Evaluation

Evaluation on Prezi

Final Magazine Poster

We decided to use my Magazine Cover as our final one, however we did make some changes to it so that it could accomodate Beths poster - I embossed all of the font, making it stand out a lot more and I also enlarged all of teh font and centered it down the page.
I added a drop shadow to the two small images of other actors, making them look more professional. I added a drop shadow and gradient effect onto my '2011 hottest hollywood stars' text as I felt it didnt really stand out on the poster.
I changed some of the colours to coincide with Beths colour scheme and I also added a price tag in big bold purple writing with a star shape behind it, to make it look promotional and professional.
I also added in a background layer and embossed the layer so that it changed from a slight dark grey to a white from the bottom right hand corner to the top left hand corner, to make it look more proffessional. Finally I embossed and added a drop shadow to the text 'coming next week'.
Finally, I changed the image that I used - instead of using a side on image I used a striahgt profile image of the two actors in the center of the poster.

Final Film Poster

As a group, we decided to use My film poster for our film - as we felt it was the most idealic and childlike poster; relating to our film and its romantic genre the most.

I focused on relating it to childlike elements and as our trailer is set in a school based environment, I chose to create the effect of a piece of lined paper - I did this by using the rectangle and the line tool to create a coloured background and the seperated lines down the page.
I then used the shape tool to create a heart in the center of the page; I uploaded an image of our two main actors, used the magnettic lasso tool to crop it down to size and then placed it within the heart.
I created a simple billing block with black centered font. I then used a childlike font to create my title in a deep red to coincide with the house colours. I used a lighter red, slightly pink, font to create the slogan underneath, ranging it in size to make it look more proffessional. 

Magazine front cover

When we discussed the properties of our Film Poster and Magazine Front cover, it was clear that all of our group had different ideas as to what we wanted to feature on each item and as we didnt want to disagree or fall out during our project, we decided that each of us would make a pister and a magazine cover each then after consideration between each one we would constructively decided which was the best and which we would use for our final product.

For my magazine front cover, I chose to keep it fairly simple with a central image of our two main actors, myself and Lewis - I used a side-on shot type of our actors appearing as though they were on the red carpet as I wanted my magazine cover to feel professional; I decided that rather than using a still from the trailer or a promotional shot, a photograph of them on the red carpet would be a lot more eye-catching and professional to the audience. I cut around the image in Photoshop before placing it onto my magazine cover, I also edited it slightly by removing any blemishes and darkening the hair of each actor - to highlight the composition within the image.

As a group, we chose to use the logo of 'film slate' for our magazine title masthead as this is appealing in the film magazine market yet also a clever pun on the prop of a film slate in hollywood films. I chose a rosey pink colour for the title 'Film Slate' to complement and coincide with the colour scheme that I had used on my film poster. I added an image of a film slate next to our title, to create a logo and make the magazine look authentic and professional.

I used the left hand side third to create three different blocks of text - using different fonts, colours and sizes for each to vary the versatility and range within the magazine, challenging the usual convention and tradition of real media in which they would only use 1 or 2 different style throughout.
The final thing I did was add in two images of 'well-known' actors, to shwo that the magazine wasnt all about our film.

Film poster

When trying to decide which of our three members should make the film poster, we couldn't agree so we agreed as a group that we would each make our own film poster and our own magazine front cover and then decide together which of each would be the most appropriate to use.

When designing my film poster I came to the conclusion that I wanted it to appear delicate, romantic and vintage - therefore I chose to edit an image that we had taken from our promo shots; firstly I opened the image in Camera Raw, changing the settings of the image, making it appear duller but still in saturation to appear romantic.

Afterwards I opened my image in Photo shop and used the adjustment tool to blur the entire image, I then changed the opacity of the image to 67%, making it appear even more blurry and slightly trancsparent.

I decided I wanted to put more images on the poster, creating a polaroid effect - so I uploaded three promo images onto photoshop, using a new layer, and created a white box around them so that they appeared to be in the style of a polaroid; I then place them in the left hand corner, the center and the right hand corner of the poster directly at the top of the page, over the main image.

