AUTUMN POSTER FINALISED

After trying to get the portrait collage of pictures to work for my poster, I decided to keep my design plain and simple. I used green and gold colours for the text as I felt they represented the idea of autumn and the woods etc.

The tag line that I created: 'escape from reality' let's the audience in on the rough plot of the film and the necklace also gives another clue.

To finish, I need to continue with the ratings, making sure they are easy to see and are labelled 'the sun' or 'the daily mail' etc 

Short Film Poster - Draft

Above is a draft of my final design of our short film poster. The background is a photograph i took while on set recording the first part of the sequence set in the woods and i think it reflects the title well as the tress look lifeless. The black and white effect i added, in photoshop, as i wanted the photograph to look old and there was too much colour in the original for the titling to stand out. I also added a grain effect to the photograph to give it an aged look along with turning up the contrast to make the black and white effect work.

I plan to add film festival icons that are relevant to short films at the bottom of the poster in a band. I want to add several reviews at top also, crediting the film and promoting it through good publicity.

kieran poster draft

Poster

This is the start of my poster design for 'Autumn'. I wanted to show the audience abit more of the film through the poster as the title is maybe a little too ambiguous and not revealing of the events or storyline enough! I think the layout works nicely- however, I need to think of how I will fit in my billing board and actors names etc. I think the colours and pictures work well together. (The top picture will be changed to a shot of her actually opening the door with the light on get face). My other option would be to have 3 different pictures on under the other, another layout I think would look professional and easy and captivating for the audience to understand. 

Editing- Garage Band

To show the start of a new day, I edited the sun clip, however, on top of that, to make it seem more realistic, I went onto garage band and created a piece of non diegetic sound of bird song to add underneath the sun shot. It took a while to get the different bird clips to fit together well and to make it sound real, but the final effect sounds really good and even though it is a small project compared to the filming and editing, I think it will add a lot of texture and realism to the film. 

Editing

Today I edited more of the wardrobe scenes, where Rosie is in different clothes to show a new day (as seen in the picture, in her pink top.) Again, editing alone was difficult as I didn't have anyone to feedback to, but I was pleased with the outcome. I chose some good shots and edited them to get extremely accurate continuity. I was also clever with the footage we already have, using one of the sun shots to show the start of the new day. 

Poster Research

SHIFTY

The names of the actors are located underneath the titling, with 'AND JASON FLEMYNG' being the most important and eye catching name on the poster and in the film. The actors names being in order of the characters appearing on the screen, other than Jason Flemyng who does not appear on the poster.

The main text and image are linked. The 'I' in the title, splits the screen and divides the 2 characters, foreshadowing a sub plot of the film. The main image is lower down on the poster. The background is a bright yellow, which contrasts with the black bold writing.

There are no other references to other films.

The main images are of the two main characters and, as said before, show that they are somewhat divided, foreshadowing their argument and long distant friendship in the film.

The tagline- '24 hours to deal yourself out' portrays the story/themes of the film; drugs and getting them out of trouble from the drugs.

From what I can see, there is no website, however, there is ratings, both presenting 4 stars, stating how much grit the clearly British film contains and mentions the 'urban' genre.

The title text is the biggest writing on the page and is nearly the only black writing too, with the rest being a really dark grey. However, the only content on the poster that links to the film is the title, also the name of the main character and the photo, showing the 2 main characters.

There is a billing board at the bottom of the poster. However, it is generic, it doesn't add anything to the poster.

There is no drawn imagery on the poster, no age certificate and no release date.

Poster Practise

Today, we started looking at the start of designing our posters and getting used to the software we would use (Photoshop). This is my design for 'Brighton Rock'. I chose brighter colours for this poster as Brighton is a very individual, bright place. However, for our short film, 'Autumn', I feel the colours I will chose for my poster will be darker and a lot more natural, mainly focusing on the greens and browns, symbolising the woods. I found photoshop fun to use and already have some interesting and unique ideas for my poster... 

Editing

Today, I edited the rest of the woods scene. Being on my own was difficult as I didn't get any positive or negative criticism from my team members, but it also allowed me to show my own artistic and creative potential when it came to editing and seeing what looked good on the camera and what went well together. In the picture, you can see me over lapping two clips, one that I filmed and one that Charlie filmed. The spinning shot of Rosie fades before she finishes walking over the bridge, this looks really good on the film and is a detailed and more challenging edit for me, which is one of the last shots of the wood scene- one that I am really proud of! 

Shooting in Half Term

During the half term, my group met up to do some filming. Luckily, considering we are in October/November, the weather was bright and sunny- exactly the weather we needed for the first time Autumn (Rosie) enters the woods.

We came across a few dog walkers when filming, which meant we had to keep stopping and starting our filming. This put us off a bit as it meant that our creative flow was interrupted!

We got some really good shots of Autumn (Rosie) skipping and walking through the woods. However, now that the sky is getting darker quicker, we were limited with time, meaning that we may have to meet up again to get some more footage. We are praying for another day of good weather! An advantage of the darker weather now is we can film Rosie in her room, crying, whilst hearing her parents arguing, meaning we will get some pathetic fallacy, with the rain mirroring her tears.

The next plan is to get some shots of Rosie in her room for the opening sequence and the wardrobe scene whilst the weather is dark and gloomy. This can be done anytime during the week after 3 (once Rosie has finished school.)

Rosie's minimal makeup, hair and costume worked well in the woods. Instead of the white dress, she wore jeans, boots and a checkered purple coat, because of the cold, wet weather.  The deep purple worked well in the woods and contrasted with the green trees and brown leaves and tree trunks.

Soundtrack

For our opening scene, I think it would be good to have some really sad, emotional music whilst we are seeing the close ups of Rosie and her room. This music needs to play quietly so that we can hear the voice over of the parents arguing over the top. The beginning song- Broken Hearts (0:00-3:33).....................By: Michael Ortega sounds very dramatic and I think it will sound really professional and emotional with the shouting over the top and the close ups of Rosie and her emotions.






As our piece is set in the woods, I have been looking at some 'woodland soundtracks' for us to use for our piece.


For when Rosie first enters the woods and is playing around in the trees and lake, I think this music would fit really well as it is calm, happy yet mysterious, which means that the audience will foreshadow that something bad is going to happen later on in the film:

Removed- A powerful short film

                          
During the week, I came across this advert which fitted in nicely with the themes of our film. The advert has a sequence of shots were we can hear a voice over of her parents arguing and you see close ups of the little girl sitting on a beach, showing how upset and hurt she is. This can be used in our film for our opening sequence where we see Rosies room and the things in it and then Rosie sitting in her room, looking upset, whilst we hear a voice over of her parents arguing. Lots of different shots can be used here, like a panning shot, match on action (touching her face to wipe off a tear) high shots (to show that she feels weak and vulnerable), close ups to portray deeper emotions etc. The arguing gets more muffled as the shots focus on the little girl, to show that she is trying to blank them out and we can do this for our film in post production.