Friday, 24 January 2014

Draft Poster


This is our poster so far. We are happy with how it clearly is similar to our film with the yellow text. It's a rough poster that we are mostly happy with and want to review it later to see if any changes are needed. 

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Alternate Ending?

We have planned and shot our ending where it ends with the Dad saying about how he never though his lie to protect his son from guilt would go so out of control.

Shortly after shooting this I watched an episode of Midsummer Murders. Although the style of this is very different from what we have done it ended with a bit of a surprise twist.

I was then wondering wether we could end ours with some sort of twist so I lightly planned a few ideas

  1. Paul is being taken away to an asylum-possibly a bit too cheesy and I think it would be difficult for us to film this well and effectively
  2. Pauls dad tells Paul what he has done and it ends with Paul sitting on the bed in his room and then it fades to black-I think that is the ending people might expect and ending with it like that might be too predictable
  3. Turns out there actually is a sockmonster, and it shows a shot of him removing a sock at the end-decided not to use this as it would give it too many twists and may make our film too confusing
After coming up with some possible other endings we decided that we liked the ending we had the most and couldn't think of an idea that was better so decided to settle with the one we already have.

Friday, 10 January 2014

New magazine

 
 
We have now added in the rest of the pictures and changed the layout. I feel it now looks more like a magazine review with the pictures.
 
We are going to review it again ourselves to see if we are happy with it. Personally I think that we have met several of the conventions of a magazine review but also missed out several important ones.
 
Conventions we have followed...
  • Name of film at the to
  • Pictures of film but not screenshots
  • Text talks about plot, actors performance and a rating
 
Conventions we didn't use...
  • White page background
  • Name of magazine on pages
  • Text commenting on best actor
  • Name of cast/directors
  • Text being in columns
  • Relevant pictures 
At first we thought by not following many of the convention's we would be making it more interesting but after looking at what we created I think it would be much better if we did follow all the convention's. We are going to start again with the layout and slightly change some of the text so that it references Duncan Rowes performance as he is defiantly the star of our film.

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Magazine review draft

 
Here is our first attempt at a magazine review, we have used different colours to normal so that it stands out. We need to add in some more picture first and maybe change the layout.


Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Confessions of a Sock-a-holic: Rough Cut #1


 
This is our rough cut of our film. We still need to add in idents to the film and credits at the end.