I have made the ajustments as laid out in the previous post.
I have replaced the Speed trailer with the Faster teaser which has several good points of comparison with our teaser
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
2nd Presentation of chosen evaluation question
I have made the ajustments as laid out in the previous post.
I have replaced the Speed trailer with the Faster teaser which has several good points of comparison with our teaser
1st Presentation of chosen evaluation question
This is the first draft of my Prezi presentation for one of the evaluation questions.
The improvements suggested by Mr. Wroe are:
1. Need to refer specifically to teaser trailers
2. The videos need to be teaser trailers NOT full length trailers
3. Label each teaser trailer with the title of the film
4. Grammatical Errors
I will amend and then post the new presentation today.
Sunday, 20 March 2011
3rd Draft Magzine Cover
I have made the changes suggested by Mr. Wroe and I outlined in my last post.
One of these have been to the title - Blockbuster sounds like a magazine that would be similar in content to Empire and Total Film and would meet their conventions i.e. would celebrate film rather than criticise; look at big budget films not just arthouse cinema.
I have changed the grammatical errors and finally the colours so all of the text was move easily visible
2nd Draft Magazine Cover
I have made the following changes to the first draft of my magazine cover:
1. Image - I wanted an image that reflected the action-thriller genre. I chose an explosion as a bomb is at the heart of the film. Given the events of the past week, I had to carefully choose my image so that it would not be offensive. I also was not keen on the old image as it didn't reflect what is happening in the film.
2. Star - I needed an image of the "star" but as Jonny is not recognised as a celebrity, I thought it would be interesting to mix him into the explosion. This also mean't I had to change the headline to reflect the "mysterious" nature of a brand new star. It is a more Unique Selling Point than the original poster image.
3. Tagline(s) - I wanted to link this in into the image. As it is difficult to see who the star is, the tagline should reflect this. The other taglines are generic film magazine taglines that are more interested in promoting films rather than challenging or criticising them.
Changes:
1. Change the title to a fictional one.
2. Change the colour of the taglines so they are more easily visible
3. Grammatical errors.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Website research (True Grit)
So right from the off http://www.truegritmovie.com/intl/uk/index.php (The website for the film True Grit) you are subjected to the movies soundtrack, shortly after you are confronted with the Trailer for the film and then after you have dismissed/closed this it has a continuous soundtrack continuing from the film.
Asides from the music the website is pretty simple, it has links to Reviews, Photography and the other standard things from movie websites and it is a very generic film website.
Asides from the music the website is pretty simple, it has links to Reviews, Photography and the other standard things from movie websites and it is a very generic film website.
Things I like:
The Slogan ''Punishment comes in one way or another'' which fits nicely with the soundtrack which has the like ''Tell em' a gods gonna cut em' down'' and the typography of which is very good.
The dynamic bulletholes which you see appear on the website with blood coming out of them.
Things I dont like: It is very generic and it has all the things which other websites have.
BUT, what this means for our project is that we don't nessacerily have to deviate from this standard form for a website and just change it according to our genre. but also we can add more things specific to our film which could even set us ahead of the quality of this particular production
CW, happy MS?
The Slogan ''Punishment comes in one way or another'' which fits nicely with the soundtrack which has the like ''Tell em' a gods gonna cut em' down'' and the typography of which is very good.
The dynamic bulletholes which you see appear on the website with blood coming out of them.
Things I dont like: It is very generic and it has all the things which other websites have.
BUT, what this means for our project is that we don't nessacerily have to deviate from this standard form for a website and just change it according to our genre. but also we can add more things specific to our film which could even set us ahead of the quality of this particular production
CW, happy MS?
Friday, 25 February 2011
Poster Work
Yesterday morning Piyal, Matty, Jonny and myself all went to Matty's house. We had a green screen set up so we could do some photos for the poster. Jonny being the main character in our film was the person we were taking photos of and we had him doing different poses. These were the photos we took:
Later in the day after doing some more filming Piyal and I chose the image we thought would best fit into our poster and developed that image and the poster around it.
Firstly using Photoshop we cut out the green screen and made this area transparent so that when we moved the image onto the poster we would just have the outline of Jonny rather than a square box with green mixed in. This then went onto the poster we had made before with red clouds instead of the black ones and also a blood dripping effect on the letters to make it seem more genre related.
