Poster inspirations

All three posters inspired us through the great composition, lighting and contrasted colours used in each poster. Each of these posters has a picture of a male and female but there all portrayed differently. In the poster ‘You kill me’; the girl is represented with a high status. This is suited to our film as the female protagonist has more power than the male. Also the girl is hiding behind the male, this is a great inspiration to our poster draft as the audience are left to question what role she plays in the film.

In addition, we were also inspired of the poster ‘Death defying acts’. What inspired us mostly was the innocent look on both characters faces. The bright strong colours used is contrasted by the weak red used, hence signifying that the film poster may contain a twist.

The poster ‘Match point’ portrays the aspect, secretive and devious. This is a great way of creating a mysterious and vague effect, leaving the audience intrigued.

  Our overall poster draft will be developed through combining different main aspects of each poster making an overall great poster.

Film plan

 

After creating the story board we started to realise that our planning was nearly complete and we can start filming soon. We decided to have three separate days of filming for costume and geographical reasons. Here is a rough idea:

1.      On the first day we are planning to film all the scenes of our female protagonist around central London when she is grieving.

2.     n the second day we will film all the flash backs

3.     On the third day we will film the grave yard scene as it’s too far from central London and we won’t have time to do it on the same day.

     

For the grave yard scene we researched what one we could film on based on our atmosphere we want to set. We found out the Hampstead grave yard was the best.

Research and planning Diary

Week 1-


This year, there are only 5 people in our media class. Abdunour, Shallimur and I teamed up and as a group we discussed what the genre of our movie will be, we brainstormed different ideas and came with a final pitch of a romantic thriller. We spent the whole lesson working on our film idea.


During the week, in lesson two we decided to start working on our blogs. The first thing we did was divided the work between us equally. We then got onto the computers and started with analysing short films. We did this while working in silence as this was vital as it acknowledged our knowledge in discussing movies in text, rather than verbally, we did about 10 posts on this factor. We were not able to complete all analyses in that lesson.


On the last lesson of the week, we all sat together and constructed a questionnaire to gain opinions on members of our target audience; we gave them a brief synopsis of our film and asked a few questions related to our film. We then took all feedback and opinions into consideration. We tried to put in other ideas to suit the audience’s responses.

Week 2-


This week, we worked on costumes, locations and music inspirations. We started to go more into depth of our film, this made us anxious and excited as we are all looking forward to our overall film. It took us one whole lesson to gain music inspirations as we had to listen to different types of music and try visualising the music playing with our film.

Our locations are all iconic places in London. We Google mapped where we wanted to film and uploaded the images onto our blog.

Our teacher also showed us all the equipments we will be using during filming, we got to try and play around with the camera. This benefited us as we are now familiar with everything and where all really looking forward to use them.


Week 3-

We brainstormed ideas for our film, conducting a questionnaire to get feedback on what genre is wanted the most.

By gathering our results, we chose a Romantic / Thriller Genre

Week 4-

We then had to choose several Location to film our idea, firstly we was going to film it in the Premises of our school, but our brand identity had its reputation of being unique so we chose a famous tourist attraction in London, Which was the London eye . Also to add, we chose to film in a busy trainstation such as 'Waterloo' and 'Victoria' and also we decided to add a graveyard scene to keep the theme of sinister consistant.

Week 5-

The logo of our group was yet to be confirmed, so we sat around a table and came up with a simple but effective logo that emphasised the genre behind our film. We draw drafts of the logo and then practised the outline until we was satisfied with our creation. And then we discussed our branding, to why our production label was called ‘Heartbeat Productions’ and why we chose a romantic thriller film to work on.


This week, we completed our storyboard and script. These where the two last things we needed to have up on our blogs. The story board took us more time to do then we planned. This was because we needed to discuss the beginning, middle and ending of our film. The script was easier for us to do as there is no dialogue in our film.


We are nearly the end of completing our blog.



Week 6- We began to visit our chosen locations, we walked around looking for specific areas were are chosen camera shots will be most effective in, and then started to film, we filmed 2/4 scenes this week. The locations we have chosen today was the London Eye and the Kensal Green Cemetary. These locations was unique, as we was the first group in our Sixform to choose these locations.


