Film poster 2

Poster 1

I feel that this is a good film poster as is uses key icons to give hints about the film and gives an idea of the characters lives without starting the film. Although effective and simple, the poster could be improved by making it look a bit more professional rather than just putting images on a page.

Contrast first draft

Poster inspirations

For our posters we wanted to show the difference between two men and the different lives they lead. Because of this we looked at posters from other films that would be similar to ours. We got ideas from 'I love you, MAN' and 'Catch me if you can'. The reason we chose these was due to the fact that they are very basic but effective, They focus around two different men and have little writing but easily show what the film could be about.

Challenges faced whilst filming

When we were filming our film opening we faced many challenges. The main challenges we faced was getting permission to film in public places like the underground and Canary Wharf. The way we over came the this was by phoning up the company of the building and asking them for permission for us to film in one of their offices. After asking them they kindly accepted our request and allowed us to film.
  The way we overcame the challenge to film on the underground was by getting a permission slip written from our media teacher Mrs Brookes. This way if anyone was a bit off with us filming then we could show them the slip.
   Another problem we faced wen filming from inside the building was when we wanted to get a high shot of the people walking on the ground. The problem about this shot was the reflection of the window as it showed us filming in it. As we couldn't shoot out of an open window we decided to get a different high shot of Stratford station.
   The final problem we had whilst filming was filming on the trains as the tripod we used took up quite a lot of room which made it an obstical for people on the train. The way we overcame this was by filming whilst the train was moving. This way it wasn't in the way of anyone as no one was walking up and down the train.

Production Diary

Today we spent time deciding what roles we were going to undertake. We made sure that we each had different tasks to do so that the procedure of planning would be a lot faster and a lot smoother.

18th November

Today we started to perform our tasks. I started to post the blog meetings and write about what we were doing in pictures that were taken of us discussing the tasks ahead. Will started to do the synopsis planning and writing about the actors that we were going to use. Ben started to create a visual mood board that used inspirations from other clips that we liked and thought could be inspirational towards our clip.

24th November

In this lesson me and Ben finalized the storyboard. We made sure that we had included all of the details that needed to be within the shot. We also made sure that all of the types of shots were given below the picture of the shot that was going to be taken. The next step was to video the storyboard and give background audio on it.

28th November

Today I started to edit all of the footage that we had collected. The first thing that I had to do was find and select all of the shots that I actually wanted to keep. Once I had decided on the shots that I was going to use within our opening scene. I then had to put all of the shots in the correct chronological order that the story line was going to flow in.

2nd December

I have applied all of my editing skills towards my opening scene which has caused me to compile all of the footage together. All of the clips have now been put in chronological order I am just in the process of finishing the listing of all the titles that will appear throughout the opening scene. After this I will have to find an appropriate song that will match in with the theme and genre of my film opening.

8th December

Today I uploaded my first draft of my film opening. We played it to my class and they gave me feedback to work on. I already had quite a lot of adaptation to do with my film opening anyway to make the genre more obvious. The feedback that I received also told me that I needed to make the titles and credits better.

9th December

I straight away started to carry on with editing on my film opening to help improve the recognition of the genre.

11th December

Today I finished all of the editing on the final draft of my film opening.

Reconnaissance Shots - Hatfield Peverel

Marketing

Credit Inspirations

Premier Pro tips
This channel is very helpful with tips for credit ideas and particularly effects. After watching a few videos the best effects they have explained have been the shutter and the opacity effects.

Storyboard

Meeting about final storyboard

In this lesson we decided what our final film opening would be about

Final Film Pitch

Representation

Target audience

Risk Assessment

Reconnaissance Shots - London

These are the shots I got from London when I went up with my family. They are of Canary Wharf in the Isle Of Dogs. I took these photo's with my dads Nickon D750 Digital Camera. I got these pictures as this is where our film opening is going to be based. I took the photo of the train as it shows where will be filming in order for the successful man to get to work.

Mood board Inspirations

These are a selection of images from a mixture indipendant films like 'The double' and 'Splitscreen - A love story' to fellow peers final opening scenes from a year ago like 'Fighting To Survive'. The reason we chose to put images from their film openings as they gave us ideas of splitcreen films and how they were produced. Fighting To Survive gave us the inspration of doing a film opening in the eyes of two different types of people.

Group meeting to decide roles

In today's lesson we decided what each person's role would be in order to make our film opening to the best standard possible. I got given the roles of target audience, Props and research list, health and safety (risk assessment) and institution.

Film Inspiration - Mercedes advert

I realise that this is an advert and therefore is different will be different to any film opening however the way that the individual screens push one another out was previously suggested to us by our teacher but I found it difficult to picture how it would work in our opening. After seeing this advert I feel that it is a very unique way of editing and would work well in our film.

Storyboard planning

In this lesson we got hard to work with devising our storyboard.