What have i learnt

We have had many tutorial lessons on editing. We have also had a photography lesson.

The skills i have learn't here are key when doing my poster. I feel the photography lesson helped me know how to position the camera correctly when taking pictures for a poster if we use any on ours this will be very good to know. The lesson also taught me about all the settings on a professional camera and how to make the shutter go faster and slower to make the lighting in the picture darker or lighter considering which type of lighting i have at the time of taking the picture.



I feel the editing tutorial lessons have taught me how to use photoshop in many ways. These are;

Text tool: With the text tool and i have learn't how to change it into all different fonts, how to change the colour and the size of the text. I have also learn't how to make the writing arched or how to make one letter bigger then the other in a word. The text tool will help me with making my poster for our media film as we will need to have text on this poster for this to be an effective poster and for people to know this relates to our film. If i hadn't learn't how to use this tool our poster wont ever be too effective to the audience.

Curves tool: I have learn't how to use the curves tool. With this tool you can change tones and contrast of the picture depending on how you move the curve. If you the picture is at its normal tone and contrast the curve will be a straight diagonal line but to make the picture better you will just move the curve around the find the best contrast and tone for your picture. This will help when making a poster for our short film as if we want the picture we use to be more effective on the poster we can play around with the tone and contrast on this by using the curve tool.

Dodge tool: I learn't to use this tool on photo shop the aim of this tool is too lighten areas to go over with this tool on a picture. This will be good to use as it's an easy way to brighten parts of a picture and this will help with my poster if i would like to brighten only certain areas of a picture.

Burn tool: I lean't to use this of photo shop and the aim of this tool is the opposite to the dodge tool. It's to darken areas you go over with this tool on a picture therefore if i need parts of the poster to be darkened i can use this burn tool which is an easy way to just darken certain areas therefore i can use this tool on my poster if i only need certain areas to be darkened.

Sponge tool: A sponge tool is on the same flyout menu as burn and dodge tool. This changes the level of saturation of colours for an area of an image. I learn't how to use this on photo shop and this will help for making the poster if i just want areas of the saturation on this to be changed.

Layers: When using photoshop i got taught how to use layers. You need to use layer for basically every picture you edit. When you use these it allows you to see every new thing you've done to the picture. This is important when making a poster because if there is something i didn't like i can just remove that layer which i edited or move the layer to the front of back.

Contrast:

Saturation:

Cape Fear - Inspiration.

Cape fear she was also a victim and so is the girl in ours. - First 18 seconds of the film.

Second poster analysis.

For my second poster and i am choosing to analyse 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' poster as shown below.

Camera shot: This poster is a portrait long shot, the shot used here allows us to see the vast landscape along with him sitting behind a fence talking to a Jew. The audience seeing this will be questioning why the boy would be talking to a jew therefore will draw the audience in to watch it.

Copy:

Colour:

Logo:

Lighting: The lighting in this picture seems like natural lighting in the day time, this just seems like an image from the actual film, this image is based on reality because this is the reality of the film.

Image: The fact that the picture in this poster gives away hardly anything contrasted with the strong slogan makes this poster appeal to me as it would an audience for this film. in the poster we make i would like to make our poster strong like this.

Slogan: In this poser i feel the slogan in very strong. 'Lines may devide us, but hope will unite us'.

Camera Colour Copy Logo Lighting Image Slogan

Influences on the audience.

Here are some questions we intend to ask our audience for our film. We still have yet to think of a few more questions. Direct questions about our film storyline. 1. Do you enjoy drama films? 2. What are your favourite drama films? 3. How often do you watch drama films? 4. What do you think makes a good drama film? 5. Do like enjoy Thriller films? 6. What are your favourite Thriller films? 7. How often do Watch Thriller films? 8. What do you think makes a good Thriller film? 9. What's your favourite film genre? 10. Do you prefer mainsteam or independant films and why? 11. Is teen suicide something you are well informed about? 12. Is it similar to that you've seen in films? 13. Do you find suicide films tought provoking? 14. Do you find the use of the main character being a female effective? If not why? 15. Which of the issues raised did you find most disturbing? 16. Do you fnd any of the issused raised are too extreme? 17. 18. 19. 20.

Storyboard.

This is our storyboard for our Media film.

Shot 1

Shot: Medium shot of main character.

Actions: He is setting up the webcam (camera).

Duration of shot: 3/5 seconds

Sound: Diagetic sounds of him moving the camera and himself

moving around.

Shot 2

Shot: Medium shot through the webcam (camera).

