progress with film poster

Here are two screen shots of me using photoshop to create my film poster. I have took them at different stages so it shows how much progress i am making. I'm not sure on the black and white pictures on the top, i wanted to create an effect of it looking like a film strip, but by not actually using someone else's picture. I will create my own outlining for the 'film strip' to make it look more realistic. I only wanted my main characters to be in colour as they are the colour in my film. So i may make the two end black and white pictures into colour. Also the pictures aren't just in black and white i have altered the auto tone and contrast to make it have a quirky effect.

I think also that if i keep the four pictures at the top they need to be centered accurately. As well, I'm a bit unsure on where to position my text for the characters names to be placed. I think where my text is placed for the tagline 'one chance, one time' i in the right place. And so is my 'one love'

I like how they have positioned the main characters face on this film poster. It creates the effect that she is secretive and maybe unsure on what she about to do. But as the main character she is still framed on the left hand side of the poster, this creates representation as a powerful woman. In comparison to this i have tried to create the same look for my characters in my poster. I wasn't going to include my female character in the film poster or magazine front cover but as I've come across this poster it gave mea boost of ideas to be able to include my female character. She is situated behind the male character as she lacks a bit of power in the film as the male tries to take over her life and tries to make her believe true love is out there. But you can still see she's there, and still has her power of her own. I wanted them to be smiling because i wanted to put to the audience that this is a fun film and it's an adventure of their lives and maybe they aren't taking too seriously, or are they? Also the four pictures on the top are all situated on the bench where they couples favourite place is t go and sit and relax and think of their memories together. So the bench in the film is mentioned a lot and in the trailer it is repeated a few times as its trying to get across that theres no way of forgetting her or their relationship and memories, its always going to be there even if they don't want it to be.


This is another poster which i have looked at to get ideas from. I got the idea for the four pictures at the top from this poster. As there is a film strip look on the main male characters top. Also he is based on the left hand side with the writing on the right. I think its a bit spacious on the right and maybe needed a bit of more text included. But i get the feeling he is lonely as that there is a lot of space surrounding him and he needs someone to fill that gap. I like the colour code in this poster, it looks as if he's on 'cloud nine', up in the clouds and he looks happy, as if he doesn't want to re turn back to the ground. He is smiling down at the memories which are placed onto his tee- shirt. Maybe by characters are smiling too much. I have took other pictures with them being serious but i didn't think it looked as good. The framing wasn't perfect. (below)


More stages during producing my Film Poster.
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two.


As you can see, 'one' the image is framed more to the right of the page but i wanted to move it more the the left to make it a more dominant image. I thought too much of the male main character's face was showing so i moved it to frame more to the left this is show in shot 'two'. I also made the image higher up as the eye line wasn't in the correct place. It now looks like they are both looking at the title 'ONE LOVE'.
I thought the background was too dark, I wanted it to be more whiter than it was in the original shot so I selected all the background I wanted to be lighter and changed the contrast and brightness of the selected image. It was very tricky to get around the top part of Taigh's hair as it's quite wispey and little bits were around the area i wanted to brighten. But i over come this problem by zooming in really far and doing a little, bit by bit.
I moved the text further up as I think the title should be higher in the page. I also moved the tagline up with the title so it fit in more with the layout of the page. But then i decided to move the characters name down to the right of the page as i didn't think the names fitted in under neath the title. It looked too cramped together. I changed the font of the characters name and also the colour. I looked at other film posters and most of the characters second name is empahasied by making the font bigger or a different colour, here I have done both things. 'ADAM SMITH and MARCUS PRATT' i made a smaller font as they aren't the main charater's in the film, I think I'm going to have to make it more clearer by making the main characters name's bigger than they already are. I've also lined up all the text on the right hand side to be all in the same line so it doesn't look messy and un-tidy.

Audience feedback on photoshoot.

I uploaded a few of my best pictures on facebook do get some audience feedback on which ones they like the best, as i was stuck on which ones to use. Also i wanted to find out what my target thought about how i represented the woman in the pictures. Hopefully they get the feeling that she is insecure on what she feels as i have placed her behind the man but she still gains a lot of power as she is on the left hand side on the close up picture. The boy is the main character in the film so he is based in all of the pictures. I included his friends in some of the pictures becasue I wanted to create the feeling that the female character has a secret identity as she doesnt know who she really is yet in the film. In the last picture i wanted all the white space on the right becuase some of the characters life is very spacious and open to anything to happen. Also the male characters life is dull and boring at the moment until a woman walks into his life

Rough Cut of Trailer, number one.

