Monday, 17 December 2012
cover editing
the difficult part of editing the cover was getting the empire logo behind the character but in front of the background. I had taken a picture of the background where I wanted my character to stand but it was still the most difficult part of editing my magazine cover.
magazine picture
for the picture of my magazine I didn't really have any issues .
now all I have to do is add the empire logo turn it to black and white and add a bar code and other stories as well ans the one about my film
the empire logo will be in black and white as well as the rest of the cover, the empire cover often changes to suit a film here are some examples.
the hulk cover has a cartoony empire logo that it being split in half |
the hell boy cover has a logo which is on fire |
the batman one is black and has the bat-symbol on it. |
Poster editing
poster editing went very well I believe I resolved the problem with the shadows and managed to highlight attention to the badge a little more
with the shadow I created a new layer and drew the shadow on with the paint tool and turned the colour of the pavement darker where I wanted the shadow, I was surprised with how well it turned out and I believe it had an almost professional look about it. with the police badge I zoomed in on Photoshop and made all the colours more crisp this makes it stand out more I believe.
Poster picture
This is the picture I will be using for my film poster. I will turn it black and white for the noir effect I will also make it so the shadow of the character is bolder and try to make the police badge stand out more. I will add the film title at the bottom above the billing card there will be reviews at the side and actor names at the top.
Photo-shoot
I took the photo for my film poster and magazine cover whilst filming the phone-booth scene I thought this would work well for continuity purposes so it it is the same time in the film poster and magazine as it is in the trailer. this give the effect of increasing the synergy between texts. another reason this was effective was because the actor would of been wearing the same clothes that he was in the trailer. this again works well with the continuity of both the trailer, magazine cover and the film poster. again this will help with the continuity of the texts as time location and weather will all be the same.
one of the problems I had was creating the iconic noir shadow on the ground, I couldn't get a hold of lighting equipment to do this; however I feel confident enough with Photoshop to create a shadow on there whilst editing together my film poster.
the only other problem I had was the fact that the police badge a key piece of synergy for the project does not shoe up well on the pictures I will try to find a way to combat this and bring attention to it, again whilst I edit the pictures.
with the magazine article i felt everything went okay and that there were no major issues with it.
one of the problems I had was creating the iconic noir shadow on the ground, I couldn't get a hold of lighting equipment to do this; however I feel confident enough with Photoshop to create a shadow on there whilst editing together my film poster.
the only other problem I had was the fact that the police badge a key piece of synergy for the project does not shoe up well on the pictures I will try to find a way to combat this and bring attention to it, again whilst I edit the pictures.
with the magazine article i felt everything went okay and that there were no major issues with it.
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Editing
To edit my film trailer I will be using
Windows movie maker, this is due to it being a program I already have installed
on my laptop, it is also far easier to use than Adobe Premier pro and also I like
the way it is laid out. This is all very useful because it works just as well
as Adobe Premier pro but doesn't have the extortionate price tag.
I found editing relatively easy; this is
probably due to the simplicity of Windows Movie maker. One of the main pieces of
editing I did other than the simple cuts between scenes was putting it into
black and white, I did this capture the essence of the film noir genre and I believe
it has worked quite effectively.
For the
music of my trailer I have used a piece of music called Apocalypto. I believe
it was the perfect fit for my trailer because it holds the intensity of the
action in the trailer well, another advantage of that piece of music was it was
the perfect length for where I planned it to start and stop. The music starts
after Wilson says he must be eliminated and goes until the gunshot towards the
end of the trailer.
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Filming
Filming
started off with an unexpected glitch when one of the actors pulled out on the
day I was going to film, however in a great turn of luck the actor that had
previously lined up to play the character of jack was now available so I asked
him if he was able to film on Friday the 19th and he was.
I had previously scheduled
4pm to film, however Vishal Bhudia who
plays the character of jack was not able to make that time due to commitments
with work so I resorted to pushing back filming to 4:30pm all of the actors
were OK with this. I didn’t need them to bring multiple costumes because the
film is only set over a couple of days in which the only real costume change
is; a hoodie for jack to signal his suspension from the force, hoodie for Tyler
played by Declan Hampton so jack doesn’t
recognise him from a distance and the same for David played by James Bowes although the character of
jack does not know him it still makes him look more shifty.
I wasn’t actually able to start filming until 5pm due to one of the actors punctuality deficiency so when I started filming it was getting dark however this worked to my advantage as I was able to convey the gritty nature of the film better. In all I think filming was a resounding success.
Friday, 19 October 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
cover selection: audience feedback results
which poster do you prefer?
this shows that the audience preferred the cover with the character looking away, I felt this one to be more effective as well this cover utilises the shadows, the effect of this is the audience can identify it as a film noir. another effective part of this cover was the fact the main character was looking away this is effective because it shows he is distracted which hints at the iconographic femme fatale.
Monday, 17 September 2012
Sunday, 16 September 2012
i have now finished my script and can now start working on my storyboarding.
Decommissioned
SCENE 1
DAY – EXT – PHONE BOOTH
JACK is inside the phone
booth. JACK inserts money into the phone and dials a number.
JACK – I know who you are and I
know its you who is poisoning this town and I am
not going to rest until your corrupt
body lies dead in the gutter where it belongs.
