This film is about : Six people in New York are adrift. Zeke and Luke work in a sex shop: Zeke takes gay liberation seriously, Luke likes to sparkle and takes nothing seriously. He's offended when Stephen calls him a gay cliché, then, surprisingly, they find each other attractive and interesting. Stephen, it turns out, has a great apartment, trust fund, and artwork he's painted on his walls. Meanwhile, Peter, a neat-freak, and Derek, nice to everyone, move in together. Peter's compulsiveness threatens the relationship. Last, newly-engaged Marilyn, a recovering alcoholic stuck at step 2, can't stop obsessing about wedding details. Can these folks sort out civilization and its discontents?
I decided to have a look in which this film was layed out with all the titles.
1st - It tells you that it is Embrem Entertainment.
2nd - It says Embrem Entertainment presents.
3rd - A Casper Andreas Film.
4th - The title of the film ( A Four Letter Word )
5th - the names of the acters starring in the film.
6th - the co producers name
7th - who the music was composed by.
8th - who designed all the costumes in the film.
9th - who designed the production.
10th - who edited the film together.
11th - the producers of the films names.
12th - Who wrote the script (storyline).
13th - who directed the film.
The more films which we look at the more likely we are to perfect the codes and conventions of the films and the more knowledge we have on putting the titles in the correct places of our films. However once again this is a feature film.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
50 First Dates
50 first dates is a romantic comedy feature film. This is the poster for advertising this film. It is set out very similar to the film The breakup. They are located on a beach, center of the poster, The title is placed at the bottom of the poster in the center and the acters names are at the top left and right. This is useful to look at when making our own film poster.
This film is Presented by Comlumbia pictures.
Poster research
Poster Research
Making a great poster can be fun and is certainly a challenge!
A GREAT POSTER IS...
readable,
legible,
well organized, and
succinct.
1. WAYS TO MAKE A POSTER ARE
make your own.
Designing the poster panels deserves consideration. Most posters are most quickly made using some kind of computer software. A word processing program plus a few graphics packages (e.g. Microsoft Powerpoint, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker) are important tools. Of these, Powerpoint has the least sophisticated graphics options.
2. CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO POPULAR FORMATS:
a large format poster or
a multiple panel poster.
3. TO BEGIN:
decide what the main message is,
Keep it short and sweet and make this your title! Use the active voice (The Morning After)
measure the space you have,
Regardless of poster format, lay out the space physically as well as on paper to double-check yourself. If you can, make the poster flexible enough to change the size by adding or omitting panels or elements. This flexibility is handy if you are going to more than one meeting, if the poster boards are not exactly the size advertised, if the meetings have different in size requirements for posters, or if you wish to update your data between meetings.
lay out your panels crudely,
Before you actually spend time making the final panels of the poster, take pieces of paper that are about the right size and see if you can actually make it all fit. This will save you a lot of time in the long run.
begin to make individual components of the poster!
4. POSTER LAYOUT HAS TWO ASPECTS:
Consider how to arrange poster elements and text within each panel and
People approach new information in a known spatial sequence: we track vertically from center to top to bottom, and horizontally from left to right. This means that you should put the most important message in the center top position followed by the top left, top right, bottom left, and finish in the bottom right corner. That's why the poster title should be your punch line because, in that position, the title and your name will be seen in the first 11 seconds that a person looks at the poster.
Space is important in a poster: without it, your reader has no visual pauses to think. Books leave space on the margins and by having chapters. Posters that are crammed with information are tiring to read and are seldom read in their entirety. Omit all extraneous text or visual distractions, including borders between related data and text, so the reader can assimilate your ideas easily.
Size of poster elements or the fonts in each panel can serve to emphasize the main points. For example, making your subheadings in all capitals and two font sizes larger than the rest of the text on the same panel will draw the reader's eye first, and so be emphasized. The use of multiple fonts in a poster can distract from the science.
practical matters.