Actions:Main character moves away from camera and adjusts

himself in postion to talk into the webcam (Camera).

Duration of shot: 15-20 seconds.

Speech (Diagetic): ''I've been planning to do this for a while now''

Sound: Diagetic ambience.

Shot 3

Shot: Close-up shot through the webcam (camera).

Actions:The main character has moved the camera so it's closer

to him.
Duration of shot: 5-10 seconds

Speech(Diagetic): ''It started at the party'' *Looks into his

hands*

Sound: Diagetic ambience

Shot 4

Shot: Close-up shot of main character.

Action: Character looks down and as he looks up the shot changes

to a point of view shot midway into looking up. Slight fade from

the last shot to the next shot.

Duration of shot: 5-7 seconds

Sound: Diagetic music from party (distant)

Shot 5

Shot: Long shot into a tracking shot.
Action: This is the main characters point of view. He walks into

the kitchen.

Duration of shot: 5-7 seconds
Sound: Sound from the party. (Diagetic)

Shot 6

Shot: Long shot (still from his point of view)

Action: walks into the living room from the kitchen.

Duration of shot: 10 seconds

Sound: Sound from the party gets louder. (Diagetic)

Shot 7

Shot: Long shot (still from his point of view)
Action: Is in the living room he sits on a chair.

Speech (diagetic): A family member says ''MOVE'' *Main

character gets shoved out his chair as this is said*
Duration of shot: 10/20 seconds
Sound: Sound of music in the party. (Diagetic)

Shot 8

Shot: Goes from Medium long shot to a close-up of him on the

flooor.

Action: On the floor were he got pushed off chair.

Duration of shot: 10/20 seconds

Sound: Music and laughter (diagetic)

Target audience.

We have decided our target audience for our film is a certificate of 15 because of the narrative content.

Our narrative has content in it which people under 15 wouldn't understand and shouldn't understand. We feel the narrative which is about a boy who is thinking about suicide isn't suitable for people udner the age of 15. Although this film doesn't contain any mature scenes in it we just feel the storyline is to strong. This is why we feel our film would be the cetificate of 15.

Location and Costume.

Main Character.

Our main character in our film is meant to wear natural clothing. Day to day clothing the character would usually wear.

The picture on the right is a picture of what our main character wears on a day to day basis. He would usually wear skinny jeans, polo top/ t-shirt and a cardigan/ jumper and then plimsolls or trainers.

This is what we are going to have our main character as our storyline is meant to be about a boy living a 'normal' life so he doesn't need to be dressed up.

(We still need to think about the colours though)

Location

We have all looked and analysed our houses for our film we we are filming this in a house and we feel the one on the picture below is the best suitable for this film. As the downstairs is bigger which allows more room for filming and props.

We are filming our film mainly in a house but there is a few shots outside of the house before the main character walks into the 'family party'.

(pictures of hollys living room and kitchen)

The party is going to be shot in the same room where the main character is talking into the webcam (camera). This is the livingroom in the picture above.

The kitchen in the picture above is used for the main character to walk through into the party to show him arriving there.

Film review analysis.

As part of this project we are asked to make a film review page for our film therefore i am going to analyse this magazine review on the film 'I am Lengend'.

The dark blue colour for the title is quite striking which will make the reader, read on more. The little picture next to it will pull in the reader more if they like things to do with airplanes although this is much to do with airplanes.

Below the striking dark blue title of the film the first paragraph starts off with a light blue colour which may suggest it is more important then the rest of the reviews therefore this may help the audience wanting to read on. When the reader has read on this may encourage them to see the film. The reader may also be hooked after they've read the first little paragraph therefore if they read the whole thing it may encourage them to see the film from that.

The picture next to this review is a clip from the film 'I Am Legend' the main character and well known actor Will Smith is in this clip. Empire magazine have probably made sure they used a clip with the main character in as if people like Will Smith this will attract people who love Will Smith as an actor to watch this film or at least read the review/ buy the magazine if they flick through it and saw this.

The picture being big and covering a lot of the page may make the readers feel it wont take up much of their time to read because it doesn't look like much as the writing is small and picture of quite big. As it is a double page spread and there was not a big picture people may not be bothered or have time to read the whole reiveiw.

TO BE FINISHED

Inception Poster analysis.

I feel i should analyse this 'Inception' poster as i found this poster interesting and as part of our coursework we are choosing to make a poster to go with our short film.

