Film Poster- Development

For the second part of our ancillary task, we decided to make a film poster. This poster would work in part of a series along with the review and the actual short film. We were unsure of how to create this poster as we didn't really have any inspiration concerning what we wanted it to look like. We researched some posters for films and were particularly interested in the following:


This is from the film 'Vantage Point', we really liked the idea of a silhouette filled with pictures and film information, along with the title of the film. I thought this film poster was effective and interesting. We created a silhouette of JJ in a running position to see what it would look like if we used our own photos.

This is the silhouette we made using Adobe Photoshop, we attempted to insert some photos into the silhouette but the shape of our man made it a little awkward, so we abandoned this idea.

Whilst we liked this idea, it didn't quite go to plan, so we researched a wide variety of film posters and decided that we liked the London to Brighton one. I liked the idea of having a few photos on the poster and film reviews which told you a little bit about what the film was like.





We based our film poster on the London to Brighton one as we felt it was most effective and professional, I decided to review London to Brighton too, in order to maintain the same kind of genre and theme.

Filming and Editing

Were currently in the process of editing our short film, as we have completed almost all of the filming, however we do have one shot to re-do, as we weren't pleased with the way it turned out. It's going really well and we are happy with the way our film looks. We have gained some interesting feedback from our peers and teachers who have helped us to change some important parts to ensure continuity and engage our intended audience. We also need to create titles and credits to insert into the film as it is currently 4 minutes long and the approxiamate appropriate time would be 5 minutes long. We have had certain ideas regarding the titles, for example theme flashing across the screen after our running man has ran past, or quick bursts every couple of 2 seconds.


During editing we have had some trouble incorporating our split screen theme which will really finish off and polish our final film, however we are working hard on it, with the help of our teachers. We don't feel there would be a better way of showing two seperate, yet comencing at the same time, storylines. We have done a number of practise split screens though and they have proved to be successful.


Our ancillary tasks are nearly complete, with just a little work needing to be done on the film poster. We created the Review Film Page using Photoshop in which I reviewed the independent film, by Paul Andrew Williams, London to Brighton. I researched into online film reviews and was interested in Empire, which specialise in online reviews.

I liked the layout of the Empire review and made sure that I took into the consideration of the size of font and picture. I named my magazine 'Motion' as I felt it was appropriate due to the film reference. I wanted it to be colourful and bold so that it would stand out, also it works well with the film poster which uses a lot of the same colours, e.g. red, white and black and the font is big and different. Overall, I found it hard to use Photoshop as it is complicated, yet in the end it gave us a good result which, combined with our film and poster all work well together as an overall project.

I also looked at more online reviews on sites like http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/, which enables users to give a rating on selected films.

Day 4 Filming

Today, myself and Frank returned to my house to re-film some sections of film that we didn't originally like. It was really cold and began to snow, so when we were filming the outside shots I had to ensure that the camera remained shielded from the cold and snow and that Frank was warm enough.

I filmed some good shots which had both Frank and the bus in, we will be able to use these in the split screen sequence. This time I filmed from a variety of angles as I thought it would make it easier to edit the film as there would be more choice. Overall the filming went well, and I completed a lot of the shots that we needed.