This week we did a lot of group work, in order to have our flat planning and storyboarding finished this week.
We broke the written trailer narrative up into our own little sections and went off to draw it each, for us to put together in one whole storyboard, to which we will go over next Wednesday, in preparation for our animatic.
For our flat planning for the magazine cover, we worked together as a group, this was so that we all had an idea and it wouldn't over complicate the ways in which we do the project with lots of completely different ideas and flat plans. This will be annotated as a group again when uploaded onto the blog.
As a lot of film companies do have different posters, the group decided to all go off and draw individual ones, to which as a group we will pitch the ideas to each other and then pitch to the audience, for their feedback on the actual ideas behind them. We will go over our flat plan posters at the same time as our storyboarding.
As a group we discussed the possible sound effects this week, and then Jake went off and found all of the different songs that fit with our genre of music, in order for the rest of the group to reflect upon and add to. This will be discussed in our lessons next week and then further adapted.
- Emily O'Hara
Monday, 26 September 2011
Test Shots
After doing our storyboards, the group have gone out and done test shots for our own storyboards.
As a group:
(Storyboard image)
This shot is testing the geeks walking around college, looking suave and sophisticated. feeling high and mighty, however they aren't. The sound will be the cool, powerful `Eye of the Tiger' style of soundtrack.
When testing this shot it went well in college, as illustrated because we managed to get it at a point was enough space to actually film the shot, without being completely empty.
However, there was a difficulty setting up the shot because there was a busy period of time whilst we were trying to film, so we did have to wait a while. Another issue was making sure that people wouldn't ruin the shot or cause an issue of safe guarding.
To overcome this issue we will plan our time well, so that we can film when there are enough people. As we wouldn't be able to get model release forms for everybody in the common room, we could merely just get people's signatures or spoken response, on camera, stating if anybody does not want to be filmed, please leave- so everybody knows what is happening.
(Storyboard image)
This shot is testing the struck dumb shot of the geeks entering the common room and basically getting laughed at. At this point the "Eye of the Tiger" style music will have stopped and there will be an almost silence and laughter, after a couple of seconds.
The shot did go well in terms of layout and the amount of people and the clearness of the shot for the audience to see every significant detail.
However, we will again have to look into data protection. Another problem for this shot is due to the positioning of the camera, because it is a high angled shot there isn't really much support for the tripod and space to keep it steady, to which has caused shaking of the shot.
To overcome our issues, we will set the camera up on a steady tripod and make sure it is positioned well before actually filming with other characters. This could involve another test shot being needed to practice. We also need to incorporate health and safety procedures because it is a high angled shot.
(Storyboard image)
This shot is of the geeks, stood looking a little foolish and having a close up onto the faces of them, in all the geeky glory. There will generally be the laughter at this point to show the character being mocked.
This shot was clear and concise and therefore can be seen. As it is a shot that needs to be solo it was well positioned in terms of there wasn't any people that got in the way and we managed to actually film the shot as planned.
However, the shot is ever so slightly jerky and not as fluent as it could be and therefore should take some practice in order to make it a nice easy movement and one to which is flowing and clear and easy.
To overcome any issues we will plan our time well in order to keep the positive aspects, but we will also practice this shot again, in order to see how to actually do this movement with ease and look professional.
This shot is the pan of the common room at the point when the geeks enter and see the daunting college group all laughing and them and thinking they look foolish and mocking them. At this point there may be silent and then a load of laughter, after the Eye of the Tiger style music.
The shot was clear and therefore easy to see. The room had people in to give off the idea that we had a full room, however without too many to the point that it would be unclear.
However, to get the maximum impact of this shot we intended to have vast amounts of people around, to show the silent and how foolish the characters look.
Taking into account the negatives, we will still take a time like this, however we would get as many people known to have this as a study period to participate- therefore avoiding any safe guarding issues or problems, as we would have permission off each individual.