It takes time to make a great poster. Regardless of format, allow 2 to 3 days to assemble all the bits and pieces, such as photos etc, and then 1.5 to 2 days to assemble the poster. That last bit of data you rush around to get at the last moment will go completely unnoticed if your poster is messy and disorganized i.e. illegible and unreadable.
5. FONT CHOICES GIVE YOU OPTIONS WITH
size,
Font sizes need to be big to be effective. A good rule is to stand back from your own poster: if you, who are familiar with the material, cannot easily read it from 6 feet away, your audience will certainly not be able to.
highlighting with text format,
Indents set text apart and are great for short lists.
Justification of text in the center of a line will draw attention.
basic font choice and highlighting with font variations.
Choose a basic font whose "e's" and "a's" stay open at all sizes and that is supported by your printer.Bookman, Helvetica, and Geneva are examples of good choices. The choice of serif or sans serif is largely a personal matter. If your font is not supported by the printer, you will get ragged edges on all your letters.
Highlighting a few parts of the text is done easily with:
/ capitals as in the "go CHILDREN slow" or the "Stop,..." street signs, / Zapf dingbats instead of numbers for simple lists of things, / wrapped letters that arc around an image, / switch styles (bold, italics, shadow, etc.).
6. COLOR
Ways to add color,
A color border or background is a fast way to add color to a poster. Choosing colors that do not compete with your data, that look good once printed, and that color blind people can see is wise.
If you opted for a multiple panel poster, then LaserFoil allows you to make your printed words from a laser printer come out in color. Available in mat, glossy, and "prism" finishes, LaserFoil can add pizzaz to a poster. Colored graphic tape or dots, and white arrows (Chartpak, Lettraset) can be quickly applied to poster elements to draw attention to the elements you wish to.
contrast,
Proper contrast will reduce eye strain and make the poster more legible and interesting visually. Again, be careful that the color does not outclass the visual impact of your data: too much contrast is hard on the eyes and can distract the reader from your data.
Adding light color backgrounds to your figures can make the poster attractive. For example, using white lettering and lines on a blue background can make your poster eyecatching. Like a painting, poster elements can also be double matted physically or digitally to add interesting contrast.
7. CHECK TWO THINGS BEFORE YOU “ASSEMBLE” THE POSTER
have others review it for you,
do take a moment for ethical considerations.
8. FINISHING YOUR POSTER
It is trivial to assemble a poster once you have decided on and made all the individual elements. Be sure to give yourself enough time to finish the poster,say 1-3 days, so you have time to reprint it if necessary to revise color or content, or to simply get into the printing queue!
Posted by whats going on at 04:01 0 comments
Evaluation so far
So far we have uploaded our footage onto the computer and made clips over every scene. We have chosen the correct footage and edited it together. So far we are very pleased with the result although we have come across one problem. In the scene where Amy and Jack are having a conversation the following morning over a cup of coffee we had a 'jump cut' and because we didn't film enough different shots, we have faced a fairly big problem. It looks messy and disjointed and therefore we have decided we need to re film that scene again making sure we get a bigger variation of shots and shot sizes.
At the same time as doing this we will also take the photographs for our film poster because although we have drawn out a plan and some rough ideas we need to start putting it together into a poster.
Whilst we are waiting to re-shoot our short film we are doing the titles and music. Although choosing the 'font' for film titles seems like a minor thing we are having to put a lot of thought into it to find something that suits the genre and character of our film as well as choosing where is appropriate to have music and what type of music is it that we want?
Ideas for our poster:
Because our film is a 'Rom com' we want the poster too have an element of comedy in it to draw in peoples attention and interest. Because our short film has a fairly basic simple storyline to it we thought the best thing to have an image of was. The awkward moment when they wake up the morning after...
possible ideas;
-possibly with thinking bubbles filled with images from the night before.
-speech bubbles. showing what there thinking
-title of the film
-cast
-age certificate
-quotes?
Making a great poster can be fun and is certainly a challenge!
A GREAT POSTER IS...
readable,
legible,
well organized, and
succinct.
