I have recorded myself using 'CamStudio' to show me using Adobe Premiere Pro. The clip is of me importing a clip so that I could use it on the timeline for the film. Although APP is simple for importing and has a simple timeline, we have found that it is slow running, crashes often and is generally difficult to use. I would not suggest this programme to others wanting to create a clip longer than 5 minutes unless their computer runs smoothly without fault.

Editing

For the past few days I have been completing editing together the clips that we have filmed into the final peice. I have decided to do the editing out of the group (although I will receive feedback and critisism from the rest of the group) since I have had experience with using Adobe Premiere Pro before. Although Premiere Pro can be difficult at times, it is good for editing because the timeline is laid out simply and importing clips is easy to do.

This video gives you an idea of what it looks like, and gives some useful tips.

Email for music

Since we are using music in our film, we needed to email the band manager of the song we chose to make sure that we did not go against any copyright terms that might be in place, Curtis sent an email to make sure that this was okay.
Since they did not reply (we said they did not have to reply if allowed to use the song) we are okay to add it into the film.

Make-up

I decided to test out what the make-up would look like for the zombies in our film, instead of using face-paint I decided to use Acrylic paint because you can build up layers to make texture, which you cannot do with face make-up. Using three different colours of red (I may use more when doing it for the final) I painted what would perhaps be a bite mark onto the side of my neck. This is only a practice to see how using Acrylic would go; it is good, but does peel fairly quickly so we would perhaps have to keep re-applying it if the scenes go on for too long.

What does your target audience look like?

The target audience for our film opening is aimed at teenagers and young adults from the ages 16-21 who, as a group of friends, enjoy watching horror and thriller movies for fun when they get together. Films that these groups of people might enjoy are popular scary films like 28 weeks/days later, Paranormal Activity, The Ring, The Excorcist.

These types of films are popular and sell well with teenagers because getting scared on purpose is popular with young culture.
They would enjoy heavier bands, such as A Day To Remember, Bring Me The Horizon and Alesana. As well as watching movies, they would enjoy Television in general and watch popular shows (Sherlock, Supernatural etc.)

Because of this I think that our movie will sell well with this generation, even B-movies tend to become big hits since access to the internet is widely available and young adults will use it often in their spare time.

This means that we will probably use Internet-based advertising as a big part of our marketing distribution, The Internet also allows a lot of convergence (videos, advertisements, downloads.)