Evaluation Question 4.

Evaluation Question 3.

Evaluation Question 2.

Director's Commentary

Script

Evaluation Question 1.

 

Finnish Products.

Ancillary task 2

Image:

With my final image for my Film poster; I have made it look as if it is a Daguerreotype image ( this means that it was printed onto a silver plate, and so therefore there was no negative image produced). This style for me was perfect; as it helped to link with the demon possession, due to the fact that demons like to leave (generally) no evidence behind, therefore they will not allow images to be taken of them (including negative images). Also the aged look of the image; helps to show that this is a recurring story (that’s it’s happened before) and creates a link with the past.

With this type of poster I decided that it would look better if the eyes of the character were scratched out (similar to ‘The Woman in Black’s poster); this made the poster seem more dramatic, and helps to show the genre of the film better. This then could be linked to the pentagram seen in the lower left hand corner; as this also gives an indication to what the film is based on, and what will happen to the characters.

With the concepts of the magazine; there is one thing that I have not done. I have not put the actor’s names on the poster; as generally they are not placed: this is sometimes not the case if you are using a famous character, but as ours are not famous (and are unknown) so they don’t have to be put on the cover.

In my final product I also decided to add in a web based media link: to my paper based media. This was done by adding in a QR-Code: this links the poster to a version of my trailer that’s on YouTube; this will then allow the audience, to scan the barcode in and remotely access it. This is a new concept that is slowly becoming more popular, and this could be a new way of advertising the film.

Over all I am very happy with the final image; I did find this task harder than the Magazine Cover, as here I relied on just one image. It was hard to find an old fashioned style that allowed the font to be in white, as with some it was hard to see. But I do really like the final effect as it looks clean and crisp; I like that it contrasts with the idea of having it in the old type style: compared to the new style of the Magazine Cover.

Creating My Final Film Poster

QR-Code - links to trailer on YouTube

To access the trailer through the poster is a new concept, which is slowly coming into fashion. The idea of this concept is that: you can scan the barcode with your smart phone; this then allows you to be directed to the webpage that’s imbedded into it.

In relation to the ancillary task: the film poster; this then allows a cross media link to be formed, and intern allows another media technology to be formed. The site used to create/ generate the code is http://www.quickmark.cn/En/qrcode-datamatrix-generator/?qrBookmark; this allowed me to be able to generate my own code, so that it would only link to my site ( and my clip). To enable this to work propally I had to paced in my code (after uploading the clip to YouTube): another link to the clip is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcbsvOGw8DQ&feature=youtu.be , as it was not easy to find (due to the fact it had no views).

My Billing Block

Infomation Needed:

·         Production company – HCS Horror INC

·         Actors- Hannah George, Charlotte Southam, Samantha Kent

·         Music composers – Hannah George

·         Casting by -  S.G&Co.

·         Costume designers – HCS Horror INC

·         Editor – Charlotte Southam

·         Director of Photography –  Hannah George

·         Props Co-ordinator- S.G&Co.

·         Written by – Charlotte Southam

·         Produced by – HCS Horror INC

·         Co-Directed by – Charlotte Southam & Hannah George

 

Presentation of Infomation:

With creating the billing block the difficultly was having to divide up the names of the jobs to the two main people that were involved in creating our film trailer. My college and I found this part hard; as we both had a hand in all the different steps, the only concrete work that we did solo was the acting, and myself creating the music. The costume we all created; the editing was mostly done by Charlotte, but I had a hand in editing as few areas: the first one was the transitions of the flash back (00.24-00.31 seconds), the second was the transition of the pentagram (00.41 - transition). Then I used some quick editing through the running scenes (00.42-00.45), (00.54-59), (1.01-1.05). We both had a hand in creating the story idea/ the plot line; I took all the photos at the film shoots ( but we both edited our own versions: to create the ancillary tasks), and we both filmed different parts and directed it together.

We then came up with the idea of creating two group names to cover some of the jobs: HCS Horror INC and S.G&Co. This helped to cover some of the jobs that involved both of us; but we could not use them too frequently as otherwise it would be too repetitive.

Then in deciding how to present the billing block: I typed all the information onto Macromedia Flash, but this programme kept trying to have all the text the same size. To get the different sizes I then typed it onto a Microsoft Word document: this allowed be to have the different font sizes, and then I was able to paste it onto the Flash document (the poster) and change the alignment of the text to the center.

