Movie poster

This is my finished movie poster.

What I did-
First I researched other film posters. 

**not finished, need to write an evaluation.

Movie poster - background image

I searched on google for a background for my movie poster, I wanted something that looked like a stormy night sky.

Movie poster background

After a few searches I found this background, that I'm very happy with.

Photos for movie poster

 These are photos that I took for my movie poster. 
I took them on different backgrounds because I didn't know which one would be easier to remove.
When I opened them in photoshop, I found that the one with the lighter background was easier to edit.

The costume in the photo were sourced at panto, I searched  through the cupboards for a suitable costume to be worn and also a matching hat.

Unit 2 Pre-production techniques

TV

-When you are getting ready to film a show for TV, there are a number of things to have to fill out before filming can commence, such as filling in risk assessments, so you aren’t sued if something goes wrong during filming. When casting a film, the production company would probably go to a casting agency to look for actors/actresses, if it was a professional production, or they would put advertisements/send out leaflets if it was an amateur production. When casting or looking for crew to work on the film, it always best to build up a list of contacts.

-Also when you would have to look at the target audience for the type of program you were starting to film. For example if it was a period drama like Downton Abbey, you would look at the particular people that watch that program.

-You would also have to look at your budget/finance, and if you didn’t have enough, you would have to find funding for somewhere in order to make the TV show. If there isn’t enough more options that could be turned to are either the BBC, which makes money from TV licensing, if the program was being made for the BBC, or from sponsorship/advertisements.

-You would also have to look at the equipment available for filming, such as camera, tripods, lighting equipment, and microphones. If you needed more equipment than originally intended, it couldn’t either be hired, or bought and then hired out to others that needed it after the filming had been done.

Photography/photo-imaging

-When working in the photo-imaging industry, it is always vital to look at the nature of the photography as not to offend anyone. If it is a underwear photo shoot, it can’t be too provocative if children are going to be able to see the image.

-When recruiting models for a shoot, you would have to get in touch with a modeling agency, then you would receive portfolios back.

-Also risk assessments would have to be completed if photographs were being taken in a derelict building or if working with live animals.

-There would be a lot of deadlines if the photographs were being taken for a magazine, these deadlines could either be daily, weekly or monthly. For example Vogue, which is published on a monthly basis, a lot of thought and preparation would go into the shoots for the fashion, and the person on the cover, the session may be spread over a couple of days, and thousands of images will be taken.

-When shooting it would be critical to make sure you took enough memory cards with you, as it wouldn’t be convenient to run out of memory.

-When it go to the post-production it would involve putting the images through Photoshop, to get rid of anything that isn’t wanted, such as spots.

Print

-In the print industry there are either daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly deadlines.

-It’s good to have an appropriate contact list, just in case an interview needs to be arranged.

-An method of how to get work out there if you are either a freelancer or employed by a company, you have to find a way to get your stuff out there.

-Deals with supermarkets can be done, this could be like an ‘Exclusive to Tesco’ product, and it is only sold there, so if people want to read it, they will have to travel to Tesco, this is not only giving them business, but also you.

-Advertising can make or break a magazine/newspaper, sometimes it can either break even or make a loss.

-Most magazine have celebrities as USP (Unique selling points) to sell more copies of something.

Video

-Non-broadcast video is usually a video that is shown in B&Q or Wilkinson’s to show how products work, such as JML products. Its usually very low budget.

-When the filming has been done it will go through an editing process, much like TV and film production.

-The props that are used are usually always the product that they are trying to sell.

-If people are featured in the video, they will need to sign actor release form, the same as when actors star in films and TV programs.

Radio & Audio

-When broadcasting on radio some radio presenters may be broadcasting from home.

-You have to pay royalties if you use people song on the radio.

-International stations – the world service, foreign offices pay for the world service to be broadcast in countries.

-Whatever someone says on the radio, you own it.

-When reading the news on the radio, you have to make sure that you get it right, or you’ll get sued.

-You have to be on time with everything, current events, travel news, etc.

-You’ll need sound booth, to be able to record, but if you’re filming outside you’ll have to find a relatively quiet place to record.

-The personnel needed will be: DJ, artists, producers, sound engineer – who is sat on a mix desk, and a scriptwriter.

Film

-Lots of pre-production will go into this such as research.

-Actors will need to be found to star in the film, or extra will need to be found to be in the background.

-A director and producer will need to be found to direct and produce the film.

-Other job roles that will need to be found before production begins: set designer, costume designer, make up artist, editor, researcher, scriptwriter, camera and sound man, floor manager, archive, story board writer.

-The genre of the film will need to be decided before filming begins.

-Finance will need to be found for the film, either from the production companies such as: Dreamworks, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, Columbia and Paramount.

Interactive

-It could be like an app, teaching you too cook, or an app to help you speak another language – where you talk to it, and it tells you if you have pronounce it right.

-Interactive media is also games like Grand Theft Auto, they have people write a script, and then have people make the game, which can take years to create.

Film proposal

Iana Surch - 16/10/2013

Proposal for Creative Media Production Project

Format and Medium - I am going to create a print poster for a movie, it will be A4 sized, and it would be used in a magazine.

Sector - The sector that this fits into is the film marketing sector.

Working title - I do not yet have a working title, at the minute is is just called 'Untitled project'

Genre - The genre of the film is going to be a fantasy adventure.

Intended audience and age - The intended audience for this film is men and women aged between 12-18, maybe even older, depending if fantasy adventure films appeal to an older audience.

Summary of content - 

Summary of style - 

Legal and ethical considerations - I will have to make sure that I am not copying

**not yet finished**

Movie poster analysis