First draft

Here is my first draft of my movie poster. I have tried to stick to my mock up as best I could. I will now produce a feedback form that I will distribute around my peers as well as asking my teachers for feedback before making any more adjustments to my movie poster.

Mock up of my movie poster

Here is a mock-up of my movie poster. It seems rather basic, but I wanted to keep my poster simple – by not giving away too much about the story of the film through it.

Poll

Working through my list of tasks, the next thing I have decided to do is a poll - the question of the poll being: “ Which image reflects my storyline better?” ( see below - the layout of the poll that I have given to 15 of my peers)

Which image reflects this storyline better?

The male protagonist mark is a middle class barrister. But in the aftermath of his wife Susan's death, he begins to develop the unnatural tendency of wanting to find another who can replace her. Things go from bad to worse, and Mark becomes more and more obsessive until he loses his job – his only priority then becomes following, collecting information on and stalking a young local woman that resembles his wife.

Image one:                                             

Image two:

RESULT : Image one received five votes and Image two received ten votes. In my opinion, this is probably because the clock represents time and the idea of survelliance, however, in competition with the picture of tom watching from afar, it is perhaps not as strong. Before composing the poll, I did think that the image of Tom might get more of the votes, as it's message is clear and simple; and therefore easier for the potential audience to relate to.

Photo edit two

This is the second image that I have chosen to edit to perhaps use on my movie poster. Here is the original image.

Firstly, I have cropped the image to put the focus of the image on Tom.

Then I added 100% of the colour boost effect to change the image – making the subject ( tom) look more mysterious in the darkness whilst brightening the colour of the picture.

I then added the “posterize” effect to the image to make it look painted / printed.

Finally, I used the thermal image effect to change the overall colours of the image – making it look more like something that would appear as part of a movie poster.

Image edits for movie poster

Here is the first image edit that I have done for my movie poster. This is the original image of the clock.

Then I decided to increase the brightness and contrast levels of the photograph.

After that I decided to decrease the exposure of the image to refine the detail on the clock.

Then I cropped the image to increase the focus on the clock, whilst making the overall image smaller.

To make the image more interesting i decided to use a different editing program to add colour to the picture - red to suggest that the clock was bleeding. Then I smudged the red colour to make it look more professional.

After talking to my peers about how I could distort my clock in the most professional way they suggested that I use the online editing programme Picnik. And, after using their googlfy tool, here is my final image.

New Photos

Keeping in mind the images that I first produced, after finding a camera with a better quality and a better zoom, I have composed the following photos to be edited and then used in my movie poster.

More Photos

After looking over the pictures published in the previous post, I have decided that the quality of them isn’t very high and so I have decided to try and find a better camera to use, in order to create better images.  

Images for movie poster

After thinking about the different things that could represent my movie (such as clocks etc) I decided to start composing images. Here are all the photos that I have taken – none of them have been edited in any way.  

 

 

Mind-map

Here are my ideas of images that I could use to represent my movie in my movie poster. They are represented in a mind-map. (See below)

Storyline

After conducting research into both the film genre that I want my movie teaser trailer to be in and a film director’s work, I feel that I am now ready to begin one of my ancillary tasks – the film poster.  In order to produce a good film poster, firstly I need a story line for my teaser trailer. After thinking about what scares me personally I came up with this basic storyline for my teaser trailer…   

The male protagonist mark is a middle class barrister. But in the aftermath of his wife susan's death, he begins to develop the unnatural tendency of wanting to find another who can replace her. Things go from bad to worse, and Mark becomes more and more obsessive until he loses his job – his only priority then becomes following, collecting information on and stalking a young local woman that resembles his wife.  


Target Audience
As my target audience is late teens, early twenties, the actors that will play the characters will also reflect this age range by also being late their late teens. I think I will get the actors to wear modern clothing that reflects their age in order to represent my target audience.

To do list

Now I have conducted research into various different areas, I thought that I would just take a moment to in a sense ‘re-group’ and plan what I am going to do for the next few weeks. After taking some time to think about what I will need to do in order to complete one of my ancillary tasks to the best of my ability I have come up with this check list:

1)   Write a story line for my teaser trailer

2)   Create a spider diagram / mind map of ideas of objects etc. that I could include within my poster

3)   Take lots of different photographs that could be used in my movie poster

4)   Edit the photos and show the editing process

5)   Do a poll to see which photo people think best represents the genre and overall style of my movie poster

6)   Plan a mock-up of the poster

7)   Do a first draft of the poster

8)   Complete a feedback form – what can be improved?

9)   Do a second draft – making any amendments

10)        Final piece – making final alterations

11)        Do a videoblog where I video people making comments on my poster

12)        Complete a formal written evaluation of my ancillary task

Analysing another of Kubrick's movie posters

Here is the second of Kubrick’s movie posters that I have analysed – (see below).

Analysing a movie poster

In preparation for the completion of my first ancillary task – to create a movie poster; I have decided to research posters from my chosen director in order to collect new ideas on how best to construct a movie poster. As part of this research I have analysed a the movie poster from “The Shining”. (See below)

Second picture in the editted style of my chosen director

Here is the original image. Again, I decided to focus on a picture of a human face - akin to Kubrick’s focus on faces.

 

   

Firstly, I decided to crop the image in order to draw more attention to the face - a convention used in many of Stanley Kubrick’s posters.

Then I decided to increase the brightness and contrast levels of the image in order to sharpen the detail and increase the image quality.

Finally, I decided to add a sepia blue filter to the image. This is something that is probably not in keeping with the conventions of Kubrick's film posters. However, I decided to add this image effect in order to emphasise the face.