Film poster process

These images are from a photo shoot we did today, we tried to use a variety of lighting, backgrounds and poses so that we had a variety of images to choose from for our film poster.

Jamie (Jake) is holding Josh's (Stuart's) glasses in this shot above, we thought this could be a good idea as it gives a sense of iconography, it represents his dead brother.

 

This is another idea we tried, Jamie is clenching his fists in this shot which reflects the anger, pain and upset he feels. It represents the character is going to become to get redemption. By looking away from the camera it shows distance, he cannot directly look at the audience as he is so ashamed by what he has done.

We then changed background colour and went for a white background as it there was more of a contrast between Jamie's black costume and the white.

We have kept Jamie's hood up in all these shots because it represents his character, in the trailer you see Jamie walk into the house with his hood down (this is all before he realizes that his step brother is dead) and as soon as he finds him on the floor you see a shot of Jamie putting his hood up. We used this transition because even though its simple, once his hood is up all the action begins, it is the start of his journey for redemption.

          

Character profiling

Magazine cover process

The process of producing our film magazine, 'Motion'.

 This is the film strip we first going to use to showcase up coming movies, but we eventually decided to produce our own. So this will be the sell line giving audience extra information about what is included in the magazine, enticing them.

 This is our second sell line which is in a circle, this highlights the main featuring film which this issue is based on. The circle used just makes it stand out more and clear to the audience what the big feature is.

From previous research we chose the famous big masthead which grabs the audiences attention, we chose the colour gold as it connotes first place and being a winner which is what we want our magazine to come across as, being the best film magazine there can be.

 The strap line just gives that audience a little bit more insight in to what is to come, everyone loves an exclusive!

We used another strapline which is slanted in the top right hand corner, little bits of information give away like 'behind the scenes' is what draws the audience in, so by giving them that little bit more it is encouraging them to buy it. The price is placed between the top of the 'M' where its less noticeable as we don't want the price to be a put off.

For our magazine poster we wanted to use something which could feature upcoming films, we decided to go for a film strip because this is a huge association to film. We wanted to create our own, so by looking at one of the internet, this is what I produced by using shapes on word.

 This is the finished film strip that was produced. We then decided we were going to make five films to put in our film strip which could feature in our magazine as 'coming soon'.

 The first film we decided to make was a Christmas film as our magazine is a December issue, Chloe and I decided to call it 'Santa Baby'. By using font space we chose this font, mainly because of the Santa hats and chose red as this is a connotation of Christmas and Santa in his big red suit.

By adding the title to an image of Father Christmas in a sort of postcard looking frame we came up with this for our first film to go into the film strip.

This is the second film we produced, but luckily this is what we produced last year for AS so we thought it would be quite good to include it in our magazine as a new film and inserted it into our film strip.

This is what our film strip began to look like with the first two films in it.

 For our third film we thought we would produce a RomCom called '10 ways to say goodbye', we chose an appropriate font of FontsSpace which was girly and the type of font you would see in a love letter.

This was what we came up with, we chose blue as it has connotations of the sky and the sea, areas of land which are big and free which represents how the character wants to feel as she is saying goodbye.

 We then chose this image to use for the rest of the film, we inserted '10 ways to say...' above the goodbye.

 For our forth film we decided to chose an action called 'Shot Wound', we chose a slanted, bold font which slightly reflects someone running, we thought this would be good as it connotes fast pace and lots of action.

For the image to go with the title 'Shot Wound' we picked a black and white silhouette as it does not give the character away and fits really well with our title.

 Lastly we chose an animation film called 'Jungle Jingle' because our film magazine does not just stick to one type of film genre and the audience would enjoy the variety of different films. We chose orange and green as they are bright colours representing fun.

This is our nearly finished film strip with all the films inserted.

This is our finished magazine.

These images below are from another photoshoot we did today, this one is for the magazine front cover. Josh and Jamie are obviously being photographed as they are the main characters in the film and Chloe and I were directing, sorting the lighting, positions and taking the photos and video footage.

The three shots below are very similar. We had quite a clear idea of what we wanted for the magazine cover from the start. We decided to include both characters in the image because we thought we could show the contrast between the two, we have done this through facial expression, height and obviously character costume. Jamie and Josh's costumes show a definite contrast as Josh's character who was very academic at school wears glasses, a unique shirt, black smart trousers and pointy shoes where as Jamie's character is very subdued and follows his group of friends rather than being an obvious individual. This is shown in his outfit, with a plain black jumper and grey jogging bottoms, it is nothing that will stand out from the crowd, nothing out of the ordinary.

The image above is the final image for our magazine poster, we chose this one because we liked the contrast in costume and height, but also we like how their facial expressions have been captured. Jamie has his head slightly tilted with a very stern expression on his face, he looks dominant and slightly aggressive where as Josh's head is turned more towards to the camera, he has purposely left his mouth slightly open as it makes him look like this confused character, he looks kind of uncertain in himself, much more timid.



         

The Redemption pitch

This is the name of our film. We chose this as it directly reflects the theme of our film. Our film has a BBFC of 15.

The plot/synopsis of our film. This is the basic outline of what our film entails.

From trailer research we believe these are the most important trailer conventions, these are conventions which we are going to persue and use in our trailer. Thriller trailers especially tend to use montages which are full of action and pace, it creates suspense and gets the audience excited which is exactly what a thriller intends to do. By having a fast paced trailer it maintains the flow and curiousity, it does not get boring which means the audience carry on watching it and getting interested in the film. Parallel music would be used to reflect the drama, emotion and action that we intend to include in our trailer, if we proposed a thriller drama genre trailer but used a classical sound track in the background it would completely ruin the effect of what is being shown as it is such a huge contrast which isnt going to entice anyone. A variety of shots keeps it interesting, keeps us entertained, audiences are not going to want to see a trailer where close ups are constantly used as this does not really tell the audience what the films about. Using a slight cliff hanger at the end of the trailer is the perfect way to get your audience to go and see the film, by not giving away what happens you have got your audiences compelete attention. We will use the production logo to give a sense of familiarity, we will also use 'in association with Noose Productions' whom which we made a film under before. Laslty we will use miminal text, words such as 'revenge' and 'justice', words which have huge associations with our film, and words with powerful meanings which the audience can then question and ask themselves questions such as 'who's getting revenge?' or 'why do they want justice?'

We wanted to choose a hybrid genre and one that was complimentary to each other,

Our tagline is a rhetorical question