Final magazine

The magazine is now completed with all the finishing touches added, we feel it looks very professional as we based it on the layout of a film review from Empire magazine. We are very happy with the final outcome, if there was one thing to change it would be the writing on the right hand side which is white because it matches the colour of the background where Sams shirt is white in the photo, it's still readable and changing it black wouldn't match the other writing.
 Justin followed the design of the magazine from Empire by trying to match each detail as closely as he could to make it more realistic and believable. On the left hand side down the column is about new film releases and interviews. On the right hand side is about the actors/actresses starring in Dead Man's Love, the main section of writing in the middle of the page is about the plot and in the bottom right hand corner has the verdict with a rating.

Music and sound

We have recently been looking for music to add to a scene in our film with Justin in the car speeding and then running over Sam. We thought because Justins un-named character is the typical person who doesn't care about anyone else as he is driving very fast and then uses his phone whilst in the car, so we thought adding some loud club music would suit the scene.
 The name of the song that we found on the internet is called Play It Hard from G-T3K, it's fast dance music and this will be played as he is driving up to when he hits Sam crossing the road.
 When editing we added the track switching from the car driving and Sam walking, getting quiter when it's on Sam. When Justin stops the car and gets out the music continues playing as if it's coming from his car stereo, but then goes quieter as he runs away to show he's moving away from the stereo. We feel that this does work although it might look quite cheap and not believable that the music is coming from the car.
 We also found a song which we used for the credits at the end of the film which we have now formed including the director, writer, producer, editor, cast and others. We wanted a piece of music that was comical as it keeps the mood for the final shot of Mickey and Dave ready to help Luke eat his wife. We found the song from

Third and final day of filming

On the 8th March we stayed after school and filmed our third and final scene in a classroom to use as an office where Sam is at work. We changed the script a little by adding him killing a colleague and then his boss which is played by Ryan to make the point that he is a zombie more clear as before he only killed his wife which didn't give much away about the story.
 We used a variety of shots such as a close-up on Ryan's face when he's shouting to make him look more angry and give a better effect. Pete Geldart volunteered to play the colleague who sits near Sam at the desk when he kills him which we filmed out of focus by concentrating on Ryans face when he finds a sheet of paper been printed off by Sam to look confused.
 Also we came up with the good idea of showing him kicking the body under the desk of the person he just killed as his boss walks over and talks to him.

Editing

After finishing our first two days of filming which is most of our project apart from one more scene which we need to do, we have been editing our collected footage. We began by cutting particular clips that we agreed didn't fit the film or were not good enough for different reasons. Then we put the remainding clips together into place by deciding the ones we preferred. These were then cut down so we got rid of any unwanted footage and left spaces for where the last part of filming will be placed, also for where the car accident will go seeing as that still needs to be complete.
 Recently we noticed a continuity error where Sam is getting dressed for work with his coat on and then the next shot is him with his coat off. We had to remove certain parts and try to get away with what we have, it may look slightly odd, but on the positive side it is a comedy so it could look quite funny, also not everyone we have shown has noticed the mistake.
 Another small error we found was on the sound a voice can be heard in the background when the shot is being filmed, so we cut that part out and jumped straight to the next shot, although there is not much of a problem because it's only a few seconds and still looks good, personally I think it looks better because the shot was too long anyway.
 Recently we completed our final scene and when editing found one slight error which was when Sam kicks the hand under the table to hide the dead body of the colleague he just killed at work, Ryan who plays his boss, speaks at the same time which we wanted to show in a different shot, so instead we just cut it down a little so it fits perfectly.

Second day of filming

On 06/02 we did our second day of filming which we all felt went very well, getting all the footage we needed and running smoothly with everyone able to make it. We have most our film now apart from one scene which may be added which will be done soon and won't take too long. We filmed all the scenes that we had planned on the script apart from one which we felt didn't fit with the rest of it, although it wasn't in the script anyway. Also throughout the filming we made some alters such as cutting out one idea from the toilet scene, this is because it might have been a scene that would have gone on for too long and would have needed too many shots, but this wasn't a vital part. We also filmed in a random order so all the scenes are not together, this will take lots of editing.

