Poster Design

From the start, we had a very clear idea of the route we wanted to take with designing our poster. With the change of appearance within the film as Emma attempts to find someone inside her who she is not, we wanted to show her completely out of her comfort zone, by doing this we came up with the idea of having one of the stills in her dress, and then completely surrounding her with her true personality as well as being back to back with her normal self, almost like a contradiction to who she really is. However we didn't want to give to much away as the U-turn in the storyline is a must to keep on the low down or it would change how Emma is perceived by the audience and how they react to the ending. I then came up with the idea to use the advertisement boardings as a holding place for our cast lists reviews and our. When trying to recreate this in Photoshop, finding the place to find a right image. Because of this we had to stick with a secondary design that Holly created as it was more suitable compared to this one I designed.

Ideas That We Rejected - Harry Quilley

Ideas

There were many obscure and unrealistic ideas that we brainstormed  at the start of the project, some ideas that we added into our final synopsis and somewe stayed well away from.

Looking For Eric

Film Poster Research

Looking For Eric

As we can see from the tagline, that Looking For Eric is going to be a heroic comedy, which slightly contradicts the look of seriousness on what looks to be the protagonist. From the piercing look of the male character suggests he is an important figure or even the main character within the movie, that its centered around 'Eric'. There is also a look of confusion in his facial expressions which leads us to believe there some use of enigma within the film. The use of black and white in the main characters picture, as well as the 80-90's collar of the smaller character in the bottom left corner implies the movie is set 15-20 years ago. It also steers us to believe it is a sport most likely football related film, joined with the man celebrating in title wording with his hands in the air to create a similar shape to an I.


We see they only use one newspaper review. of 5 stars. This could be because of 2 reasons, either it is a very specific movie sub-genre that is aimed at a smaller target audience therefore it wasn't very widely advertised and shown and this newspaper/magazine was the only one to write a good review on the film to put it on the poster. Although the title is Looking for Eric, by looking at the tagline which tells us its a heroic comedy as well as the suggestion of football implies it is using 'looking' as a metaphor in relation to the main character which links back to the look of unease and confusion on his face.

Lesbian Sterotyping Clothing - Harry Quilley

When we filmed our first couple of scenes from our opening scenes, it came across that Emma didn't really look to much like a lesbian, even though we are not trying to make her look completely lesbian, we are trying suede the audience into thinking she is. Because of this we have decided we will not use these clips as we intend to change the way in which we dress Emma. Starting with the hair, we believe her hair she be more tied back in a bunch. By just combining each little thing gradually builds up the judgement on Emma leading the audience to believing she is in fact a lesbian.

Filming At Lauras House - Harry Quilley

Filming at Lauras House

Above: Getting the camera positioned correctly 

Above: Filming Evidence

 When creating the make-up scene we tried a few different options to get a close up shot, without the camera being noticed or being seen in the way of the shot.

As Laura's room was still quite girly with a lot of pink and girly apparel, we had to make a few adjustments to the room to make the appearance less girly and a little more tom-boy like to give it a stereotypical lesbian first judgement.

Location Confusion With Downlands

With half term approaching, and still a lot of filming left to be completed we knew we had to get are filming at downlands completed. When speaking to the school for when was the best time to film, they suggested in the half time, on which we agreed to do. however when speaking near the end of term the week before we didn't hear back from them meaning we didn't get the access we needed to film at downlands.


This has left us in a awkward predicament as we haven't had contact for more than a week, because of this we have chosen to disregard the downlands location as it has become a hindrance within our filming schedules and is taking unneeded attention from other parts of our film including the editing.

Bearing this in mind we have decided as a group to change the location in which we film this scene. As it was at such short notice with little chance of securing a new location rather than downlands that we shall film within the collage campus. Although its not ideal, we don't think it will have a negative effect on our film as we plan to have a lot of  close up shot reverse shots between characters, therefore leaving much of location unseen. This allows us to spend more time filming compared to when we planned to go to downlands as we only had an hour and half.

The Change of Ending - Harry Quilley (incomplete)

After reviewing our Films synopsis as well as our storyboard animatic, we stumbled across a little problem with our ending. Feedback from Marion, as well as little mentions during brief explanations we realised that portraying all these stereotypes of a lesbian in such a way that could offend other lesbians. Even though we never actually say she is a lesbian we are heavily pushing the audience to judge Emma. At the end when she is all suddenly dresses up nice, completely contradicts the rest of the film as she just changes for a date. Which implies she is not being herself and is just trying to impress, which maybe taken in a bad light and make the audience believe that the stereotypes during the film are all falsely used and do not reflect her personality correctly.

Our Expected Audience - Harry Quilley

Target Audience

As we intend to have slightly complicated story line, in which younger people may not understand. As we intend to use gender stereotypes, a younger audience may not be able to grasp the plot and how we are using stereotypes to portray Emma as someone she is not. Because of this, we as a group decided our target audience would be from the age of 16 as we believe by the age of 16 we believe  they should be able to understand the use of false stereotypes within our film. The good thing about our film, is that even people over the age of 60 will still understand the stereotypes as it was as common if not more common back then to be regarded as a lesbian just because of how they dressed, or by what sport they played.