However we didn't feel it looked right simply as an image on a cartoon style background so we played around with the effects and found one we thought looked really good.
We then added the other titles, including the names of the two main characters and the catch lines for the film. However we are still missing the "SUMMER 2012" and the small writing that will say "A PPM Production, by Patrick Greenberg, Matthew Springett, Piyal Matilal and Conor Whitehouse". We have left these out at the moment A. Because we don't know where to place them
B. Because we want to use a different font for the "SUMMER 2012" and I want to talk to the others to get an opinion on which this should be.
I feel this is a good response to the feedback we received in class about our 1st draft as we have inserted a second image, added colour, are going to use more than one type of font and made both titles fully in capital letters whilst at the same time keeping the themes we liked about it in the first place by keeping it in a cartoon style. As well as this we have followed conventions by using catch lines and putting the names of the main actors in smaller font above the title of the film.
PG and PM
Later in the day after doing some more filming Piyal and I chose the image we thought would best fit into our poster and developed that image and the poster around it.
Firstly using Photoshop we cut out the green screen and made this area transparent so that when we moved the image onto the poster we would just have the outline of Jonny rather than a square box with green mixed in. This then went onto the poster we had made before with red clouds instead of the black ones and also a blood dripping effect on the letters to make it seem more genre related.
However we didn't feel it looked right simply as an image on a cartoon style background so we played around with the effects and found one we thought looked really good.
We then added the other titles, including the names of the two main characters and the catch lines for the film. However we are still missing the "SUMMER 2012" and the small writing that will say "A PPM Production, by Patrick Greenberg, Matthew Springett, Piyal Matilal and Conor Whitehouse". We have left these out at the moment A. Because we don't know where to place them
B. Because we want to use a different font for the "SUMMER 2012" and I want to talk to the others to get an opinion on which this should be.
I feel this is a good response to the feedback we received in class about our 1st draft as we have inserted a second image, added colour, are going to use more than one type of font and made both titles fully in capital letters whilst at the same time keeping the themes we liked about it in the first place by keeping it in a cartoon style. As well as this we have followed conventions by using catch lines and putting the names of the main actors in smaller font above the title of the film.
PG and PM
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
magazine cover
This is a basic draft of the magazine cover for Total Film. I will edit this later on but at this point, it contains some of the key elements that I will keep for the new draft.
The magazine has to incorporate several key elements such as:
1. Masthead - Title of magazine so the audience is aware of what the magazine is called
2. Sub-heading - This is to give further detail on the magazine's content and elaborate on the theme. In this case it is a modern film magazine and the tagline "The Modern Guide to Movies" helps confirm this. This makes Total Film distinctive from magazines such as "Sight and Sound" which focus on older, classic films.
3. Main Headline
4. Barcode - Is a standard convention of all magazines
5. Price and Date - This needs to be included to inform the readers
The main headline is obviously about our film. The main image is taken from the early draft of the poster. However, in future, we may use images of the stars (Matty or Jonathon) as this is what magazines do to sell the magazine to their target audience. Stars are important of getting an audience outside the target audience and the bigger the star, the more likely that you will getting more sales.
The headline is designed to focus on the biggest film at that point in time. This again may change as we may add a more catchy tagline that perhaps is even a pun on the title.
The next major headline below this is the Summer preview which links into our film. The Oscars headline is trying to attract an audience who perhaps do not like blockbusters film. The remaining headlines are designed are focusing on big films (except for my headline!) to further attract and capture the film-loving audience.
As this is a commercial magazine, most of the headlines reflect films in a positive light.
We will perhaps change the colours although the red, black & white tie in nicely with the poster. However, the purple and yellow will probably be changed. Also, I think the font is rather dull and may need to be changed
Four Lions Website Research
Carrying on with my research into the designs, layout and styles of websites, I decided to take a look at 'Four Lions' Its not really our genre, its more of a comedy, but its an Action Comedy, so its close enough!..
YAY!.. On the outside it looks like a much more realistic website to make for us, than what the other 2 websites I have analyzed so far.
The main thing what catches your eye straight away is the large image of the creepy crow with a bomb attached to it looking around, its a little fuzzy being a flash video on repeat. The image is meant to add to the genre of the film being a comedy, but it gives me the shivers!.. It would of been cool if like you could interact with the Crow, like the head would follow the mouse around, or you could click on it and it will flap its wings and squark at you.. Thats always fun for a few minutes at least!
