Post 26: Annotated Poster

I decided to annotate the film posters to films of the same drama genre. Therefore I choose Titanic and The Help as both have similar story lines. Titanic showing the romance and The Help showing the social issues, although both in different settings and time eras, they both however, share the same conventions as our film, Dead End.

Post 25: What makes a good film poster?

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/02/7-elements-of-a-great-movie-poster-design/

Post 24: Posters Specific To My Genre - Drama

I conducted some research into film posters of the same genre as our film, drama, through the website IMDb.
http://www.imdb.com/genre/drama
It gave me a number of ideas to a way of creating a film poster for our film.

I found that the drama genre's film posters often contain a lot of dark colours and are made to look quite intense and dark. From this research I found that the posters all contain the main character(s) and or the supporting character(s). The posters don't give too much away about the film and only suggests the drama. Straight away we know that these posters are for drama films because of the codes and conventions that they carry such as the dark and bold colours and emotion that the images of the characters are showing.

Post 23: Poster Research

I created a Pinterest account and then pinned a range of different film posters from different types of genres from different time periods that show the differences they now have and the influence of the modern technology that allow them to seem more sophisticated. I decided to use Pinterest because it was a way of keeping all my ideas together and be able to look at them in overview while comparing them. This was a way of influencing my idea for a film poster as i took a more modern approach to poster design.

Post 22: Film Marketing for a Short Film

i found this website useful when researching for short film marketing.

Post 21: Short Film Distribution

when researching film distribution i found this website useful that explained how studios distribute their films.

However, I looked into how a short film with a smaller budget would have their film distributed.

i found a website that gives information on a number of different short film festivals.

Post 2c: Film Language in Own Film - Editing

We decided in our film it was best to have two montages, each giving a different perspective on how his life would turn out if he took either option - a. being with Amy or b. continuing with the gang. The montages would show the relationships between the characters and allow the audience to relate to them further.
Mollie and Fiona decided that it would be best to practice editing together a montage of previous footage that we had shot together.



By doing this, it therefore sped up the process when we later came to edit and we was able to create the final montages quicker and allowed us to save some time. When editing the real montages we decided that we needed the editing to be a little bit quicker than the actual storyline so that they seemed 'dream like' and didn't drag on for too long.

Post 20a: Language in Own Film - Sound

When filming and editing our short film, sound will play an important role in telling the story. There are two different types of sound that can be used, non-diegetic and diegetic sound.

Non-diegetic sound is sounds, such as music, soundtrack or a narrators voice that comes from outside the space of narrative.
Diegetic sound is sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present the the action of the film.


During our film we will have both types of sound. For non-diegetic we will have music that will help show the emotions of the characters in the scene, i did some research into the type of music we would use and found this song on soundcloud that fits in with the type of music that a young, rebelling teen would listen to in his room.

Post 20: Film Language in Own Film - Lighting

Our group went into a dark room and used a torch on a skull to show the different effects of lighting and how changing positions of the light can change the effect that it gives. By doing this I was able to learn more about how light can effect how we see things. Therefore, when filming I will take this into account.

When researching lighting I found that there were two types of lighting that can be used, natural and artificial.

Artificial lighting is the deliberate use of light to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect. Sources such as lamps or natural daylight.
Natural lighting is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible and ultraviolet light.

When filming, it would be best that we use natural lighting but also a combination of artificial lighting to. As we're filming a lot of scenes outside it would be quite dark as we're filming during the winter months. However, this can allow the film to have a dark and gloomy effect which is similar to the plot of the film, creating a pathetic fallacy. Also, we would use artificial lighting whilst filming inside otherwise the rooms will be too dark and it would look good on camera.