Trailer Music

As our editing is coming along, we have had to fit sound to the trailer. We have taken inspiration from 'The Gallows', a film with a similar teen target audience. In this trailer the footage is fast paced - like our own - and as creepy, typical horror music would not fit here they have used a remix of 'Smells like Teen Spirit', a song which meet their stereotypical teen audience. We have similarly decided to choose a recognisable but slowed down song, and have chosen 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', iconic to The Breakfast Club. This homage to a classic teen film is exciting for the audience and also adds a creepier tone to the trailer itself as the song is not how it usually would sound, setting the audience on edge. It is a cover, so regarding copyright we have tried to contact the person who has uploaded the cover to the internet to get his permission to use it.

Filming Progress

Our filming has progressed hugely as we have began to figure out ways to overcome our biggest problems. One issue which hindered our filming massively was featuring people who worked, and therefore actors often had conflicting schedules. To fix this problem, we have changed the people in the trailer and are using younger actors who do not work and therefore are more available. Another issue was our location, which looked very effective but was not weather resistant and difficult to get all the equipment to. We have decided instead to use the schools drama studio, with some shots of outside the location to give the appearance the characters are inside when they are not. Due to these changes, we have been able to get footage much easier and have began editing it to fit together.

Little White Lies Magazine

Little White Lies is a London-based film magazine which is distributed internationally by TCOLondon since 2005. It began when lifestyle magazine 'Adrenalin' went bankrupt, and a group of people decided to turn Danny Miller's (a student) degree project into a magazine. The Guardian referred to it as 'the best designed magazine on the shelf'. The publishers (Faber and Faber) also released a book 'What I Love About Movies' which is a collection of responses from various people involved in the industry such as Quentin Tarantino and Ryan Gosling when asked what their favourite thing about films is. The company is fully functioning, with a professional website, instagram page, twitter, youtube and facebook account and an option to subscribe for £29. It is a bi-monthly publication and has a readership of 45,000. The magazine was described as being 'at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement'.
This magazine is much more niche and appeals to an artistic demographic rather than a mainstream one. It features a print / sketch of the main actor featured, and sometimes the title of the film like this one does. This particular magazine front cover features Brad Pitt, however there are a whole host of actors some of who are not as famous or successful as Brad Pitt. There are no taglines or smaller stories on the front cover, which breaks convention of a magazine. There is also no mention of any other film which is inside which again breaks convention of a film magazine, which generally have as many films as possible on the front to attract a large audience. On all the editions there is a white circle at the top with the title and tagline in them, which makes it identifiable to a knowing audience. Within the magazine there are three sections - the lead review, a series of feature articles and a review section.