Target Audience

Poster Research

This is the end result of the line I created for my poster after seeing the American Gangster poster. I think it has been successful and looks good on my poster. It fits well with the type of film and as most of my poster is black or white it makes the title stand out more.

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Font Analysis

Font Analysis - Double page

To get a better understanding of the fonts style and size on my double page spread I've been looking at a number of copies of Empire Magazine.

These four double pages act as more of a title page before the review of the film rather than the actual review. In my own one I'm likely to include a main title like these so this is still useful. In each one the style of the writing links to either the picture also displayed on the page or the genre or type of film it is. The picture for the Ted review is of him in a bubble bath and the colour or background of the font is also bubbles. This is the same in the Spiderman review but much more obvious with the writing in a spiders web.

I'd like to try something quite extravagant like the Spiderman one however it'd be quite time consuming and take up a lot of the room on my double page, which would make it difficult as i have to have actual reviews on my own. The actual fonts of the other three pages is quite simple, the colour of them seems to be the bit that has the most impact and they are all very big and cover a lot of the page.  

Double Page Spread/Film Review Research

Poster Research

To make my film poster as realistic as possible I am trying to mimic as many aspects of previous posters as I can without completely copying them. Something noticed on all the modern posters I've looked at is the writing at the bottom where it lists the production companies etc. is always in the same font.

Therefore I wanted to use this on my poster, however it wasn't one of the fonts that came with my computer. Instead I used dafont.com to download it and eventually apply to my own poster.

Production Company Research

This table lists film noir films produced by three different production companies. These three have produced quite a lot and when deciding what production company to use on our film this could be helpful.

Poster Research

 

 Whilst researching Film Noir posters I also looked at other genres of films. American Gangster isn't a film noir or neo noir but I thought the effect used on the poster would look good on a film noir poster. When creating my own poster i tried to mimic some features of the poster, in this case the red line between the title of the film.

To make the line I used Adobe fireworks. Firstly I inserted a plain red line onto a blank document, I then used the paintbrush tool with the splatter and pastel effects to make it look like blood at the end. The end effect is quite good but not as neat as the one on the American Gangster poster. Once I've added the line to my actual poster I'll have a better idea as whether it looks good or not.

Making Our Own Cupboard

Whilst filming the final scene for our film we wanted to include a shot of one of our actors taking a glass from the cupboard. We wanted the camera to be inside the cupboard so when he opened it you could see his face. After watching back our first three or four attempts we realised it wasn't going to work because there wasn't enough light by the cupboard and the shot didn't look very good. We tried having the lights in the room on instead but this would have caused continuity problems and if the whole scene was in the light we wouldn't be able to create shadowy effects which is needed for film noir. We therefore decided to construct a new cupboard closer to the light already being used.

Music for Opening Scene

We have decided to include music for the opening scene and the titles of our film as this is common in most films of any genre. The opening scene is our main character at a graveyard looking at his fathers grave and we wanted the music to fit with what is happening. Therefore we wanted a song in minor key as the character is mourning his father and would be sad at this point. Another point we considered was our film is set in the present day and the storyline is based around 18 to 19 year olds. So we thought a modern song would be appropriate, this is also good for our audience as they may be familiar with it.

We choose Intro by The XX as it fits all the requirements above. It also doesn't have any lyrics which means we will able to use sound from the actual video or voice overs at the same time without it sounding indistinguishable. 

Day 4 Filming

Pub Scene Script

Our scene at the pub is quite a vital one as a lot of the storyline is explained to the audience through the two characters lines. As well as this it tells the audience what is coming up and what the hero/main characters objective is going to be. Therefore we decided to write out a script for this scene so we were certain we included everything needed to. Also it was a lot of help for our actors as it helped them give a good performance in this important part of the film.

Editing - Day 2

Editing - Day 1

This is almost like a video dairy of when we are editing our film so we can keep track of our progression.

Filming - Day 3

We didn't plan to film at the pub again however after watching the shots back we realised we needed to go back. The first time round we got shots of the two characters talking but didn't have much variety in our shots. This time we focused more on getting close ups and different angled shots so when we put it together it's much more interesting to watch.