Progress of Products Before Break

Last year we found it valuable to have a break from our coursework for a few weeks so that we could see it with fresh eyes when we came back to it. This is the stage we have reached with each of our products before having a break from working on them in class:

POSTER

We have made the decision to incoporate the images at the bottom more fully into the overall composition by removing them from their backgrounds. We also added a colour overlay of a brownish shade to the two brothers so that they were distinguished from the father, making it clear they are the more important characters and that they have differences with him. we have added the billing block and begun to add the other key elements of the text at the top of the poster. This is what we need to work on as we are aware it does not stand out enough. We have developed the tagline, which will also appear as intertitles in the trailer to tie the products together. We have merged the two title font ideas we were trying out, as we prefer the thinner, spikier font to reflect the conflict in our piece, but the khaki colour works best across the two print products and so was the better choice.

To work on:

- placement of text
- making text stand out from a distance
- we are still not sure if we are happy with the bottom of our poster and the way the pictures merge

MAGAZINE COVER

We have mainly been focussing on the bottom half of the poster,  the teaser text and smaller images for other films as we are finding getting the right layour for these difficult. We have ideas for what we will write as text based on our research into magazine text, but we have added in some placeholders for now as we are more concerned about composition. We have added smaller images taken from stills that we exported from the coursework of other groups.  We have also tried to work out the colour palette of the text.

To work on:

- placement of teaser text
- colour palette needs an extra colour - more use made of the blue?
- we need to add in magazine cover line, price, web address etc - there is room for these above and around the masthead

TRAILER

This is the product that still needs the most work as it is the most complex project. One of our main issues is getting the sound right as this is a key part of our trailer. These two screen shots of our project show how we have been trying to build up the sound layers and add in drum loops and other tracks and mic them in the package. This is complicated because the speeds of some of the tracks we want to mix are different. so we have to adjust them without altering the pitch before putting them together. We also have to balance with other sound such as dialogue and sound effects (car crash, gun fire etc). As we keep adjusting the order of our trailer, this means adjusting the music again.

This is a further rough cut of our trailer. We are aware that it is not a finished product but we will be working on this as our main focus when we return to the coursework after the break.

 

 

To work on:

 

- sound is a priority as identified above

- pace - still needs more pace at end and most shots could be trimmed down further

- re-ordering of some shots is still necessary e.g. it does not work putting the hair cutting scene through the piece as even though trailers are not chronological, it makes the time sequence really difficult for the audience. We also are not sure we have got the shots showing the revelation about what the army has been concealing in quite the right order to make the idea clear to the audience.