We believe it will be suitable to both male and female as both can relate to the film, as the gender can be reversed without the change of opinion towards it e.g. A guy taking part in dance would leave him being stereotyped as a gay the same way Emma is said to be a lesbian just because she plays football and how she dresses. When looking at it from a social class aspect, it is also relevant to them as sexuality has little correlation with social class, therefore they will be able to associate themselves with the film.


As a Low budget short film, the best place for it to be shown would be the Duke or York as it is a independent theater, meaning there will be a better chance of getting in than if we were to try a place like the odion as it is a mainstream movie theater and all the blockbuster movies will be released there.

Health and Safety Considerations - Harry Quilley

With the use of many public places reoccurring within our film, we had to make sure that when we were filming, there was as little healthy and safety worries that could hinder our film. The first and obvious one, was making sure we filmed outside of school time as with a lot of kids running around and us wanting to film in a corridor could lead to an accident, as well as making our film to overcrowded and unable to set the scene we would like for our movie.

 As we intend to film outside a coffee shop, it bring into account the public, which is important that nobody gets knocked or bumped around the camera as it could break.

As well as this, there will be a scene where we a filming high up in a window looking down on Emma, so it is important that if we keep the window open when filming, that the camera is far enough away that it couldn't fall out and land on anyone. We do have a scene where we a shooting a football, so making sure its aimed away from anything or anyone to keep it safe.Other than these few precautions, are film is very risk friendly as we don't involve any over ambitious locations. This means we only have to worry about being in a public area and taken care when in public. 

Once we have a proper visit of each site, and get a full look of anything that could be a health and safety problem, we will take a complete Health and Safety Check.

Evidence of Location research - Harry Quilley

Our Location Research 

When thinking of suitable as well as ambition locations to get the best location for the shots we require to make our film as good as it can be. After going through our scenes from our storyboard, it was clear we were going to require space and permission to film in public places. After thinking over a few important scenes, we decided we need to find a location that gave us a real school like feel, with a long corridor that can lead into a match on action to a classroom as well as having lockers on the side, so we decided to get in contact with downlands community school to ask if we could use their premises on a day or too, to film our a scene where Emma is receiving some abuse down the hallways. After speaking to them, they have agreed to let us use part of the school out of hours to film our scenes.

As well as the school, we require a cafe/restaurant where two friends can meet together, and we can make it to out to the audience that the meeting is a date, when actually they are just meeting as friends. After sending out a few request's, we are still waiting for replies from Costa and a individual business in hassocks as they both are on the street and would be very simple but effective to film as we can get a variety of shots to choose the best from. We also may use Haywards heath and Wivelsfield station signage just as a establishing shot, we will also use some smaller parts around college as we felt they were not necessary to find outside locations i.e. the changing rooms as it is good area to film in an will be able to film at easier hours than outside locations.  

The final location will be Laura house as well as the football scene and titling in the garden, we felt this was the bets suit as it has room for the football as well as an overlooking window into the garden that allows us to get a higher up long-shot of Emma playing football, other than that we don't intend to use any other locations, just the inside of Laura's house for when her transformation in outfit is complete.

Storyboard - Laura, Harry

Storyboard with correct (ish) timings.  

Shot Break Down.

 Opening ELS of a Football Field .

 Tracking shot along the field reviling our main character (LS).

 Either over the shoulder shot or POV shot looking forward on to the goal.

 CU of main character looking to to the goal.

 Slow motion ECU of a football being kicked.

 Title sequence - football  flies across the screen reviling the title. this will be followed by two more of these shots showing the main actors.

 ELS of football flying towards the goal,

Ball rolls in from the last shot.

Main character walks in.

 LS getting a drink

 Phone goes off on the table

MCU Looking at phone, the texts will appear on the screen showing the audience what the messages say.

MC going to the door.

ECL picking up bag and football.

MU going through the door.

 ECU Locking door.

 Shots at the train station to show the moving of location (these may not be used.)

 Establishing shot of school/ college

 Entering the school.

 Walking down the corridor people whispering around her.

 CU showing it doesn't bother her.

 CU on a conversation between two girls

 LS in corridor two characters bump in to each other

 CU

CU

Enters Changing room

 People getting ready in the changing rooms

 MLS looking a phone (waiting for a message)

 Leaves room, phone goes off twice. messages appear on screen.

 Two girls look through the phone 

the messages the can see appear on the screen.

 Phone is put back, they leave the room.

LS, a group of people leaving a sports hall.

MCU on a conversation between two boys.

 MLS, slams door.

 

3 shots in a row showing the day going past, the messages form people in her class all flash up on the screen, the very last message is from a friend asking if she wants too meet up for coffee. 

 Shot of Emma entering the cafe

 LS of the two girls hugging and on looker (someone who goes to the school) sees them and starts laughing.

 The two girls have a conversation Shot reverse shot.

 ELS of her legs, you see her trousers drop and her pull on a skirt.

 ELS of Shoulder, we see her pull her top over her head and a new one on
.

 Applies make up, Camera is used as a mirror.

 CU on back of head, takes hair down.

Shot of bottom of the stairs, camera then pans up reviling her out fit.

 Walks out the door (MLS)

 Establishing shot of Restaurant

 Walking in to shot and start talking

Pan up from feet to head.