Friday 23 January 2015

Moving on

I am now moving on to doing my second part of the ancillary task, the review in a magazine which I will create in InDesign. The style model I am using for the magazine is Little White Lies. I wanted to choose this one because it is simple but contemporary. The film reviews have a wide range of films from mainstream to smaller independent and less popular film so it is a good choice.

Emailing OCR

Because I can't go out and get photo's of air crafts I have had to compromise with an image off Google. We haven't found any other solutions so I checked with the specification and it does say that we are not meant to use found images however I wanted to know for certain if we cannot use it. So Rebecca and I emailed OCR and queried about this. they replied straight away and they said we were allowed to use it as long as we made it clear that it is a found image and not a one we have taken and that we wouldn't get credited for it. I'm now rethinking about what possibilities there are for changing the photo, but for now, it's staying there!

Monday 19 January 2015

Progression of poster

after my research into film sponsors and such, I have put their logos on their and sticking to the same colours roughly and put them at the bottom of the page, commonly seen on film posters.
 
 
Finally I have added the rest which are the credits above the logos and a quote from a viewer with a four star rating on it. both are common features on film posters and the quote and rating encourage people to go see the film.
 
 

Survey Results

Saturday 17 January 2015

Research

Film posters have the logos of production companies, places that are featuring the film and the sponsors of the film generally along the bottom of the poster. I can't just simply pick any film sponsors as such as we are making a short film not a feature length film so I had to do some research into who could sponsor my film and where it could be shown.

Here is what I found:


Friday 16 January 2015

Titles

We are stuck between a few titles so I have set up a survey to allow for people to choose the best title that would attract them the most to the film. you can take the survey here.

More screen shots

Moving on from the images I have added a background colour matching with the colours in the photos which are quite browny colours. I have also chosen where my title will be, but Rebecca and I haven't yet chose a name so that is something we will have to do next. The actors names have been put beneath the title in a far smaller font but big enough to be able to notice it is still important as thy are potentially well known names and so this will attract viewers to watch the film if they know the actors in it. The font I have chosen, 'Perpetua Titling MT', which was already on Photoshop, is rather an old style font but also a formal looking one which goes with the theme and era it is set in.
 

Tuesday 13 January 2015

Screen shot

I have added in my other photo of choice but smaller so it doesn't detracts away from the main photo. I have added in tow other photo's that I have found on Google but I am certain that one of which (the child) will be replaced by one of mine and Rebecca's own photo's that we will take in the near future of her nephew. As for the other photo of the aircraft, we will be unable to get any photo of our own of an aircraft so we are leaving it there until we can either think of a solution. With all of these photo's I have used the same technique as the main photo with image, adjustments, variations and then fading the edges with the rubber. I want the poster to show stages through life and to where he is now (the main image), so using a photo which is meant to be him as a chid, then a photo of him as a young man in the army and photo's of war to further emphasise his involvement with the war.
 

Editing the photos


I have started with the main photo and putting it where I want on the page. As this is meant to be a film set in the times of World War 2 I thought of the idea to make it look like an old photo and having that sort of colour to it. With a bit of fiddling on in Photoshop I have found out how to create this effect, by changing the photo from colour to black and white and then going to image adjustments and variations and then simply adjusting it to the colour of my choice. I have cut around George and masked the edge to bring back anything that I could have cut off by mistake. I also used the blur tool to go around and blur the edged of him to make it look less harsh. I then used the rubber and made it very big and soft to make the bottom corners look faded out.



Monday 12 January 2015

The decided photos

R=These are the photos that I have decided on:

Ancillary

I have started my ancillary tasks with a poster for the film. Doing the work on Adobe Photoshop, I will continually update my blog with screen shots of how my work is coming along.

The next step

Due to no returned email from the care home, myself and Rebecca have been thinking of other options for quickness as time is running out. There was other options of emailing different care homes however we run the risk of waiting for more replies and having no time left to film. We have had to rule out any unnecessary props that would be in the room to really narrow down what we want, or rather, what we need. A modern room wouldn't fit so there was a possibility that the care home could have been unfit for purpose anyway, but this could be hard to find somewhere not modern  so we thought about somewhere very plain which we could put props in ourselves to make it look in the right era. Fortunately, Rebecca's room is all white and we could simply move anything that doesn't look right and put in what we need and so we have decided that there is where we are filming next.

Photos

Here are some of the photos:

Friday 9 January 2015

Photos

Eventually, we got George in for the photo shoot to start our ancillary task. I feel the photo shoot went really well with camera angles and how he looked as he wore the kit that would have been worn in the world war. This really portrays the character and sets the correct scene so I think it will be good for the poster. I will upload some of the photos that I wont use and the ones that I may use too.

Tuesday 6 January 2015

Emailing the carehome

Rebecca and I have been looking into more locations for filming and making sure we get the correct place that will fit well with the story. We are starting to look into care homes which I believe will be a good place if we get props to make it look like it is in the right era. So we have emailed the Hawthorn court care home in Hebburn and we are waiting for a reply back.
 
 
This is what we said in the email: