Film Poster Process

Today I have finished my film poster, the process of creating a film poster has been long but enjoyable. Below I have listed 3 stages that my film poster has undergone.

Draft 1

The first process was incorporating my main iconic picture that would form the basis of my film poster and include the vast majority of my text. From my research I got a few ideas about what text to include.

Draft 2

The second process was adding in my film name title and my second iconic picture. I spent some time positioning and cropping the picture so that it would fit perfecting in the film poster and look appealing to my target audience. After this was completed I spent some time posting the film name title to a position that it would stand out.

Final Draft

The final process was adding in my final two pictures. This was quite a simple task as the picture had already been cropped and editing to a perfect length to fit my film poster. Therefore, positioning was not a problem. This is my finished film poster and I am happy with it, it fits the brief of what my target audience would want and the film poster conveys our film genre.

Background sound

It is fundamental when constructing a film trailer that the non diagetic and diagetic sound is addressed to best suit the trailer. From researching I have discovered that to best suit our trailer we will have a combination of diagetic and non diagetic sounds that will impact on added effect to the audience.By this tension is created by   the combination of voice overs and background music. Furthermore, the tempo of the background music will also be varied to combine with the montage of shots that will also become shorter and sharper.  Below I have outlined some ideas for soundtracks for our trailer:

 This soundtrack will be edited and used for the beginning of our trailer during the part where the couple are portrayed. The soundtrack is slow and reflects romance. The use of the guitar resembles a sense of happiness and passion which will be portrayed by our couple by the use of mise en scene.










- This soundtrack will also be edited and be used for the transition of ending up in kavos the music will signify the change. This music is slightly more hostile its conveys a change and creates an atomsphere whereby the encoder knows something is about to happen. The music will increase in tempo, and become louder. For this soundtrack I would like  to edit the sound levels so it fades in and gets louder.







The final two soundtracks would also work well as background music in our film trailer. The final part of the trailer the tension is created by the short sharp scenes of the kidnapping. Both soundtracks would work well as background music during the final part of the trailer. The genre of our trailer will also be reflected by this music. Action is reflected as the music is of a fast tempo that gradually increases. I aim to try and incorporate both soundtracks and by editing find the best bit that would suit our trailer applying to the codes and conventions of an action genre trailer.

Editing part 2

After shots had been edited and cut with animations and effects included, we then focused on the incorporating of different non diagetic sounds such as music that would create tension. After careful selection we narrowed down the best fitting music that would best suit the shot and combine together to create an intense atmosphere. When selecting the music we had to be careful  about what music would work best. 

Experimenting with different colours on my magazine front cover

Today I have finished my magazine front cover, although I spent some time finding the ideal colour that would best suit the magazine. Below I have some pictures of the different colours that I went for:

Here you can see using the colour scale to manipulate the perfect picture.

Story Board Development

From deciding as a group we felt that the trailer needed some more shots therefore I produced another storyboard including a final three shots that will help link the trailer together as well as including our title timings within our trailer.

The shots included are a panning opening shot of Corfu. The shot is interesting as it overlooks Corfu with a contrasting light and dark sky that makes the shot unusual and I felt that it would me a great opening shot to use in our trailer. As in some respects it links the trailer together. The second shot is a picture of Matt's phone where he has 10 missed calls from Jodie after the argument which he chooses to ignore, this shot will create tension and link the trailer better together, furthermore it is reflects our film name. The final shot is a shot of Matt in Corfu asking a lady along  a road where he can find the address listed on the card he found at Jodie's, again this scene will create tension and link the film trailer together better.

Experimenting colouring for the magazine front cover

An iconic picture is imperative when constructing a magazine front cover. I have spent some time editing my chosen picture into different colours to see which looks most appealing to my target audience. Colouring is important as the magazine front cover relies heavily on the main picture the colours displayed gives an indication to the theme or the genre of the magazine.

Editing Title Sequence

To stand out to the mass audience unique features about our trailer had to be considered therefore we proposed the idea of not only cutting the length and incorporating background sound for a trailer title sequence but also editing the colour and saturation of the title sequence.

Film Trailer so far

Our film trailer is progressing nicely. Most of the shots have been edited and included although at the moment sound has been muted so that we can work with incorporating background sounds to create tension. The non linear motion of the film trailer works well although we are unsure wherever we will experiment with changing shots around in a different order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuhf1kdO7tk

Our Trailer Titles

As we begin the process of editing our film trailer, we need to produce titles that can be incorporated into our film trailer at different points. Researching film trailers its evident that all film trailers include titles with reviews and casting actors and producers. The titles we have decided to include:

• From the director of taken (first)
• Recomendation form empire
• Will Hicks(Actor)
• Isabella Cameran (Actress)
• After a night they will never forget... (Tagline)
• Comes a day that will never end (Tagline)
• 10 Missed Calls (credits)

 

Above are a few fonts we have been experimenting with to use. 

Editing

After all are filming is now complete we have begun editing all our footage. To edit our film trailer we are using Windows Movie Maker Live. Although, using this programme has cause some problems as the high quality footage takes very long to render. In terms of transitions and animations the programme is great.