This is a first rough cut of my trailer. It is a very poor cut of it, as it has no editing, dialogue, over voice or sound effects added. All this will be added later. Baiscally I've captured and imported my footage and inserted it into final cut. I thought i would put my first cut up as it still has some potential. In comprising to (500) days of Summer it is no where near to the standards I want it as. My trailer needs more hyper cutting to make the audience feel the reality of the personal characters feelings. My shots in this first cut drag on for too long at the opening scenes. I need to either speed the shots up, or add a few more extra ones and cut to different parts. But i first want to introduce the two main characters in the film then move onto the storyline. I am going to re-take some of the shots in different locations and I'm going to edit some shots out as they are in appropriate. Also i don't think my shots flow very well and the beginning of other trailers i have researched, they all flow in the opening scene. At the moment it is lacking a lot and I have had some audience feedback and they have said they don't get the narrative of the story so this could be a problem. Using an over voice may overcome this problem as well as it will tell the narrative and hopefully make it all become clear. But adding more shots will help this also.

Photo Shoot Pictures.

This photo which I have taken is framed on the left hand side. But the female is stood behind the male protagonist holding flowers as her prop. She is holidng flowera and her expression on her face is worried and she is looking at him to and thinking. I wanted to include the leaves in my shoot as my setting is set in autumn. But it didn't work so well. I would say this is my best shot including the leaves. They are dressed in warm autum clothes to provide narrative information that the fil will be set in the autum time and will be about a love story. If i used this I would obviously crop it as you can see bits which aren't supposed to be there.




I really like these two images for my film poster. I think it represents the genre comepletly. Just like in my flat plans I always wanted to female to be positioned behind the male charater. I prefer the bottom picture with them smiling rather than their face's being serious. I also don't like how the top picture was positioned i think Taigh's head looks too close in depth and he needs to either step back or i zoom out. But i love how the bottom picture is framed and positioned. Although i would move them slightly more to the left and further up the page as their eye lines are different and when I add text it will look a bit weird becuase they will be looking at different things.





I like the idea of this photo for my film poster as it shows the contrast between the stereotypical social groups. The gay character and taighs friend are stood on the left hand side of the screen to show that in society homosexuals get less credit for being who they are. And I have gotten Adam to pull that pose as to say 'get off me' towards marcus (the gay character) to show the sexuality in society is really becoming quite a problem and people are turning 'homophobic'. It also needs cropping and editing done to it. I've also put Marcus in a pink shirt to represent his femininity.





Marcus, medium shot. I've dressed him like that to show how ive represented him as a gay character. i.e. tight top, tight jeans, hair flicked and a big cheesy smile.





I love this shot of Taigh. I would use this photo for my magazine front cover. I've seen a shot of Robert Pattison posed simular to this and I think it looks really effective. I would frame him more to the left and have my headlines and taglines situated to the right of hiim and maybe a few headlines across over the top of where his tee shirt is.



I also love this picture, the shot of him where the camera is looking down. I have done this as Taigh lacks a lot of confidence in the film so I've made the audience look down on him to set across some narrative structure. I like the colours used in his top, it makes it look more bright and effective but it wouldn't go with the colour scheme I want to use for my magazine cover which would be red,black and white so the blue could add some difference to it but it could also clash.



This picture, again shows how society has sterotyped 'gays'. As Marcus has gone to kiss Adam, Adam is having none of it and looks discuted. And this is how the media comes across to us as a audeince, some people find it disgusting how homosexuals can fancy onther member of the opposite sex.



I really really like this picture. This photo shoot idea was took from my flat plans, but im not quite sure weather to use and include Marcus and Adam in the magazine cover as they aren't presented as the main characters in my trailer. But i like the position Taigh is stood in.

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Skills Development: Video Editing

Here is some video footage that i have made on final cut pro- media promo. I didn't shoot the footage myself but the media department had told us to develop our skills on final cut pro, ready to edit, my film trailer. We had to add and cut shots out as there was a lot of footage to use. I tried to use more little bits of everything to make it more exciting and not to make the viewer bored. I used garageband to create my no diegetic sound track. i found this quite easy to use, i managed to pick it up easily. So this is a advantage if i need to use this product to make my sound track for my trailer.

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