This shot is the shot of the geeks walking into the common room, feeling high and powerful. At this point there will be the Eye of the Tiger music, to use in a comical way of the exerting of the power.
This shot is clear and concise and it is obvious what is happening. There was enough people there so that it appeared full- but not too many to which it meant that the shot was difficult to organise/ over crowded.
One of the problems that is evident however is that the shot is quite shaky and it takes quite a bit of time to actually get the shot in place. This could be a problem for us in terms of communication and making sure it is a clear, professional shot.
To overcome this, we will further practise this shot and improve the communication issue between the group and the cast, possibly by planning out the timing exactly and being stood in different places. However, if there is a problem, in terms of timing, then there is always editing that can resolve things.
As a group:
(Storyboard image)
This shot is testing the geeks walking around college, looking suave and sophisticated. feeling high and mighty, however they aren't. The sound will be the cool, powerful `Eye of the Tiger' style of soundtrack.
When testing this shot it went well in college, as illustrated because we managed to get it at a point was enough space to actually film the shot, without being completely empty.
However, there was a difficulty setting up the shot because there was a busy period of time whilst we were trying to film, so we did have to wait a while. Another issue was making sure that people wouldn't ruin the shot or cause an issue of safe guarding.
To overcome this issue we will plan our time well, so that we can film when there are enough people. As we wouldn't be able to get model release forms for everybody in the common room, we could merely just get people's signatures or spoken response, on camera, stating if anybody does not want to be filmed, please leave- so everybody knows what is happening.
(Storyboard image)
This shot is testing the struck dumb shot of the geeks entering the common room and basically getting laughed at. At this point the "Eye of the Tiger" style music will have stopped and there will be an almost silence and laughter, after a couple of seconds.
The shot did go well in terms of layout and the amount of people and the clearness of the shot for the audience to see every significant detail.
However, we will again have to look into data protection. Another problem for this shot is due to the positioning of the camera, because it is a high angled shot there isn't really much support for the tripod and space to keep it steady, to which has caused shaking of the shot.
To overcome our issues, we will set the camera up on a steady tripod and make sure it is positioned well before actually filming with other characters. This could involve another test shot being needed to practice. We also need to incorporate health and safety procedures because it is a high angled shot.
(Storyboard image)
This shot is of the geeks, stood looking a little foolish and having a close up onto the faces of them, in all the geeky glory. There will generally be the laughter at this point to show the character being mocked.
This shot was clear and concise and therefore can be seen. As it is a shot that needs to be solo it was well positioned in terms of there wasn't any people that got in the way and we managed to actually film the shot as planned.
However, the shot is ever so slightly jerky and not as fluent as it could be and therefore should take some practice in order to make it a nice easy movement and one to which is flowing and clear and easy.
To overcome any issues we will plan our time well in order to keep the positive aspects, but we will also practice this shot again, in order to see how to actually do this movement with ease and look professional.
This shot is the pan of the common room at the point when the geeks enter and see the daunting college group all laughing and them and thinking they look foolish and mocking them. At this point there may be silent and then a load of laughter, after the Eye of the Tiger style music.
The shot was clear and therefore easy to see. The room had people in to give off the idea that we had a full room, however without too many to the point that it would be unclear.
However, to get the maximum impact of this shot we intended to have vast amounts of people around, to show the silent and how foolish the characters look.
Taking into account the negatives, we will still take a time like this, however we would get as many people known to have this as a study period to participate- therefore avoiding any safe guarding issues or problems, as we would have permission off each individual.
This shot is the shot of the geeks walking into the common room, feeling high and powerful. At this point there will be the Eye of the Tiger music, to use in a comical way of the exerting of the power.
This shot is clear and concise and it is obvious what is happening. There was enough people there so that it appeared full- but not too many to which it meant that the shot was difficult to organise/ over crowded.
One of the problems that is evident however is that the shot is quite shaky and it takes quite a bit of time to actually get the shot in place. This could be a problem for us in terms of communication and making sure it is a clear, professional shot.