1. WAYS TO MAKE A POSTER ARE
make your own.
Designing the poster panels deserves consideration. Most posters are most quickly made using some kind of computer software. A word processing program plus a few graphics packages (e.g. Microsoft Powerpoint, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker) are important tools. Of these, Powerpoint has the least sophisticated graphics options.
2. CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO POPULAR FORMATS:
a large format poster or
a multiple panel poster.
3. TO BEGIN:
decide what the main message is,
Keep it short and sweet and make this your title! Use the active voice (The Morning After)
measure the space you have,
Regardless of poster format, lay out the space physically as well as on paper to double-check yourself. If you can, make the poster flexible enough to change the size by adding or omitting panels or elements. This flexibility is handy if you are going to more than one meeting, if the poster boards are not exactly the size advertised, if the meetings have different in size requirements for posters, or if you wish to update your data between meetings.
lay out your panels crudely,
Before you actually spend time making the final panels of the poster, take pieces of paper that are about the right size and see if you can actually make it all fit. This will save you a lot of time in the long run.
begin to make individual components of the poster!
4. POSTER LAYOUT HAS TWO ASPECTS:
Consider how to arrange poster elements and text within each panel and
People approach new information in a known spatial sequence: we track vertically from center to top to bottom, and horizontally from left to right. This means that you should put the most important message in the center top position followed by the top left, top right, bottom left, and finish in the bottom right corner. That's why the poster title should be your punch line because, in that position, the title and your name will be seen in the first 11 seconds that a person looks at the poster.
Space is important in a poster: without it, your reader has no visual pauses to think. Books leave space on the margins and by having chapters. Posters that are crammed with information are tiring to read and are seldom read in their entirety. Omit all extraneous text or visual distractions, including borders between related data and text, so the reader can assimilate your ideas easily.
Size of poster elements or the fonts in each panel can serve to emphasize the main points. For example, making your subheadings in all capitals and two font sizes larger than the rest of the text on the same panel will draw the reader's eye first, and so be emphasized. The use of multiple fonts in a poster can distract from the science.
practical matters.
It takes time to make a great poster. Regardless of format, allow 2 to 3 days to assemble all the bits and pieces, such as photos etc, and then 1.5 to 2 days to assemble the poster. That last bit of data you rush around to get at the last moment will go completely unnoticed if your poster is messy and disorganized i.e. illegible and unreadable.
5. FONT CHOICES GIVE YOU OPTIONS WITH
size,
Font sizes need to be big to be effective. A good rule is to stand back from your own poster: if you, who are familiar with the material, cannot easily read it from 6 feet away, your audience will certainly not be able to.
highlighting with text format,
Indents set text apart and are great for short lists.
Justification of text in the center of a line will draw attention.
basic font choice and highlighting with font variations.
Choose a basic font whose "e's" and "a's" stay open at all sizes and that is supported by your printer.Bookman, Helvetica, and Geneva are examples of good choices. The choice of serif or sans serif is largely a personal matter. If your font is not supported by the printer, you will get ragged edges on all your letters.
Highlighting a few parts of the text is done easily with:
/ capitals as in the "go CHILDREN slow" or the "Stop,..." street signs, / Zapf dingbats instead of numbers for simple lists of things, / wrapped letters that arc around an image, / switch styles (bold, italics, shadow, etc.).
6. COLOR
Ways to add color,
A color border or background is a fast way to add color to a poster. Choosing colors that do not compete with your data, that look good once printed, and that color blind people can see is wise.
If you opted for a multiple panel poster, then LaserFoil allows you to make your printed words from a laser printer come out in color. Available in mat, glossy, and "prism" finishes, LaserFoil can add pizzaz to a poster. Colored graphic tape or dots, and white arrows (Chartpak, Lettraset) can be quickly applied to poster elements to draw attention to the elements you wish to.
contrast,
Proper contrast will reduce eye strain and make the poster more legible and interesting visually. Again, be careful that the color does not outclass the visual impact of your data: too much contrast is hard on the eyes and can distract the reader from your data.
