Final Poster and Review pages

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Evaluation Preparation

A table created to help with the evaluation process



What have you achieved so far?

Main;

Film Noir: Hard Cash

Plot: wife finds cheating husband,

meets up with mistress and they plot to kill him together.

The fake suicide deepens when the Detective arrives.

Main features: Femme Fatal, corruption, money

Ancillary;

Poster

2 Film Reviews

Hard Cash Film Review - in progress

Conventions

Film Noir;

Costumes

Alcohol

Femme Fatal

Death/murder

corrupt police

Low key lighting

deep shots

Urban area

Poster;

Large title

Colours

Alignment

Text

Denotations

Connotations

Film Review;

Large Image

Not a lot of text

Star rating

Brief summary

Easy to read

What are you please with and what needs further improvement? (MES/C/E/S/Creativity)

Please with; poster, ideas for film review page, having finished the movie on time.

Not pleased with; shaking camera in parts of the movie, no rain or night shots in the movie.

Good/confident use of Media Technology?	Research and Planning?
Blog	Excellent
Final Cut	Good
Camera work	Satisfactury
Photoshop	Unsatisfactory
Picnik.com
	Industry:
	What production
	company and why?
	SCREEN GRABS

Audience Feedback/ research target audience

Film

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FEEDBACK IN PROGRESS

Audience Research

Video Interview

People's opinion on Film Noir

Hard Cash

We have uploaded our movie to youtube, here is a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL_C8tbdZzc&feature=youtu.be

We uploaded it on the 22nd March, it is now the 25th and it already has 100 views! I am really proud of what we have achieved, and it makes me happy to see that lots of people are watching it. It makes it all seem much more worth while.

Film review page design

Initial design:

Now I am going to write the film review for my own movie and then add the text around the images.

Hard Cash Film Review:

This new and upcoming, seven minute, 21st Century adaptation on the Film Noir/Neo Noir genre is a wonderful blend between the two styles. The movie begins in modern colour, but soon flashbacks into traditional black and white. Directed by Rosie Lansbury, it balances on the verge between bad mistakes and a brilliant first attempt. 

When Evelyn Harold (Chloe Newton), a classic femme fatal, discovers that her husband is cheating, a classic Film Noir plot ensues, but, how far will she go to get revenge? The plot thickens when Policeman Harry White (Jack Squires) and Detective Jack Chandler (Ben Humberstone) discover the suicide of James Harold (Daniel Cowie) and a late-night phone call from Evelyn twists the plot into an excellent example of the Film Noir genre.

Unfortunately, due to its extremely low budget and inexperienced production team, the special effects are appalling. The blood is clearly nothing more than ketchup on the face! However, the gun shot and other editing are extremely well timed. Therefore, if you ignore the objects from the wrong era and bad effects, this film will keep you entertained for the full seven minutes.

The movie has an unknown cast and an unknown crew; however, in my opinion, this makes the movie even better as you start off with very low expectations, and are greeted with what is actually a pretty decent movie! The acting, if not a little cheesy, is accurate and entertaining, and the edgy and slick directing of Rosie Lansbury has made this piece really come together.

So, just like The Big Sleep made us crave love and LA Confidential made us suspicious of the Police, Hard Cash combines both those themes with an extra twist!

Lucy Cunnington                                                                  

Poster Design

 Initial photos of JACK CHANDLER and HARRY WHITE

I really like this pose!

I love the angle and height difference of this image, however, I think that it reminds me more of an Album cover than a Movie poster!

Initial photos of EVELYN HAROLD:

Mean, stroppy Femme Fatal

Innocent, misleading Femme Fatal

Mean, capable of murder Femme Fatal

Seductive, sweet Femme Fatal 

The layout of my poster:

I chose this layout after looking at the LA Confidential layout, I think it will appeal to the Crime Drama fans as their is clearly a dark theme to this movie, there is a policeman and a detective, and of course, the beautiful woman, that every hit movie needs!

First edit ideas:

I think this reminds me of a proper Film Noir poster, as it is almost black and white, but not quiet

Here I enhances the colours, and made it darker, I think it works well.

Here I enhanced the colour saturation and temperature of the poster, I think the previous shades are better.

This is my favourite; it has the red, but it is a dark red suggesting danger, it is darker which links to Film Noir, but in colour which links to Neo Noir, then the policeman is in the most light, which links to his character (the most innocent out of them all) and then the Detective is looking very serious, as if he is in power and in deep thought, which also links to his character, as he is the one to figure it all out.

Production companies

During our process in making our Film Noir, we had to look at production companies. Production Companies provide the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio and video. We had to think about what kind of production companies there are, and which one would produce our movie or alternatively, make up our own production company (which is what we decided to do)

Here are some of the most famous production company logos:

Once we had looked at all of these production companies, we decided to make our own. We played around with our initials: R.G.L and L.A.C which is when we came up with the idea of 'Double el' as there are two 'L's within our names. We then came up with the idea of 'SinCity productions'. We came up with this idea from the origin of Cinema City, shortened to CinCity and then we thought how SinCity sounded the same, however, it would link our production company to the idea's of Sin. This idea appealed to us since our movie covers the topics of both cheating, corruption and murder - all three serious sins. Therefore we finalised our ideas as Double el, SinCity Productions.

Once we had come up with this name, we had a few ideas as to what our logo could be. Our initial idea was to have two guns facing eachother, however, we thought this was maybe a bit limiting as to what our production company would cover, and so, instead, we settled on a Filming Clapper Board with our logo on it. We thought that this would be very effective and link very well with our ideas and our movie.
We decided to use this image as our base because it is plain, and most Logo's aren't very complicated:

To see our final logo, please watch the first 10 seconds of our movie.

Film Review Page Research

3 videos of Rosie and myself talking about various Film Review Pages as part of our research.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrj3bZ_SE74&context=C4f9a7daADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpGEkrq0TME2-vv2SzOzZu68=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6LpLzyF1g&context=C45948e6ADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpIE9WjCzmaMLyWOWgU-RwIU=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCUK7i6qsc&context=C48c52c5ADvjVQa1PpcFO77QS8awzDpGjUx6mmxYFTx_Sm1oLJDdE=


My own analysis:

What Film Reviews typically have:

1. An entertaining and catchy opening line.

2. Who's in it and who do they play?

3. A taster of the plot.

4. Comments on special effects and use of music/sound.

5. Comments on the performance of director and cast.

6. What genre it is and if its a good example and why.

7. Its audience appeal.

8. A personal opinion throughout.

9. An entertaining sentence to conclude or sum up.

I intend to include all of the above in my Film Review Ancillary so as to stick with Film Review Conventions.