To overcome this, we will further practise this shot and improve the communication issue between the group and the cast, possibly by planning out the timing exactly and being stood in different places. However, if there is a problem, in terms of timing, then there is always editing that can resolve things.
Friday, 23 September 2011
Sound Research
Potential first ideas
We plan on using a mix of both non diegetic and diegetic sound, most of the diegetic sound which will feature from our trailer will be dialogue and background noise from the characters and the location. The non diegetic sound will be soundtracks which will accompany the trailer shots.
We have gathered a few ideas of what types of tracks we would would like in our trailer.
Something like this would accompany the montage of the geeks 'getting on up' which would add to the comic affect of this particular collection of shots.
Here a few examples of the type of soundtrack and sound affects we will be using in our trailer:
Acoustic sunrise by 037836qe
Ceremonial by 037836qe
Thunder and rain by 037836qe
All of these ideas came form watching other trailers for films of a similar narrative/genre.
A good example of this is in the trailer of Johnny english reborn, when the character is 'back in action' the eye of the tiger begins to play and creates a comic feel to the trailer, mocking the character.
Other sound trakc sideas came from trailers like Drilbit Tailor, Superbad, fired up, Year one,angyes thongs and perfect snogging,
-Jake Williams
We plan on using a mix of both non diegetic and diegetic sound, most of the diegetic sound which will feature from our trailer will be dialogue and background noise from the characters and the location. The non diegetic sound will be soundtracks which will accompany the trailer shots.
We have gathered a few ideas of what types of tracks we would would like in our trailer.
Something like this would accompany the montage of the geeks 'getting on up' which would add to the comic affect of this particular collection of shots.
Here a few examples of the type of soundtrack and sound affects we will be using in our trailer:
Acoustic sunrise by 037836qe
Ceremonial by 037836qe
Thunder and rain by 037836qe
All of these ideas came form watching other trailers for films of a similar narrative/genre.
A good example of this is in the trailer of Johnny english reborn, when the character is 'back in action' the eye of the tiger begins to play and creates a comic feel to the trailer, mocking the character.
Other sound trakc sideas came from trailers like Drilbit Tailor, Superbad, fired up, Year one,angyes thongs and perfect snogging,
-Jake Williams
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Font Research - Magazine/Poster
It was decided as a group that for both our film title and film magazine title, it was to be written in a simple style font but very effective in attracting attention. The simple style font was chosen to represent our film genre, which is comedy. We did not want a style of font which seemed distorted or eroded as we felt it would not be as fully effective and would confuse the audience as to what to expect from this film.
Here are some professional film title's from various teenage comedy films:-
THE INBETWEENERS
The film title appears in neon lighting which fits in well with the storyline plot, therefore working in parallel with each other. No other writing on the poster occurs in this style which helps draw in audience attention, due to the distinction of the font it can be easily recognised from various other posters. This type of font would work really well with if our storyline was about the party lifestyle, therefore the neon lighting could work but I believe that there are much better choices available.
For our groups film title, we may incorporate the font style into similar connotations as our narrative as I believe it works extremely well together. Also, the blue font looks very appealing due to the distinction it has from the background colours, for our product to look professional we will have to keep these ideas in mind when producing our own film title for the poster.
SUPERBAD
This style of font is very bold due to the font size alongside the colour used to help seek attention from potential viewers. The colour used for the title is red, representing dangerous activity which can be associated with the comedy style of film sometimes due to the nature of humour within the movie. Also, red works in parralel with the film's title, Superbad as they both represent similar connotations which suggests continuity throughout their products. Using red would work particularly well with Rom-Com style films due to red also signifying love and passion, therefore red could represent the love and passion of the film (Romance) but also suggest danger and humour within the storyline (Comedy).
For our film title, we may decide to have our film title written in red as I believe that it would work extremely well with the comedy genre and help address this to the audience. The style of font is very eye-grabbing due to the background and the main image being complete contrasts to the colour and style of font this film title is written in. Therefore when producing our final products, we will have to take this into account to maximise publicity and potential audiences.
