us and give us ideas on how, realistically, using our recourses we can create an effective and atmospheric trailer.

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As a group we brainstormed ideas for our story to base our trailer upon and applied them to Todorov's theory. We have come up with some inital ideas including an conventional iconic dark figure as the antagonist and the idea of using black and white CCTV footage for effect.

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Today we started analyising horror film posters. I chose a poster for 'the House at the end of the street' and have almost finished the analysis.

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Today we pulled together the information we collected when we analysied the film magazine covers as a group to produce a set of notes ready to present a group analysis. We completed the notes and started to present it. However as only two members of the group are present we have not been able to refer to the findings of all the group memebers. But we still produced a detailed analysis using our findings.

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After recieving feedback from my teacher I have added improvements to my analysis of the 'Insidious' trailer. I have also uploaded my film magazine cover and trailer analysis to my blog.

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We have now completed our podcast and uploaded to the Mac, edited it and uploaded it to YouTube. We each took equal size sections of the podcast to read out, so that we all had an equal amount of input. I have also analysed a film magazine cover.

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Since being put in groups and starting to work together we have all individually analysed a horror film trailer, personally I looked at the 'Insidious' trailer. We then looked at the conventions shown in the trailers we looked up in a group and put together a script for a podcast. We have now recorded this podcast.