Task 13: Film poster influences

Movie poster influences:
To create poster a that would work for our genre would be to do some research into real movie posters to give us an idea on how the standard of a movie poster should be and what context should be shown visually. Using google we looked into posters matching our two genres which was Romance and Drama. Our trailer is based on a girl who suddenly  is diagnosed with cancer. From our initial research we knew there were plenty of film posters to gather ideas from.

The first poster we looked into was The Fault in our Stars. This film is one of the basis we gathered our ideas from. So starting at this point was the best idea. What captured our eye the most was the way the two main characters are positioned. It was clear that it was vital to have both characters in our poster. This would advertise them well and give clear understanding that the film would be a romance. From there we saw the continuity of the drama elements. The tubes coming out of the girls nose was a good touch to show the film isn't just a romance it has a huge dramatic side to it. We like this and know having a key feature to show the direction of our main character would help the audience understand the trailer much better.

 The second poster we looked into was Me and Earl and the dying Girl. What aspect that we liked was the font used. It was bold and clear to read. We would like to replicate this in our poster. The theme is quite simplistic and doesn't present a dramatic element. It is more low key and doesn't give too much away of where the story may lead. The main character who is meant to be ill isn't shown here to be that way. She's shown to be healthy which  might confuse audiences because theres no clear understanding anyone is dying.

The next poster we looked into was Now is Good. This film was our main inspiration to creating a drama romance. We found the poster to be simple but great at the same time. The first thing we see is the focal point of the image which is the couple. However we see the girl who is clear to be ill. The use of her facial expressions shows more than meets the eye. She's looking down and not expressing happy emotions. The guy on the other hand, has hope and is looking forward. This could be represented as his life as he looks forwards to a life without her. The touch of the sun light is beautiful. We see this as a happy thing meaning its all not doom and gloom and some happiness is showing. We think this poster is inspiring and we want to replicate ours to be near to this.

Production Company Logo

This is our production company logo that we created in Motion 5. This software was very useful as it had a range of effects that we could use to make our logo look more interesting.

We decided to get a clip of waves from Youtube to match our logo title 'West Coast Productions'. We downloaded this clip and uploaded it onto Motion. We then typed out 'West Coast Productions' in a similar font to match our poster and magazine cover.

Task 12:

Task 11: Script

Script: Diary of a Dying Girl 

LOGO APPEARS 

Hope writes our company logo in her diary

'West Coast Productions' 

Turns the page and starts to write with voiceover 

HOPE 

--Dear Diary, today I got you back, in the best possible way...--

Fades into locker scene 

Logan bumps into Hope and books fall to floor 

They both pick up the books and Logan tries to run after Hope with her diary 

NEXT DAY 

Logan turns up at Hopes house to return the diary 

 LOGAN 

'KNOCKS ON DOOR'

--You kinda forgot this the other day--

(to Hope) 

HOPE 

--Oh, thank you--

LOGAN 

--and theres one last thing...-- 

--Can I take you on a date?-- 

UPBEAT, HAPPY MUSIC 

Fades into clips of Logan and Hope going on multiple dates 

Overlapping clips of her writing in her diary 

Fades to black

Hope writes in diary with voiceover 

HOPE 

--This is before everything went wrong, those were the happy times--

Hope goes to get a glass of water and seems a bit wobbly 

Fades to black and the glass smashes loudly 

HOPE 

--GLASS SMASHES-- 

SAD, SLOW MUSIC 

Fades into clips of Hope being ill 

Hope locks herself in her bathroom as she's coughing up blood 

LOGAN

'REPETITIVELY KNOCKS ON HOPES BATHROOM DOOR'

--HOPE HOPE WHAT ARE YOU DOING!-- 

(worried voice) 

Sound of Logan muffles out 

TITLE OF FILM APPEARS 

VOICEOVER 

HOPE 

--Diary of a Dying Girl--

Task 10: 25 Word Pitch

25 Word Pitch 

This our 25 word pitch. The process we did was use our two main characters to speak the lines of our 25 word pitch. We thought a voice over would be better to show our media skills. The equipment used were a HD iPhone 6 camera and uploaded it onto final cut pro to edit.

We used the iPhone voice notes to record the voices and then emailed them to ourselves. We placed the voice note over the video so it play together. We edited and cropped the video to fit the audio. The video was sped up 8x faster.

The 25 word pitch clearly links together with our concept and was long thought out. The writing was written out on a whiteboard and this was inspired by Youtubers who do draw my life. They use the same process to tell a story.

Target Audience Research - Survey Results

  

From the results shown here, we can see that the ages most popular is 15-18 this works well because this age range is what we would like our target audience.

From this question we can see that the results from our survey match out target audience. Our highest result was the age range of 15-18 year olds, this tells us the main age range our film should target. I feel this will be good because we are in this age range and so are our actors. We also got two equal results from 14 and under and 26-35, this tells us that we could perhaps consider making our film attract a younger market as well as a slightly older market too.

    

From these results we can see what people like the most about romance genres. This will help us decide the main elements to feature throughout our film. It also gives us a rough idea of what elements should be featured more than others. For example the most popular result was relationships, therefore our trailer should feature this quite a lot throughout. Heartbreak has a larger result than happiness, this means that our trailer could include more heartbreak scenes than happy scenes. This question has really helped us as it has provided us with results that we can use throughout the trailer. 

Overall using the evidence from the charts we have decided that our target audience will be 15-18 year old girls. We will target them by having an attractive male lead and including real life issues like The Fault In our Stars, which is a really popular film of a girl suffering with cancer. 

Task 9: Costumes and Make-up

For our Trailer we are having our two main characters in normal clothes for 17 year olds. Lauren who plays Hope will wear plain casual clothing to keep it simple. For example plain skirts and pretty coloured tops. In school our main character will wear normal sixth form clothes to keep some realism to our trailer.

For Cavan he will wear normal clothes for a male teen for example skinny jeans, trainers and a top. He will wear smart clothes to sixth form, such as black trousers and a shirt, and when he takes Lauren out for their dates.

For our cast we will use some makeup to give our trailer a professional look to it. Lauren who plays Hope will wear Eyeliner, Mascara and Foundation. She will look like a normal 21st century 17 year old girl. Cavan will wear a tiny bit of make up it will be very minimalist as his character is manly. All Costume and Makeup will be our own and low budget. If we had a higher budget higher quality outfits would be provided.