Final Texts

FILM

POSTER

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

ALTERNATE VERSIONS AND REVISIONS


Below are two versions of my magazine article. I decided to go with the first article as it seemed to obey more of the conventions of magazine reviews and had a more distinctive style

Two pages magazines:media:rufus from mediastudiesfinearts

I have tried to create synergy between my poster and my film. I have used the same title font in both. I have the pink theme running through both. The theme of love and loss ids also re-inforced in the poster. I have the main characters form the film and a strapline that again relates directly to the narrative of my film. I have followed all the conventions of film poster design and I hope that audiences will recognise it as a film poster as well as understanding that it is a light hearted post modern rom com.

Below was my penultimate version of the Poster. I wanted to add the black border to contain the poster and i also added down the sides of the image the word love and loss repeated endlessly to act as a border. These are the main themes of my film. 

Magazine ideas for my film article/ fonts for my Film poster

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I am beging to look at differnt fonts and magazine layouts for my Film and Film review I have considerd desighning my article by having a large still at the top at the page and text at the bottom I feel if the image was impactful it would intreage the readers intrest of the film. I would wont the font of the film to be bright pink as the colour symbolises inocnsene and romance I would the text of the title to be joined up as it reinforces the theme of romance 

Filming progress

A couple of days ago I decdied that the film we started working on didn't hold the audiences attention so I began a new film which had more characters, since I did not have time to cast a girl to play the love interset we inserted a pupet into the piece to play the love entrest, I feel this dission will susprize the audience. Furthmore since the film begins with the main protagonist having a serours and sentimrental conversation with his mentore about something he did wrong concerning his girlfriend the audience intispate who the girl is and how the narrative is going to end. I feel that they will be amoused when they discover that the lover is infact a pupet.

Filming account

On Wednesday I started filming.  I talked into the camera giving an account of my relationship. We kept pausing and changing location. In order to stop the audience getting board. We used a Lumix camera. Since the sound did not come out clearly on the camera we used a recorder and arched a boom poll to the camera to make the sound more clear. since I was nearing the deadline I did not have time to recruit a cast of actors. I feel that even though it sounds quite dull of someone giving an account of what happened and just looking at the camera I am going to insert montage sequences through tout the film as well as music from the website 'Free music archive' as well as a short clip of when I was in class and a student offered to play Chloe's voice through VO I will see if we can insert that footage into the film. I am still in the process of filming and I am  hoping that finish filming soon. I will also keep updating my progress.  

Costumes

Having done an an initial costume breakdown I have found that there are 18 costume changes for the main character GABRIEL and 5 costume changes for CHLOE. This is both challenging for the reason of acquiring the costumes as well as considering what the changes will be. I have given each costume a title and I can begin to see that their might be an opportunity to have a theme running through each costume choice. For example at the beginning he could be wearing light and colourful clothing however as the film progresses we use the costume as pathetic fallacy to mirror the emotions that he is going through

"The pathetic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations.^[1] The word 'pathetic' in this use is related to 'pathos' or 'empathy' (capability of feeling), and is not pejorative. In the discussion of literature, the pathetic fallacy is similar to personification."

Below is a list of the costume changes:

Casting

I am at the stage where I have to assemble a cast. For I find it socially challenging to ask people in my College I used an online source called, PCR which is a website designed to help both professional  and amateur film makers to locate pro actors.

This is my letter that I sent to PCR which includes a brief synopsis of the film as well as a character breakdown for the cast. For the character of Gabriel I am looking for someone who is shy, awkward, tall, long hair, wears plain cloths. As for the girl, Chloe since she is gothic Id have her wearing black.  I am hoping through this process I am going to get a reliable cast that will engage with the project fully.

Boost Poster ideas

I have started the prossess of desighning drafts for my poster.  The intetions for this version is to express the point that the film revolves around girls and the energy drink Boost. As well as the emtions of sadness and happiness as you can see one girl smiling where as the girl on the other side is looking angery thus expresing the main themes of the peice.

I have chosen this circular  design with lines for I am brining out the repediverty  of the film the character starts off entering a romantic relationship  and ends with a romantic relationship I feel this design hints at a circular theme. I also wanted to highlight his descructive and his addictive personality as you can see their is a cigarette sticking in the circle maybe it also has a subversive edge to it, and the next a hert again revealing one of the main themes love. The wording 'I was joking.' Is a strong line in the film and I added to the poster as I feel it could bring curiosity to the readers mind. an inspiration to this poster was the scene from Alfred Hitch Cock's classic film 'Vertigo' the scene where we see the protagonist's head coming at the audience. 

Inspiration for Boost film poster

                                                    I have chosen this poster as an inspiration for my film Boost as I like the idea of having the couple on a bed as it symbolises sex and other things that a teenage market is fascinated and engrossed in. As a director I would have the boy behaving like the female lying into him and the girl looking serious and cold which changes the stereotype of the 'Hard to get' male.

Like the 'All Good Things' poster this one has the characters lying down, which again symbolises a romantic relationship and similarly the boy looks serious and discontent, which is what my character becomes, I feel if I created a poster simular to this one it would inform the reader immediately the content of the film and he will subconsciously know the narrative structure as he would have probably seen simular media products like this one.

This movie poster again suggests sexual content in a more explicit way there is no undercurrent it is being obviousluy suggested, I feel this style would attract a young audience whom are a main demographic who go to cinema complexes. I am aslo thinking about using a red and bold font since red symbolises love, passion and hate which is what my character experiences throughout the film. 

This poster inspired me to create my poster around this design since it has the sun in the background which symbolises warmth and happiness and could pick out the happier themes of my film for instances finding love as well as making it. As a director I would I like the idea of the gil looking down at the boy as though she is his gaurdian angel and his saviour, I like the idea of the stripes again connecting the glow of the sun light. 

This film poster got me interested in the idea of just showing the protagonist making him purely highlighting his dark side of him by using the same tint but possibly include the love theme by having a small yet noticeable heart or a glimpse of sunlight in the foreground. I would like the protagonist to have the same intense look as this gentleman. I have this idea of combing this picture with Blue movie (The one before Talk about Kevin)