Different poster designs- Sophey Sommers

Draft 1:
Original picture, added a 'Grunge' effect over the top and changed the opacity.

Draft 2:

We decided to go for the original  version we created but i wanted to show how we expanded our ideas. having a more colorful poster.

Near to the end.. - Artemis

• We have nearly finished our final film and things that have worked well and don't need improving are the colour and quality of the picture - at first we were unhappy that we couldn't film with a HD camera but the normal camera give the final finish an old and antique feel. The colour also has a sepia feel to it which increases the sense of period. 
• Our title sequence fits in with the time period because it is simple and we used a classic font and colour. We wanted to be a bit more ambitious and have splats of ink to relate to the idea of a letter but decided that this looked too modern for our film. 
• The sound is looking good too, the pieces of music we have intertwined with the diagetic sound add emotion to the footage and story. However we still need to edit the volume to make it a bit louder in some parts. 

FINAL POSTER - ARTEMIS

• In the end we decided that just a plain white font would look best and stand out more. 
• We also decided to to have the film icons in black and overlay them on top of the boy's white shirt so they can be seen clearly. 
• We aligned all the text so it had some sort of order and looked neat.
• We used classic fonts to represent the period we were portraying which was the 1930's.
• The grainy texture and sepia colour were also done to represent this. 

Finished Product

Here is a final video on YouTube

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!