Our Final film! - Laura Brownlie

Some work may still need to be done on the sound but apart from that it's finished

Little White Lies Draft - Holly Stone

Little White Lies Review

Draft

Above is the final template review of our Short Film. The font and the positioning of the text boxes and text itself has been finalized, however - I was experiencing problems with regards to the image we used for the headline of the review.

The image kept becoming pixalated and would make the high quality reviews that white lies produce - appear tacky , therefore I will have to adjust this upon the start of term.

However, the image we chose to use is a clear representation of our protagonists costume, personality and hobby. She appears focused and aims to achieve in her love of football, and I feel that the image we have chosen to represent this achieves what messages we aim to put across to our audience. 

Sherlock Holmes - Holly Stone

Sherlock Holmes

One of our main influences in the post-production editing of our film, was that of text messages which were used in 'Sherlock Holmes'. The mysterious on-screen messages were used as a narrative voice.

Above is an image from Sherlock Holmes, demonstrating the on-screen messages.

Film journalist Michele Tepper commented on this new development with the technological age below: 

"Now, we’re used to seeing extradiegetic text appear on screen with the characters: titles like “Three Years Earlier” or “Lisbon” serve to orient us in a scene. Those titles even can help set the tone of the narrative - think of the snarky humor of the character introduction chyrons on Burn Notice. But this is different: this is capturing the viewer’s screen as part of the narrative itself."

Little White Lies Review - Holly Stone

Review Final Draft

"Cyberbullying; the dominant enemy of todays young society, and a dangerous activity to which threatens the securities of those facing it head on. The newly discovered short film 'Who Are Ya?' suggests many ideas to which of these are conveyed through emotion but also incredibly powerful while maintaining realism. The story to which is based on a young girl whose love and passion for sports places her in the spotlight for the bullies at her sixth form, facing homophobic bullying to which is based on stereotypes surrounding what is the social norms for a girls’ hobbies. The newly discovered actress, Laura Brownlie, plays the role of the lead character, Emma, who receives persistent texts which contain many threats and abuse, leading to her being bullied for her supposed sexual orientation.

With the innovative use of post-production editing, the texts to which Emma receives appear subtly, however the impact on Emma’s life remains dramatic. The text messages she receives appears within a similar format to the award winning TV series, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes building suspense with the anonymous texts to which appear throughout scenes. The innovative ideas used within ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Who Are Ya?’ whereby both are demonstrating the powers of the cyber era,  could this art of ‘Narrative Deduction’ effectively become new age of development in TV and film across homes and cinemas?

 Alongside the many insults and abuse Emma receives throughout this short film, the twist within who her true identity is regarding her sexuality, to which the answers are discovered right under our noses as she begins communicating with an individual simply named 'Jesse Taylor'. The name choice, both masculine and feminine, leaves the audience guessing who this other individual is. The film suggests that Emma seems to be very interested in the mysterious ‘Jesse’, and later she arranges to meet this mystifying character.

 The marvelous twists within this short film certainly leave the audience guessing and leaves us with the thoughts of realization that although based in a fictional world, cyberbullying and homosexual bullying do in fact take place on a daily basis; maybe the cleverly used semantic codes "Who Are Ya" builds upon can open the eyes of those around who may a victim or witness of one of the two horrific downfalls in our society."


Below is the headlining image:

** The final draft will include an explanation into why we chose to use the following image. 

Poster Editing - Holly Stone

Final Poster Editing

While editing our final poster, I decided to create many designs and ask not only my group, but also my peers for which one they favoured the most and which was more effective, below is each designed followed by an explanation into what it does/doesn't achieved:

First Design: Above is the first design I created. I removed the initial advertisements which were on the boards behind the goal. The filter added to the image was favoured in the fact that it makes the poster appear more severe, and the angle of the shot makes the poster shout the theme out towards the audience. The theme of course , football, is spoken through the title of our short film and the image seen in the background of a goal. However, I recieved critisism on the boards being left blank, they appear to reveal a perfect opportunity to include awards etc from film companies and festivals, therefore my next design I opportunity to change this.

Above you can see I added some advertisement. The boards were also adjusted in colour, in an attempt to keep the black and white theme. However, once again I was critisised on the first award. As the "Lottery Film Awards" does not exist, I had to change this fake award.

I adjusted the awards, and to which suprisingly added the last professional touch to our poster. Conveying all football  themes and also suggesting a potential isolation of someone/something in our short film, above is the finishing product of our film poster.

Final Editing - Holly Stone

Final Film Editing

Thursday 18th December 2014:

Today we completed all the filming we needed for our short film. Alongside all the filming, I finished the sound effects and clip editing in Final Cut Pro. Our film runs up to 5 minutes 15 seconds but includes a variety of transitions which allows the film to move with an easy narriative.

The only tasks needed to be completed in regards to film editing is that of final Non-Diegetic and Diegetic sound editing, this will be completed tommorow by Laura. 

Poster Image Complication - Holly Stone

Poster Image

We recieved permission to use Burgess Hill Football Club's football ground in order to photograph the image we needed for our poster. Harry obtained this permission as his family partly run the club.Many complications still occured however, due to the icy weather conditions followed by harsh rain. 

