Setting - location

Today I started to think of locations of where I could film. Some of my ideas of were I could film came from places I have previously been and others people have suggested to me.

Initial Ideas:
-wooded area
-river bank side walk
-Walk way -grass path
-empty house
-built up estate
-field

Here are some of the possible locations below of where I could be filming.

This wooded walkway is a very nice shot with the light and how in draws attention to how the path way goes all the way down the forest. I will use this shot when I film my shot of the couple walking down the walkway as it creates a peaceful atomosphere.

This is another shot of a walkway but is a bit duller but the walkway looks more attractive, I don’t think I will use this shot due to the fact that it is not long enough for my shot and also the trees are not the right distance close to each other to create a archway.


I took this shot of a meadow near my house; I chose this shot because how the forest in the background brings forth the foreground were my actors will be recorded. I will use this shot in my trailer as it will make the couple much more distinctive.


This view of an estate was taken when i was going through a town called haverhill, i was thinking of using this area to shoot






This shot of a walkway along a river would make a really good shot for my films as the light reflecting of the water makes the shot more peacful and tranquil. im not sure if I would use this shot in my traler due to the fact that the path isnt wide enough and also the tree line os to close to the river.

Storyborad

Storyboard Finished

I have finished my storyboard after discussing with peers and teachers of what shots would be appropriate for the film and what editing would be good between the shots. I haven’t decided on what music would go best with shots, but i will decide closer to the time of finishing my film. I will test many possible music choices to see what goes best with the whole film and certain shots.

Poster Design

I took these pictures for my poster; I got some inspirations from some of the other posters I researched in my blog.

I took two pictures just to make sure the contrast the angle of the shot and the tone was correct. My second Picture will be the one I use for my Poster I think as it has a darker contrast than the first. This would be good for my poster as it will give the effect I want.

Completed Website

I have finished my Website which has many features on it.


Below is a picture of my finished website:




Here is a link to my website in which you can view the whole site.

www.wix.com/alexmutu123/ITCP

Videos on The Website

On my website I placed a few videos on to it; I thought this would give the affect of other websites which use multiple videos to advertise their own video. The videos I placed on my website were all thriller films but not all in the same sub genre, some were horror thrillers, others were sociological thrillers, the reasons I chose these were that as my film was a thrillers this would make my film more realistic.

Below are the videos I have placed onto my blog:

Shutter Island-I chose this as it gave a more diversity to the subgenres on my website.

Batman, The Dark Knight-This is a big film and I thought if people saw this they would be more likely to click on my film

Harry Potter-This is another large big film but is more for the younger generation and who looks for this will see my film and click that to view it.

Skyline-A brand new movie which is highly known would be a great advertisement for my website as people who are searching the film will come across my website and see my movie.

Details on The Website

On my website I have placed widgets on website which stand out from other websites. My main feature on my website is the 3D section which shows what films are showing in 3D. The photos slide across to the box it is in to reveal what new movies are coming soon. I used this widget as it looked very attractive and I have not seen any other websites use them, so this makes it unique.
Here is a view of the widget:



When I have finished my poster I would like to place this scrolling widget, I would make it stand out so people would click it to view it. Another widget I have used is to show new trailers coming out. They are hyperlinked so when you click a new video it will show the new link of the video. When I finish filming I will add my trailer as the number one film so that you will always be able to see my film, this will draw attraction to my film making people more likely to view the film. Here is a view on what this widget look like:

Another widget I used on my website that it links to many social websites, for example facebook and twitter, I thought of using this on my website as many young people use facebook and twitter and this would help with the advertising of the film and company. Here is what the like widget looks like:

Website design

From looking at the websites I have analysed I see that a lot use hyperlinks to link them to other pages such as other trailers and some websites even have games.

I will take this concept of using hyperlinks into my website as this will give diversity and I won’t have so much information onto one webpage.

Hyperlinks on my page,
as over 500million people use facebook and other social sites I saw this as a good opportunity to get my film trailer onto these social sites, below is a picture of my facebook page for my film company

Starting of the story board

From my brainstorm I thought the ideal film to do would to film a thriller, my reasons for choosing thriller is that I already have filmed a thriller from last year and enjoyed it, and also the thriller industry is very diverse and you can have many genres of thriller.

While thinking of a film, I though why not have taken some ideas from books I have read. I realized when reading the book that using the story line would be ideal for the type of story I would like to base on my film.

I read a book called "Or She Dies"

synopsis of the book:

The American government intrude in to a husband and wife'e life and tries to frame the husband up for a murder. The husband then reacts and unravels a lot more than he can handle with the government.

Starting of the story board

Today i started to come up with ideas and put them into a brainstorm.

Below are some basic ideas I wrote down on paper:

The subheadings are:
Murder
Scifi
Animation
Mystery
Comedy

With the subheadings i put notes on the differnt type of sub genres that could possible go with the genres.

Analysis of Poster research

From my research of in to posters there is a huge variety of different posters from animated posters to the simple posters with just the name of the movie and release date. The probability that I could create a poster using animation is very unlikely. I could create a poster which has a cartoon picture with great details of the movie or a poster with just the release date and name so then people would look more in to the film and become more interested.

I am starting my design now, taking aspect from other posters, for example having the title or the film large and bold to create attention then just under having the release date, or maybe having a complicated poster with the directors’ name, the production company etc.

I will be using convections like lighting to illuminate my pictures from the poster. The font will be standing out, large so that the audience will be attracted to the poster.

I will be experimenting with many different designs of posters and the way the effect the audience attraction to it.