MEAN GIRLS
Looking at this style of font, it again is very basic which supports what we want for our film title. Also, the font is written in big bold writing which is very effective in attracting the potential audience. The title is written in pink, which works very well as the main characters are mainly female and pink is stereotypically associated with females. Also, having 'girls' written in the title reinforces this stereotypical view. The title seems to fit in well with the rest of the poster due to pink being used for both, however the writing is written in darker pink which make it noticeable and appealing from the background. The font is written on its side and is read from bottom to top, this is very unique and will therefore show distance towards other comedies and be very appealing in attracting the audience attention.
For our film, I believe that using pink for our film title would not particularly work due to the main cast consisting of males. However, having the font similar to the background but being distinctive simultaneously is very effective as it is not used very much which creates a uniqueness among these products. Having the writing on its side may be appealing due to the attractiveness and difference to other products, on the other hand I feel that using the standard format of left to right would be better suited and will still get the message across.
DRILLBIT TAYLOR
The font used for this film title is very much similar to Superbad in terms of colour and font style, both being being appealing and eye grabbing alongside being written in red. These are similar connotations as to what we want to have. The red connoting danger, this works extremely well due to this film being a comedy-action film therefore these work as a package. The writing clearly stands out due to the green background, emphasising the films title which makes sure the audience take notice.
For our products, we will probably have our film title written in contrasting colours as to the background fully emphasising the title to the audience. This film again uses thick, red writing which I believe would be ideal due as the font would clearly be visable. to do this I believe that we should use a contrasting background, similar to Drillbit Taylor, to the writing to encourage the audience to remember and take focus in the name of our film.
Conclusion...
From the research of professional products, this gave us an idea of what to expect from teenage comedy films. This enabled us to build on what we wanted for our products. I believe that having the font written in basic font but being bold is actually what teenage comedy films tend to do, this therefore supports our group ideas of what to put into our fonts. I also feel that having the film title written in red would be very effective in connoting the teenage comedy film genre across to the audience. However, the background for our poster has not yet been decided so when creating our font, we will have to take this into consideration. Even though black font was not used by any of our example professional products, I think that black font could be used as well as it help represents the basic and simplicity of our products which is what we want.
Researched Fonts...
This style of font seems to be both bold but simple, the writing seems very distinctive and represents the style of font our group came up with. Also with this font being simple it represents the comedy genre very well as it works in unison with the story line our comedy trailer will be due to the simplicity it is. I believe that this font connotes a comic style effect as the design is similar to what would be used on comics, therefore reinforcing the comedy style effect.
YARD SALE
I believe that this font would help create the connotations that we as a group wanted and of typical comedy films, therefore using this font would possibly help in interpreting the genre to the potential audience. However the font on a comedy poster seems to be generally basic which probably signifies the little importance it has in distinguishing the genre, this could be the reason for comedy films using less creative fonts and instead using basic but bold style fonts.
WIMP-OUT
With this font being both basic and yet appealing due to its boldness, I feel that this font could work particularly well for our groups products. I believe the name of this font 'Wimp-Out' signifies the comic style effect this font has. The writing is similar to that of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' which supports the reason as to why this font should be used as the main film title. However, I feel that for our groups products we would have to create something unique which clearly stands-out from other products but also using some characteristics of particular film fonts that I have researched. therefore this font is a possibility to use for the film title but I think it would be better if this style of font was used for less significant writing featured on the film poster.
TIMKID
The name of this font helps signifiy why it would help in getting our film genre across to the audience. Using 'Kid' would benefit our groups products as our storyline uses students who have just begun college but are considered outcasts to the majority of other students due to their school-like outfits. The writing seems like it could have been hand-drawn which adds to this effect. This font also fits in with what we as a group came up with for fonts as we wanted fonts which were simple to produce. I believe that this font could work for our products but isn't very distinctive to other products which is another factor our group came up with for font styles, however many fonts on comedy posters are very basic which limits the importance it has on the poster.