Adding light color backgrounds to your figures can make the poster attractive. For example, using white lettering and lines on a blue background can make your poster eyecatching. Like a painting, poster elements can also be double matted physically or digitally to add interesting contrast.
7. CHECK TWO THINGS BEFORE YOU “ASSEMBLE” THE POSTER
have others review it for you,
do take a moment for ethical considerations.
8. FINISHING YOUR POSTER
It is trivial to assemble a poster once you have decided on and made all the individual elements. Be sure to give yourself enough time to finish the poster,say 1-3 days, so you have time to reprint it if necessary to revise color or content, or to simply get into the printing queue!
Posted by whats going on at 04:01 0 comments
Evaluation so far
So far we have uploaded our footage onto the computer and made clips over every scene. We have chosen the correct footage and edited it together. So far we are very pleased with the result although we have come across one problem. In the scene where Amy and Jack are having a conversation the following morning over a cup of coffee we had a 'jump cut' and because we didn't film enough different shots, we have faced a fairly big problem. It looks messy and disjointed and therefore we have decided we need to re film that scene again making sure we get a bigger variation of shots and shot sizes.
At the same time as doing this we will also take the photographs for our film poster because although we have drawn out a plan and some rough ideas we need to start putting it together into a poster.
Whilst we are waiting to re-shoot our short film we are doing the titles and music. Although choosing the 'font' for film titles seems like a minor thing we are having to put a lot of thought into it to find something that suits the genre and character of our film as well as choosing where is appropriate to have music and what type of music is it that we want?
Ideas for our poster:
Because our film is a 'Rom com' we want the poster too have an element of comedy in it to draw in peoples attention and interest. Because our short film has a fairly basic simple storyline to it we thought the best thing to have an image of was. The awkward moment when they wake up the morning after...
possible ideas;
-possibly with thinking bubbles filled with images from the night before.
-speech bubbles. showing what there thinking
-title of the film
-cast
-age certificate
-quotes?
Research on film posters
Cinema and film posters are the physical incarnation of the special movies we have enjoyed through the years. Although there is a big market for collecting film posters, they were never intended or created to be sold to the public. They were merely meant to promote and entice viewers to come to the local theatres that were screening the films. Today these rare original movie posters are in great demand. They are the tangible souvenirs of favourite films and stars whose characters we fell in love with
Early Days
Ironically in the early days of movie making actors were not usually depicted on the film posters. The title of the film and the producer and directors names were usually the attraction until Hollywood realized that it was the actors who brought in the viewers. It was at that time that the stars of movies were then plastered on each poster giving life to a new era in the film industry.
Bellow are two examples of film posters traditionally created for advertising which are now rare and expensive collectors items, you can see that these posters are very different to 20thC posters...
Casablanca is one of the many classic film posters available.
Film posters like The Seven Year Itch are as popular as ever.
Cinema and film posters are the physical incarnation of the special movies we have enjoyed through the years. Although there is a big market for collecting film posters, they were never intended or created to be sold to the public. They were merely meant to promote and entice viewers to come to the local theatres that were screening the films. Today these rare original movie posters are in great demand. They are the tangible souvenirs of favourite films and stars whose characters we fell in love with
Early Days
Ironically in the early days of movie making actors were not usually depicted on the film posters. The title of the film and the producer and directors names were usually the attraction until Hollywood realized that it was the actors who brought in the viewers. It was at that time that the stars of movies were then plastered on each poster giving life to a new era in the film industry.
Bellow are two examples of film posters traditionally created for advertising which are now rare and expensive collectors items, you can see that these posters are very different to 20thC posters...
Casablanca is one of the many classic film posters available.
Film posters like The Seven Year Itch are as popular as ever.
Monday, November 30, 2009
This is a picture i found on google and you can see that three of the films out at the time had been advertised on telephone boxes. The film industry want to try and advertise their films as much as possible seeing as the more heard of their film is by the audience the better chance it has in suceeding.
