Posters

Main Poster

Teaser Poster

Character Teaser Posters

Review Page

 

 

Editing Main Film - Lighting and Sound

Upon completion of filming the footage, all the footage was uploaded onto the computer and exported into iMovie where we then watched all the footage. Clips were were ordered into its first rough cut. After several hours of fine trimming clips and editing, a first cut of our film was produced.

The next task in hand was to work on lighting and sound editing to compliment the project. This was tricky because of balancing sound waves throughout the film without compromising the monologue for the film in any way. Through most of the film the music we added was overpowering and rendered the monologue inferior, so to overcome this the sound level was increased for the monologue and reduced for the music to allow it to be gently heard in the background whilst the monologue took place. This was effective as it allowed the monologue to be heard clearly whilst the music could be heard in the background gently.

Lighting was the other main feature of the film that we had to address. As the film was shot over a lengthy period and the conditions had changed throughout, the lighting was inconsistent at certain points. As the plan was to create our film in black and white, it reduced the effect of this lighting issue and by adjusting the temperature of the clip and also the saturation. This was effective because it added a sense of continuity to the mise en scène of the clip and also made it aesthetically pleasing

A Question Of Guilt

Below is the final cut of our media project.

For personal preference, subtitles have been included.

Ideas for posters

Part of the task was to create a poster to accompany our film. However, we as we had several ideas for posters we felt we should come up with a couple. As a group we decided on creating a number of posters. This is because in the film industry we find that films are accompanied by a range of posters such as teasers and region based posters. These were created in an attempt to bring in a greater audience and appeal to different audiences.

So for our film, we decided to create several posters, each with a different function:

• The first was the main poster. This would be the main form of advertisement for our film.
• Second was the teaser poster. This was used as an early release poster to promote our film before the main forms of promotion were released.
• Character teasers were also created to portray the key characters in the film to promote each individual differences within the film and to intrigue the audience into guessing which character is guilty. 4 character teasers are planned.

In total, 6 posters were planned to be created. 

Film Magazine Review Page - Research

One of the ancillary pieces required for our media project was a film magazine review page, supporting the film. Research was required as no one in our group were readers of any film magazines. To start with, we knew of Empire Magazine, a well known magazine that publishes film reviews, so that was a good place to start in our research as to how a magazine spread should look. It also gave us a rough idea as to what the layout of the poster should consist of.

Above are two examples of magazine reviews of two films - The Kite Runer and Due Date.

After looking over these two reviews amongst others, we realised that they followed similar trends in terms of format and layout. Both posters included:

• large images from the film that can be seen at first glance.
• bold text for the title.
• a section in which the details of the film are told, such a runtime, director, plot etc.
• a main body of text where the film is reviewed.
• and finally, a section at the end to which the verdict and the rating is revealed.

After obtaining this information, we now had the basis of what our film magazine article should include and also the general structure. This was useful to us because it meant we knew the conventions of a film review article, giving us headway.