I like the way in which they have in cooperated a picture of a shot from the film but a shot which is questioning to the audience. This could encourage people to go and see this film. This would make some people want to watch it as they would wonder to why there is a man standing in water by a lot of buildings. The only negative of this though is that people who don't like the genre of film this is portraying it wouldn't attract them therefore they have to use the rest of the poster to attract them.

They way they have put 'Leonardo dicaprio' right at the top will automatically attract an audience who like that famous 'good looking' actor. This is why they have chose to put this right at the top although we can't in cooperate this in our film as we wont be using any famous actors i still have recognised this is how they've also attracted another audience even if they don't like the look of the genre.

They have also included at the bottom that it's by 'The director of Dark night' A very famous and popular film so people will think this is automatically a good film as the director from a very successful film directed it.

They've included a slogan on this poster and the slogan is 'your hind is the scene of the crime' This slogan obviously relates to the film which gives the viewers an insight to the film a little. This straight away shows there if crime in this film. This slogan will also help people recognise the film is they see it on this poster then see the trailer on the TV they will then know to carry on watching the trailer which may encourage them to watch it. In our film poster i hope to include a catchy slogan to encourage the readers to want to watch our film.

In this picture on the background of the poster they have cleverly not given away too much of the film so it doesn't give you the narrative at all it's just there to encourage people to watch it and create an audience and to promote the film. This is a good thing to do because if you give away to much on a film it could put the audience off. Although I'm not sure I'd like the background of our poster to be a picture i will include a picture not necessarily of a shot in the film though maybe just the character but i could use this for inspiration if i choose to use a picture as the whole background of the poster.

Narrative of Film.

Below is what happens in each scene of our film not in detail yet.

Scene one

Main character is setting up the camera from outside view, then there is effect of home video footage. It being a 'webcam'

Miuffled noise and fuzzy.

Location: Bedroom or Livingroom at night time with dim lighting apart from a little lamp on the table next to the camera.

Main Character says into the 'webcam', 'I've been planning to do this for a while.. The family party started it.

Costume: Normal clothing. (think about colours still)

There will be a rope (suicide tool) subtly in the background of every single shot where he is talking into the camera.

Scene Two

Cut; A shot into the family party from the exact position he was sat in last scene and the party is around instead of his bedroom. Then events are shown from the party showing why he finalised his suicide desicion.

Scene Three

Starts with The main characters Dad being pervy by slipping his 'son' the main character notes and texts.

Then the main charater walks to parents bedroom and the dad is waiting. Bruises on the main character from dad. (Night scene)

Then cuts back to the webcam and he says 'He really loves me' Referring to his dad making this sound better then it it.

Scene four

Talking into the 'webcam' saying 'Mom loves me too'

Main character then walks downstairs to find a thick wad of postit notes left on the firdge. They are all nagging/horrible notes for example;
Note 1:You haven't done this
Note 2: You haven't done that
Note 3: your grades are falling/rubbish.
ect.

Scene Five

Main character says into the 'webcam' saying 'My firends are the best we had a good party last week'

Cuts to him sitting on msn by himself the night him and his friends were meant to be a t a party.

Scene Six

The main character talking into the 'webcam' saying 'My sister is always there for me'

Cuts to his sister slamming her door in main characters face.

He finally says into the webcam 'she really stuck up for me at the family party' Then it cuts to a bit at the family party when really she didn't stick up for him.

Scene Seven

Shows the main character hanging himself except you can only see him pushing the chair away and then his legs hanging. This is why the ropes been in the backgroud of his bedroom/livingroom the whole time.

Thirteen.

The film 'Thirteen' is the main full length film which has inspired us in many ways for our film.

This flim is about two friends which are thirteen years old. One of them get involved in drugs, sex, self harming and her friends ends up telling on her in the end and her mother finds everything including her scissors she used for cutting herself as her friend told the mother were she kept everything.

This is a drama film and our film is also going to be a drama film so this has given us ways of inspiration.

Some of the camera shots/movements in this have helped us decide on some of the shots/movements in our film. For example there is a movement early on in this film which is shaky and the camera has been knocked. In our film we are using a shot were the camera is shaky where the main character has been knocked.

We liked the way in which most of the events are shocking but so realistic. For example when the girl is cutting herself its so realistic yet shocking the fact that she is cutting herself at the age of thirteen years old.


TO BE FINISHED

Our Genre.

Drama genre:

Drama is a genre that depends mostly on realistic character dealing with emotion themes. Dramatic themes such as alcohol, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, abusive relationships, crime and corruption. They put the characters in conflict with themselves, others and society.

All film genres can include dramatic elements, but drama films focus on the drama of the main issue within the film.