Film posters can be advertised on billboards, telephone boxes, buses, taxis etc.
FILM ADVERTISEMENTS.
Another task which we need to create and start thinking about is making a POSTER to advertise our film. As a start i researched into some ways in which film companys have had their films advertised to the public.
These posters to advertise both of these two films are extremely plain and simple, however in both of the posters you can see a picture of the main characters involved in the films.
Our two main characters
AMY: Amy is an 18year old girl. She comes from a middle class family and has been brought up in private education. She's very fun and loving and has lots of friends but is currently single. Shes just finished High School/College and will be going to Leeds University next year to study English. Amy is your average teenager however it is very rare that she gets so drunk that she would have a one night stand and is therefore embarrassed when she wakes up in the morning to remember what she has done.
JACK: Jack is 19 years old. He is from a working class family and has been brought up in the state education. He's very outgoing, loud..etc. He's a typical lad around his friends and is only interested in girls, football, sports, party's, getting drunk...etc. However, Jack has just come out of a long term relationship and therefore is extremely shocked at himself for sleeping with Amy after they had only met a few hours previously.
JACK: Jack is 19 years old. He is from a working class family and has been brought up in the state education. He's very outgoing, loud..etc. He's a typical lad around his friends and is only interested in girls, football, sports, party's, getting drunk...etc. However, Jack has just come out of a long term relationship and therefore is extremely shocked at himself for sleeping with Amy after they had only met a few hours previously.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
OUR SCRIPT - THE MORNING AFTER
Although we do not have our rough notes on a few things we decided to change, this was our first draft of our script for The Morning After. We ended up changing the ending so that in the end you find out the parents/ owners of the house have been in the house the entire time and there are a few edits of the script, like she knocks over the door mat which has the key to the house. From the script we were able to draw up the storyboard.We wrote the script up on celtx and each page counts for one minute.This allowed up to make sure our film was five minutes long as requested.
Sound Effects.
1. Door Slamming.
2. Falling out of bed (loud bang).
3. Window Opening.
4. Footsteps.
5. Cupboards opening and shutting.
So far running through the plan of our film, these are the sound effects we will need to get from garage band and edit in to our film. These are used to add a more dramatic feel towards our film and create realism.
2. Falling out of bed (loud bang).
3. Window Opening.
4. Footsteps.
5. Cupboards opening and shutting.
So far running through the plan of our film, these are the sound effects we will need to get from garage band and edit in to our film. These are used to add a more dramatic feel towards our film and create realism.
OUR SHOT LIST and animation of our storyboard.
1. Very Long Shot. Jack and Amy on their way back from a party, walking down a street.
2. Long Shot. Jack and Amy kissing.
3. Close Up. Amy's face (laughing).
4. Close Up. Jack's face (laughing).
5. Long Shot. Amy taking off her shoes. Jack drinking.
6. Close Up. Jacks face (asking if Amy's ready).
7. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack dancing.
8. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack hiding behind a wall, house in the background.
9. Long Shot. Amy and Jack walking towards the house.
10. Medium Close Up. Walking towards the house.
11. Close Up. Amy tripping over the matt.
12. Medium Close Up. Jack picking up the key.
13. Close Up. The key.
14. Medium Close Up. Amy taking the key from Jack.
15. Close Up. Amy opening the door.
16. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy kissing.
17. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy enter the house.
