Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Research and Planning- Plan for rest of the week.

Wednesday- Today, i analysed a film poster and then used the connotations to help me produce my plan for my own film poster.

Thursday- Finish my story board, come up with a font for my trailer title 'offline' and produce more plans for my poster, and get feedback off peers.

Planning and Research- Conventions

Title stands out.
An image that relates to the genre and also shows the narrative A spooky look to the poster as its advertisement. Slug line- ideas? Stars names? Date? Cinema or DVD. Edits, to make the poster flow.
This is my first plan of my teaser trailer poster, i have decided i want to use a face mosaic in the shape of the main character screening and make it look like a reflection from the computer with disintegrated photos of herself when you look closely, the facebook font will be seen, i would add this in it as i think using face book relates to a lot of peoples everyday life which makes it more scary.

Research and Planning- Analysis of film poster

Genre- The genre of this poster is horror, as you can tell by the title and also the emotion on the women's face, with the silhouette in the background gives an horror approach to the poster.
This is a typical horror convention as a silhouette is used in the background with also a back in light to show blur spookiness about this image.


This tag line also shows this poster is a horror genre, as the word 'evil' is used.

Narrative-
By looking at the poster you get a good incense to what this horror film is about, firstly by the title this gives the viewers an idea that this film is about when a starnger calls. The silhouette of a man in the background gives the conventions of a typical horror using silhouttes of male figures. Also how the women is holding a phone with a worried facial expression, which gives a horror feel to most of the audiences everyday uses.
Media Language/Layout- The black background gives connotations again of a horror, the creme light colour for the title makes the title look a bit like lighting, a glow effect which is on her face as well, and also the backing light comes behind the silhouette as well.

Audience- The average horror audience, ages between 15-28 some may be older.

Representation- Typical female victim, to what looks like a typical male to be the villain/murder/killer, a typical horror connation representation. The actors a stereotypical for horror films.

Monday, 8 November 2010

Research and Planning- Props list

This is the props list i created on power point, these were my first ideas of props i will be using.

PRODUCT COST

Rope £2-3 (Crafts shop)

Tape £1 (pound shop)

Clothes £0 (use are own)

Computer £0 (Use mine or Laura's laptop and internet connection.)

Black Coat £5 (fancy dress shop)

Fake blood £2 (fancy dress shop)

Hammers etc. £0 ( one of are dads or friends)

Mud £0 (off the floor)

Make up £5 (fancy dress shop)

Chair £0 (Laura's chair)

Research and Planning- Plan

This is are first plan for are teaser trailer, we took pictures for each shot/scene that will be in are film trailer. We made add more in a later date, but this gives you an idea about what 'offline' is about.

  • Picture 1: Fact and pictures will be a fact about facebook and a picture off facebook.
  • Next image of girls face blurred. Seeing it on facebook, actress's facial expression.
  • Shoulder shot of computer, pick glasses off the floor. Men silhouette behind reflection in computer screen.
  • Girl screams. Another picture blurred. Then OFFLINE!

Research and Planning- Equipment/software list

There is different equipment and software i will use to produce my film trailer:

Final cut express
Garage Band
Photo shop
Facebook
The internet
Laptop
Cameras
Microphones

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Research and Planning- Meeting

Me and my group have had a meeting while we discussed who was doing what for a teaser trailer. We decided that myself will do mise-en-scene and my partner will do editing and we both will do sound and cinematography. We already have an rough idea on what we are going to do for are teaser trailer, this will help us produce are story board soon. We also went to watch Social Networking the film in cinema together we did this is as it relates to are film trailer as we are basing it on facebook, although it wasn't a horror so it didn't relate although we did get some cinematography and mise en scene ideas for are trailer.