Marian Hill "One Time"

Throughout our editing of our teaser trailer, we have found it difficult to find the right kind of music to suit our genre and filming. But we found this song, by Marian Hill that we loved and it went perfectly with our story line and chosen film genre.

So we decided to contact Marian Hill our self via Facebook inbox.

We then took action by emailing her manager through Hotmail...

We are now waiting for a reply (this may be a prolonged reply due to the Artist and band being on their tour)

Film Poster codes and conventions

WRITTEN LANGUAGE:

ACTORS: The main actors names run along the top of poster or around the image. The names can be found in different styles according to the actor and their billing, or how famous/well known they are. If the actor is well known, they will most likely have the larger font and bold text, may be an eye catching colour such as black or red to intrigue the audience of the poster.

TAGLINES: Depending on the genre of the film, it may be comedic or thrilling for the audience. The tag line can provide information for the audience on what the film will be about.

TYPOGRAPHY:

INFORMATION: The poster has to provide such information as "The director of..." and all the other key elements to how a film is made. This can intrigue audience members, if they are fans of a certain director.
- Different colours throughout the poster, such as different use of colours in the title from the tagline, will be eye catching towards the audience, as they will initially look at the title if it is in a larger font and bolder text than all the other text on the poster.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: The main picture on the film poster will most likely be a larger image of the main actor(s). Or an object/iconography that is used in the film, this provides information on the theme or the story line of the film.

LIGHTING: The use of lighting and colour used on the poster connotes the film and it's story line. If the film was a thriller or horror, colours and lighting will be dark, black and red. But if the film was a comedy colours such as blue and yellow will be used with high key lighting.

CAMERA ANGLE AND SHOT: There can either be a extreme (close up) to show the main actor or the main object in the film. A mid shot- to show other actors and just one at full length. Or a long-shot to show the background which may show a location that us used in the narrative, this can give away the plot to the audience which is interesting.

Film Magazine codes and conventions

MASTHEAD: Features on all magazine covers, usually at the top of the page and indicates which magazine it is e.g. Empire. Our's will be "Sound and Vision". This should be the largest text on the page and it can reflect the audience it caters for.

IMAGE: The image should reflect the audience and the styles of the magazine. The main image is usually a mid-shot and should reflect what the film is featuring. This usually involves the main actor from the film featured.

As you can see from this photograph that we will be using for our magazine front cover, it is a mid-shot of all the main actors in our film.

'BUZZ WORDS': These involve 'free' and 'exclusive' which capture the readers attention and want to buy the magazine; because our film will be quite independent and will be shown at locations such as Theaters, Independent Cinemas and Film Festivals. The magazine will be giving a free chance for the winner and an extra person of their choice to go to a leading film festival VIP- to meet actors and world leading directors.

(Toronto International Film Festival)

ANCHORAGE TEXT: The text that often overlaps the image to tell what the story inside will involve, this could be a quote taken from the interview inside.

BANNER: Gives overall information about the magazine and what will be found inside.

BARCODE, DATE AND ISSUE NUMBER: Something every magazine has and needs.

Photo Shoot for our Film Poster and Magazine Front Cover

The software and technology we used: Behind the scenes!

As you can see from the picture, we have used iMovie to edit our teaser trailer, and other videos that were uploaded onto Youtube such as Poster Audience Feedback, Film Pitch and Poster Analysis.

We used this camera to film videos such as the Poster Audience Feedback and take pictures of the photography room we used for our photo shoot.

This is Annie's camera that we used for the photo shoot, the photographs were used in our poster and magazine. This camera had great effects and quality for our poster and mag.

Target Audience feedback on film poster

As you can see, we went around our sixth form and asked different sorts of people - ranges in age and gender to feedback on the poster.


Questions Asked:

- What genre do you think the film is?
- What age and gender do you think the characters are?
- What do you think are the main storylines and or themes of the film?
- What do you like about the poster?
- What do you think can be improved?
- Where might you see this film?
- Would you like to see this film?

RENDEZVOUS Film Poster

The original photographs:

James as Raymond.

Rosie as Bridgette.

Annie as Vivienne.

Pierce as the Detective.

All of these photos were taken in the photography room situated in our sixth form building. We used Annie's camera to help us get the professional effect that you would find with photographs on film posters. We used a white background in all of the photos as we thought the effect and the sharpness of the photo went well together. 

The first draft:

Our detailed analysis on our RENDEZVOUS poster:

UPDATE!!! (31/03/15) 

After having our audience feedback, we realised that the poster lacked a tagline- and this was the most answered question for improvements on the poster. So we have decided to draft our poster again by adding a tagline, also by further analyzing the poster. 

The second draft:

***More analysis*** The photographs of the 4 different characters suggest some sort of mugshot- like picture as they are a close shot of the faces. The emotions that are shown on the faces of the characters are those that are associated with a mug shot- they are not happy. The mug shots highlight the sinful acts that the characters are involved in throughout the film- these sinful acts involve adultery, manipulation, murder, etc. These are crimes, so the mug shots on the poster give away the plot for the audience.

 

***Even more analysis*** The tagline that we put on our 2nd draft highlights the plot of the film and what happens.