Question 1

Before filming we visited http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/introduction/what-makes-a-good-short to find out the key parts of making a short film. We followed these rules;
Film is about telling stories in pictures, which is the most economical way of telling a story.
For our film we created a short film that uses more visuals than speech to create a story that is exciting and will entice the audience throughout by using framing and streets that point at the character you are supposed to be following.
Good Acting- which while filming we made sure we did a few drafts and edits to make sure we could act in the best possible way to make sure we create a good piece of filming.

part 2 short film poster and magazine article




For our magazine we picked a Empire style magazine however we followed the conventions of our art house poster keeping the colours black and white. However we added the red to attract the readers of the magazine. We have created a magazine that features every week a special feature on short films. In this weeks issue we have titled the work Lost Control which straight away links to the title of the film (the film being called Lost Control) also the use of using short film a lot throughout the work shows that the article is focusing on short films which will attract our target audience. We wrote this article for a mature audience that will understand the metaphorical usage in our article. We used example interviews and behind the scenes of the film trying to create a positive theme with the audience that will attract them to read on also to persuade them to watch the film. When i wrote the article i followed a formal rule and tried to persuade the audience to read on and watch the film, I did want to advertise the film but however i did not give away the full details of the film so they do not know the key points of the film but are interested in watching it. I used a section of film too link it with the short film and film this is very aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. Also we used pictures of the main character to show who is in the film and also links to the posters, so if you see the posters you know straight away the article is about them or vice versa.

poster


The Target audience for these posters are; film watchers and arthouse film watchers. We have made the black poster to seem more stylish and will attract art house cinema fans because of its style. While the yellow poster is more for general cinema fans who will be attract by bright colours and eye grabbing imagery. The Spike Jonze poster for still here is similar to ours because of the positioning of the main focus character is looking up showing the character is annoyed/upset by something. For our title we used the Alien font to show it is sci-fi and will attract the audience who will recognise the genre of sci-fi and who will like the font. This straight away shows the person looking at the poster that the film is sci-fi which is very important to attract our target audience. The tag line who's controlling you? shows that the film is about someone who isn't in control of what they are doing. Also the use of the rhetorical question makes it more personal and seem like the poster is talking directly to the person who is looking at the poster. We didn't choose to do a blurb because we felt that it would make the poster have too much information on it and will make the person who is looking at the poster look less at the main character on the front of the poster. The main image on the poster is the main character of the film we have chosen to make him look confused/upset to show that something is happening to him also it shows what the film is about and who is in the film. For the arthouse poster we used a black and white color scheme to keep the work simple and classy, the alien font will give away that the film is sci-fi. For the one for a generalized audience we picked a eye catching color that will attract the person who is looking at the poster, and it is aesthetically pleasing to the eye.