Thursday 31 March 2011
example posters research - Sophey Sommers
When looking at period drama film posters you can see many similarity's
they all have a band going either across the middle or bottom with the Title in it. Also having the main characters in full view for the audience.
picture for film reveiw- Sophey Sommers
Editing Process:
*Uploaded the photo into Photoshop.
*Changed the vibrancy and saturation.
*Saved and then uploaded to 'Picnik' website.
*Went onto the 'Effects' tool and curved the edges and saved back to my file.
Review Draft - Artemis
When it comes to period dramas, they are often rated based on how accurate they are. The ones that are believable, credible and realistic are those that receive the most credit. We might have been forgiven in thinking that this was too great a task for Jennifer Allan, Sophey Sommers and Artemis Karadimas to pull off, however in this case the sense of profundity, obscurity and setting is what makes it convincing.
Fragile mother Myrtle (Katie Sommers) plays a woman of her time effortlessly, not questioning her husband about the sudden demise of her child and acting pretty hopelessly in general. Her perturbed expression and cluelessness allow the story to go on, as her actions enable George (Edward Johnson) to get away with such an iniquitous and immoral act. We see the story from her point of view and feel with her the emotional rollercoaster she is on, as we go up and down in the past and present memories of her life.
Johnson applied the phlegmatic and ruthless exterior you would expect a man to have had in the 1930’s that allows him to make the deplorable decision of putting his son secretly into an institution for the mentally ill. Only in this period would you find he would have had the power and control over the situation.
The cliff-hanger ending enhances the story, leaving the audience with enigmas and increasing the depth of darkness. It makes for one of those narratives that leave you thinking for a long time after.
*this is only half of it!
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Jenny Allan- Editing
Today we finally finished our product but watching it back the sound of the voice over doesn't match the time period and also, there is a moment in the garden scene where you can not hear Costa (Benjamin's) voice it is very faint among all the other sounds. I will plan to change these as soon as possible once this has been done our main final project is finished. All we need so sort out is our film poster and review.
Monday 28 March 2011
Title sequence- Sophey Sommers
when we where in the middle of editing our film we decided to sort out our title sequence, i know how to do stop motion, so we thourght to give it a unique affect i would create a short title sequence in stop motion.
In the end it didn't happen because there's way too much to do at the moment. but here are the stop motion titles that i had a look at when trying to create ours.
Title research- different ways of individual and diverse to other normal titling:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/08/24/willard/
This webpage helps you create stopmotion on the computer =
http://weshootthefreak.com/2011/03/12/tutorial-stop-motion-title-sequence/
In the end it didn't happen because there's way too much to do at the moment. but here are the stop motion titles that i had a look at when trying to create ours.
Title research- different ways of individual and diverse to other normal titling:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/08/24/willard/
This webpage helps you create stopmotion on the computer =
http://weshootthefreak.com/2011/03/12/tutorial-stop-motion-title-sequence/
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Jenny Allan - A problem
Today we had to put our titles into our film because we forgot to before putting all our sound into our film. Doing this made the sound out of place and needed to be moved. We did this but the sound levels were then disrupted. We were so close to finishing but not need to redo all of our sound levels to make it fit back in with the imagery in the film. I am hoping to finish this sometime tomorrow and hopefully get it back up to the standard we had it at.
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Ancillary Task (Poster) Research - Artemis
- These two images show the main characters and their painful expressions indicating to the audience that this is a dramatic love story. They are also more a less the same size, so one is not dominating over the other, which implies they are equal.
- The title font is typewriter like which relates to the film because in it the protagonist male character writes the protagonist female character a letter using a typewriter. It also gives a hint to the time period. The type of font I think we should use would be a calligraphy type font because in our film we have a letter using it and it would connect the film and poster.
- In the bottom image we can see the male is wearing a green outfit and bag implying he's in the army and also he looks dirty which emphasizes this. This suggests to me that this is what the story might be about. The two lovers separated by war..
- I like the idea of doing something similar in our poster because it connects the two characters. Plus in the title you can see an image of another character suggesting that this story might involve a third party.
- We can see that this film is from the director of 'Pride and Prejudice' which is a period drama too so this again suggests it was not set in modern day.
- I can see from the poster it is based on a book which tells me the targeted audience is more likely to adults because they would be more likely to have read the book. Also it seems to have war in it, which would be more appropriate for adults.
- The overall layout of the text and background is quite messy which indicates that is how her life is..
- From this shot we can also see her in her natural surroundings which seems to be her bedroom. The drawings on the wall and rips tell me that she is perhaps lower class because it looks quite old and dirty.
- Because the character is also looking away and out what seems to be a window, I get the impression that she is dreaming of better things because she has this longing expression on her face yet we can see she is unhappy with what might be her current life.
- It also suggests that this is a social realist film because of the bright, slightly desaturated colour telling me that the audience it's targeted for is more likely to be lower/middle class and British because they could relate more.
- The smart font and dark background suggest this film is a thriller or drama. This is also reinforced by the body language and facial expressions of the 3 characters. Their costumes are quite smart and the dark shadows on the males face suggest he is out for vengeance or is angry..
- 'Thrilling', 'A Masterpiece' and 'Spellbinding' also imply that this is a thriller or perhaps drama.
- This film is based on a 60's novel which tells me that it is more likely to be targeted towards adults because they would have read the novel. It also explains why the women are standing behind the man, because in the 60's women we were still came after the men.
- The ratings being from well known and popular British newspaper show the audience it is a British film as does the background and title.
