The Poster

-RM

I have pointed out to Rachel that "staring" has two R's. She is working on it.

-BW

 

Rachel has done a really good job. The poster captures the significant character. And this idea of a hidden meassage their are just a few spelling errors. As Ben said "staring" has two "r"'s and my name has been incorrectly spelt as "Chole" instead of "Chloe".

-CM

TEMPUS - VOICE OVER 1

Though the lack of voice-over made it more mysterious, it also left the audience clueless. I've added the voice-over back in. It fits with the narrative quite well, like Alex is explaining the story to the therapist.

-BW

TEMPUS

This is our final piece. We changed the script, yet again, to make it more serious and mysterious. Still the same concept as the previous piece, but this leaves more for the audience to figure out.
The camera shots are not only more visually pleasing, but also add to the story, through use of angles.
I added to and improved the video effects. Especially the Skype call. It looks a lot better than the previous one, which had no FX and looked horrific.
In terms of sound, I removed the voice over. This makes the film more mysterious. I also added music. It helps the film flow and influences the audience as to what they should feel.

-BW

Film Posters Transcriptions

Looking into film posters and advertising for films has become intresting as each and every film has a differnt twist and way to grab peoples attention. Most genres use the same bassic ideas like in their film posters they will include blood or a scary image etc using colours like reds and blacks and so on. Where as a romantic comedy would use the traditional colours of reds and pinks. Some posters work well others do not, as displayed bellow there is an uneffective poster.

 
This film poster was designed for the film 'Meet the Fockers', although this has all the basic needs of a film poster such as the main characters in it and an image of the main character it lacks imagination and originality. The plain background isn't very appealing and the simple image doesn't tell you much about the characters and doesn't draw you in to making you want to watch the film. It simply looks like a bunch of normal people who live a normal life. Also the font style was a very basic text which again doesn't draw anyone in. I would change the main image on this poster along with the font style and use brighter colours and relate it more to the story line. An example of an effective film poster is displayed bellow. These images work well together along with the style of righting and colours used. You can tell this film is to do with the main characters on the front of the posters as they are clearly displayed. The images have been photo shopped well and made to look perfect brightening the colour of the peoples eyes which makes it eye catching. The way the text is laid out also worked effectively as it look almost like and equation which again links to the film and its genre. The positioning works well too as the title splits the two people apart helping the genre once again and making the font and images stand out and work well together.  

-RM

Film Poster Plan...

This is a very rough outline of my first idea for our film poster, the idea of having the time traveller in the background with his good up either covering his face or having is back to the photographer is to get the point out that they are mysterious and you shouldn't know who they are. The main protagonist is to make sure they stand out so the person looking at the poster they can tell who the main character is. I haven't decided the font I want to use for the tittle but I will look on sites such as defont to get lots of new ideas but I defiantly want a sting front that relates to the tittle; as it's to do with time I want the title to fade maybe or have some kind of effect that supports this. As for including actors/actresses names of who is in it I will place that with all the information such as what star rating news papers etc. have given it.

-RM

What is Essential in a Film Poster?

As you can see in the college of posters above there are many different styles depending on the genre of the movie; although some posters have a recurring theme when it comes to the information displayed on it. Commonly posters consist of a photograph or illustration (spending how the film is made either by film or animation) of the main characters. All these images are Hollywood cinema films and none are really seen as a short film. Not many short films are advertised in the same way as for example a Hollywood blockbuster would be.

These are what I would suggest is essential in a film poster :

- the title of the film

- and image or illustration of main characters or a scene from within the movie 

- people's names who are starring in the movie

- something intriguing that doesn't give away too much; something that provides enigma 

-RM

Film Posters in Popular Culture...

Film posters and other posters are now also being used for different products such as cd covers and t-shirts. The point from this being posters are now no longer used just for advertising but also we be hung in people's bedrooms wall almost as a price if merchandise from their favourite film.

The image above is of an example of this happening. The very famous film jaws have printed their posters onto t-shirts that people can buy, reasons for this maybe a simple as the like the image or the movie itself but sometimes people even buy t-shirts like this purely because they like the look of it; creating the idea advertising isn't always about the product especially when it's for a film or music.

-RM

 

People have started to use Film posters to re-create some very creative and hilarious art pieces. For example the picture below:

 

This is a photograph by Photographer: David Eger.

He re-creates film posters and historical moments whilst using Star Wars figurines this is The Wizard of Oz and he used Chewbacca as The Cowardly Lion, Princess Leia as Dorothy, C-3PO as The Tin-Man and Han Solo as The Scarecrow. A hysterical piece of art work.

 

People often use Movie Posters or famous photographs from movies in cards and invitations. One of the most used Photographs is of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's the picture is her on a birthday card:

CM