Bellow is the poster and magazine review for our short film: We used all our research and development to help us for our final products, and we followed certain conventions making both our poster and our magazine review realistic for our viewers. This has all been written about in our powerpoint presentation.
Before choosing our final location we had to go to a few different types of locations and take a few photos before deciding which location would suit our film the best. As you can see we choose the second location on this slide. We felt the first location wouldn't work due to the house being surrounded by houses and so our two characters wouldn't have been able to get into a house not belonging to them. Also the second house worked nicely also due to the house coming off the two main roads, after a long think about it we thought it wouldnt make sense for our two drunken characters to go into a close and choose the one house which so happens not to have any people in.
Altogether after coming up with the pros and cons for these two houses we decided on choosing the house in the second slide. All the images on the second slide have been a part of the location used whilst filming our film.
We have the bedroom scene, the toilet scene with layken (Amy), the lounge scene where Jack and Amy are having a conversation, the scene at the start where Amy and Jack are stumbling over walking back from the party, the scene where both the characters enter the house and the kitchen scene and lastly the scene where Amy is coming down the stairs.
Although this was our first sketched for our film poster, after researching several film posters we decided to base our poster on the film "The Break-Up". This enabled us to focus on conventions of real media products.
This was quite useful research, however after researching film reviews in detail which are displayed in magazines we realised that the review would take up an A4 page worth. This review did help for the rough layout of the review.
1) Channel 4's IDEASFACTORY presents 2) A dogtooth media production 3) TITLE OF THE FILM. 4) characters name followed by the actors names 5) editor - director of photography - sound recordist - music 6) produced by 7) written and directed by
When adding the titles into our film and seeing the way inwhich the titles are placed i decided to look at a few short films for help which are roughly the same genre as ours. This film was about a man getting over his old girlfriend who finds another man, and so the ex boyfriend hires a karati man to deal with his ex girlfriends new boyfriend, however in the end we find out that the man who he hired to beat up the new boyfriend ends up with the girlfriend. The order about is the routine in which the titles were shown.
This is a poster from the film, The Break Up. We thought it would be a good poster to study seeing as it is the same genre as the film which we have produced. A romantic comedy. This research is crutial so that we are able to follow the codes and conventions to a film poster, however this is for a feature film, not a short five minuet film which is what we are doing. Looking at this poster we have decided it might be a nice effect to have our two characters sat in bed starring at eachother in confusing seeing as this would represent the fact that neither of them know eachother ( hence a one night stand ).
On The Break-up poster the husband is on the left hand side, and the wife is on the right hand side.Both of them are expressing their feelings on their face so the audience can pick up the fact that they both look fed up and unhappy. They are both sat up in bed leaving a big gap between the two which emphasises the fact that they are no longer a happy couple and that the film is clearly going to be about a couple 'breaking up'. Above the characters are the names of the acters.And at the very bottom there is information about the makers of the film, and the film, including the date this film will be released.