LEILA S 1767: 2020

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Posters have always been an important part of marketing for films. We looked at other posters to help us have inspiration for our film poster. When creating the poster we thought carefully about what our film was about and how we would represent this through a film poster and make the film poster exciting to draw our audience in. We used photoshop to add in different layers using the paparazzi cameras as a background and adding in our character of Blake in the centre of the poster so our audience know who the main character is and who it will centred on. The use of body language is effective as she has her finger to her mouth meaning for someone to be quiet, this is usually something people will do if they have a secret. This represents that our film is full of secrets and suspense. We added in 5 stars to show that our film is highly rated and is a low budget film as well as the different awards that we have won. I included the title of our film, release date, our socials and the names of the actors in the film. This will help attract our target audience and also help them find us online which is a highly popular place of marketing in the modern world and where most people find out about films.

Friday, February 7, 2020

CONSTRUCTION: FEEDBACK

Music: at first, we chose not to have music in the background of our first scene but after some consideration we decided to add music to our bedtime story scene in order to represent a more soft, child-like environment and felt that we needed an extra part of mise-en-scene in order to create a warmer atmosphere. It also juxtaposed the other parts of our opening as it has a more innocent sense to it unlike Blake's scandal.

The hook: the ending of our opening was not entirely suspenseful because of this we decided to add a threatening phone call using a clip of a phone and an voiceover which extends our use of misé-en-scene. This portrayed a more sinister ending and leaving the audience with a different emotion creating more tension. We decided to use a voicemail instead of a interactive phone call, this left Blake unaware of what was happening next. This leaves the audience with a sense of dramatic irony as they know a piece of information that the characters don't.

CONSTRUCTION: SOUND

For our paparazzi scene, we wanted it to come across frantic and very fast pace to connote how our protagonist, Blake, was feeling. Therefore, when editing we knew that a huge variety of different sounds needed to be used.

Initially, we though we would just use a white noise to connote a sense of Blake feeling trapped and like she doesn't want to be living this type of life. However, after playing it back it sounded far too simple and needed a lot more sound. We then realised we were missing the main part of a paparazzi clip, the sound of cameras flashing. We added in a sound of cameras flashing as well as the white noise to make it fast pace and have a very busy feel to it.

We left it like this for a while, but after lots of thinking and playing back, we knew it needed more to it. So, for a while we went around asking various different people to voice record them shouting things as if they were paparazzi so we could layer it in and make Blake seem more vulnerable towards the audience. This really improved this scene and made it seem extremely realistic and as if multiple people were shouting at her and asking questions. We still felt that it wasn't loud enough, so we added sound of a huge amount of paparazzi shouting. This really completed the sound as it now was loud and busy enough.

After this, we added a muffled sound to all of the specific questions being shouted at Blake. This added the effect that she felt so anxious and worried and was trying to block out everything people were saying.

Finally, we decided to add in one more layer of sound. This was a heartbeat sound that was playing fairly quietly in the background but it really put all the clips together and made the process of editing the sound complete!

CONSTRUCTION: BBFC CERTIFICATE

We created this BBFC age restriction warning using adobe photoshop and finding a template on safari. Due to our film opening containing mild threat and infequent, mildvoilence we have classified it as a 15. The next age classification up is an 18 which deems it to be 'stadistic threat'. We feel this does not reflect our film. Our category allows voilence to be strong but should does not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. We also aim our film at 15-35 year old which caused us to construct our film to fit into the category that this audience would relate to.

CONSTRUCTION:FILMING

On the day that we chose to film; we had to be organised and ready to film everything in one day which included preparing props and outfits; At the beginning we first filmed the walking out scene. This begun by starting to film inside and we filmed the back of our actors walking out a front door. Although, this wasn't in chronological order we chose to film this scene first. Then, we filmed the our actors getting into a car accompanied by one of our actors as a security guard. We used various different shots accompanied by camera flashing to make the scene a realistic paparazzi ambush. We decided to use a combination of the canon camera and an iPhone for easy filming.

Then, we filmed a scene where we aused airplay to put our green scene video of a news report on the TV and filmed 'Blake' pouring a glass of wine and watching the news report. To follow this, we filmed Blake in a bedroom packing her bags to convey her leaving. Lastly, we filmed in our last location which was a children's bedroom. This bed time scene has our characters 'Blake' and 'Zoe' with Blake reading a bed time story to her from a realistic children's book. We experimented with different lighting to covey night time.