Voice Over Edit

In some of our scenes especially at the start of our trailers where we have one of our characters hurt after being attacked, there was a problem because we had dialogue and the trailer introduction track playing at the same time. We used a programme called 'Audacity' which allows you to lower or increase the voices of your characters. In our situation we increases the voices of our characters and then decreased the introduction track while on after effects.

Colour Pallet Process

Once you see the trailer, you will notice the black and white colour pallet in the first few shots. This was done to portray all the times our protagonist, Remel, has bad intentions or to show his troubled environment.

1.Go to edit > Preference > General

2.Check 'use system colour picker' option

3.Now you will get a selection of colour pallets as you can see on the final image.

Introduction Origin and Development

The original logo we had chosen was still the logo we wanted to keep however the logo itself wasn't big enough so we had to think of a plan B. We decided to surf the internet and look for a wheel and use photoshop to change it to the colour black which is what you see in image 2. Image 3 was basically the animation process on the left using after effects. This was vital to the introduction of our trailer. By using the search bar you can find and apply effects and presets. Then you go to effects and select an effect you like via the various features available in After Effects. Although the rendering process took really long once we had finished the animation process, the end product was worthwhile. This was largely based to getting key frames and timing to perfection.

Brick Wall Origin

There's a sequence in the trailer whereby the audience will encounter a brick wall with the cast names on it. We chose a brick wall to represent the hood and usually brick walls are used in the hood for graffiti so our names was basically the graffiti. We got the image from the internet and we just did a few size changes and slanted the image a bit using photoshop cs4.

'Dreamz' in the Hood' Poster: Draft 4

Dreamz in the Hood Trailer: Draft 2

TRAILER HALF WAY from Media @ St. Bons on Vimeo.

Here we are at the half way stage of our trailer, Just needs a little editing here and there in terms of more dialog footage but at this stage, we are track on what we are trying to portray.

Dreamz in the Hood Poster - Draft 3

Created by Abena Amoako

This is the second draft of the 'Dreamz in the Hood' poster that I have created. There has been a significant improvement in the development of this poster since the first draft as I have included more of the necessary conventions that is required of a film poster.

On this update I included our film title 'Dreamz in the Hood' which I decided to place centrally as it will draw my target audiences attention to the actual film so that  they remember the purpose of the poster rather than being distracted by the other features on the poster.

Because there are other dominating features on the poster such as the tag line, images and title I wanted to keep any additional features at a minimum. Through researching other existing social realism posters such as 'Shifty' and 'Bullet Boy' I noticed that a common convention was the critical ratings that the films received. For this reason I added two ratings, one five star and the other four by 'Empire' magazine and 'the Guardian' which are often seen to give ratings to films of this genre. I felt as though handwriting this in a graffiti type font using the 'pen tool' further anchored the social realism genre as graffiti usually has connotations of less developed areas or "the hood".

To this updated version, I also added names of the main actors at the top of the poster. This will further attract an audience to the watching the film as people become interested in the performance of the actors within the film, especially if they have identified with them elsewhere previously.

Dreamz in the Hood Poster - Draft 2

Created by Abena Amoako