SET FIRE TO THE RAIN
This font is very simple to produce due to being basic which supports the comedy genre from my research above. The font is also similar to 'Timkid' and Wimp-out' as all these fonts could seem to be hand-written which works in unison with our storyline due to our storyline involving college. However, similar to Timkid, this font seems to lack the distinctive part I feel that our products need to help identify it clearly from other products.
URBAN SKETCH
This font is very different to other fonts used for comedy films we have researched which could either benefit us or not. With font being eroded, it doesn't really fit in well with what our group came up with for font styles which were simple and basic but being distinctive to other products. It clearly has the distincitve part from other products and shows signs of being basic as the writing still follows similar conventions of the basic style fonts. Also, the writing is a slight variation of the 'Gunplay' font which helps give this font some simplicity.
I believe that this font could either work or not as it is extremely distinctive to other teenage comedy films as many films use basic and bold fonts, however I think with this font lacking the simplicity this could be a weakness as well. With this font not following the similar conventions of teenage comedy films as the font is not simple or basic, I believe this font could work very well as the film magazines title instead.
GUNPLAY
Due to the 'Urban Sketch' font being very different to other teenage comedy films and is a variation of this font, I decided to evaluate the 'Gunplay' font. This font could be a potential as the font is very basic and distinctive among other comedy films which follows similar conventions of comedy films. this font has much more simplicity than the 'Urban Sketch' which makes this font more of a liability when producing our film title.
On the other hand, I believe that this font could mislead the potential audience into thinking that this film is an action-comedy film as I beleive it fits that genre much better. This is enhanced by the fact that this font shows similar conventions to 'Drillbit Taylor' which is an action-comedy film I researched earlier. Therefore this font will most likely not be used.
BRUNO BOOK
This font adapts to the similar conventions used from teenage comedy films as I believe that this font is very basic and unique among other teenage comedy films which represents the distinctiveness of this font. Despite this font being very similar to the font 'Set Fire To The Rain', I still think this font could work very well for our film title. However, this style of font is very appealing to the eye due not being as bold as other writing used in this font research, therefore I think this font could be used as sell lines on either the film poster or the film magazine as these are less significant the the film magazines title the film title.
OVERALL EVALUATION...
In conclusion, I believe for our film title both 'Badaboom', 'Wimp-Out' and 'Bruno Book' would be the best suited due to their distinctive qualities for being appealing and very simple to produce. 'Badaboom' I believe is the best choice for the film title as I think it has that comedic value which the other fonts fail to produce. 'Bruno Book' could be more likely used for little sell lines as this font seems less attractive and eye-grabbing than other fonts like 'Badaboom' and 'Yard Sale'.
For our magazine title, 'Urban Sketch' will probably be the most likely used as this font as with the font having the eroded quality, this could signify the magazine with uniqueness which will clearly stand out from other film magazine like Empire or Total Film as they both seem to use basic font. With 'Urban Sketch' being a slight variation of the 'Gunplay' font, I believe that this will represent that the font still has some simplicity value as well which would still fit in with the connotations of professional film magazines.
- Thomas Pyle
Here are some professional film title's from various teenage comedy films:-
THE INBETWEENERS
The film title appears in neon lighting which fits in well with the storyline plot, therefore working in parallel with each other. No other writing on the poster occurs in this style which helps draw in audience attention, due to the distinction of the font it can be easily recognised from various other posters. This type of font would work really well with if our storyline was about the party lifestyle, therefore the neon lighting could work but I believe that there are much better choices available.
For our groups film title, we may incorporate the font style into similar connotations as our narrative as I believe it works extremely well together. Also, the blue font looks very appealing due to the distinction it has from the background colours, for our product to look professional we will have to keep these ideas in mind when producing our own film title for the poster.
