Film poster conventions

As promised, I will be researching the general conventions of a film promo poster. Here we go!

• Film posters are a form of promotion that aids in drawing in the film's target audience before the film premieres. 
• The majority of film posters have an artistic value, which inclines the audience to purchase the poster and hang them up for their own eyes to see. 
• Iconography, or the visual images and symbols used in a work of art, is an important factor in film posters. 
• Iiconography always helps identify the genre of the film and aids in further intriguing the target audience.
• Main conventions of film trailers:
• Eye-catching poster to entice viewers
• Main image should focus on capturing the essence or a part of the film
• The title should be eye-catching and roughly take up a third of the poster
• The poster should focus on genre and follow genre conventions
• Poster should include tag line and/or release dates
• Poster should include main actors/actresses and directors/producers
• Symbolic colors

The movie, The Vow, is the perfect example for a demonstration of a romantic drama film poster.

As you can see in the image, the film poster for The Vow, incorporates many of the general conventions for film posters. The tag line is perfectly visible, and portrays the depth and importance of love in the film. The main image highlights the main plot of the story without giving away too much, which entices the viewers. The light background symbolizes the love between the two characters and sets the mood for the film. Overall, this poster incorporates many conventions.

Thanks to this research, I am able to open my eyes and start to plan on how Isabella and I are going to organize our film poster. Of course we still have to finish editing the second trailer, but it is important to multitask at times, since we don't have too much time left for this project! Stay tuned for our film poster story boarding!

-AC

Editing progress

Folks, we did it! We have finally made some progress on our editing, thanks to Isabella! Once she came back from Paris, Isabella and I spent hours finding the perfect song for our trailer, royalty free of course! After finding the perfect song, we were able to start editing.

Unfortunately, the file of our trailer is over 100MB and will not upload to blogger. Isabella and I both agreed that uploading it to YouTube is not the best idea since it is not the finished trailer. All we are missing from trailer one is static scenes and camera footage lenses. Therefore, you will just have to trust our word for now and wait until we can get the file under 100MB to show you guys a preview!

Isabella was an absolute hero when it came to editing our first trailer. She took this task under her wing and went for it. Of course, I was there to offer her guidance and help when she needed! Isabella incorporated muliple cinematic conventions in the trailers to make it more real and conventional. She added cinematic bars to the whole trailer, to make it look like the trailer had thick black margins on the top and bottom of the trailer. Isabella also added the vignette filter to the found footage, which makes the image look more vintage.

The audio of  the trailer consists of voice-overs, which Isabella strategically placed, back-ground music, which we both agreed aided in conveying the romantic mood and vibe, and audio from the clips that we filmed. Though Isabella was faced with the tough task of matching our voice overs with the clips that we filmed, she powered through and the result is amazing!

I'm just so happy we are making progress and that we are catching up from being behind! I can't wait to start editing trailer two and begin researching on poster conventions!

Stay tuned for more...

-AC

Work, Work, & More Work

Welcome back guys! 

It's work time!! Isabella is officially back home from Paris so it is now officially time to work! 

Here is an outline I created for what Isabella and I have to work on in the next couple of days:

Today, Thursday, March 29:

• Research Royalty Free Music Sites
• Find background song for our trailers

Friday, March 30:

• Begin to edit Trailer 1
• Insert voice-overs
• Insert background music
• Match audio
• Level out audio
• Etc.
• Begin to brainstorm ideas for our film poster

Saturday, March 31:

• Finish editing Trailer 1
• Start editing Trailer 2
• Insert voice-overs
• Insert background music
• Match audio
• Level out audio
• Etc.

Sunday, April 1:

• Research film poster conventions
• Brainstorm ideas for our film poster

Stay tuned for our editing progress!

-AC

Behind Schedule/Trouble in paradise

Uh-oh.. guess who is slightly behind schedule again.....

You guessed it.. its me! :(

This week has been an absolute roller coaster for me. Since it is the last week of the 3rd quarter in school (in America most high schools use quarter schedules, not semester schedules), I have been running around like crazy making sure i have the best grades I can possibly earn. Not only did I have to work three times as hard this week in school, but I am also balancing family and personal issues that have taken a bit of a toll on me. Because of this, I was not able to begin editing this week. 

But don't lose all hope fellow blog readers! Guess what this week is??? SPRING BREAK!!! 

I am finally on break so I will absolutely get right on track. Isabella, my project partner will be in Paris, France (so lucky, I know!) during the majority of the break but I on the other hand, will be sitting on my bed working my editing magic. For now, it's time to relax, but stay tuned for my magic!

-AC

Recap: Filming Day 2

Check it out! Here's some of the footage from our second filming day!! Once again, I have put together a short clip of some footage from day two, without any editing, hope you enjoy!

Now that we have all the footage, it's time to start actually editing!

- AC

Recap: Filming Day 1

Welcome back blog readers!

As promised, here is some of the footage from the first day of filming! In order to make this post as efficient as possible, I have put a short clip of some footage from day one, without any editing! I can't wait to actually begin to edit!

- AC

Filming Day 1&2

You know how I mentioned how I think Isabella and I have super powers?

Well, now I know we do!!

Earlier this week we had promised ourselves that we would finish our storyboards, dialogue, and filming by the end of the week; and guess what? We did it! We filmed 95% of our project in the last 2 days. Though we are missing one or two scenes left to film, I am so proud of the hard work we have put in this week. Hopefully, since we are now caught up on our schedule, we are able to stay on track and keep this project flowing smoothly. Stay tuned for some footage from our filming days! 

- AC