JACK slams the phone down
and storms out the phone booth once he leaves the booth. He drops his police
badge on the floor once he is out the phone booth.
SCENE 2
DAY – INT – POLICE STATION
Police chief WILSON is sat
on his chair in his office. Officers TYLER and DAVID are also stood in the room
with him.
WILSON
– How are operations going?
TYLER – We might have a slight
problem with one of the officers sir.
WILSON – What! Who is it!
DAVID – Its jack sir, it’s just he’s incorruptible.
WILSON
– he must be eliminated.
SCENE 3
DAY
- EXT – ALLEY
There
is a dark alley way in this alley a shifty looking man is stood with his hands
in his pockets lent up against a wall. JACK walks casually to dealer and pushes
him against the wall.
DEALER – What are you doing man?
JACK –
I know you work for him
DEALER – I don’t know what your talking about man
JACK
– don’t play dumb with me boy I know
you work for him (pause) I know this
is all linked the murders the drugs the chief!
SCENE 4
INT
– DAY – POLICE STATION
The
police chief WILSON and JACK are sat in WILSON’s office
WILSON – jack your conduct of late has not been acceptable.
JACK –
are you being serious?
WILSON –
we can’t have you going around shaking down suspects with a gun jack
JACK
slams his gun on the table and storms out slamming the door on his way.
SCENE 5
EXT
– DAY – ALLEYWAY
There
is a man stood in the alley way waiting for someone. JACK walks over to him and
hands him money and the GUN DEALER hands JACK a gun and they both walk off in
different directions.
SCENE 6
Two
men are stood in an alley way TYLER who is not able to be identified and BUYER.
JACK walks round the corner jack sees that TYLER and BUYER are in the middle of
a drug deal.
JACK – Freeze
TYLER
and BUYER both run away in different directions JACK follows TYLER not knowing
who he is
JACK – Stop or I will shoot
TYLER
does not stop and jack draws his gun and shots and walks over to TYLER’s body
SCENE 7
INT
– DAY – POLICE STATION
WILSON
and DAVID are in the office
WILSON – Jack must be eliminated, he could blow this whole
operation.
SCENE 6 (CONT)
EXT
– DAY – FIELD
JACK
is standing over TYLER’s body he recognises who it is
JACK – Tyler.
SCENE 8
EXT
– DAY – BACK ALLEY
JACK
is surrounded by police officers all aiming at him and JACK has his hands in the
air.
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Friday, 7 September 2012
here are the results of my questionnaire in pie chart format so it is easier to digest
Gender
Gender
I tried to get an even mix
of genders this even mix allows me to get a broader understanding of my target
audience the range of genders allows me to target my audience without
dis-including any possible audience members.
Age
Again with age I attempted
to do a similar thing to what I did with gender but I tried to focus more on
the ages of people that would go to see my film but I also branched out to
secondary audience members this allows me to widen my target audience.
Have you ever seen any of
the following films?
The aim of this question was
to establish the film noirs the people I surveyed had seen this allows me to
have an understanding of my interviewees understanding of my chosen film
genres. The two most common films the people I interviewed had seen where LA
Confidential and sin city these where both relatively new films this shows that
people will still go and see film noirs.
If so what did you think of them?
This question allowed me to
gain an understanding of the popularity of film noir in my target audience.
From this I learnt that 90% of the people I surveyed gave a positive review of
the film noir films they had seen. This tells me that the majority of people in
my target audience would go to see a film noir if I marketed it using the genre
of film noir.
Have you ever gone to see a film due to a successful trailer?
The aim of this was to see what sort of impact a good trailer can have on audiences. This shows me that 75%of the people I gave my questionnaire to said that they have been persuaded to go and see a film because its trailer was good this information I know how important my film trailer is.
What about it swayed you?
This questions aim was to
give me information on what will make people go to see a film due to its trailer.
With this information I will be able to determine what to put in my trailer
thus giving me crucial information as to what to put in my trailer. The enigma
code can be seen to be an integral part of what I will need to put in my
trailer because 47% percent of the people I surveyed said that was what swayed
them to watch the film.
What conventions do you expect to see in a film trailer?
The aim of this question was
to gain an understanding of what my target audience expect to be in there film
trailers. This gives me an understanding of what my audience expect to see in a
film trailer. With this information I will be able to tailor my trailer to
contain more conventions that my audience expect to see in my trailer.
Have you ever seen a film
because of a magazine article?
This questions aim was to
determine the effect magazine articles can have. This has shown me the gains of
using a successful magazine opposed to a non-effective one. From this I have
learnt that 80% of the people I had surveyed had been swayed due to a
successful magazine front cover because it’s the cover what draws people in to
buy the magazine. This shows me that if I can get the cover right I can get a
larger audience to watch my film.
What about it swayed you?
This question allowed me to
find out what people want to see on a film magazine front cover that would make
them buy it and later go and see the film. The information from this will give
me an idea of what makes a successful film magazine. The question revealed that
of the people that said yes to the first question 19% went to see the film just
because the front cover of the magazine was interesting but 50% went to see it because the actor on
the front. If I can use this would make my film look more desirable so the
magazine front cover should focus on the main actor.
What do you expect to see on
the front of a film magazine cover?
This question allowed me to
gain an understanding of what the audience expect top see in my film trailer
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