SUPERBAD
This style of font is very bold due to the font size alongside the colour used to help seek attention from potential viewers. The colour used for the title is red, representing dangerous activity which can be associated with the comedy style of film sometimes due to the nature of humour within the movie. Also, red works in parralel with the film's title, Superbad as they both represent similar connotations which suggests continuity throughout their products. Using red would work particularly well with Rom-Com style films due to red also signifying love and passion, therefore red could represent the love and passion of the film (Romance) but also suggest danger and humour within the storyline (Comedy).
For our film title, we may decide to have our film title written in red as I believe that it would work extremely well with the comedy genre and help address this to the audience. The style of font is very eye-grabbing due to the background and the main image being complete contrasts to the colour and style of font this film title is written in. Therefore when producing our final products, we will have to take this into account to maximise publicity and potential audiences.
MEAN GIRLS
Looking at this style of font, it again is very basic which supports what we want for our film title. Also, the font is written in big bold writing which is very effective in attracting the potential audience. The title is written in pink, which works very well as the main characters are mainly female and pink is stereotypically associated with females. Also, having 'girls' written in the title reinforces this stereotypical view. The title seems to fit in well with the rest of the poster due to pink being used for both, however the writing is written in darker pink which make it noticeable and appealing from the background. The font is written on its side and is read from bottom to top, this is very unique and will therefore show distance towards other comedies and be very appealing in attracting the audience attention.
For our film, I believe that using pink for our film title would not particularly work due to the main cast consisting of males. However, having the font similar to the background but being distinctive simultaneously is very effective as it is not used very much which creates a uniqueness among these products. Having the writing on its side may be appealing due to the attractiveness and difference to other products, on the other hand I feel that using the standard format of left to right would be better suited and will still get the message across.
DRILLBIT TAYLOR
The font used for this film title is very much similar to Superbad in terms of colour and font style, both being being appealing and eye grabbing alongside being written in red. These are similar connotations as to what we want to have. The red connoting danger, this works extremely well due to this film being a comedy-action film therefore these work as a package. The writing clearly stands out due to the green background, emphasising the films title which makes sure the audience take notice.
For our products, we will probably have our film title written in contrasting colours as to the background fully emphasising the title to the audience. This film again uses thick, red writing which I believe would be ideal due as the font would clearly be visable. to do this I believe that we should use a contrasting background, similar to Drillbit Taylor, to the writing to encourage the audience to remember and take focus in the name of our film.
Conclusion...
From the research of professional products, this gave us an idea of what to expect from teenage comedy films. This enabled us to build on what we wanted for our products. I believe that having the font written in basic font but being bold is actually what teenage comedy films tend to do, this therefore supports our group ideas of what to put into our fonts. I also feel that having the film title written in red would be very effective in connoting the teenage comedy film genre across to the audience. However, the background for our poster has not yet been decided so when creating our font, we will have to take this into consideration. Even though black font was not used by any of our example professional products, I think that black font could be used as well as it help represents the basic and simplicity of our products which is what we want.
Researched Fonts...
BADABOOM
This style of font seems to be both bold but simple, the writing seems very distinctive and represents the style of font our group came up with. Also with this font being simple it represents the comedy genre very well as it works in unison with the story line our comedy trailer will be due to the simplicity it is. I believe that this font connotes a comic style effect as the design is similar to what would be used on comics, therefore reinforcing the comedy style effect.
YARD SALE
I believe that this font would help create the connotations that we as a group wanted and of typical comedy films, therefore using this font would possibly help in interpreting the genre to the potential audience. However the font on a comedy poster seems to be generally basic which probably signifies the little importance it has in distinguishing the genre, this could be the reason for comedy films using less creative fonts and instead using basic but bold style fonts.
