film poster analysis

Film Language: Film poster analysis

The boy with no fear
The colour scheme of this poster is light black and a bold yellow Italic heading.The use of the colours blue black and yellow hold many connotations, as the colour blue and yellow could suggest freedom and open. However, the colour black could also suggest there is dark side to it.The boy is looking in a hole, which suggests its very mysterious and the hole could perhaps hold many secrets.The title 'I'm not scared'  makes the reader think as the boy could actually be scared of going down the hole. In this still image the boy seems to hold power and dominance but fears the hole could brake his believe of not being scared.

Million Dollar Baby: 
Considering the position of the main actor is in, shows her to be very powerful and dominant. Thebackground is faded black but you can vaguely see her shoulder muscles, which indicates that she's perhaps a fighter or gym workout. The lady is the central image of poster which
might suggests she's the 'million dollar baby'. The colour black is associated with power, elegance, death and evil. However, from this image we can understand that there's power hierarchy and many mysteries.  The faded face images on the right hand side and left hand side shows the interpretation that there's both evil and good.

Uzak:
This film poster shows a man standing beside a lake, this shows that he's a lonely and a isolated character.It shows the main character to be an outsider, who is distanced from reality and relationships.The revolting smoke packed in the city, suggests its a abandoned area. From the poster we understand that he is perhaps the main character within this film and carries out many mysterious.

Scary Movie 4:
The use of the colour black indicates that they trying to show a sense of evilness and death. However, considering Scary Movie 4's central image of 6 people with colourful props and exaggerating facial expression suggest its more of a family comedy genre film. The sue of the font at the top of the poster 'Absolutely Hilarious' instantly tells the viewers that is not gob-smacking horror typed film.The use of the different bright colour indicates that its targeted at teenagers.

Sin city:
The poster depicts a action film. The large gun they are all holding ready to fire prove this to us.Also, at the bottom of the film poster we can see a small city, which matches the title of the film, it lets us know where the film is going to take place, it is dark and raining. The use of the colour black makes us understand that this involves characters with overriding power and evil acts. Furthermore, the colour red gives the connatations that this film has scenes of both love and blood.


The blade runner:
The use of the animated characters in the central image gives it a sci fi essence. But looking at the main character' Harrison Ford' gun shows that it involves action and murder.The movie name 'the blade runner' indicates that there's a race. Furthermore, the the women could be the enemy and tries to make Harrison ford mission unsuccessful. The use of the brightly lit lights in the city, shows where the film is going to be set.The use of the  colour black signifies power and evilnesswithin the film 'The blade runner'.

Bride and prejudice
The use of the bright colours indicates that this a joyful and happy film. The central image shows a man and women back to back, both smiling, which suggest a romantic and comedy genre type film. The backgrounf shows lots of people celebrating.Considering the film name, prehaps they got married.

film language

Film language

The intended audience that this poster would be aimed at are for males over the age of eighteen that have a passion for blood-thirsty ‘shoot-‘em-up’ action movies. Movie posters use numerous styles, conventions and techniques to promote a movie. The first is the layout of the poster which is conventionally in the style of a portrait layout. The central image shows nine men with straight faces, holding automatic guns. From this we understand that  it's an action and thriller genre type movie. This is supported by the guns and knifes at bottom of the poster beside the white skull. The use of the colour black and red connotes that Expendables involves characters with different level of power and authority. The colour red suggests that its a 'bloody' movie with lots of murder.




From this movie extract trailer 'Smurfs' we can see its a cartoon movie aimed at an audience of three to twelve years of age. This is a mixed genre of comedy and family.  Its a happy film of five Smurfs and the peaceful life is disturbed by a wizard and a act. The smurfs are shown to be vulnerable when attacked. We can see that the wizard holds much more power and authority. The wizard is lonely and isolated in his little dark tent room.

From this movie extract trailer ' Ted' we can see its a man with a talking teddy bear aimed at anaudience of 18+ years of age, as there are sexual scenes and swearing. This is a mixed genre of comedy and violence.  From this extract we can see that its a movie of a isolated as well as lonely man of is accompanied by a talking teddy. He life is ruined after meeting up with the teddy as he drinks too much and attends the strip club regularly.




From this extract trailer' Fast and furious 7' we can see that is squad which race around Dubai to complete missions set by the FBI. This is aimed at a audience of 15+ as includes many foullanguage and sexual scenes. This is a genre of action and thriller. From this extract we can see the main actor ' Paul Walker' tries to protect his family and quits all violence. But he has to continue as he's family is attacked once again, therefore he teams up and tries catch the villain. They use highly expensive technology and super speed cars of this century.

lighting task

poster lighting analysis

 

Within this image we can see low key lighting. The use of black is an example of low key lightning. In the background its pitch dark, this has been employed to make the central image and the smoke stand out as well as eye catching. In addition, pitch black has perhaps been utilized as a background colour in order to show that she powerful and a dominant character, this supported by dark shade covering half of her face.