However, below are the many images that were taken for our poster 

Filming Constraints - Holly Stone

Filming Constraints 

We have been experiencing some weather related problems lately which has been effecting our filming, with Gale force winds and risk of extreme icey conditions, there has been a few problems with filming outside as it relates to our Health and Safety.

Health and Safety includes;

1. Slip Hazzards
2. Winds knocking over camera equipment
3. Winds causing audio problems

This week (commencing the 15th December 2014) we have decided to complete filming on Wednesday and Thursday, but we must take in all Health and Safety precautions.

Weather Forecast for Haywards Heath:

Final Poster Draft - Holly Stone

Final Poster Draft

Above is the final poster draft we have chosen to use as a template for our design. With my previous post, I have justified my changes in fonts when compared to our original titling sequence in our film. However, we have to use our own stadium image for the background of our poster. In order to achieve this, we plan to obtain permission from one of our local football stadiums (Burgess Hill/Hassocks) in order to obtain a photo with similar angles and composition to the one shown in the draft,

However, as the stadiums we use will not be large like many of the bigger football tournaments ones, we intend to show how our protagonist is an amateur at football, therefore using a much more common layout for our football pitch would draw a line between her goal and dreams, and where she is now.

The reviews we used on the poster include a slight 'pun' when relating to our short film. As the film is based around football, we found that using the words 'Absolutely Kicking' would add a light and friendly humor to our film, adding to the age group we film around (teenagers at college) and to target our audience more clearly (16-25 year olds).

Little White Lies - Laura

Little White Lies lay out. 

All the of the reviews in little white lies are set out in a very particular way, It applies to all of there reviews and we're going to want to keep to theses conventions in our review.

This is an example of a review in LWL

Key points in the layout of LWL

• Photo - All reviews have a stills from the film as a photo at the top of the page. It's important that this photo is an equal length away from the left right and top.
• Title in size 36 Century Gothic
• Box with information on the film; directed by, staring and release date.
• Text - The main body of text is size 12 written in Aparajit, with the first letter dropping down 3 lines
• Reviews written side ways on the out side of the page.in font Microsoft YaHei
• Review 'Box' in the corner of the page giving the film a rating out of 5 on three different things Anticipation, enjoyment and in retrospect. Each of these aspects also have a shot comment on the film.
• Page Number- The page number at the bottom of the page is always 3 digits e.g 001 or 023

I have created a rough template for our review I still needs a photo from the film (and a page number) then it ready for use to insert our review.

Photoshopping Poster 2 - Holly Stone

Above is a screenshot of the photoshopping I am currently doing with two images we want to use for our poster. We were going to edit the two images back to back and show the comparison of both sides. Our protagonists sporty side frowning upon her girlier side, suggesting her isolation when compared to the other character. 

The background of both is suppose to be blended between a stereotypically girly background, blending into a sporty/tomboyish background. However, this may not become our final poster idea.

Poster Draft Editing - Holly Stone

Poster Editing: 9/12/14

Above is the advancement of our poster editing. I am currently using guidelines to assist me with the justification of the text within the poster. I finalised the editing of the production/billing box and currently am working on the title and the reviews on the poster.

The font of the title is a copyright free font which I downloaded for free from "Dafont.com". The font is called 'DOT FONT' and acts as a good representation of floodlights for the poster. I believe that the lighting behind the title adds a bold feature and highlights alongside centering the title more. The large space between the title and the production box adds to the severity of the main theme within our short film - football. 

Our titling font is different from the font we used in our short film, this is because the font we used for the short-film appears on the ground, so its specific to that particular scene. If we used the same font for our film poster, it wouldn't have worked well with the background. Plus the font we are using for our poster once again represents floodlights, which you actually see within a stadium, therefore we chose to differ the fonts as the 'DOT FONT' works better for our poster. 

The background image for our poster is once again copyright free and is a downloadable image from the following webpage: http://wallpaper-download.net/football-wallpapers/football-stadium-wallpaper , however, we Intend to find and use our own image as the background for our poster.

Poster Idea. - Laura Brownlie

My Initial Poster Idea - Laura

My idea for our poster is for it to be very simple.

I think we need to show both of the main characters to show that the film is not just about football but not give the audience too much information about the main characters.

To show this I made a very simple example what I was thinking on Photoshop.

This example doesn't have any of the ratings or actor on as we'll add them to our final idea which might not be this one.

Dancing in the Ashes - Laura Brownlie

Dancing in the Ashes

The low key lighting and the colouring in this poster gives the audience the impression that it is going to be a thriller/ mystery film. The main image on the poster doesn't reveal much about the characters (as we don't see any of there faces) but it does tells us that this film is or has some aspect of ballet in it.

Unlike most posters is poster does not have any reviews on it. This is unusual as the audience can not know what people think of the film. Again no names of actors appear on the poster the only text we see is the title 'Dancing in the ashes' which is place in the center of the poster on top of the image. The lack of information on this poster does help bring across a feel of mystery.