 We used Lucy's house as she is now in the movie playing the wife of Sam's character, Luke. We began fairly early in the morning with the first scene being outside showing Luke entering the house after coming home from work from being hit by a car which we filmed on day one. The other scenes we filmed were the bed scene showing him getting in and out with his wife, the bathroom scene, the table thrown out the door scene, lounge scene and the kitchen scene where he kills her, showing Mickey and Dave finding Luke eating her when they decide to join in.

Progress questions

- How did your research into genre contribute to your production work?
A film that I researched because of the genre being the same to ours: horror comedy, was Shaun of the Dead, this will relate to our movie being the same audience as it's the same genre. We looked into dvd covers of horror comedy films such as Scary Movie and Zombie Land too, so we could take away ideas from these to develop our production work based upon the genre. On the Scary Movie front cover we found a qoute: I see dead people. This is mocking a real movie so we took the idea of having a slogan at the top of our poster: You're in good hands with a zombie. Two other dvd front covers/posters that we examined were Me, Myself and Irene and Superbad because they are both comedy's and they helped us to develop our poster layout. The Me, Myself and Irene poster shows a head split in half showing two personalities, so it linked to the genre of our film as it's about a normal man who is a zombie, so he is a split person. Also the Superbad poster shows the main characters so we thought this would be a good way to lay out the poster with all the characters spread over the poster, in the background etc.

- How did your research into audience contribute to your production work?
When I looked at Shaun of the Dead, I found that the film achieved an average age of it's audience being 18-34 year olds, mainly students. The reason we chose to do comedy was because it targets the whole market, both male and female, ranging from different ages, because the majority of people all like comedy, it also has elements of horror and romance, so this spreads even wider giving us a big audience. The comedy is also the same of that in Shaun of the Dead, which in a review was described as "cheeky more than sarcastic," and it had a very successful audience so we hope that ours should get some positive feedback too. The main audience of Shaun of the Dead being a cheeky, sarcastic comedy with the characters as white British, the large majority of the audience that were attracted were the same as the characters being white because of it's comedy. So, we know from this that with our film being a cheeky, sarcastic comedy with all the characters being white British, linking to that of Shaun of the Dead, our audience will be the same.

- How did your research into institutions be responsible for the production and regulation of the media influence your production work?
I looked at posters of films so we knew how to create ours and make it look as real and convincing as possible. We added productions names such as Universal, Working Title, Studio Canal and I made one for our group. As we know that Working Title and Studio Canal work with comedies such as Shaun of the Dead, we thought it would be a good idea to use it for ours, also Universal as we know is a big production name so it would boost our poster appearance. After looking at these logo's we had an idea of what to do for our own production name, so it did fairly influence us.

First day of filming

We have just completed filming our first part of the film which is the car scene where the actor gets knocked down by a driver. We managed to get lots of different shots and angles by using two seperate camera's which gave us more options. Jack Laurilla also came along and took photo's as he does photography, this gives evidence of our filming and shows briefly how we worked and where.

We began at 10:00am and filmed at the Ringwood Junior School lane as it was a fairly quiet road with good light and had a path where we could show the character walking down before he crosses the road. Gareth came too and helped us with ideas and he let us use his green screen so the car collision will look realistic. We ended at around 1:00pm and had collected a good amount of film.

Order of shots:

1. Luke (Sam White) walking home from work.
2. Comes to the edge of the road, looking left.
3. A car from the right comes speeding and hits him.
4. The driver (Justin) gets out of the car and goes to his attention.
5. He goes back to the car to get his phone, looking behind him as he speaks to 999.
6. He looks back again and realises the body has disappeared.