Week 7 - We started to take images for our poster, it didnt take us long to think of the perfect image for a romantic thriller ; which was a image of the two lovers looking towards the skyline of London city. Our workrate was fast, we then immediatly started to edit the photo on Photoshop CS5.


Week 8 - We went back to filming our scenes, we visited the graveyard chose a specific area and began filming, we bought flowers for the scene to add the extra sentimental effects and also we filmed the Knife scene directly after in a safe and secure enviroment.


Week 9 - Our Poster had yet to be finished, so it was our main priority, we used various editing techniques such as blending in a background image to our original. After this had been finished, we started our magazine Review.


Week 10- we began using photoshop again to create our magazine review, with help from other students, we finished this in one night, and we uploaded it into the blog directly after, now our evaluation was all that was left. We yet had to finish our work on our Blog, so we went through all the missing we work we had to upload and started finishing it to a outstanding quality.


Week 11- our main task was now the evaluation, as a group we split up the work into 3, so the Pace of the completion would be quick, it wasnt long before we finished the scripts and the powerpoint presentation. As a group, we knew that completing the evaluation was very time consuming, so we finished all our tasks and saved the evaluation for our last peice.

Week 12 - We reverted back to our evaluation task, as a group we consumed a few hours in our personal time to record and make a presentation for our evaluation, after a few times recording, we mastered our scripts and completed the task which has now enabled us to uplaod our full evaluation onto our Blog.

Draft Poster

Our poster was designed like his to keep the moral of the story hidden; it doesnt potray the whole storyline of the movie right away, it keeps the appereanceof the movie stable, making audiences believe that our film is a nomal romantic movie. we used  one main very large image of the two main protagonists posing for the camera with a blended background of two tourist attractions in London, we used the large image so the audiences attraction is focused on the main protagonists. we also added a small caption "Theres is no such thing as a happy ever after" below the image to emphesise the twist of the movie, this font was smaller than usual because we wanted the audience to look at the main image directly, rather than making them look at the caption right away; without haveing any sense of why the poster looks like this.

Film review draft

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We decided to use this as a draft of our film review. This is due to the simple layout that enhances the readers to pay attention to the main image which is based on the right side of the page. The textual content covers 3/4 of the review, this is becuase the information we will be publishing describes the film. The title is a bold heading with a filtered colour within it, the title will blendin with the image, to create a visual enlightment to the readers. In terms of using fonts, ours is yet to be decided as this is just a draft.

Tagline Ideas

Before producing our film, we needed to decide on a tagline for our film. We came up with many ideas but simply couldn’t choose. We decided to ask 20 people after explaining the initial idea to them so they can decide whether it suits the film.  We also gained individual feedback.

For "who ever really knows anyone" we got 2 votes.

For "there’s no such thing as happy ever after" we got 12 votes.

For "she’s dangerously innocent" we got 6 votes

Not everyone liked the second one as they said it’s too basic and romantic having no relation to half our genre; thriller. The reason why most agreed on the last because it shows the oxymoron in our female protagonist and the words "danger" and "innocent" contrast, like her behaviour.

We will use this tagline in our film and poster.

Second interview

This is our second improved interview to the previous as it had bad sound and was really quite. However, the sound wasn’t the only thing that we improved. We improved on who we interviewed. We decided to film at least one couple, female and male characters as couples could also watch these films together and we wanted to introduce this genre to the male audience. the interview asked generakl questions to find out weather our uncommon genre would be accepted and whether wheres and audience out there for it. we also wanted to see if couples would be intrested in the genre, and they agreed as long it has a good realistic story line that makes sense. however, when it came to asking about twists not many agreed as they said it could end up all worng and could be risky to do. we agreed to take the risk and make sure our story line is realistic.

Changing the synopsis!

Throughout analysing short films and posters, we were inspired by many ideas and expanded our own. As my partner and I came together in lesson we decided to recap back on our based idea for our film, we then discussed and suggested new ideas which improved our original idea.

Our finial idea is : A woman arrives at the train station, coming from abroad. She is wearing dark clothes and doesn’t look like she bothered about her looks. We see her visit many iconic places and have flashbacks of when she last came. Each time she has a flash back we see her happy with another man visiting the same places. She then has a flash back of her finding a photo of her boyfriend with another woman. We then see her visit his grave yard and she drops a knife on top of his grave yard.