Final Filming Session

We proposed as a group that the idea of filming at a party would be a hard task therefore the argument seen between Matt and Jodie will be filmed at school in a classroom with lots of extras to fit the brief of sticking to a party atmosphere. I also said that when editing we should lower the volume and incorporate background music this way its still evident that the couple are arguing but it will also create more tension. The final scene was filmed outside of school on a deserted road which was ideal for our Corfu scene. The Costumes were kept the same and the weather was perfect for filming. All of our shots have now been filmed.

Final filming Scenes to do

After the Christmas break we still a few more scenes which need to be completed before we can begin editing our film trailer. The scenes that need to be filmed are:

• The party scene- where Jodie and Matt have an argument Jodie leaves the party and walks home on her own.
• Corfu Scene- where Matt is in Corfu and asks a lady about the card that he found, he asks her where the place is. This scene needs to be filmed on a day where the sun is out otherwise it is a miss representation of what we are trying to portray of Matt being in Corfu. 

Synopsis

The synopsis of the story for our trailer will be this, there is a happy school couple called Jodie and Matt , they will have an argument and Jodie will storm off, Jodie will be kidnapped after leaving her door open , her boyfriend will look for her and when he finds out that she is kidnapped he will go to her house and find a card , which will lead him to Corfu , to an abandoned house to where she has been held. There will be a big fight scene at the end where Matt fights to get Jodie back.

Costumes

When portraying are cast one of the most important tasks was making sure that both Matt and Jodie fit the brief of being a "schoolboy & schoolgirl" therefore costume choice was pivotal. For most of our filming these items would be worn to reflect the style of a schoolboy and school girl. We questioned members in are class on their opinions of our items and wherever they perceived the items as suitable for our characters, all members said yes they were suitable.

Matt's clothing

Jodie's Clothing

Considered Props

Props like most films play a major roll in the success of the film. After researching the manipulation of props in similar film trailers to ours it was evident that the majority of props used occur in the form of weapons. Therefore, for our trailer we decided that Giannaz like most mafia men and are sex trafficking girls should have a gun. Furthermore, the schoolboy Matt should have nothing more than a kitchen knife. This makes the props used believable and reflect a real life situation.

The pillow case was also a major prop used. And one with a significance. When constructing our storyboard we discussed what props we could manipulate to make the scene when Jodie gets taken more dramatic therefore we began discussing ideas and eventually decided that a pillow case would be effective.

Character Breakdown

Identifying the characters is essential. As a group we wanted to get a feel for the characters. What they would be like in every day life. And what we could do to manipulate them to fit into our trailer. Therefore, it was vital that we incorporated mise en scene into our characters to make the trailer more belivable. We used every technique and sytle that we could to make the characters better. Below is a breakdown of all the characters used in our trailer.

Main three actors

Isabella- Starring as Jodie

Will- Staring as Matt

Renz- Staring as Giannaz

Storyboard

After discussing our initial ideas we begun the process of constructing a storyboard for our film trailer. Before building a story board it was imperative that we looked at other film trailers to get an idea of the layout of a film trailer what to include and what to not include. Our drawings will give us an idea of what shots we need to include in our trailer and create a clear format and structure to stick by. On the day of filming we will however film numerous other shots with different angles this is due to the fact that our trailer is intense and at a fast pace to create tension. 

After reviewing several film trailers we understood that every film trailer has a movie preview screen, therefore to make our film trailer look professional and realistic we decided it would be a good idea to use the same concept and begun looking into what production company we could use as our preview screen. After researching more into preview screens in film trailers we understood that the usual duration was for around 5-6 seconds. After this was completed the preview screen would fade out to our first shot of the happy couple holding hands to convey to the audience an idea of what is going to happen. 

The first several shots are relatively slower paced however the last few shots begin to create tension with the anchoring of the fast paced background non-diagetic sound and tone of voice with dialogue. 

Tension begins to build the pace becomes faster the transition of light to dark is apparent. As the abandoned house scenes begin the action commences with fast paced short shots. Title screens need to be included however as a group we need to decide where we are going to put them in therefore they will be included in the changes storyboard with their shot number and duration. 

The rapid pace continues to the last scene where the audience is left on a cliff hanger as all that can be seen is Jodie being held hostage at gun point with Matt shouting "No Jodie" and the sound of a gun shot. This is where the audience begins to ask the questions "who got shot?" "who lives and who dies?" by the end of the trailer we want the audience to be interested and what to see the film and see who lives and dies. 

Prezi Presentation

More Title Ideas

When deciding a film trailer every idea needs to be linked to an aspect of our film. Using the internet, ideas were interlinked to create a suitable list of names for our film trailer: 

10 Missed calls

The abductor 

Welcome to Corfu

The Oblivious

All names listed contain more than one word, my previous post displayed all our ideas for a one worded name film trailer. After discussing as a group we have agreed that 10 Missed Calls is a suitable and effective film trailer name and reflects  a pivotal aspect of our film trailer. 

After deciding on our film trailer name we asked the rest of the class on their opinions of the top three names the results are listed below:

Title Ideas

Choosing a suitable name for our film trailer has been a difficult task below I have addressed a few one worded names that could be used as the name for our film trailer.