18. Close Up. The door shut.
19. Close Up. The cloths on the bedroom floor.
20. Long Shot. Jack and Amy hugging in bed, knickers on Jacks foot.
21. Close Up. Knickers on Jacks foot.
22. Medium Close Up. Amy waking up next to Jack.
23. Long Shot. Jack lying in bed. Amy gets up and takes knickers off his foot.
24. Medium Close Up. Amy sat in the bathroom.
25. Close Up. Photo of a boy.
26. Medium Close Up. Amy pointing at photo, curious.
27. Long Shot. Jack falling out of bed.
28. Medium Close Up. Jack putting his trousers on.
29. Medium Close Up. Jack making the bed.
30. Medium Close Up. Amy washing her face.
31. Close Up. Amy wiping face on towel.
32. Medium Close Up. Amy hiding the towel.
33. Long Shot. Amy walking down the stairs.
34. Medium Close Up. Jack looking around downstairs.
35. Long Shot. Amy and Jack bump into each other.
36. Close Up. Amy and Jack talking .
37. Medium Close Up. Amy pointing Jack in the right direction.
38. Long Shot. Them both wondering off in different directions.
39. Medium Close Up. Amy searching for the teacups.
40. Long Shot. Jack looking around.
41. Medium Close Up. Amy bringing in the tea.
42. Medium Close Up. Them both drinking tea.
43. Close Up. Jack putting cigarette out on saucer.
44. Medium Close Up. Jack and Amy talking.
45. Medium Close Up. Amy and Jack looking around,curiously.
46. Close Up. Both of them in shock.
47. Medium Close Up. Jack pulling Amy towards him (heading over to the window).
48. Medium Close Up. Jack helps Amy out the window.
49. Medium Close Up. Jack climbs out the window.
50. Long Shot. Jack and Amy escaping from the house.
51. Medium Close Up. Jack picks Amy up.
52. Close Up. Amy smiling.
53. Long Shot. Amy and Jack walking off, down the road (Amy in Jacks arms).
54. Very Long Shot. Jack and Amy kissing.
Different shots
Seeing as we had to make our own shot list, so that when we came to filming we would know what camera shots to use we looked up all the different types of shots you are able to use so we would know exactly when to use what shot.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Evaluation so far...
We are coming up to half term and after writing our first draft of our script we realised that maybe we did not have the best story line. We decided to do some more research on short films and see how they have presented the characters and the story line in such a short amount of time and space.
I was inspired by a number of story lines and after thinking long and hard about what to do i thought it would be best if we started to come up with another story idea inspired through another film seeing as this gives us something to work on and we are not starting from scratch.
The problems we were faces with:
- Seeing as our first script we began from scratch our story line was messy and did not complete. For example we wanted the audience to like our character Joe in the end however when we put him on dates we made him out to be a jock. We made such a hated character that we just couldn't think of how the audience would grow to like him, especially in such a short amount of time.
- we are very limited on time. We wanted to make our character change as a person and fall in love with a girl and to find out the girls was dying just in 5 minuets. This would be VERY hard to do.
- After watching a number of short films we realised that they are all very basic and consist on a couple of characters. We wanted a number of locations, a number of actors and we were making the story far to complex.
Once me and my partner agreed on giving writing up a script another go we decided that we are better off basing our film on another film and intrtpreting our own ideas into it. We have now got our new script written up and we are pleased with the progress. Everything is now coming together and we are feeling far more organised. By next week we are going to be able to start filming.
- we created a thoroughly dislikeable character and the audience will not like him. As far as his change of feelings the audience will simply think that he is not to be trusted,therefor will never grow to like him. We were meant to show that he has some redeeming characters and instead his character seemed to be contradicting himself.
I was inspired by a number of story lines and after thinking long and hard about what to do i thought it would be best if we started to come up with another story idea inspired through another film seeing as this gives us something to work on and we are not starting from scratch.
The problems we were faces with:
- Seeing as our first script we began from scratch our story line was messy and did not complete. For example we wanted the audience to like our character Joe in the end however when we put him on dates we made him out to be a jock. We made such a hated character that we just couldn't think of how the audience would grow to like him, especially in such a short amount of time.
- we are very limited on time. We wanted to make our character change as a person and fall in love with a girl and to find out the girls was dying just in 5 minuets. This would be VERY hard to do.
- After watching a number of short films we realised that they are all very basic and consist on a couple of characters. We wanted a number of locations, a number of actors and we were making the story far to complex.
