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.