Ancillary - Lighting and Photography planing

Lighting and Photography Planing

For the equipment, we are going to be using a DSLR. The same DSLR we will be using for filming. We are going to be using a DSLR because of its ability to capture RAW images. This will help us correct: Colours, lighting and exposure in post.







We will be using a tripod along with the camera for added stability. The benefits of using a tripod is that we can level our shots so that they have no angle. It will also add as a level of protection for the camera because it is fastened into the tripod.




We are going to using natural light because we will be taking pictures outside. We will try and shoot our pictures during mid day so that the natural light around us is brightest. Because we are shooting in RAW we will be able to change the lighting levels of each picture in the editing stage.








When we are taking pictures we need to take into account where in the shot the text will go. To help us manage this we can use the rule of thirds. Most cameras allow you to have a grid display up on the screen. By using this we can align up where the characters in the shot should be and and if there will be space to put the text.
If we say the text will go on the top line then we can put actors and props along the bottom line and the sides.

Costume/Props/Make-up Planning (Ancillary)

In regards to costume we will be using the same clothing that the main actor will be wearing during the filming. This is due to the link of the film and poster. To have the actor wearing the same clothes it allows the audience to instantly recognise the main character from the clothes that he wears.

With props we may use a piece of paper with the words "bucket list" written at the top of it. This obviously directly links to our film and would not have any other words written on it. Having this as our poster will easily grab the audiences attention and will easily convey what our film is all about and who is acting and filming it.

The poster above is an example of the type of clothing that is similar to what we may use for our ancillary poster. It is quite ordinary clothing for someone around our age. Though this may not be the best poster it does give us some idea as to how a basic poster can be rather effective at getting the image of the film across.  

Actor Planning for Ancillary

We will use our main actor (Liam Hodgson) in our poster. Most films use their main actor to not only promote the film but also to promote the actor. Usually films will use main character as the main character is usually a well known actor so this will promote the film further as people will recognise the actor and look into the film. As Liam is not a well known actor we will just use him to stay relevant to the film.

Film posters are used to tell the audience roughly what the film is about, so we were thinking that we should put on of the bucket list ideas.

Task 2

http://www.emaze.com/?emazehome
This website is for presenting. I think this website is a good website to use in the future as it is simple and easy to learn but the outcome is very good and looks professional. It is very similar to Prezi so we would already know the basics.

http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/

This is a website for photo editing. This is a good website as it is very simple to use but it doesn't go in as much detail as photoshop, so if we want just a quick job on a photo we would use this site but if we want a professional job then we would use photoshop.

Ancillary task schedule

Due to a delay in filming for various reasons we had to delay the creation of our ancillary task to around the beginning of February.

Draw Poster Audience Feedback

I handed people in my class a copy of the draw up film poster and asked them to say a positive and a negative thing about it.



Nick Baldwin: The posters main headings fading into the distance is a nice touch. You might run into trouble when trying to picture a scene with the Sun out and a few clouds because of the season.

Josh Barnes: The location which is draw looks very nice. The poster is missing the names of key actors and institutions. A little bit of work will need to be done using Photoshop to blend in the titles with the clouds.

Danny O'Brien: Neat looking poster. Could try and add more of the characters to the poster.

Jake Hemming: I like how the titles are blended in with the clouds. This will require some photoshop work but overall the poster seems not overly complicated which will be easy for your group to meet deadlines.

Ancillary Location

For our posters and other ancillary we are going to use our main location for filming so the posters stay relevant to the film. We are hoping to get a picture of someone going down the road and we are hoping to get a clear road so the best time will be to shoot at night when the road is clear but if this is not possible then we can always take photos inside the house.

This is the road we want to take photos as this road is more quite that the others so we would be able to use the road with out cars getting in the way.

PhotoPeach & Emaze

PhotoPeach allows users to upload pictures to put into a slide show. The Order you upload the photos is the order they are put into the slideshow.

They then choose what music they would like to have in their slide show. They can choose from some music that is already on the website, from Youtube or from their own collection.

Emaze is very similar to Prezi. You create slides with text, images and/or video. And then is allows the viewer to go through the presentation in a graphical way. A benefit of using Emaze is that it supports .ppt files. So converting any Microsoft Powerpoint files into Emaze is supported.

The Bucket List (Film Poster ) using PhotoPeach

The Bucket List (Film Poster) on PhotoPeach

Drawn Film Poster

Mood Board

Our mood board is more focusing on the niche audience side of our film. Short films aren't very popular and definitely aren't mainstream so we have gone for more of a hipster mood board. It includes songs and films that are popular amongst the hipster community but also includes dramas and comedies to stay relevant to our film. We added Dumb and Dumber and Downton Abbey because although they are mainstream they stay relevant to our film as one is a comedy and one is a drama.