The content of the page all flys on from the sides into the final positions, the text does dissolve in before flying accross though but its a very quick process. Shmooth.
On the homepage there is very little information, and all the content it does have is majority in the middle of the screen. It is largely dominated by a bright green Radial gradient with the white center making the content in the page more reader friendly. The designers of the site have played the risk card, using a slightly darker green colour for the links, which works well, just.. the last link (Reviews) you can just about see. The links are slightly different to the other websites I have looked at, having a where to watch link.. (Do people need to be told that)..As with the other films websites, it also incorporates rollover text links, what change colour when mouse is hovering over them. The website also like the others they center and try and direct the audience to buy the dvd/blu ray.. (Do people really check film websites, if they want to buy it, surely if they were looking to buy, they would just go straight to Amazon)..
The whole site is just ONE page, clicking on the page, just changes the content on the page, well not the whole page, the main image of the crow remains there looking around in the same place, while the title and the buying the dvd/ blu ray image move to the top of the page, while 'On DVD and blu-Ray August 30' and the link bar moves down, to make way for the content go into the middle of it. Clever.
Right next to the title are 4 black silhouette images of 4 still action shots, Exciting.. but not only that, placing your mouse over an individual image, and BAM.. the individual image does a little action.
The first guy with a rocket launcher- fires a rocket up and past the Crow.
The second guy, sitting.. rasises his arm up..
The third guy, with the briefcase does a crazy little run..
The fourth guy, fires a cartridge of bullets into the air..
Now this links with the film because these actions actually happen in the film. So its not just any random images, its a marks and spencers image.. ha no but they are related images and actions.
Sooo.. Its Half term, yet I've the only one who posted on this blog.. wheres the commitment lads!! MS
YAY!.. On the outside it looks like a much more realistic website to make for us, than what the other 2 websites I have analyzed so far.
The main thing what catches your eye straight away is the large image of the creepy crow with a bomb attached to it looking around, its a little fuzzy being a flash video on repeat. The image is meant to add to the genre of the film being a comedy, but it gives me the shivers!.. It would of been cool if like you could interact with the Crow, like the head would follow the mouse around, or you could click on it and it will flap its wings and squark at you.. Thats always fun for a few minutes at least!
The content of the page all flys on from the sides into the final positions, the text does dissolve in before flying accross though but its a very quick process. Shmooth.
On the homepage there is very little information, and all the content it does have is majority in the middle of the screen. It is largely dominated by a bright green Radial gradient with the white center making the content in the page more reader friendly. The designers of the site have played the risk card, using a slightly darker green colour for the links, which works well, just.. the last link (Reviews) you can just about see. The links are slightly different to the other websites I have looked at, having a where to watch link.. (Do people need to be told that)..As with the other films websites, it also incorporates rollover text links, what change colour when mouse is hovering over them. The website also like the others they center and try and direct the audience to buy the dvd/blu ray.. (Do people really check film websites, if they want to buy it, surely if they were looking to buy, they would just go straight to Amazon)..
The whole site is just ONE page, clicking on the page, just changes the content on the page, well not the whole page, the main image of the crow remains there looking around in the same place, while the title and the buying the dvd/ blu ray image move to the top of the page, while 'On DVD and blu-Ray August 30' and the link bar moves down, to make way for the content go into the middle of it. Clever.
The first guy with a rocket launcher- fires a rocket up and past the Crow.
The second guy, sitting.. rasises his arm up..
The third guy, with the briefcase does a crazy little run..
The fourth guy, fires a cartridge of bullets into the air..
Now this links with the film because these actions actually happen in the film. So its not just any random images, its a marks and spencers image.. ha no but they are related images and actions.
Sooo.. Its Half term, yet I've the only one who posted on this blog.. wheres the commitment lads!! MS
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
So what I have done on this is to have bars what are stuck to the the bottom and the top of the page.. because that always makes it look neat. So I did this using css style sheet on a div. and I have also changed the font to the font we are using on all of our pieces..
The main thing I've been trying to do apart from the background is to have the text in the middle, but so that its length is the same length as the title.. if you get what I am saying...
