Film Poster Feedback

After recieving the feedback from the class, we realise some parts we could improve on the film poster.

• Moving the film festival to the bottom- professional, tidy, white to stand out from background.
• 'You Will Shine' clashes with the our main title, 'We Will Shine'.
• Elipses to emphasise the word 'Fade'
• We missed out a few casts and therefore we need to make sure it is included.
• Increase the size of the release date- more noticeable for audiences
• Due to editing, the image itself has become grainy- need to decrease filter strength.
• Remembering to also add a certificate of 12A (children accompanied by an adult)

Distribution Company: Arch Pictures

Finding a suitable name for the distribution company was not a problem, but creating the logo was quite challenging.

The first attempt of the logo looked plain as our group discussed, therefore we tried adding texture and bring out the text more.






Using a drop shadow i was able to add more depth to the words.
texture to suit the feeling of the materials of buildings and overall suits the creative theme.

Behind the scenes - Vlog 2

Audience Feedback

Behind the Scenes: Vlog 1

Filming Schedule: 2

We Will Shine Trailer - Rough Cut

Poster Idea 1 - Hand

Depth Magazine Mock-up

Magazine Cover Photography Ideas

The magazine needed to show a sense of Ruby's character. Therefore as a group, we decided to choose the photos suited for the magazine 'DEPTH'.

Using Studio photography enhances the feeling of a professional photo for a magazine. However, it also help us during editing as the white backdrop is easily erased.

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         Negative

Use of the camera in relation to the photography theme used in our Comedy Drama Film.

However, the camera is covering too much of her face.

Ruby's posture suited her character within the trailer:  secretive, quiet personality.

However, Ruby is not facing the audience, we can not deliever a strong interaction which we want for the magazine to lead the audience to watch our trailer.

A sense of closeness and the feeling of being drawn in from her facial expression and the use of the close-up.

Her facial expression is too serious and we want to create a link to our film 'We Will Shine', therefore needed an uplifting mood to the magazine cover.

After exploring a few photos taken in the photoshoot, we decided to go for this photo of Ruby hugging a sketchbook.

Sketchbook- creativity, suited for the photography theme within our film
Ruby- Hug gesture symbolises the combination the subject and her personal life formed within the film, her small smile and half her face in the shadows illustrates the combination of the problems and her happy moments clashing.

However, we notice the photo has been a bit overexposed and therefore with the help of the Brightness/Contrast tool on Adobe Photoshop to resolve this issue.

First Schedule Plan

Behind the Scenes: Bloopers Part 1

On Saturday 7th December we had only two hours to film some of the most important scenes of our trailer. The limited amount of time meant we had a lot to cram in so there were a few tense moments where we started to panic but overall everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and were pleased to see what we had achieved by twelve o'clock. Here are some of the outtakes...

Sound Research: Badly Drawn Boy

Most of the trailers I have been watching include at least three different soundtracks throughout. A new soundtrack is used to reflect the particular section of the story which helps distinguish the various sides of the narrative, as well as maintaining the flow and viewers interest. The first soundtrack of the Son of Rambow trailer and Juno trailer are two examples of the style of music appropriate for our film. They both include indie songs which are very stripped down and have a simple feel to them. Predominantly, I have been listening to the soundtrack for About a Boy which was composed by indie singer-songwriter, Badly Drawn Boy. Most of the tracks on the album are exactly the kind of sound I imagined for the lighter parts of our trailer; there is frequent use of the guitar, bass, piano, keyboard, strings, glockenspiel/celesta, tambourine and other light percussive instruments. The combination of these instruments create a very warm, cheerful tone which is what we hope to achieve overall.

Below are a few of the songs I have selected from the About a Boy soundtrack which would suit our film well and also a demo I have created which was inspired by Track 2. Dead Duck.