Once me and my partner agreed on giving writing up a script another go we decided that we are better off basing our film on another film and intrtpreting our own ideas into it. We have now got our new script written up and we are pleased with the progress. Everything is now coming together and we are feeling far more organised. By next week we are going to be able to start filming.
- we created a thoroughly dislikeable character and the audience will not like him. As far as his change of feelings the audience will simply think that he is not to be trusted,therefor will never grow to like him. We were meant to show that he has some redeeming characters and instead his character seemed to be contradicting himself.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFK3Spacdus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErjP5xMTc8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-wMe9vxkWI
These are a few clips which we looked at and got some dating ideas from.
Once we typed up our entire script we realised we are going to have to change the dating clips seeing as we have made Joe out to be an idiot throughout the dates and if we want our audience to see that he is becoming a nice man and changing this is not going to make them like him, infact they are going to begin to hate him even more seeing as he is saying he wants a long term girlfriend however has the wrong idea and behaviour towards women.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErjP5xMTc8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-wMe9vxkWI
These are a few clips which we looked at and got some dating ideas from.
Once we typed up our entire script we realised we are going to have to change the dating clips seeing as we have made Joe out to be an idiot throughout the dates and if we want our audience to see that he is becoming a nice man and changing this is not going to make them like him, infact they are going to begin to hate him even more seeing as he is saying he wants a long term girlfriend however has the wrong idea and behaviour towards women.
Research on a few short films.
This is another short film we studied for some research. Again the genre was a Romantic Comedy, and i liked the story behind this film. It is about a teenage boy who falls madly inlove with a girl who he never speaks to. This girl says to him 'dream on cupid' and then he dresses up as cupid and shoots her with an arrow. I loved the way the ending unraveled. Firstly the audience see what happened through the teenaged boys eyes and how he wished things worked out, and then the truth is uncovered. I liked how there was no dialogue however all the audience were aware of the storyline and what was happening, I also like the music which was playing throughout the film, contrasting to the end of the story.
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/shoes_off/
This is a link to the film Shoe's off. Stuart, a timid 31-year-old bachelor, is inspired to break out of his monotonous existence by a mysterious woman in beautiful black boots. He crashes a stuffy cocktail party in order to meet her, but gets kicked out after an incident involving shish kabobs and red wine. It is then that he discovers that the way to a woman's heart is through her shoes. Although this film was 12-13 minuets we found it useful as research for our genre of our film.
This is a romantic comedy and the story line is completely unique and unrealistic. I found it humourous and exciting towards what was going to happen next. I liked all the different shots used and the way there is a close up frame used for the piece of paper saying that he is going 'to live life dangerously'. Throughout all films a close up shot is used when the filmers are trying to exagerate this , this is why we have planned a close up shot of the key unlocking the house and a close up shot when Amy shows Jack that she found a key.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004pyzt
This is the first short film which i have watched. It is four minuets and six seconds long and the story is ONLY focusing on two main characters and has a very simple story line which is easy to follow.
It is about a doctor who falls in love with a women who is dead. Something that i learnt from this short film is that from just watching this short film i have been able to summerise the story into just one sentence which is what we have done with our film.
Also at the start of this film it tells you that it was made according to Straight8 rules. One 58mm cartridge, no editing, unless on camera.
Another thing which i liked about this film is that the story is so easy for the audience to follow and understand, although i do not like the actually idea of a man falling in love with a dead women. There are not many locations involved and it is very basic however, at the same time very effective.
The genre of this film was a DARK ROMANTIC COMEDY.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Notebook
This is a picture for the second film i looked up. This poster and the poster for ' A walk to remember' are very similar. Both a picture of the girl and the boy doing something romantic together, whether its kissing or cuddling.
A walk to remember.
This is a movie trailer/poster for the film 'A walk to remember'. This film is what we have decided to base our short film on. As you can see in this picture the couple are all cutely cuddling up close together both looking extremely happy. This picture does not go into detail about the fact that the girl has got an illness or that the girl is a 'geek' and the boy is 'the cool kid'. I just decided to look this up to give us a few ideas for creating our poster.