Billing Block - Examples

What's Expected on a billing block:

·         Production company

·         Actors

·         Music composers

·         Casting director

·         Costume designers

·         Editor

·         Director of Photography

·         Written by

·         Produced by

·         Director by

Examples:

what seems to be recurring with the billing block:

What seems to be very recurring is the elongated text; that has a narrow base, this seems to almost be stereo typical of a billing block, and would seem to be something that I might include on my poster.

Bel Ami

The contrast in the two colours (the grey and the white) would allow the text to be visible; but due to the size of the text it is hard to read, because the font is also short (in height) it also limits the viability. With the text; you have it in two different sizes, this is to try to help the visibility, but it does not really help the text, as the colour of the grey seems to melt into the background.

J.Edgar

The colours used in the background are the black and the sandy colour; this contrasting with the white writing does not go very well against the sandy coloured, were as it is far more visible then the other colour. There are the different size of texts which help you focus on the people, not just their title (/role in creating the film).

Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island



Here the text is white with a dark background; this allows the text to be clearly read, even with the small text. What is different is that you have the image still visible even at this low shot; this adds some contrast. But because you still have the image visible; this does make it harder to find the right colour text, but as its dark it makes this easier to solve.

The Hunter Games



With the Hunters Games; the red writing is very striking against the black background, this automatically helps with the visibility of the writing. Even though the text is narrow; it is still easy to see (easier than some), the red then contrasts against the yellow writing, and this helps to draw your eye to this section of the poster.

Wrath of the Titans

With Wrath of the Titans you have the white writing against the black background; this makes it very clear and easy to read, and makes it very visible even though due to the small size.

How to create a film poster (evidence for photo manipulation)

(This was my original poster idea: I then changed it because it looked too similar to my magazine front cover.)

Sizes of Different Posters

Sizes:

With the different sizes of the film posters; this helps in deciding what type of image that you best think will grab the audience’s attention, this is all dependant on were the poster is placed and what size it is.  

For my poster it would have to be in a portrait orientation; it could with either (to UK standards) be:

This then helps with the planning of the poster; as you have to make sure that it’s not cramped, or that is not got enough information on it. From comparing the two; I have decided that the best size (for me) would be the 27 inches x 40 inches, as this is the most common one used and would fit the poster conventions better than the 20 inches x 20 inches.

My Ideas for my Film Poster

Example Film Posters

Poster Ideas

This is similar to the post on the Magazine ideas: this was my first step in trying to decide, what a basic poster would look like. This helped me in deciding some of the first poster ideas; and helped to eliminate some of the images that I took on site, and so helped in producing some of the combined images, or possible layouts that I then explored.

Saul Bass - Ideas For Poster Design

Ancillary task 1

With this poster I have made the character smaller so that you can see more of the title; if it was a more well-known magazine (like Empire) they can afford to have less of the title seen as they are a popular. As my magazine is only just starting out; it needs to have the title seen so that it would be easily recognisable, and people are more likely to buy it.

With the colours used on the poster; I tried to carry on the idea of the autumn setting: this includes the gold’s and the light greens. This then contrasts with the navy blue of the jumper; with using the red to highlight certain colours of the text (as well as the black), this helps to draw the eye to the different areas of the text.

With the text it sharp and got clean lines; this helps the text to be visible even with some of the smaller text. It also makes it legible at a distance; this would be beneficial for if this magazine were to be sold in a store, as it would help to make it seem more professional.

Creating my Magazine Front Cover

Magazine Barcodes

Barcode

To create the barcode for my film magazine front cover; I decided to create my own by using and internet resource, this for me was important as I did not want to copy a code off the internet as tehn it would have no relevance to my work, I wanted it to follow in the continuance so that it tied into my work. For this I searched on Google for a software package that did just that; it was here I found a good link that when copied would come up as a good quality image: http://www.quickmark.cn/En/qrcode-datamatrix-generator/?qrBookmark

I had wanted to put a date on the barcode; but sadly that was not possible, this was due to the length of the code, so that not all of the text would have been able to be seen, so I settled for ‘NO.1 F1lms Magazine $2.50’ I had wanted to have my magazine price in Sterling (£) but the site would ot allow this, and so I had to opt for the American Dollar.

Mobile Tag - For Smart Phone

I then had an idea; that could I use something that would use modern technology to the link this magazine with something on the internet, I decided that it was more pertinent for it to be linked to my blog ( as this contained more work, as well as all the clips). To gain access to this kind of software I went on the search engine Google: http://www.quickmark.cn/En/qrcode-datamatrix-generator/?qrBookmark

Then all I had to do was to give my QR-Code a name and to paste in the URL code, this then allowed me to have a unique code that linked in with my blog tying all of my work together.

Inspiration for the Magazine Film Cover