Friday, 18 October 2013
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Team story board on short film idea
One of my members in my group (ben woodier) had an idea for our short film to do with someone in confussion of what was a dream and whats real life. His post explains the detail behind the idea and bellow is the story board we came up with to get the idea onto paper to make it easier to imagen.
The main idea is that someone is on their way home and as they get in they get a glass of water or soething like that, then the cmaera follows the person walkiing with the camera on the hand hloding the drink, this person then is in bed and asleep when someone in a mask grabs hold of them, events like this continue and he wakes up, there is then shot with the focus just on the rdrink which is now blood red and the person in the mask turn up again this is when the conffusion begins weather he is actually asleep or awake. Ending with him fining the mask in a bag. All this sounds very vague and as mentioned the main ideas are on ben woodiers blog ( http://woodiermedia.blogspot.co.uk/).
-RM
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 fpr the film 'meet the folkers', although this has all the basic needs of a film poster such as the main cvharacters in it and an image of the main character it lacks imagenation and oprignality. The plain bacvkground isnt very appealing and the simple image doesnt tell you much about the characters and doesnt draw you in to making you want to watch the film. It simply looks like a buinch of normal people who live a normal life. Also the font style was a very bassic text which again doesnt draw anyone in. I would change the main image on this p[oster 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 phoptoshoped well and made to look perfect brightning the colour of the peoples eyes which makes it eye catching. The way the text is layed out also workd effectivly as it look almost like and equasionw hich again links to the film and its genre. The positioning works well too as the title splits the two poeple apart helping the genre once again and making the font and images stand out and work well together.
This film poster was designed fpr the film 'meet the folkers', although this has all the basic needs of a film poster such as the main cvharacters in it and an image of the main character it lacks imagenation and oprignality. The plain bacvkground isnt very appealing and the simple image doesnt tell you much about the characters and doesnt draw you in to making you want to watch the film. It simply looks like a buinch of normal people who live a normal life. Also the font style was a very bassic text which again doesnt draw anyone in. I would change the main image on this p[oster 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 phoptoshoped well and made to look perfect brightning the colour of the peoples eyes which makes it eye catching. The way the text is layed out also workd effectivly as it look almost like and equasionw hich again links to the film and its genre. The positioning works well too as the title splits the two poeple apart helping the genre once again and making the font and images stand out and work well together.
-RM
New short film idea
After looking into some film traillers that are based on famous peoples lives such as 'my week with marylin' and the new film coming out 'diana'. These films are based on true stories and the lives of two famopus people and how they live their every day lives with the ups and downs. It give insights to what their lives are really like behind closed doors when the public are gone. For example marylin monroe had a hard life she was sexually asulted when she was young by her step father and suffered a lot of abuse from producers etc from the films she was in.
My idea was to use this kind of 'what happens behind the scenes' view and applying it to people like 'the school bully' or 'the popular girl' and creating this documentry type style on what life was really like with a twist to what you would expect.
-RM
-RM
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
don lafontaine
Don Lafontaine is a great example of someone who does narration in film and TV, His vouce has appeared on many different adverts and has such as distinctive voice across national television and film. Having a unique and powerful voice makes the narrative way more intresting and exciting meaning only a selective amount of people tend to be those used on voice overs etc. In this video above he talks in more depth about how having the right voice is effecitve and works well.
-RM
Use of Narration
The Use of narration can be looked at in different ways. When someone asked me what i imidatly thought it was a voice over type person used in a programe like big brother and comantating a football match. Narration can be used on many forms of media such as radio, tv and films. Narration can also be used to brake the '4th wall' meaning the wall between characters and the viewers/audience, a prime example of this is in theater and pantomimes when the character still stays in character but stears away from the main story to interact with the qudience for example 'buttons' in cinderella asking 'the boys and girls' what they think he should do. Also this is used in TV (mainly childerns programes) to engae the viewer. For this to be done on tv is much harder but used effectivly it works really well not used effecitly can ruin a programe or a performane. It helps to tell a story and draw and audience in to the character and their personalities. The begining of the film 'American Beauty' is a good example of narration being used at a begining of the film. It draws you into the character and what exactly it is they're thinking in a clever way, then depending on how well the acting is depends on how quickly the audience picks up on who the character is. It also helps set the scene well as shown in this film opening and gives you a small opverview of whats going to happen like in this film when he states 'im going to die one day' ut indercates this fuilm may lead up to the day he dies.
-RM
the importance of character
In todays lesson we watched a clip on the way the film 'Big Fish' was filmed and created. I learnt the importance of character and that in order for your film to be successful you need a strong character to lead the narative and get the audience attached. Even with a weak plot having a strong character could turn the film into something orignial and exsciting.
In big fish the same character has two different people play it, this can work really effectivly to tell a story as you can do flash forwards and backs to tell the story which can add twists and turns to the story line. Doing this means everything has to be very direct and exact as both actors/actresses need to have the same kind of characteristics. Something simple like the fishing scene in 'big fish' needs to be done very well for it to look right, both actors need to act in the same way to show they are the came character at different ages. done well this can be really effecitve but done without a lot of thought it could ruin a film.
I learnt you should come up with a strong character first before you think too much into the plot as having a lead character then tells the story through them. Therefore before my groups starts thihnkgs of plot we wilkl come up with some character profiles to find a really strong character that can also been seen as a narrator.
In big fish the same character has two different people play it, this can work really effectivly to tell a story as you can do flash forwards and backs to tell the story which can add twists and turns to the story line. Doing this means everything has to be very direct and exact as both actors/actresses need to have the same kind of characteristics. Something simple like the fishing scene in 'big fish' needs to be done very well for it to look right, both actors need to act in the same way to show they are the came character at different ages. done well this can be really effecitve but done without a lot of thought it could ruin a film.
I learnt you should come up with a strong character first before you think too much into the plot as having a lead character then tells the story through them. Therefore before my groups starts thihnkgs of plot we wilkl come up with some character profiles to find a really strong character that can also been seen as a narrator.
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