Our Main Character.
Name - Joe Jackson
Age - 19
Age - 19
Birthday - September 24th ( one of the older in his year )
He is not an only child ,like expected. He has one younger brother who is 17 years of age.
Joe is almost embarassed of his younger brother. This is because these two children are complete opposites. While Joe is into sports, going out and girls his younger brother Edward plays computer games and does not enjoy leaving the house. There social lives are a complete contrast and Edward wears glasses.
Car he drives - A black rangerover with tinted windows.
Job - He's a full time student, however promotes clubs on the weekends
Interests - football, sport, the gym, GIRLS, drinking, clubbing, cars, money, popularity.
Interests - football, sport, the gym, GIRLS, drinking, clubbing, cars, money, popularity.
Relationship status - single, but looking.
Where he lives - A 3 bedroom apartment in knightsbridge, next door to Harrods. He only has One flat mate named Sam Garner and the other room was originally taken by his ex girlfriend Sarah , who only lasted a number of weeks.
Where he lives - A 3 bedroom apartment in knightsbridge, next door to Harrods. He only has One flat mate named Sam Garner and the other room was originally taken by his ex girlfriend Sarah , who only lasted a number of weeks.
He no longer lives with his parents seeing as he moved out into his own house at the age 18, when he started university.
Where he was born - In St Johns wood. The Wellington.
He has grown up in London his whole life.
He has always been popular with the girls, one to mess them around however he has now decided he wants to go on a number of dates to find his dream girl.
Fathers name - Mr Pete Jackson
Mothers name - Mrs Clair Jackson
His father is a lawyer for his own firm and is always in another country travelling for his work.
His mother is a secutary for her husbands lawyer firm, and when she is not at work she is either cooking or cleaning their beautiful house in Sloanne Square. Their business is located in Hype park and is a very well know lawyer firm.
He has longish brown hair, spiked up with gel. Bright blue eyes. Very broad seeing as he spends half of his life in the gym.
Joe normally goes for the stereotypical girl: Talk, slim, Long ,blonde, straightened hair. Tanned skin and they are always from the popular crowd of girls that everyone is after.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
' Guy falls in love with a girl whose dying'
When we first sat down to start planning our short film we knew the first thing we needed to choose was the genre.
We made a list of a few of our favorite films that we thought we could take ideas from to create our own:
Film Ideas
- Thirteen
- A walk to remember
- Just married
- The girl next door
- 40 year old virgin
- The Notebook
- 50 first dates
- Hitch
- What happens in vegas
After deciding our genre : 'Romantic Comedy' we decided to base our film on 'A walk to remember', '50 dates' and the TV series 'One tree Hill'.
Starting ideas:
The main guy in our film comes across as a sports jock, he's bored of his life and decides he wants to find love/ a girlfriend. His friends set him up on sevral dates (all good looking, steriotypical, popular high school girls) however he ends up falling for the geek in his maths class who nobody pays any attention too. As time goes on he discovers her secret (she's dying from lucemia!) His friends are shocked to find out that after all the dates they've set him up on he's fallen for the least expected person witch there not happy about...however they have to choose either to accept it or loose him as a friend?
Charchters in our film:
Main boy - (high school jock)
Main girl - (geek)
Girls for dates ... (how many ?)
Guys friends - (football team..how many?)
Bellow is a timeline that we have created to help keep us organised and stick to dates when we start the planning and shooting of our short film.
Once we had finished our timeline we realised that we hadnt actually done it in enough detail so over the weekend we will re- do it, to make it more precise.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Romantic Dramas defined.
While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists. Common themes include the characters making decisions based on a newly-found romantic attraction. The questions, "What am I living for?" or "Why am I with my current partner?" often arise.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
A2 Brief.
The OCR brief asks you to produce :
A SHORT film and two from these three:
- a poster
- a radio trailer
- a film magazine review page.
A SHORT film and two from these three:
- a poster
- a radio trailer
- a film magazine review page.
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