I moved onto text, first creating a billing block by including important names of production team and company, directors, actors and other supporting roles that had featured in the making of the trailer - I used a Cumbria font, in white and placed it in the center at the bottom of the image, making sure it was only jsut noticeable, so not to take away the attention from the main image and the title of the film.

The next piece of text that I created was the title - I used a Georgie font, size 134 in two different colours, making 'The Way' and 'Were' in a light pink font and 'We' in a blue font - to emphasize the word 'We' proving that the characters were very significant. I placed this text in the center underneath the three polaroid pictures, over the main image.

The final change that I made to my poster was to add in the names of the actors - I chose to write the male leads role in blue, the '&' sign in white and the female leads role in a light pink; in a georgia font. I then changed the opacity to 88% so that it complemented the blurred opacity of the background image.

Meeting 12

Members present: All
Topics discussed: Final dialogue and structure of entire trailer

1: PG Green Film Screen is designed and used as a promotional way of stating the age boundaries of watching the previewing trailer/film.

*Delicate piano music starts to play quietly*

2: 'CBL' Productions logo is stated and copyrighted to make sure the audience knows who has created the film/trailer and so that no copyright can take place.

*Up-beat acoustic guitar is used alongside the delicate piano, starting half way through next scene, when boy opens note*

3: An establishing shot is used of two young actors in 'the hut'. Actors begin talking over the music. Girl hands boy a note and then walks away. As the girl walks away the boy opens the note - a pan shot is then used as the note is zoomed in on. The shot then cross cuts to a close up of the note, using a cross-fading transition between it closed, it being opened and then it being in the boy hands as he's older.

*Guitar fades out as the older boy touches the note. The piano continues.*

4: A close-up is used on the note. A pan is then used as the camera zooms out from the note cross cutting to an over-the-shoulder shot of Lewis looking at the note.

*Piano fades out when Girl walks into the room*

5: An over-the-shoulder and an establishing shot are both used in this scene as Girl walks through the door and Boy notices her. A shot/reverse shot is then used between the establishing shot of Boy following Girl and the close-up of his face and emotions as he's following the girl.

*Piano begins again after Boy and Girl hug*

6: A panning shot is used as Girl walks into 'the hut' location. Shot/reverse shot is then used between Girls and Boys face and emotions when hugging. Cross cutting and shot/reverse shot is used throughout the next scene as Boy and Girl argue - change occurs as each actor speaks, so you can see each of their faces and reactions to the dialogue.

*Piano fades out as scene ends*

7: A black screen then appears and text of 'The Way We Were' appears in an italic, red font across the top and center of the page. A 'typewriter' effect is then used on the white font underneath stating '01.02.2012'. Stating the film title and its release date.

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Meeting 11

Members present: All
Topics discussed: Final locations

 

We had determined as a group that our final location shots were: the hut and a study room. However, we did go through a long process of decision as we had a lot of different ideas and we disagreed on locations a lot as a group. Beth was set on using the big oak tree for our final draft, whereas Lewis wanted to use a scenic walk way; I was unsure altogether as to where we should shoot it.

After travelling to each different location and performing on set to get a proper feel for how the scenes would work, we came across a place called 'the hut' - a beautiful and idealic little wooden hut in a scenic area; it seemed like the perfect place to shoot most of our scenes for our trailer.

We then had to come up with another location in which we would shoot the scene in which the female lead returns to school where the male lead is studying - it was a clear winner from the start as we all agreed on choosing a huge study room for this small scene.

 

We chose the hut as we felt it was a romantic and slightly childlike place, bringing together the childhood sweetheart aspect of our trailer together.
We chose the study room as it was a fairly large room and we invisioned it with a lot of people in, juxtaposing the delicate and secluded atmosphere of the hut - we felt it would also create a perfect situation for when Lewis, the male lead, would meet Ciara again, the female lead.