Production Logo- Creative Process

In order to create a successful production logo, like the ones that we have looked at and analysed, we thought about what images would fit with our production company and our brand identity. We came up with using a heart shape, simply becuase we are called heartbeat productions, and then having an animated heart-rate monitor added to this.


As well as this, we wanted to use an iconic London setting, as this was another important aspect of company's brand identity and a key part of our film.



Using Photoshop we firstly found a background image of London and settled on one from teh riverbank looking at Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. This is probably one of the most iconic images of London and one that we thought would signify our brand identity as London-based production company best. We chose to have an image with an orange tone to it, connoting ideas of dusk and romance. We then added a heart shape, which we made into an inverted mask, so that all the image around the heart could then be made black & white, whilst keeping the inside coloured. This idea was important to us as we wanted to show how our production company offered a vibrance apart from the outisde world. After searching for a variety of fonts, we narrowed it down to 5, which we then asked our media class which they thought was best. They chose ADD FONT NAME IN HERE and we also felt that it suited our film and brand identity. Finally, we added a heart rate monitor-style line, using the paint brush tool.

From our initial Photoshop tests, we then set about trying to animate our logo using Motion. We knew that we wanted the heart to fade in and the background to gradually fade out, and that we wnated the heart-rate monitor to move across the screen. We used a variety of masks and animated outlines to achieve the right effect, and used an animated paint-brush to achieve the heart-rate monitor. What was most tricky was animating the mask's opacity, so that the heart retained it's colour over the back ground, and the background faded to black. Finally we added sound effects of a heart-beat and then a sound effect that sounded like a failed heart, to add an element of mystery and a certain sinister feel to our logo.


You can see our finished production logo below here:

Finished Production Logo

Analyses of previous students Production Logo

In this production logo, there is an image of 2 pyramids a sun and the logo name ‘Mirage pictures’. The Logo name ‘Mirage’ is set in the centre of the screen and does not move throughout the opening. The sun is animated to move behind the pyramids while the ‘pictures ‘slowly appears.

The overall colour scheme used is black and white. They chose the colour of the background to be black and contrasted it with a bold white logo name. The animated sun has a lens flare which gives the logo an added sense of drama and is also contrasted with the background. The lens flare also helps give a reflection to the logo name, making the logo more effective and exciting.  

They called themselves ‘Mirage pictures’ which foreshadows the narrative of the film were the main character is a ‘mirage’ himself, due to his double personality.

Prodoction Logo Ideas

Our previous production logo had was a city landscape with our old title in. we also kept the heartbeat monitor shaped as a heart and pink. We added shooting stars around the title to express imagination and new ideas to the film company.


After looking at another film company’s logo (Mirage Pictures), we understood that we have the same film genre and our logo doesn’t suit it. Our logo looks very sci-fi based on the feedback we have gained and we need to follow the aspect that 'Mirage Pictures' has where the logo is simple but effective.


'Mirage Pictures' has a light orb, suggesting the sun, setting between the two pyramids and creating a lens flare. They have the title of the film company beneath and the whole logo fadly mirrored, as if it were a mirage or oasis. This is what makes the logo effective as it reflection the film. The mirage represents the male protagonist who at first looks like the perfect boyfriend but is actually a serial killer, which is how an oasis is encountered.


The things that influenced us are the fact the reflection of the logo, looking like an oasis which foreshadows a hidden personality. We will use this idea to create a logo that symbolises a double personality. We will also keep the logo simple and less colourful, making sure we use the correct colour scheme.

Production Logo - Previous student analysis

In terms of reasearching material for our production logo, we had to look at previous productions of logos made by other students in their films. we used the logo production from 'Mirage Pictures' as a backbone to our logo creation; due to the similarities of our film genres.

The logo used by the students links to its products as they consistantly throughout the whole film production, in their blog, poster and actual film.

The design of the logo links to the brand identity of the film, the colour scheme of the film poster was a fading of black and red, which was used in the logo aswell, the design was basic but widely effective, they used 2 pyramids with a moving lens flare going towards the centre of the the pyramids effect that was red, what make sthis logo effective is that they didnt make it complex, they kept a basic idea and used it effectivly for brand identity. 

The font used in the logo was a large, and bold, with a mirror effect that faded into the black background, it goes well with the theme of the logo as it didnt collide with any colours used.