Poster one - Rachael Saunders

I liked this idea, because it showed the sinister character, which i would like to include in some way, into our film. This poster doesn't give too much away, as to who the character actually is, however, by the way he is staring down at the two girls, it is clear that he is the antagonist in this film and that he is clearly angry about something, regarding the two girls. I liked the way the two girls, are having so much fun, and this also shows the closeness of them both.

When i asked my friends what they thought of my poster, the comments all seemed to be the same, with the suggestion that although it is good, and makes them want to find out who the character is, it may be misleading, because the main focus of our film is NOT about how Ashliegh died, but how close the two girls were when she was alive.

Poster Ideas: Priya Ahluwalia

Remember me Poster 1:
The first poster idea that I have is, half’s of both the characters face showing that both characters make one whole person. However one of the faces is going to be slightly faded as Ashleigh is not alive and only Kate is able to see her. There is going to be no setting for the poster only the face and a plain blue background. As I’ve shown on the picture one of the characters’ is happy and the other is sad; happy because Ashleigh has spent time with Kate; sad because Kate is upset for not being able to see Ashleigh ever again. The shot is going to be a big close up of the face as it will enable us to see the facial expressions of the characters.
The title ‘Remember will be placed underneath the image. It would be big, bold and in a colour that will stand out such as red. Reviews and awards for the film will appear at the bottom with the title.

Remember me Poster 2:
This is the second poster that i came up with. In this poster you will see a mid close up shot of Kate at the front in the right hand corner looking at the back over her right shoulder, there will then be a picture of both Kate and Ashleigh in the shopping centre walking down and laughing. The main reason why I have chosen these images for the poster is because it shows the facial expression of the main character at the front as well as what ups and downs she has had in her life.
The title will be in the centre on top in bold writing with the awards and the review underneath. Followed by the credits.

Remember me poster 3:
The third poster contains swings in the centre of the page and both Characters walking away from the swings. Furthermore as you can see from the picture there is going to be a big picture of Ashleigh at the top of the page in the left hand side looking down on both characters. Once again the title will be at the top of the page in the centre and the awards and reviews underneath followed by the credits.

Poster Ideas by Maiken Davidson

The setting of this poster is in the park on a set of swings, which is a scene we see in the film. You have Ashleigh, swinging a smiling but she is slightly faded, showing her to be unreal. Kate on the other hand is just sitting on the swings to one side, making it look like this picture is taken at a different time, her body language and facial expressions are sad and lonely. The shot will be a medium shot or a long shot to get the whole shot of the swings and the two characters.

The title 'Remember Me' will be in bold/block letters, with 'Remember' above the picture and 'Me' underneath the swings (like the set of swings are resting on the 'Me'. As you can see on the pictures I have put circles on where we could write reviews/festivals on, which is usually seen on a a DVD cover or poster. We would have 'A Film Directed By Priya Ahluwalia' underneath the 'Me' and have the rest of the credits below that.


In this poster, I have still kept the idea of the set of swings, but they will be in a sequence of small images starting from them both swing on swings, getting of swings and walking along, with Ashleigh slowly fading throughout all of them until it ends with just Kate. These will all be long shots.

On the top right hand of the page, you see Ashleigh looking down on herself and Kate with a smile on her faces, suggesting fond memories. We will have 'Remember Me' again in bold/block letters underneath the picture sequence of swings.
Underneath 'Remember Me' will be the credits.

The reviews and festivals would be in the top left hand corner opposite Ashleigh's face, and we will have the name of the director beneath them.

The third poster idea Priya and I thought is from the film poster of 'Kicks' we saw in class. We thought we could have Ashleigh's face to the side and see her watching Kate, whereas kate is looking aimlessly in another direction to give a sense of loneliness and in deep thought, similar to the 'Fish Tank' Poster'. The would be medium close-ups so we can see the facial expressions of both of them. The background would have to be somewhere that there isn't a lot going on, so not to take the attention away from the characters.

We would then have 'Remember Me' underneath them, again in bold/block letters and then the directed note and credits beneath it. Above, the two characters we would have the reviews and awards.


Our target audience for our film would be teenagers and older, I would say are film would be certified at 12 or 15 and mainly to teenager girls and young adult women, as the characters you see our only females. So, therefore they need to be able to identified with the poster, we would need to put them in magazines like 'Bliss', 'Glamour' and 'Heat' as these are typical girl magazines.