Ohh also the links are rollover images! WOW!..
feedback please..
1 month to my birthday MS
Monday, 21 February 2011
Green Zone movie website
http://www.greenzonemovie.com/
Now Green zone has a very clever site. On arrival to the page, you are welcomed by a welcome page, a page.
The clever people among you will notice, that I had to some considerable zooming out to give more of an idea of what treasures this website beholds. Its different to a normal welcome page you normally get on websites, in the fact it has a whole load of content on it.. Basically all the content on the separate pages put into one, so for lazy people who don't like clicking on links, they can view it all on one page... Clever.
The page uses an action shot background in the top half of the screen, with the protagonist character on the left and 3 smaller seperate action shots on the right, split up with the information.
Heading the page it has the attention grabbing text, the name of the film, the famous world known films previously directed by the director - connoting to the audience that the film will be good, further backed up by detailing the award winning actor in the film.
The link bar then has links for the photo gallery, synopsis, cast, product features and a link to enter the site.. Not that you need to enter it to get any more content.
As like many other film websites it tries its hard sells on the audience, with the trailer in the middle and telling them all about the discs that they can buy, so that they can watch it at home!.. Yay.
Then it goes about and has all the content from the website, in there only little compartments with a different background image behind each one. Fancy.
On apparently clicking on the button to enter the site..
after some loading site nonsense.
You get to the main sites homepage, which is just a fancy flash version really. In keeping with the synoposis of the film, the viewer is presented with a green radar map, where the user can choose where they want to go on the site... Ohhh interactive!.. They clearly have money to burn. Good colour co-ordination skills though!..
So far what I have been finding out from researching websites, are that they are all fancy, and interactive, made using lots of different programming languages, like flash and JavaScript, I for one can't code in them.. I can do HTML and supposedly I can programme in php.. But Im sure My computing teacher will tell you that Im not very good at it!!
Actions movie websites, tend to use little array of colours.. they stick with a certain number of colours.. round about 5.
But I have learnt how the websites are layed out and how they have a relevant background image, and how the centre of attention is on the trailer and buying the dvd/ Blu Ray...
Having text but pictures too.. because no one likes to read a busy website!..
Reporting for duty, actually wait I've already reported for duty.. MS
Now Green zone has a very clever site. On arrival to the page, you are welcomed by a welcome page, a page.
The clever people among you will notice, that I had to some considerable zooming out to give more of an idea of what treasures this website beholds. Its different to a normal welcome page you normally get on websites, in the fact it has a whole load of content on it.. Basically all the content on the separate pages put into one, so for lazy people who don't like clicking on links, they can view it all on one page... Clever.
The page uses an action shot background in the top half of the screen, with the protagonist character on the left and 3 smaller seperate action shots on the right, split up with the information.
Heading the page it has the attention grabbing text, the name of the film, the famous world known films previously directed by the director - connoting to the audience that the film will be good, further backed up by detailing the award winning actor in the film.
The link bar then has links for the photo gallery, synopsis, cast, product features and a link to enter the site.. Not that you need to enter it to get any more content.
As like many other film websites it tries its hard sells on the audience, with the trailer in the middle and telling them all about the discs that they can buy, so that they can watch it at home!.. Yay.
Then it goes about and has all the content from the website, in there only little compartments with a different background image behind each one. Fancy.
On apparently clicking on the button to enter the site..
after some loading site nonsense.
You get to the main sites homepage, which is just a fancy flash version really. In keeping with the synoposis of the film, the viewer is presented with a green radar map, where the user can choose where they want to go on the site... Ohhh interactive!.. They clearly have money to burn. Good colour co-ordination skills though!..
So far what I have been finding out from researching websites, are that they are all fancy, and interactive, made using lots of different programming languages, like flash and JavaScript, I for one can't code in them.. I can do HTML and supposedly I can programme in php.. But Im sure My computing teacher will tell you that Im not very good at it!!
Actions movie websites, tend to use little array of colours.. they stick with a certain number of colours.. round about 5.
But I have learnt how the websites are layed out and how they have a relevant background image, and how the centre of attention is on the trailer and buying the dvd/ Blu Ray...
Having text but pictures too.. because no one likes to read a busy website!..
Reporting for duty, actually wait I've already reported for duty.. MS
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