Thriller genre:

Thrillers mainly have an atmosphere of menace, violence, crime and murder by showing society as a dark, corrupt and dangerous, although they often have a happy ending in which the antagonist gets killed or arrested.

Social realism grenre:

Social realism in films is representative of real life, with all its difficulties. The stories and people portrayed are everyday characters, usually from working class backgrounds. Typically, films within the social realist canon are gritty, urban dramas about the struggle to survive the daily grind.

About a girl.

Holly,Vicki and I watched this short film together. We all liked this film and the storyline inspired us for our short film. We decided we would like to do a shocking drama/thriller. This short film is a Drama so we are taking aspects out of this film and using them for ours.

This is quite shocking at the end because nobody knows the girl has had a baby and at the end we find out because she throw a bag into the canal and when it's in the water we see the baby come out the bag. We particularly like this aspect because we want the audience to be shocked in our film.

In this short film a girl is talking about her life walking along a canal and she's happy. She makes her life sound better then it is, then after she talks about each thing it shows us what actually happened. It's not what she says it is, she seems quite lonely in real life, but doesn't act it when she's talking about events that have happened.

As a group we liked this and decided to base our film on somebody talking about their life but in a happy way but through a video which somebody is watching. Ours is going to be totally different but just based on the idea of somebody being happy when really they haven't got a good life.

Mud Boy

This film is quite shocking and this is what we want to in-cooperate into our short Drama/Thriller film.

This film is shocking because as the audience we have no idea the girl is about to uncover her 'missing' brother. The fact when she discovers him when he's dead is even more shocking. We want to make the audience as shocked as this when creating out short film but not in the same way. The little girl is very young looking about 8/9, so it's not the type of thing you would want anybody to discover let alone a young girl.

The thing i like about this is that the storyline is hard to understand at first as i thought she discovered her brother Alive. Then it isn't until right near the end when i realised he was obviously dead. This makes the film more interesting as it questions the audience a lot.

They have used a lot of shot reverse shot so the viewers can see who is talking when the girl is talking to her 'dead' brother outside.

A lot of the lighting in this seems to be natural lighting as most of the film is shot outside.

When the police officer is taking the girl away the shot is shallow depth of field. Allowing the background to not be noticed as it's blurred so the audience concentrate on the police officer and girl. I hope we can use this in our film so the audience can concentrate on what we want them to the most. Therefore we need to make the main things in focus and the less important thing out of focus in some shots.

Snap.

In this film they have used a dramatic soundtrack every time an owner to a different camera is the camera thief. As this is meant to show he has stolen camera's off multiple people. This is why he is wearing a different shirt each time and why you see different men chasing after him.

The way the thief of the camera's has captured the emoitions in this film shown at the end is by using photography. Art is a good way to potray emotion and this is done very well by using photography which is a type of art.

This whole film is outside therefore it's natural lighting. Although it looks like they may have edited the lighting a little more yellow as the film seems more yellow then the natural lighting should be.

Most of the editing in this film in continuity editing.

Lifeline.

There is no language in this film just a soundtrack building up through out. They have done this to creat tension and the way they've made the music go fast and louder as the film progresses is to make you feel worried as if something is going to appear on the screen or if it's going to make you jump. Although it doesn't thats how the audience will feel.

You can clearly see they have thought carefully about the props in this film. I feel they have used props quite well and would like to make sure we use props well in our film.

I also like how they've used hand held camera as the boy is running as you feel like your with the boy more with a hand held camera. If we incorporate anybody moving at a fast pace i will try and use hand haled camera so we have a range of camera movements in our film.

Frendo

The boys mouth turns clown like towards the middle of this film as a result of karma for treating his friends badly. This film has a lot of red in it as if it's a warning to the boy, ase see a lot of red before his face turns like that. The camera concentrates on close-ups on the red for example the seat belt plug and the red on the mouse scroller. Which is why i think that the red at the begining is a warning to the boy and to show the viewers something bad is going to happen as red is a colour of warning.

The lack of dialogue in this film potrays the emotion and allows the viewer to concentrate on the storyline more then the talking. At first i didn't get the storyline until i watched it more then once.

Introduction

For media studies i am working in a group with Holly and Vicki. We have chosen to make a drama/Thriller short film. There is a few films which have inspired us. We intend on watching more drama short films to widen our knowledge on drama. We are also watching more to help inspire us for our storyline for our short film.

The films that have inspired us are;

- Fish Tank (independent film)

- Wasp (independent film)

- Mud boy (BBC film network)

- Thirteen

- About a girl.