The colours used for font would be a dark sky blue, we wouldn't want to use stereotypical feminine colours like pink as our film is sad. We also want to keep it to as close to social realism as we can, so we would use settings that are used in the film, and we wouldn't make them lighter or darker, as the picture will be taken outside, we will keep.

Poster ideas - Rachael Saunders

Yesterday on March 3rd i took some pictures which could be used on a film poster. I took pictures of a local park, some trees, a pond and a woodland area. If we were to use my poster ideas, we would need to get a few pictures of our two main characters Kate and Ashleigh.

One of my ideas are based around the idea that the guy mentioned in Kate's speech, the guy that Ashleigh likes has something to do with her death, so would therefore be the antagonist in our film. If we all decide to have this part of the story included, then i would need to take a picture of a man, and to make him seem like the sinister character i would have to make him look quite shadowy, maybe looking down on the two girls - so it is clear he is a threat to them both.

Another of my ideas is to have Kate standing in some woods, clearly looking lost - demonstrating how lost she is without her best friend, and because the woods are quite dull and dark, it would give an eerie feeling. With the title of our film in the middle of the poster, in big, white writing.

My third idea is very similar to the first, but, instead of having the man above Kate and Ashleigh, i would have the silhouette of the antagonist character's face, behind the two girls. Ashliegh and Kate would be smiling, this would maybe be a shot taken from the scene when they're walking around town, when they're both happy.


PICTURES TO COME

Green Screen: Priya Ahluwalia

Today we did our first shoots with the use of the green screen. As it was our first time using the elements of the green screen it was really intresting how the equipment is used in order for the shoots to be right and effective for a specific scene.

Creating a Posters: Priya Ahluwalia

In todays lesson we were looking at posters that were made for independant movies and not for hollywood blockbusters.This showed us that our poster needs to be realist and not for hollywood.

Some of the questions that we need to ask ourself is:

• who is the targetted audience for the film?
• what on the poster will attract the audience to watch the film?
• Is your audince Female, Male or both?
  

Here are some of the posters that we looked at:

Fish Tank is a story of a young girl called Mia a 15yr old who is always in trouble and who has become excluded from School. One summer her mum brings home a mysterious stranger called Connor who promises to change everything and bring love into their lives.
What attracts the audince into watching this film is that the character is a female and it suggests that it may be aimed at females. From looking at the poster and the image used, you are able to see the characters facial expressions; from this characters facial expression it fells like she is deep in thought, very lonley and looking out through the window. Furthermore looking at the background setting of the poster it shows her sitting a room of some sort. furthermore we are able to see drawing on the wall as well as having some sort of tear of the wall paper, this may suggest that she lives in a deprived area which then leads to social realism.
However on the other hand th poster on the left suggest the opposite to the character on the right. in the right poster she looks more dominant as the camera is slightly at a lower angle. furthermore the character lookis abit more 'chavy' with the big hoops and the necklace that she is wearing and makes her look more down market.
This film was given a number of awards as well as positive reviews. looking at the reviews of the film we can see that most of the review were from newspapers and magazines that are read by middles class people which suggests that the film has used a working class area and middle class are watching it.
From looking at the background of the film poster you are able to tell that this film is mainly based around a working class area, and shows what life is like. Therefore it shows that this is a social realism film.



This is England is a film about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight, They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
What attracts an individual to watch this film is that it contains characters that are seen more as sterotypes and of diffrent age groups. thsi film also has male charcters as well as females indicating that the film is aimed at both genders and ages upto 18



Le donk is a film of a Rock roadie, Le Donk, who has lived, loved and learned. Along the way, he's lost a classy girlfriend but gained a sidekick, Scorz-Ayz-Ee. He sets out to make Scorz a star with a little help from the Artic Monkeys.


From the poster for the film is looks more like a comedy film than a social realism film.

2nd March by Maiken Davidson

Today we logged our footage from Sunday on to the Mac and began to edit using final cut pro. Looking back at the shots, I believe are reasonably well framed and we used a variety of angles, however as it was extremely busy it was hard to keep track of the main characters as they walked through the town centre. We also had a problem with some of the shots as people walked in front of the camera.

In lesson we discussed poster plans and have drawn up 3 ideas (which are soon to be uploaded on to here), we trying to make it as close to social realsim as we can by using urban settings and not changing the base colour to much. We have also discussed tag lines.

We also took some still pictures of our internal location as we plan to do green screen tomorrow.