Digipack Analysis

Research 2

This film is a comedy/drama. It has the generic conventions for both genres. For example the second half of the film is where theres more comedy and is in a higher key lighting, typical of a comedy film.

Whereas in the beginning of the film, where most of the drama takes place it is in low key lighting. This is typical of the drama convention.

  In comedies it is typical to have some sort of duo, as the storyline will follow the relationship of the two main characters. This is counter typical of a drama as in dramas it focuses on one character and their story.

Shot list

 

 

Inspiration for our film poster

We had a few inspirations for our poster idea. The main inspiration was from the movie "The Bucket List". We choose this film as it is very close to our one, so we chose this poster to base it on.

Our poster features two friends, although this is not our finished poster we would like to have two people doing on the things on their bucket list on the poster.

Our finished poster will be something similar to this. We will have at least one person doing an actual task on the bucket list, our final film will be in high key lighting as it is meant to be a happier ending and we want to portray this in our poster. We will have all our actors on the front as there won't be many. The title is crucial and to get the right font is important. We will be taking samples of text from other comedies/dramas. The 'Bucket List' font isn't what we want, we would prefer something more comical.

Although are film isn't a comedy the style of the front cover is appealing and we think it would be good to follow these 

Preliminary Inspiration

Preliminary Inspiration

For the preliminary film poster i created i got the idea from a short film i have seen. The film (pictured right) is called "Orange Drive". The film has only one camera angle. The camera is mounted on to the front of the car throughout the film.

The two shot used in this film allows the audience to see: The characters, clothes they are wearing, props they are holding and their facial expressions. Because of the amount of information given off by this particular shot i chose to do a similar premise on the preliminary film poster.



There are some similarities between our film and this film such as:

• Both films follow the life of a boy.
• Low budget
• Small Cast

Preliminary Photoshop Ancillary

Professional Poster

The purpose of an advert of a film in a magazine is to promote the film and the actor, most magazine adverts will have a large picture of the actor. In this case its Daniel Craig featuring in Quantum of Solace.

It is also common to advertise other films, but these films are usually smaller and they have the bigger film taking up the front cover.

The magazine cover tries to cram as much information onto it and likes to get the consumers interest with exclusive interviews and exclusive content such as posters etc.

We chose this cover as an example as we want over cover to look similar as we will have our main actor taking up the majority if the page

Typical conventions of film posters

From many of the posters I have seen both professional and student there seem to be similar conventions for them all.

• The largest text is usually the title of the film. Standing out so that the audience will be attracted to not only the poster but the title first.
• The main character is usually in the centre and the main image on the poster this is supposed to allow the audience to recognise straight away who the main character in the film will be.
• Posters also usually have the names of the actors in the film as well as who directed it and the name of the company that produced and financed the film.
• There also tends to be some sort of slogan that usually relates to the film sometimes like the film poster above there is a fact that says a bit either about the director or main actor.
• Other examples are below:

Student Ancillary

"Unbalanced" Film Poster Analysis

The film poster features: the release date of the short film, the institution that is making the film, the actors and the title of the film.

The film poster is dark which hints to the audience that the film can have a scary genre such as Horror or Gore. This is a common convention of a film poster. This is because the poster wants to give as much information about a film without revealing its narrative. The poster is in black and white as well. Black and white gives a quite subdued look to the character.

The character on the poster looks rather unkept. The character has greasy looking hair and is unshaven. This can means that the characters class may be low/working class.

The Avengers film analysis

The Avengers Poster Analysis

These posters are made to promote the film. This Poster is typical for an action film as the CGI in the background suggest its going to be a CGI heavy film and a lot of fighting.

The poster has the main protagonist on the front which is typical of an action film, the film is based on these heroes so they want to promote these heroes as much as they can.

The text is very professional and custom made, it is designed to fit the background and the genre.
"The" is cleverly edited into the A of "Avengers"

Student analysis of a student film

The Omega Film Poster Analysis

This poster has many conventions of a typical horror/theory. It has dark colours with bright red text suggesting blood or death. The dark colours suggest its not a happy film and the way the hand is laid out, it looks like the person is dead.

The slogan under the film suggest its a horror, as it includes hell and by "The End" this mostly likely means death. The text look like blood splattered onto the poster.

Overall this poster looks very professional, as it includes the dates, the actors and the text is very relevant. 

Ancillary task research

• This persons ancillary task of a magazine cover has them directly in the centre. The reason to why she's probably in the centre is because she is the main character of the film.
• The largest text on the magazine is the title which is expected. The title is also No.1 Films which the person is trying to link with their film being rather good.
• To attract an audience the person has decided to put a box circle with "WIN" in large capital letters. By doing this the person hopes that a potential audience will be attracted to the prospect of being able to win a trip to Florida.
• The background of this magazine cover being brown with a bit of yellow allows the other parts of the cover to stand out more such as the supposed main character and the interview section of the cover.