Monday 14 March 2011
Jenny Allan Film Poster Design
Here is my film poster design, this one is my 1st draft i would like to do another one because for starters i have got the title wrong for the film and secondly films posters normally have a person or the main characters on the front i will ask artimis and sophey if i can borrow some images from them so i can do this.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Poster Draft - Artemis
This is another poster idea. In the beginning I decided to just have the one image but then I decided that Myrtles character is more of the main character. The story is from her point of view so I wanted her to be on the poster to. I liked the idea of blending the images together because it represents how they aren't directly with one another but are connected in some way. The only thing I need to do now is add an age rating.
- This is my draft for the film poster. It isn't finished yet. I plan on adding another image of Katie (Myrtle) at the top which will be similar to the bottom image in size, colour and expression. This is to show how the characters connect.
- I decided on a sepia, brownish colour for the overall tone because it is set in the 1930's and I tried to reinforce this by trying to make the poster look authentic and old. Plus we have the whole film set in this tone of colour which is what we did when we edited.
- I took a picture of Kosta (Benjamin) outside because his surroundings in the film are a bit all over the place. In the film he doesn't really belong anywhere concrete, seeing as his father sends him off to a mental institution.
- The idea for the title came from the fact that Benjamin's whereabouts are revealed in a letter so I tried to make it look like an old letter in calligraphic writing on top of some old brown paper similar to the letter in the film.
- I did think about blurring the images of Katie and Kosta instead of having the title separate them, however I thought the title would be better because in the film the two characters are separated by something.
Editing Process
- We have finished our rough cut. To create an aged atmosphere we added a sepia effect to all our shots.
- To show how our scenes go from the past to the present (in the time period of the 1940's) we added in a cross fading transition which fades between the 2 shots. This gives it a really nice feel and emphasizes the emotion in the story.
- We also have the problem of hearing traffic in the background of some of our shots so we are going to get rid of it and add in some rural noises either through garage band or from our own recordings.
Monday 7 March 2011
logo design - Sophey Sommers
Still going with an old style, fitting to our period film. old tea stained burned ink etc.
here are a few designs i have come up with for the logo:
Here are some references i have used to give me an idea of what our logo could look like:
Sunday 6 March 2011
Film Posters Jenny Allan
Here is my analysis on the film poster of "Brighton Rock" The mise en scene normally shows the representation of characters and location. But the reviews and ratings along with age certification show what audience this film is for. The title shows a good sense of narrative showing where the film is or gives the spectator an idea of what the film is about. The descriptive words finally give us an idea of what the genre of the film could be in this case "THRILLING" related to a thriller also, the novel that has been written its genre is a thriller. To me I really like this poster i think it really shows the meaning of the film we understand a little about the main characters we get an understanding of the location and the title of the film is bold enough for me to see clearly what is called. The description words also, helped me understand the meaning of the film, and what genre it belongs to.
Here is an analysis from the film poster of Fish Tank. The photo is very interesting, the lighting has lit up her face and the surroundings behind her which allows us to understand her character and the representation of her. The location allows the audience to see what kind of film this could be the poster is a picture taken from her bedroom, which has childrens' drawings and the wall paper is falling off, this also, shows what genre the film could be. I really like the poster for fish tank, because we see the main character of the film and although the title seems baffling the poster helps it become more understandable, with the descriptive words and the blurb about the production team and the other related films this helps the audience understand what this film might be about.
Here is an analysis from the film poster of Fish Tank. The photo is very interesting, the lighting has lit up her face and the surroundings behind her which allows us to understand her character and the representation of her. The location allows the audience to see what kind of film this could be the poster is a picture taken from her bedroom, which has childrens' drawings and the wall paper is falling off, this also, shows what genre the film could be. I really like the poster for fish tank, because we see the main character of the film and although the title seems baffling the poster helps it become more understandable, with the descriptive words and the blurb about the production team and the other related films this helps the audience understand what this film might be about.
Thursday 3 March 2011
Title Ideas
We weren't completely satisfied with the title 'Forsaken' so we came up with some new possible titles.
- Letters
- Abandoned
- Disowned
- Outcast
- Crestfallen
- Shamed
Film posters- Sophey Sommers
Film posters for the time period our short film is set:
From these posters i can get a better understanding of how the layout and text could look like for our short film.
Film Review a great description, of a fantastic British film.
Atonement
The Lost Prince
The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama serial, produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC and originally broadcast in two episodes on BBC One in January 2003.
When doing research on film posters from the 1940's you are able to see how different they are from today's ; they are very animated, font is usually the same block type and slanted to give an emphasis on it.
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Second Day Of Filming
Our Re-Shoting- Jenny Allan
We finally finshed all of our shots and made sure this time there were no fire extinghers in the background of the shot or any other props that weren't around in the time pierod our film is set in.
Sophey told me though unfortunatly that our last shots are a bit wobbly because we had to use the camera handheld throughout mostly because the tripod was completly broken and the camera sat unsteadly on top. We thought it would be so much better to use the camera handheld because the tripod was so broken.
Unfortunatly today Artimis and Sophey are not here and Sophey has the camera so therefore I can not edit. So will just work on the blog and finish off everything that needs to be done on here, that I can finish.
Sophey told me though unfortunatly that our last shots are a bit wobbly because we had to use the camera handheld throughout mostly because the tripod was completly broken and the camera sat unsteadly on top. We thought it would be so much better to use the camera handheld because the tripod was so broken.
Unfortunatly today Artimis and Sophey are not here and Sophey has the camera so therefore I can not edit. So will just work on the blog and finish off everything that needs to be done on here, that I can finish.
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