2. notes
• Girl- wild- use marshes for shots
• Man- her father/uncle/brother/some man.
Raises her. Soft music. Show shots of them
running timing each other, hide and seek in
the woods. I really like some of the wood
shots in this:
• http://vimeo.com/32641284
3. Ideas:
I want to create a film trailer in the genre of a horror or
thriller, this is due to the fact that it doesn’t rely on top
expensive equipment. You can get away with shaky
handheld shots. I am very interested in adding an action
feel to my film but I lack the equipment/ budget to
produce special effects, so it might not be very effective.
Location: I could use the wooded areas in my
hometown, the underground car parks or abandoned
buildings- these would be the typical places to shoot a
horror. I could even use a normal building but alter the
light intensity.
4. Stars:
I would use some of my friends to star in my film. I
would use the ones that take A level drama, or have
previous experience in acting. This is because I want
to make it as realistic as possible. I want the female
protagonist to be of the age of 12-15. This is
because I want her to give the appearance of an
innocent, weak girl but actually be very strong.
I want my film to have a female protagonist. This is
a key point for me in whatever genre I choose.
5. Stars- cont.
The reason that I am not using famous actors is
because I want them to be unknown to my
audience for example if I used Daniel Radcliffe
my audience would just see him as Harry Potter
not the character that I would have cast him as.
I also do not have the funds to hire out
professional actors.
6. Sound:
I want to create a tense atmosphere. Sort of
eery piano, electronic synth sounds- Not going
into sci-fi though! I want diegetic sounds of
breathing for example if running.
I don’t want any words in it only instrumental as
I think if I were to have words, they would have
to be meaningful to the story I’m creating and I
think that it’s very difficult to find something like
that unless you create it yourself.
7. Director/My inspiration:
• Director: I will take inspiration from directors
such as Joe Wright who directed the action
thriller ‘HANNA’. I like the shots that he uses
especially in the opening sequence and the ‘fairy
land bit’.
• I want to use HANNA as my main source of
inspiration due to the female protagonist. I think
it’s something that the mainstream audience isn’t
really used to. This gives an interesting twist to
the female role which I’m really interested to
work on.
8. I really like this shot as the camera is on the ground with the character, this really puts
the audience in the shot with her, adding to the tension in the scene.
I also like the lighting in this shot, the darkness in the top right corner coming down
shadowing on her face really adds to the mystery and just this shot alone tells the story
of what’s happening in the scene, you can tell that she’s hiding from something. You can
tell this by her eye-line and also the low angle close up shot adds to the image of her
hiding.
9. This shot is from the opening sequence where she shoots the animal. I really like the depth
of field in this image, the way she’s completely in focus but her surroundings are blurred
really gives the feel that she’s completely in control. Her physicality with the strong stance
with her arms fully extended outwards with the gun with no emotion in her facial
expressions really shows to me as an audience that she is in control and isn’t the typical
female figure. This is something I would really like to touch on with my film possible by
using a shot like this.
10. Target audience:
• As I would like my film to focus on the female role
and different ways it can be interpreted I would
aim my film at the female gender.
• Using teenage actors my film will relate to the
teenage age group/ young adult: 15-25.
• I would say that it will be mainly aimed at the
females this would be the preferred audience but I
think that males would be interested in watching
as it’s an action/ thriller /horror. Which is
stereotypically aimed at the `male gender and it
will star some attractive females. Men would be
the oppositional audience.
12. HANNA poster:
What I like about this poster is the simple
lettering it’s bold and plain white yet still give a
very strong effect by the shape of the letters, it
looks like very long strong strokes of a
pen/whatever to create it giving a feel of
strength.
I like the tag line ‘ADAPT OR DIE’. This really
gives a feel for the film and sets the audience up
for what they’re about to watch.
13.
14. SALT poster:
I think that this poster really does portray the mystery element of
the film as it has the black back ground in which you see
nothing, all that this image is, is Angelina Jolie. This is something
that obviously immensely helped to promote the film. I
unfortunately will not have the luxury of having a well known
actor, so I think that I would still have my protagonist as the main
image taking up the foreground but I would probably have a few
props or location hints in there to give some more story to my
poster than just ‘hey look at my actor’.
I really like the way that ‘SALT’ has been written twice, once in
bold white but pretty standard lettering but also, it has been
layered on at a low opacity a lot larger this I think looks really
effective as a film poster and it also gets the title through to the
audience twice in one image so will possibly stick in their minds
more.
15.
16. White Out poster:
I like the ice like colouration of this poster. It gives a
cold fearless image. The ice colour also gives the
audience an indication to the location of this film-
Antarctica.
This poster has a scratched effect over-layed onto it.
I really like the fact the image fades down into plain
white and the writing is on top of that instead of
covering up the image, I think that this makes it a
lot easier to read and so the readers will focus on it
more.
17.
18. THE THING poster:
I think that it lacks a lot of the detail that the others I like
it because it doesn’t name the actors or the
director, which makes it seem more real and almost
mysterious.
This film poster is very simplistic. It lacks in text and detail
yet still gets an eerie, mysterious and quite scary feel
across.
I think that mystery is a big thing for this poster as it only
show one single image which is almost distorted in the
title. Although my film isn’t necessarily going to be a
mystery I think it’s very important that you don’t give too
much away in the poster, trailer or magazine, so this is
something I will have to look at in a lot greater detail.
19. What I’ve taken from these posters.
• I think that I will stick with the mysterious element by
having either shadowed pictures or low intensity
lighting or even just a plain black background.
• One thing all of the poster have in common is the
capital lettered title, this to me really makes me take
notice as something important and is something that I
definitely would use.
• These posters all have a tag line that increases the
interest in the film for me personally, I will think of one
for mine once I have my final film idea down.
20. MAGAZINE
My magazine will be of the film genre type. It
will be specifically aimed at new upcoming
films, new film festivals/ film festival awards that
recognise new directors etc. The edition of the
magazine that I will create will specify in
Thrillers for example Looper, Taken 2 and Argo.
the cover will feature my star. It will include a
section on me as a director also as indicated by
one of the cover lines.
23. I found it very hard to find many images of a
woman on the cover of the film magazine
‘EMPIRE’. This might be because the magazine is
mainly aimed at males, and the masculinity of
men. Which is highlighted by the colour scheme
throughout the magazine- very dark. There is no
fashion things on the women, no gossip, as it’s a
film magazine so maybe they feel like they don’t
need to include women as much? Or that men
are generally the main characters therefore the
centre of attention hence a lot more male cover
photos than there is of women.
25. Vanity Fair
What I don’t like about this image is the fact she
is so sexualised. Her breasts are the focus of the
image. I do not want my magazine cover to be
sexualised in any way, this is because I want to
show the strength of my character and I also
want her to be young around 12-15 years of age
so sexualisation is out of the question.
26.
27. Interview
What I really like about this image is the tones in the photo, it
feels a lot more natural than all the clearly studio airbrushed
shots.
I like the way the mast head is very large and almost takes up
a third of the entire cover. I also like the font chosen I think it
really complements the feminine side as it looks like it’s been
written in lipstick.
I like the fact her make-up is done in a very natural way. She is
wearing stylish clothing but not sexual this gives her a strong
but still feminine feel which is something I will look to
replicate for my magazine cover.
I think that I will use the colours of this magazine, the simple
white writing with the natural light in the photo.
28. Name for my magazine
Bellatrix- female warrior
Virtue- something good within
Neoteric- new, modern
