Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Film Poster Deconstructions.

I looked into 3 professional posters and 2 amateur poster and deconstructed them based on their typography, choice of image used, positioning of their elements, tag lines, colour schemes, if they had a clear indication of their genre and target audience and the golden rule.


Orphan.


  • Typography: 'Orphan' title, sketchy, white, imperfect, of a younger character, spooky, child or paranormal like.
  • Choice of image: frames the main antagonist (character) who the narrative is based around, looks innocent at first, the dark clothing and hair makes you think otherwise.
  • Positioning of Elements: main element of the antagonist in the centre.
  • Tag line: tag line placed more in the golden rule rather that the title itself, gives more of a narrative to the audience, plain, white, bold, still creates enigma around the antagonist.
  • Colour Schemes: mainly uses dark blacks, reds, blues, greens to create a horror feel to it, psychological elements as its not all black and red, the greens and blues make it seem more clinical, psychologically.
  • Clear Indication of Genre: the colour scheme contributes to the idea of the film being psychological horror film, the look of the antagonist and the underlining idea from the tag line on the poster.
  • Clear Target Audience: can see that from the colour scheme and overall feel of the poster that it will be quite dark and more appropriate fir a 15 or over age certificate rating.
  • Golden Rule: main antagonist, main elements, staring back at you, tag line, enigma.


Friday the 13th.








  • Typography: gothic, bold, dark, red, black, white, spooky, misty
  • Choice of Image: masked antagonist framed, dark, enigma, foggy background, not able to identify anything.
  • Positioning of Elements: main antagonist framed in the golden rule, tag line and title framed at the bottom and top of the page, eerie, enigma.
  • Tag Line: 'welcome to the crystal lake', very enigmatic, ironic as it sounds friendly but the image on the poster suggests otherwise.
  • Colour Scheme: black, white, grey, red, clear indications of a slasher horror film.
  • Clear Indication of Genre: colour scheme, masked antagonist, weapon in hand, enigma, mysterious background and location.
  • Clear Target Audience: reds, slasher, horror, gore, age certificate of 15 or 28 and above.
  • Golden Rule: main antagonist framed in the golden rule section, main focus to target audience, enigma, mystery, most important element.


Dead Footage.


  • Typography: bold, red, broken, use of low battery sign, matching to title of 'dead footage'.
  • Choice of Image: use of normal street, hands in top left corner, look of abandoned, dangerous, smoke, photo shopped into photo, dark, eerie.
  • Positioning of Elements: main focus of smoke and hands and camera, looks like you're on the floor or through the camera lens looking up.
  • Tag Line: 'where will you be', questioning, directly addressing the audience, making them think.
  • Colour Scheme: dark, grey, black, red, some blues and other colours but very minimal, gore, makes it feel cold and ark and eerie, creating enigma around its narrative.
  • Clear Indication of Genre: hands, red and blacks, zombie horror film genre, modern setting, modern genre.
  • Clear Target Audience: dark, enigma, eerie, gory, 15 or 18 age rating depending on the level of gore and horror throughout the narrative.
  • Golden Rule: mainly the building and hands in the golden rule, focuses on the zombie and genre side of the film and its narrative, titles placed towards the bottom of the poster.


Klinger.


  • Typography: urban, dirty, bold, dark, metal like texture to it, some in shadow and some in light
  • Choice of Image: girl standing by a fence, hand showing, only main centre part shown in light, enigma, dark, mysterious.
  • Positioning of Elements: main focus on individual shown in the middle, title at the top almost give the effect that it is labelling above the gate, other text is placed at the bottom, tag line placed in line with the fence parts.
  • Tag Line: 'they thought they were alone...they weren't', enigma, makes the audience think, something out of the ordinary.
  • Colour Scheme: dark, black, brown, dirty looks, run down, abandoned location, not meant to be there.
  • Clear Indication of Genre: tag line, hand behind fence, enigma, something paranormal or zombie like horror based film and narrative.
  • Clear Target Audience: enigma, not sure on level of horror, although not as much of a slasher, 15 age certificate rating.
  • Golden Rule: main focus in the golden rule is the protagonist from the film, hand behind the fence, tag line, lightened up part of the title.

Sinister.

  • Typography: gothic, smudged, blood, red, bold, capitalised, whites.
  • Choice of image: enigma, woman covered, cannot see identity of the individual, blood, face in the blood, paranormal.
  • Positioning of all elements: title is main element in the golden rule, picture further down, main focus initially put on the title and writing at the top referring to previous films.
  • Colour schemes: mainly red, white, grey, black, spooky effect, enigma, shadowing, smudged, drips.
  • Clear target audience: blood, dark enigmatic colours makes it seem of a more appropriateness for an age certificate rating of 15 plus.
  • Clear indication to genre: the face on the wall made of blood, paranormal, supernatural, unusual, the masked identity of the individual included in the image.
  • Golden rule: predominately the title and the references to other films made by the producer.


Monday, 14 July 2014

How to conduct and utilise an effective survey.


How to conduct and utilise an effective survey.


 1. First of all you must definitely know what you are asking through your survey and create a clear opening instructing your target audience what you want them to do and convincing them to complete your survey. Also as you will only want your target audience to answer the questions e.g. 16 – 25 year olds make sure that this is clearly stated within your opening paragraph.

It would be effective to inform your audience that the survey will only take a few minutes to complete so they are not put off by a long survey to be completed.


2.   Secondly you will need to think of around 8 – 10 questions so that you have a wide range of answers. Be sure to make them short and easy to answer and allow your audience around 3 multiple questions that you have in mind of using.



3. Next you want to create an account on www.surveymonkey.com and complete the online survey with your opening paragraph and survey questions.
 






  4. Once completed you can save and submit it to survey monkey where it will give you a link for you to share through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc. You will need to collect around 50- 80 responses in order to get a wide range of answers from your target audience.


Results.

5. Once you have a large amount of answers you can log back onto survey monkey and see the results from your survey by looking at them in a bar chart layout so you can see clearly what answer has the most votes for each question.



6. Next you can take a screen shot of each result and analyse each of them and describe how you will utilise the results you have collected, for example within this question, ‘Should the villian’s weapon of choice be…a household item…a medival weapon or a modern technological weapon.

The highest votes went to a household item from our target audience and so we concluded within one of our blog posts that we would have the villain use a household item like a knife or rope as their weapon instead of the other choice we gave in our survey.



Conventions of Film Openings and Trailers

I looked into three categories of a film opening, a theatrical trailer and a teaser trailer to allow us to see what their conventions are so that we can conform to those of a teaser trailer when creating our own.

Film Opening.
  • better narrative than a theatrical trailer
  • introduction
  • introduction to main characters
  • will contain opening titles, producer, main actors, editing etc.
  • longer shots
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsvZXGu-TFY&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCejsyS0t8&safe=active


Theatrical Trailer.
  • thorough narrative
  • longer shots than a teaser trailer but shorter than the film opening
  • longer, usually around two and a half minutes
  • Shown closer to the release date of the film 
  • Contains more footage of the film  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBwsUD7jYCI&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iaYLCiq5RM&safe=active


Teaser Trailer.

  • short shots
  • Faster paced transitions between shots
  • enigmas
  • Released before the theatrical trailer
  • Will only last for around a minute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuXkXJ1fPuk&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9-3Fj3ZdI&safe=active