The use of the bright light on the right side of her face and smoke in the image could represent an example of high key lighting. Also this is an example of under lighting, as it comes from below the central image; this is usually used for Horror movies. But as this isn’t a Horror it represents her dominance and position in the hierarchy. The under lighting allows us to vaguely see the location she is sat down smoking.

 Within this image we can see low key lighting. 3^rd of this image is pitch black and it covers most of the image. The use of the upper lighting in this image allows us to see the character within the image face. Also the shadow makes her face stand out.

  This is a black and white image, which shows evidence of low key lighting. Therefore, more filler lights are utilized and from this image we can see that it’s a sunny day.  Also, there’s an upper lighting on the right hand side of the image. Even though, this was a high key lightning image there was no use of shadows.

 Within this image we can see a high key lightning effect. This is because it’s more dark and gloomy. Furthermore, this shows contrast of dark and light, as in the background as well as the characters faces its bright light. The central image of the characters with a gun in his hand shows him to be dominant and strong. 

 Within this image we can see an example oflow key lightning image. In the background we can see the shadow of the women in the central image screaming. Within this image we can see both upper and lower lightning. More filler lights are employed to make the central image stand out clear.

 Within this image we can see an example of high key lightning image. It is a very dark image with a glimpse of light coming from the window to allow us to see the characters actions. Furthermore, we can see a upper lighting, which is the window light. Also at the background of the central image we can see yellow lighting perhaps coming from room.

 Within this image we can see an example of low key lighting image. We can clearly see shadows of the four characters walking in a alleyway. In addition, in this image there’s back lighting. This back lighting allows the viewers to see that they are walking in an alleyway. Furthermore, due to lighting we are unable to see the characters faces.

 Within this image we can see an example of low key lighting image. The central image is of a young woman and we can vaguely see her face due to shadows.  This darkness illustrates danger and this is supported by the shock on her face. In this image we can see upper lighting coming from the right hand side.

 In this image we can see a low key lighting image. However, in this image we can’t see any shadows behind the central image. Furthermore, filler lights are employed in the background. This is black and white image and from this image she looks quite poor.

 In this image we can see a low key lighting image. There’s use of lower lightning edit, which results to the shadows formed behind the man and women hugging. Within the central image we can see they are in love.

sound task

Youtube video sounds

Within this film scene we can see that a man, dressed in a suit, has 2 men held hostage in a dark room alone. There's many blood and weaponry involved within this particular scene. However, there is great use of contrapuntal sounds, which allows us to to think more deeply about this situation. Firstly, this is brutal action scene but on the other hand calm, peaceful and classical music is being played. This isn't right as it doesn't fit well with the scene of brutality. Furthermore, the is use of both diegetic and non diegetic sounds. For example; the men speaking showsdialogue as so therefore evidence of non diegetic sounds. The use of the music at background and different noises show evidence of diegetic sounds. You could argue that there is use of sound bridge as the same sounds continues onto the next shot.

Learner Response for test

WWW: some insightful observations and analysis

EBI:  question 3

There was great use of transitions within the extract. Firstly, there was use of continuous cuts.  For example; after  the antagonist pointed the gun in the man’s face there was then an instant cut. Here are many dietetic sounds such as the flammable liquid, urine, fire, the gunshot and walking. This is accompanied by a non-dietetic atmospheric orchestral sound bridge which is parallel. this is accompanied by a non-dietetic atmospheric orchestral sound bridge which is parallel to the scene, it also crescendos at/just before main points. The special effects are exaggerated and are made slightly louder which draws attention points such as him urinating on the flame, this particular point confuses the identification with the character as the audience does not know whether the intention was to give the fellow protagonist time to escape or to give them self-time to confront and do what they need to do. Furthermore, there’s was great use of contrapuntal sound. 

Preliminary Exercise video

film production - planning

script-  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ElwDhtP_9wbHNTNw7SdVKsare1VdSMBGitdPcsNq0wU/pub

shotlist- https://docs.google.com/document/d/163WVNRS7__Yq_k2jWs6KuccJcjKeWwJO1qZMw7nK5go/pub

Film Production drafts

Film Topic possibilities:

Modern Noir-

• The FBI search for  a man who has killed his family and plans to next kill the president. So its the FBI squad and detectives to try catch him alive.
• A comedy based film. Which involves a group of Africans who make it their mission to find fruits and Vegetables. 
• Finally, a Action based film. There's to different Mafia groups and a one bounty hunter. There's a suitcase with a million pounds inside and they all go on the search for it.
• A drama based around a group teenagers, all attempting to make it big in industries that they aspire to become part of e.g. music, fashion, technology
• Two rival gangs who team up and plan an attack on their old school.

