Font Ideas for Poster & Magazine

Photoshoot for Poster & Magazine

 

 

Above are some photos that I took of our main character Shaun against a backdrop that I decided best fit the aesthetics of out film narrative, with it being set in a urban environment, following  the conventions of the British Film Drama genre. The brick wall connotes the feeling of the city as it makes people think of buildings and big working class constructs. Additionally, the reason he is looking down at the ground is to hide his face and the shame that he feels for going down the path he goes down. The outfit he's wearing is what people identify as a typical roadman and mischevious youth. As you can see his clenched fists represent the aggression and fury he feels inside, trying to hold onto it and prevent a violent outburst.

Filming: Day 1

Our first filming session commenced on the 30th of December. We decided to shoot all of the scenes with Shaun in first as the actor playing him is the most available of our actors and was willing to spend the whole day filming with us. Shaun also appears in the majority of the trailer and so it made sense to complete all the shots with him in it. For one of the shots we had another friend  near by who was willing to play an extra holding a knife. Sams dad was also available for the shot of Shaun's dad we needed.

We divided the shots up equally between us so we all had involvement in the production of our trailer. To begin with Sam Warren  filmed at shot of Shaun getting out of bed, which took some time to position due to the orientation of the room and height of the bed. It was also important to get his facial expression in shot, to show how he is feeling having just woken up to a life he dislikes. To go along with the conventions of British Film Dramas we closed the blinds to create a low key lit shot. These two shots took only a few minutes to film, with minimal difficulty.

After filming these two shot we moved onto the shot of Shaun snorting cocaine or the implied shot of this act. To simulate cocaine we used flour and a met ticket to divide and make lines. To make this shot appear darker we placed a curtain over the window, to help give off a gloomy and depressing vibe. We had a few problems filming this scene trying to make it look as realistic as possible without Tom having to actually snort flour. It took 3 tries but in the end we got it looking as close to the real thing as possible. This was filmed by James Scott, along with a point of view shot from Shaun's perspective, looking at a photo of his mum and dad. To show how Shaun feels about his father he covers up his dads face with his thumb. To end this shot there is a tilt towards the ceiling, which will move into a transition.

The last shot we filmed in the house was a shot of Shaun walking past his dad, who's sat drinking on the couch. I had to retake this shot a couple of times to get Toms body in the shot and the hand gripping the alcohol in a particular way. I also filmed a shot outdoors where the main character is being followed by another teenager with a knife behind his back. We recruited a friend who lived nearby to play the knife wielding teen in this shot.

The last bit of outdoor filming we did this day, was originally supposed to be filmed inside a gym, however we decided that filming Shaun exercising outdoors in his local park would seem a lot more motivating, showing him why he needs to get better and escape the area. Doing his workout outside in the dreary rain and cold weather makes him seem a lot more hardened and that he is willing to feel momentary pain for a lifetime of happiness.

Casting Choices

We have looked around for people that fit the descriptions of each of our character profiles or those that share similar characteristics of the characters in our narrative. After 1-2 weeks of looking we have finally decided on who we are going to cast in our trailer.

We have decided to cast:

Daniel Mclaughlin as a drug dealer













Anna Gravette as Sarah (Shaun's girlfriend)













Tom Chapman as Shaun                                                                                            












Peter Warren as Shaun's dad

I have posted detailed character profiles of each of the characters in our trailer in order to show their significance in our narrative. Moreover, we have managed to gather a group of around 6 candidates who are available to play an extras if we need them in the trailer.

Signed Talent Release Forms

Talent Release Forms

Character Profile: Dad

Name: John
Surname: Smith
Age: 49
Occupation: Warhouse worker

Background:

The father of Shaun, he lived a relativley happy and healthy life with a rewarding and well paying job in a managerial position at a local textile factory. He always put his family first shown by his decision to move his family from the inner city to the suburbs of Manchester where there were safer environments for children and schools close by to parks and fields to play. This is a lot different to his harsh upbringing in the city giving his children a childhood he never had.