WIMP-OUT
With this font being both basic and yet appealing due to its boldness, I feel that this font could work particularly well for our groups products. I believe the name of this font 'Wimp-Out' signifies the comic style effect this font has. The writing is similar to that of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' which supports the reason as to why this font should be used as the main film title. However, I feel that for our groups products we would have to create something unique which clearly stands-out from other products but also using some characteristics of particular film fonts that I have researched. therefore this font is a possibility to use for the film title but I think it would be better if this style of font was used for less significant writing featured on the film poster.
TIMKID
The name of this font helps signifiy why it would help in getting our film genre across to the audience. Using 'Kid' would benefit our groups products as our storyline uses students who have just begun college but are considered outcasts to the majority of other students due to their school-like outfits. The writing seems like it could have been hand-drawn which adds to this effect. This font also fits in with what we as a group came up with for fonts as we wanted fonts which were simple to produce. I believe that this font could work for our products but isn't very distinctive to other products which is another factor our group came up with for font styles, however many fonts on comedy posters are very basic which limits the importance it has on the poster.
SET FIRE TO THE RAIN
This font is very simple to produce due to being basic which supports the comedy genre from my research above. The font is also similar to 'Timkid' and Wimp-out' as all these fonts could seem to be hand-written which works in unison with our storyline due to our storyline involving college. However, similar to Timkid, this font seems to lack the distinctive part I feel that our products need to help identify it clearly from other products.
URBAN SKETCH
This font is very different to other fonts used for comedy films we have researched which could either benefit us or not. With font being eroded, it doesn't really fit in well with what our group came up with for font styles which were simple and basic but being distinctive to other products. It clearly has the distincitve part from other products and shows signs of being basic as the writing still follows similar conventions of the basic style fonts. Also, the writing is a slight variation of the 'Gunplay' font which helps give this font some simplicity.
I believe that this font could either work or not as it is extremely distinctive to other teenage comedy films as many films use basic and bold fonts, however I think with this font lacking the simplicity this could be a weakness as well. With this font not following the similar conventions of teenage comedy films as the font is not simple or basic, I believe this font could work very well as the film magazines title instead.
GUNPLAY
Due to the 'Urban Sketch' font being very different to other teenage comedy films and is a variation of this font, I decided to evaluate the 'Gunplay' font. This font could be a potential as the font is very basic and distinctive among other comedy films which follows similar conventions of comedy films. this font has much more simplicity than the 'Urban Sketch' which makes this font more of a liability when producing our film title.
On the other hand, I believe that this font could mislead the potential audience into thinking that this film is an action-comedy film as I beleive it fits that genre much better. This is enhanced by the fact that this font shows similar conventions to 'Drillbit Taylor' which is an action-comedy film I researched earlier. Therefore this font will most likely not be used.
BRUNO BOOK
This font adapts to the similar conventions used from teenage comedy films as I believe that this font is very basic and unique among other teenage comedy films which represents the distinctiveness of this font. Despite this font being very similar to the font 'Set Fire To The Rain', I still think this font could work very well for our film title. However, this style of font is very appealing to the eye due not being as bold as other writing used in this font research, therefore I think this font could be used as sell lines on either the film poster or the film magazine as these are less significant the the film magazines title the film title.
OVERALL EVALUATION...
In conclusion, I believe for our film title both 'Badaboom', 'Wimp-Out' and 'Bruno Book' would be the best suited due to their distinctive qualities for being appealing and very simple to produce. 'Badaboom' I believe is the best choice for the film title as I think it has that comedic value which the other fonts fail to produce. 'Bruno Book' could be more likely used for little sell lines as this font seems less attractive and eye-grabbing than other fonts like 'Badaboom' and 'Yard Sale'.
For our magazine title, 'Urban Sketch' will probably be the most likely used as this font as with the font having the eroded quality, this could signify the magazine with uniqueness which will clearly stand out from other film magazine like Empire or Total Film as they both seem to use basic font. With 'Urban Sketch' being a slight variation of the 'Gunplay' font, I believe that this will represent that the font still has some simplicity value as well which would still fit in with the connotations of professional film magazines.