Evaluation

The greatest difficulty we had while making the shot rundown, storyboard and script is that there wasn't much correspondence in the middle of us and this made it hard to make a shot rundown without comprehending what was in the storyboard. By the by, the storyboard, script and shot rundown turned out alright and appeared to function admirably when taping however for next time we'll need to impart more when making the thing we requirement for after generation. Likewise, the preproduction ought to be finished and transferred to the majority of our online journals within the near future just to maintain a strategic distance from the bother of doing it after.

Our most downfall was the lighting, despite the fact that it was by all accounts splendid when recording and when it played on the "vlc" player was excessively dim at a few focuses, making it impossible to see what was going on. Regardless of the haziness and the single light satisfying the criteria of a cross examination it was outstandingly excessively dull and this is something we'll need to consider for next time. Besides, maybe a couple of the cuts were of low quality and didn't admire standard, so before we shoot and alter the following film I'll need to play around with the editorial manager to get usual to it. Moreover, the confining could have been exceptional as the gathering of people didn't generally get an opportunity to relate to the characters as their countenances weren't plainly appeared and a lot of the foundation.

We had a group of 4 people (mamduh. Abayomi, Callum and me).  This was beneficial and productive because we were able to flex our duties. Everybody in our group had a role to play in the making of the clip; actor or director and it was helpful having four people in the group because this made the whole process a lot quicker and more efficient use of our time. Also, the overall plot of the short film clip was really interesting and exciting to watch. It was a unique interrogation scene, where a suspect is accused of downloading music illegal. We try make a little funny to pleasure our audiences. Furthermore, we employed a calm instrumentals at the start, which fit perfectly to the film really well and added on suspense

Media awards

The best two short A level films that i thought were the most unique and most intresting to watch were; the experiment and Clairevoyance. Firstly, i had thought that the experiment was really good this is due to their intresting cinematography. The film was perhaps the opening scene of aaction and drama genre typed film, also the audience could easily understand the plot of the film. Alongside the great cinematography the film had a great screenplay, considering it won the award for best original screenplay. Furthermore, i thought that the my second choice, Clairevoyance, was good because it had great use of different sounds, hence why it got awarded best sounddesign film.

Within the clip of Experiment the beginning we as the audience were provided with a brief introduction to the film; which i found very unique and help because the film is only two to three minutes long so therefore we had a clear understanding of what is going on. Which was that themain protagonist was under attack and she was hunted down by criminals. The clip shows various of scenes where the main protagonist is running which perhaps indicates that her lives on the line and she has to run away.`There was use of sound bridge where the piano music continued on to the next scene. Furthermore; the was use of diegetic sound, which was the girl speaking on the background guiding the audience through the clip.

Within the clip of Clairevoyance we can see that the film starts of with a dialogue, a discussion about the party the she went. The sister of the main protagonist had insisted that they go through a dark alleyway to get home. Since then the main protagonist has been seeing things and illusions. For example; when he and two of his friends were standing near the hills he imagined their eye colours to be green and red rather black. In that scene there was use of dialogue again; where we as the audience with the support of the dialogue had realised that she passed away two years ago.

Editing Task

Editing Task

As should be obvious this is the opening scene to the motion picture world war z, where we can see a family in their auto talking; whilst being in movement. inside of this film scene we can see there has been extraordinary utilization of camera situating to uncover the genuine story of the cinematography. firstly, inside of the initial 3 seconds of the clasp the maker has used a building up shot, which demonstrates the area of the opening arrangement and keeping in mind the end goal to permit the group of onlookers to know where this scene is being set at. at that point minutes after the fact there is utilization of long shot, where the camera has been put on the front auto mirror, which permits us to see every one of the general population in the auto. which mother, father and 2 young ladies sitting on the secondary lounges. from the utilization of the long shot we can see that there is calm, peaceful and benevolent environment in the auto; where the family are playing amusements. at that point there comes the piece of the clasp where the officer tempests past the auto and afterward hits the left side mirror, coming about to it breaking. there is utilization of close-up to brad pitts ,primary hero, face. from the utilization of the nearby up we can see that brad pitts feelings and state of mind at what has happened. with great disturbance and dissatisfaction, he leaves the auto to see whats going. subsequent to leaving his auto, there's a blast far not far off and the maker has utilized a long shot to outline this some portion of the clasp. the utilization of the long shot permits group of onlookers witness the blast as well as witness the general population in clasps fast responses and overidding apprehension. the utilization of the long shot proceeds to next some portion of the scene, where everybody is running for the lives. the utilization of a long shot permits us to see the general population running feet to appear there velocity to bolster the belief system of the apprehension they're encountering right then and there of time.

a cop on a cruiser stops by his auto and instructs him to get back in his auto. subsequent to entering his auto there is utilization of over-the-shoulder shot. the business of over-the-shoulder shot permits us to see the officer and witness both of their feelings in the meantime. besides, the utilization of the over-the-shoulder shot permits us to see the scene where he is hit by a major truck.