Thursday, 7 April 2011

Permissions.

In our short film there are three tracks:
Wishery - Pogo
Piano B - Phildel
Some cheesy garage band music.

(To the left) Is the email we sent to the composer of wishery's booking agent. The other two tracks are royalty free.

Poster Draft

This is the draft design for the first poster, we had the idea but before we could apply it we first had to plan how the final piece would look.

The second poster had no plan, I decided instead to go by trial and error, which meant I produced around 5 posters before deciding on a final design.

Magazine Article


To the left are is the double page spread for our short film "A Chatroulette Love Story" typical magazine article featuring reviews, snippets of publicity the film has received and stills from the film its self. I used CS4 for the design of the pages.

Short Film ideas

Second Poster Analysis


The first poster we designed we felt seriously lacked an actual poster feel with very little information to offer and an unclear representation of what the film may entail, despite the fact it was quite an original idea if I might say so myself. (first poster seen right)

So post production and back where we started we put our heads together and came up with a new design. (seen below)





The production of the poster was very easy it simply involved combining an image taken during shooting and another image taken of an old computer not during production. I used the threshold tool on photoshop CS4 which is the effect used on the male, then a black and white filter for the computer where the boys face is. I also added an olive green/ or a piss coloured yellow for the background depending on how you see it. After which I added an mirky overlay. The font used was Inai Matchi, a font which is quite popular at the moment according to our boss. The simple design combined with its ability to imply meaning means that the poster is quite successful.


The poster was used to promote our focus sessions and during the sessions and the time before we were informed that that poster looked fairly professional and it did well to advertise the film.

Friday, 4 February 2011

Film Poster

After very little deliberation I decided it was about time for me to make our film poster. The idea for the poster was in my mind from the offset all that was required was for me to do was a short health and safety sheet and to try my hand at sweet talking and charming the IT department in my college to see if I could get hold of any old keyboards that were no longer in use.

After getting hold of the keyboards me and Duce a colleague of mine began the smashing them up for the keys for my poster idea. We then we positioned them to a table top and with a very bad camera took some grimy looking photos. It was as we were sifting through the keys and organising them into piles according to what character they were that we realised we were short a few letters.

This is how the original photos looked.





I had to edit in the missing keys in on photoshop, I also added a feather effect, a grimy overly and added some basic film poster necessities leaving me with the final piece.

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Script/ List of shots.

A Chatroulette love story

List of shots:

CHATROULETTE SEQUENCE


i. Shot from outside the toilet – [full body shot] (low-key lighting/ ambient.) PAN door open slightly
ii. [MCU on pelvis – piss stream/ shaking/ flushing/ walking of screen. STATIC
iii. Shot from outside the toilet – [full body shot] (low-key lighting/ ambient.) STATIC walking past the camera.
iv. Shot from in front of the chair [MCU] The boy sits down/ shot of chest area.
v. [CU] mouse movements – playing around with the windows.
vi. [On screen recording] of him clicking back on the chat roulette window and the girl and the chat on the screen.
vii. [MCU from the side] Reaction of the guy.
viii. [LS from behind the character] revealing an out of focus message.
ix. [ECU of him typing] [On screen recording of him typing the rest of the message] then entering.
x. [On screen] small delay – reaction female character typing. – Small talk sequence.
xi. Weird shot – progression of time changing of positions on the bed.
xii. Split screen shot of them both laughing and typing / mimic.
xiii. [On screen] something funny from the conversation. Then her saying she has to go.
xiv.

“ Awh :( I’ve got to go, because I have to be up early in the morning to see my Aunt in Redcar we’re going shopping. (:”

“No way, I live in Redcar :o”

“You never know we might bump into each other ;)”

“I have a funny feeling we will”

“Ha, well goodnight xx


Fade to black/ cross cut

Creepy smiling face shot / alarm in the background.

MONTAGE “push it to the limit”-Paul Enegmann Maybe

Various shots of shaving/ brushing his teeth/ showering/ brushing his hair/ aftershave/ dressing him self/ fastening a tie/Plucking his nose hairs/ popping spots/ scrubbing finger nails/ putting on shoes then a shot from inside of him closing the door.


TOWN SEQUENCE

xv. [MLS] of the boy on a bench with a bouquet of flowers looking around then looking at his watch, [CU] of watch.

xvi. Repeat show a progression of time with the watch.

xvii. [Full body shot of the boy] putting the flowers down and leaving them on the bench. {Dim the tone of the shot}

xviii. [17] Someone coming over and taking the flowers.

xix. Shot from in front walking towards the bus stop [using the tracks possibly] Some one will turn back to the boy and say “nice suit dick head”

xx. In the next shot the boy is sat on the bus leaning against the window and looking out, when he spots the girl, he pushes the bell for the bus to stop and then quickly rushes off.

xxi. He runs back to where he had seen the girl on the bus and looks around to see if he can spot her again. He does and then runs towards her not realising he is on the road and a car hits him.

Fade to black.

Fade in

HOUSE SEQUENCE TWO

xxii. These are the last shots in the film POV shot of opening eyes.
xxiii. Then a shot from above with the boy in bed bandaged up and wearily awakening.
xxiv. He then smiles the same creepy smile as he had done early on in the film.
xxv. Cut straight to credits.