- Thomas Pyle
Monday, 19 September 2011
Character Moodboards
Looking into the different stereotypes of the characters, there are certain costumes and props to which we will need to use for our characters.
Geek Stereotype:
This will be easily sourced for us, in terms of a lot of these items can either be bought in local shops or pre-owned, to which when put together and manipulated will give off strong "geek" impressions.
Our own props:
Geek Stereotype:
This will be easily sourced for us, in terms of a lot of these items can either be bought in local shops or pre-owned, to which when put together and manipulated will give off strong "geek" impressions.
Our own props:
Sunday, 18 September 2011
New Narrative.
Basic synopsis:
Our main idea is now going to be three geeks starting college, assuming they are the "bees knees" and upon arrival realise that this isn't the case. After getting knocked around, they decide to request the help of a cool second year to show them the ropes of how to fit in.
Step-By-Step trailer idea:
- Shot of the three geeks getting ready for their first day.
- When they get to the common room they're strolling in and everywhere goes dead.
- Then a series of events happen to show college life is stressful and how they are getting bullied.
- A second year student helps one of them up one day, to which the geeks become in slight awe of him.
- The 3 geeks then approach this second year and ask for his help.
- In front of his friends the second year declines and laughs in their faces.
- The second year later calls them over in private and explains that his help will cost them.
- The geeks accept and go through a montage of changing:
- Image
- Getting tougher.
- How to talk to girls.
- After a lot of failures a shot of the second year in despair saying "This is going to take a lot longer than I thought".
In terms of sound:
Normal font= Eye of the tiger style music.
Bold = Background noise.
Underline= Kesha- tik tok style music.
Our main idea is now going to be three geeks starting college, assuming they are the "bees knees" and upon arrival realise that this isn't the case. After getting knocked around, they decide to request the help of a cool second year to show them the ropes of how to fit in.
Step-By-Step trailer idea:
- Shot of the three geeks getting ready for their first day.
- When they get to the common room they're strolling in and everywhere goes dead.
- Then a series of events happen to show college life is stressful and how they are getting bullied.
- A second year student helps one of them up one day, to which the geeks become in slight awe of him.
- The 3 geeks then approach this second year and ask for his help.
- In front of his friends the second year declines and laughs in their faces.
- The second year later calls them over in private and explains that his help will cost them.
- The geeks accept and go through a montage of changing:
- Image
- Getting tougher.
- How to talk to girls.
- After a lot of failures a shot of the second year in despair saying "This is going to take a lot longer than I thought".
In terms of sound:
Normal font= Eye of the tiger style music.
Bold = Background noise.
Underline= Kesha- tik tok style music.
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Weekly Update 3
This week we pitched our idea and we plan to look over our feedback and fully answer it all and reflect upon it to make it better.
We also began flat planning and storyboarding and after getting feedback from peers and our tutor, we've decided to change our narrative, to be a lot different to before. This was after suggestions that it may look improfessional and also it just wouldn't work as a comedy trailer.
Upon reflection of this, the group of us have gone off and re-worked our synopsis and planned our trailer, in preparation for over the weekend to work on new storyboards. Alongside this, next week we plan to meet up to flat plan our magazine cover and posters.
With the different narrative we have started to look into new trailers that reflect our new narrative idea and we will therefore adapt our textual analysis and audience research to meet these new needs.
(Evidence of planning).
- Emily O'Hara
We also began flat planning and storyboarding and after getting feedback from peers and our tutor, we've decided to change our narrative, to be a lot different to before. This was after suggestions that it may look improfessional and also it just wouldn't work as a comedy trailer.
Upon reflection of this, the group of us have gone off and re-worked our synopsis and planned our trailer, in preparation for over the weekend to work on new storyboards. Alongside this, next week we plan to meet up to flat plan our magazine cover and posters.
With the different narrative we have started to look into new trailers that reflect our new narrative idea and we will therefore adapt our textual analysis and audience research to meet these new needs.
(Evidence of planning).
- Emily O'Hara
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