Ancillary Task - Film Poster Planning

                                 When thinking about our film poster we created a mind map of ideas. 

First of all we discussed what the main image on our poster would be and came up with two initial ideas. The first, was a close up image of the ghost, Cassandra. We decided that if we were to use a close up picture of a character on the poster, we should use Cassandra because she is the main character and the film revolves around her. We think that it would be effective if we used a black and white image as it could suggest our film is set in the past with the ribbon in red to connote danger. We have planned to have half of Cassandra's face in shadow to create mystery and represent her dark side. We also want  it to look similar to the trailer so that it would be recognisable so we are going to use the same colour scheme on the poster, website and trailer. 

Another idea we have is an image of a noose hanging from a tree, drawing inspiration from The Conjuring poster. This would be relevant to our trailer as it has a theme of suicide and death which is what the noose would represent.

We want to use a black background as it resembles darkness which is associated with evil. We are planning to use either a white font which will connote the innocence of children or a red font which will connote danger. We will use a serif font because our film includes adult themes and is for a more intellectual audience. We have taken inspiration from the 'Annabelle' poster when thinking about our titles.

We brainstormed tagline ideas that would be appropriate for our film; our ideas were mainly based around revenge and Cassandra's diary full of secrets. 

We have also planned what needs to be included in the billing block such as production company name, title, actor's names, producer and director.

Website Flat Plan

North Chamber- Rough Cut

North Chamber - Rough Cut from Hannah Boardman on Vimeo.


This is a rough version of the North Chamber trailer; at this stage, we have begun to add sound effects to parts of the film, however the trailer doesn't flow smoothly and lacks music.




We still have to add music that gets louder throughout the trailer to build up tension in order to put viewers on edge. At the moment the trailer only has random sound effects over each 'jumpy' part of the trailer and they don't flow into each other so music is our main focus at this stage of the post-production process. There is distracting background noise in some shots, especially in the first one which was filmed outside so we need to reduce this so that it does not distract the audience from what is going on in the scene and it will also make it look more professional. We have yet to record the monologue which is going to be edited over the scene in which Scarlett finds the Cassandra's book in the back of a store cupboard.




We haven't edited a couple of the scenes near the end of the trailer, these need to be completed in order for the trailer to build tension and keep the audience interested. We want to make the shots shorter as the trailer goes on and therefore need to cut down the clips that slow down the momentum of the trailer.

Production Diary 5 - 16/01/15

Call Sheet 16.01.15 by hannah

We brought Miranda and Kaitlyn in for this shoot to film all of the scenes they are in together.

Firstly, we had to do Kaitlyn's make up, put in her contact lens and then she had to put on her costume. It took us quite a while to get the contact lens in which left us with little time to get everything done.

In one of the shots we had planned to do, Cassandra's red ribbon drops from above the camera as Scarlett turns around. To do this, I stood on a stool, so I was out of shot, and dropped the ribbon behind Miranda. Rebecca filmed and directed, telling me when to drop the ribbon and when Miranda should turn around. As the ribbon was unpredictable as it fell, and it fell quickly, we found it very difficult to get the shot we wanted. We played some of the shots back to see what we could do to improve and I suggested we moved the camera to a different angle.

When we filmed the corridor scene with Kaitlyn we found that, by filming through a window the camera and Rebecca could be seen in the reflection. We had to adjust the camera and also move out of the way after we had pressed record in order to get an effective and professional shot.

Script Draft 2

North Chamber

Shot List

Shot List

North Chamber Poster Template

Film Poster Plan by hannah