For a period the decison to move to the suburbs seemed like a good and beneficial idea. The business he worked for allowed him to keep his job, his wife was happy and had flexible working hours allowing her to be home a lot when John wasn't. His son was turning into a respectable, hard working young adult with good school reports term after term leading up to his GCSE's.

Although this wasn't to last when he started to notice slight changes in Shauns attitude and behaviour, getting in late at night smelling of smoke and alcohol occationally. When he confronted Shaun he was met with aggression and denial. This was the begining of Shauns decline and end of his dads close relationship with his son. The straw that broke the cammels back was the unexpected death of his wife just a month after their argument.

Filled with grief from the loss of his lover and guilt from the loss of contol over his son John turned to Alcohol to dumb the pain he felt. This made him aggressive and viloent destroying any relationship he had left with his son and friends from work due to a lack of social contact. This resulted in the loss of his job at the textiles factory and him getting a part time maunal labourer job at a Warrington warehouse. Most of the money earned goes towards drink and bills leaving Shaun to his seemingly wanted independence.

Character Profile: Dealer

Character Profile: Sarah

Character Profile: Shaun

Research Popular Camera Angles and Shots

One of my roles in my group was to research into conventional camera shots and angles used in British Film Dramas. Here is what I found:

Location Moodboard

Production Schedule

Storyboards of our Trailer

After discussing what narrative we would use for our film, comparing each of our individual narratives and combining ideas that we thought were quite good, we than started to create a storyboard around it showing camera shots, angles, editing and the types of lighting we would use. It is imperative that we follow this order when filming as the trailer will be laid out in non chronological order, and if we make one  mistake it could confuse our audience.

Change of BBFC rating for our film

Initially we had decided that the rating of our film would be 18, due to it being a popular BBFC rating for films in the Britsh Film Drama genre, however we have decided to change this to an age 15 rating instead. The reason for this is that we would like to reach a wider audience, and a lower rating will allow this and since more and more youths are exposed to adult material at a younger age the majority of the viewers will understand and relate to the content in our trailer. Also, we have chnaged this due to the ages of members in our group not being that of the 18 rating themself , which goes against the purpose of the rating itself.

Group Roles

To make the production process a lot easier on our group  we have delegated certain jobs we must each complete, to gather the knowledge we need to create a trailer of high quality.

Me: camera shots & editing

James Scott: Props & lighting

Sam Warren: Location & Costume

I will be looking at past British film Dramas and the popular shots and camera angels used in them to give me and my group an idea if what we could include in our trailer, whether we should follow all of the conventions or not. I will take some test shots that could potentially be used in our trailer and discuss the usefulness of them in the type of trailer we wish to do, whether it is in chronological order or not. For the edititing, I will look over the texts I have already analysed again and list the transitions used and the effectiveness of suitable ones for our narrative.

By spreading out the responsibilities this will make the workload more manageable and less stressful as we all have a clear idea of what we are supposed to be doing. This will also make our ideas more coordinated and aimed when it comes to sharing ideas and creating the trailer.

Production Company

We have decided upon Film4 as our production company due to their past success with low budget films, specifically British Film Dramas like: East is East, London Kills Me, Nowhere Boy.

Since most of the films produced by this company go unknown and are created with very little money, it makes them ideal for our film, with it being independently made. By choosing a more low key production company it gives us the ability to entice the viewers that have more respect for quality films produced using short cuts or alternative creative methods whilst maintaining the appearance of professionalism.



Background of Film 4

It is a British television channel only available in the United Kingdom, owned by the Channel Four TV corporations. The channel was created in 1982 but has been off and on in past years. It is available on Freeview for 'free', meaning it reaches a larger quantity of the population than say films on Sky Movies. This extremely beneficial as some people may be restricted to watching films on this channel and come across our film by accident, find out that they like it and then spread the word of it to friends, expanding our audience. There is also a high definition version of the channel that viewers must pay for improving the reputation of our film, making it seem more prestigious as well as generating more money for the film as people who have the channel are paying more to see it. This channel is also available in Republic of Ireland and in Switzerland further broadening our films reach. The channel frequently has themed nights based around specific actors or genres and this could be very beneficial to us of we release the film when one of these nights or weeks occur that are relevant to the British Film Drama genre.