Main Poster Research

Film Poster Analysis

This poster from the film "Final Destination" works well as it gives little away about the film whilst still telling the audience the films genre and theme. The poster also highlights the release date of the film in red making it clear to the viewer, the name is also made relevant by it being the largest piece of text on the poster. The colours of the poster also stay towards the darker end of the colour spectrum such as dark blue and blacks, using these colours creates an eerie effect as there is not much to be seen in the darker areas

Radio Trailer Example- The Book of Eli

Book of Eli Radio Trailer

This is the Radio for Book of Eli. This includes when the film will be released, reviews of the film, how many ratings it has got, a rough outline of what the film will be about, key actors and the age rating.

This is something to consider when making our own Radio Trailer.












Our Radio Trailer we need to include:

• The name of the film
• Age Rating 
• Rough Outline of the Film
• Actors
• When Released

Poster Research

 I really like this idea for the poster as it adds confusion.

Title Sequence Research

Similar Film - Butterfly Effect



This is a title sequence for a similar film to ours, 'Butterfly Effect'. Intense music plays in the background and actor names and titles are in a written style onto a paper background. It doesn't give much away in the title sequence so it leaves you in suspicion for what the film is about. The first thing we see is the production company 'FILMENGINE presents'.

Se7en Title Sequence



Much like other title sequences it opens with the production company 'New Line Cinema' with a dark sinister music playing in the background giving suggestion of a horror type film. It sets up a audience expectation before the film starts when it has dark images for example the guy scraping skin. Off balanced images are placed behind blurred text to give an assumption off confusion in the film.

Shooting Pack- Girl

Characters Needed:
Name: Scarlett Mathews - (cameron's sister)

Age
10

Appearance

• Brown Hair - long
• Eye colour - Blue
• Small height
• average build

Apparel

• Girly bright clothes
• Well Dressed
• Long hair

Accent
High pitched tone ( female )
Barnsley Dialect less common than father.

Family
Mum and Dad

Race
British

Props

Bag

Coat

Missing Poster

Girly Clothing

Equipment
Camera
Tripod

Shots and locations
Girl Entering House
Kitchen
Bedroom
Flashback from Argument
Dad following her

Sound effect library

Creating a sound effect library will allow a range of sounds to be added in to the film during post production, some have already been recorded but the ones needed for the film are as follows:

• hitting body - method of replication - Simply record the sound of the a fist hitting the body using the side of the hand so the boy isn't physically harmed. If you hit the upper leg the sound will be short and flat as there is allot of muscle. If you hit the chest the sound will be longer and resonate slightly.
• body hitting car - method of replication - The sound should combine the body hit and a metallic sound, and could simply be a hands hitting a car, if the sound is lower pitch it may sound like a full body.
• money being played with - method of replication - moving money around in a hand ( must replicate the same movement)
• main road ambience - method of recording - Have a microphone next to a road with cars passing and trees moving in the wind. having a good length of a sound recording means that there can be a range of sections to be extracted, instead of being limited to what I can use.
• nature (birds/trees/wind etc.) - method of recording - Leave a microphone outside to record the sounds of nature, including birds singing, wind and trees blowing in the wind.

Altering the pitch of sounds such as the body hit would mimic the depth of the body and perhaps the clothing, this can also apply to the hitting of the car. The additional sound added in will give a sense of realism as the sound is expected in the film. The way that we shot the film meant the microphone was too far away from the audio to pick up.

Film Day 5 (includes risk assessment)

Friday 5th December

On this day we planned to film the extra scene due to watching all our previous stuff and seeing it was very long winded. We needed something to happen in between the walking home scene. We decided to include a scene involving a car and two men who the character owes money to. This scene would be incredibly hard to film as it contains some serious risks.

Changes to Storyline

Due to this added scene there was a slight change to storyline as to how the daughter would die, due to him being an alcoholic we decided to make him have a money debt with a gang who he gets drugs from and these people have killed his daughter but you don't find this out until the end. Lots of foreshadowing is placed to show his daughter has been killed but this adds suspicion to our film.

Shotlist

• Close-up
• Low angle
• Long shot
• Canted angle
• Over the Shoulder
• Point of View
• Tracking

Risk Assessment 

•  Car scene -  issues are actor could get incredibly injured from the car if not done properly so we had to plan out how we would film this scene so the actor would have minimum possibility of being injured. To do this we filmed the car driving up to him and then another shot from behind the car so the car never actually hits him so the scene actually worked well.
• Filming on a road so we had one group member stand watch for cars as we were filming fight scenes in the middle of the road.
• Fight scene -  if acting went wrong someone could get hurt.
• Car when driving around the bend couldn't see what was round the corner so someone had to shout when it was clear to actually start filming. Due to the bend the car could possibly have an accident not knowing whats around the corner.

Character Profiles - Bad Guy 1/2

Bad Guy 1

Clothing - Black coat, Black T-shirt, Navy blue suede Shoes

Height - 6,2"
Age - 20
Occupation - Drug Dealer/loan shark
Personality traits - Agressive
Role in film - "gangster 

Race - Caucasian 

Sex - Male

Hair Colour - Light Brown

Bad Guy 2

Clothing - Black Hoodie, Bandana, Black Jeans, Trainers

Height - 6,1"
Age - 20
Occupation - Criminal/loan shark
Personality traits - Agressive
Role in film - "gangster 

Race - Caucasian 

Sex - Male 

Hair Colour - Brown

Elliptical Editing

(Possible) Shots Needed Update

Thursday 4th December
After the scenes we filmed, we began editing. Since editing we gathered the missing shots we need next time we film.
Shots Missing

• Close-up of bottles clashing 
• Re-do waking up shot
• Every shot needed for the Chase Scene

Watching over the film we decided we need to add something in between the walking to the shop scene to make it more interesting. From an audience perspective the film is currently just the character walking with very little action.  Therefore we decided to add a scene.

Possible Ideas

• Guy steals his bag
• Car pulls up revealing the secret to his depression (they killed his family)