M1 The pre-production materials produced are fit for purpose and generally of a good technical standard
Task 1:
Pre-production materials
Research: Film Poster analysis
Find two existing film posters from different genres and annotate the common features (e.g. release date, star billing…) using Photoshop, drawing frames around each as above. Consider who the target audience is.
Blogpost homework answer: How do the posters attract the target audience to this film?
Task 2:
Pre-production materials
Planning: Creating own idea.
Pre-production materials
Planning: Creating own idea.
a) Your own idea for a film poster. Create a mind map with ideas.
Mind map ideas including:
Industry - How will audiences know the genre?
Setting - where is your product going to be set? Background of your poster? Why? How does this link to genre?
Characters - Who are the characters, products, locations? Are they going to be stereotypical of the genre? Who is the main character? What will they wear, what props will they need?
Design - What colour schemes and styles are typical of your chosen genre? What graphics will you be creating?
Useful mind-map software
Useful mind-map software
Film idea & Moodboard
Discuss and decide on your best film idea.
Answer these questions
Main character: name, age, interests
Genre
Brief synopsis (outline of story) as to what genre it is, and what happens in your film to the central character.
Moodboard
Create a moodboard of found images that represent the style and mood of your film / film poster
Use other posters as well as iconography that represents your film poster genre
Answer these questions
Main character: name, age, interests
Genre
Brief synopsis (outline of story) as to what genre it is, and what happens in your film to the central character.
Moodboard
Create a moodboard of found images that represent the style and mood of your film / film poster
Use other posters as well as iconography that represents your film poster genre
Task 4:
Create a poster using the materials given
Recreate a Guardian of the Galaxy poster into quad sizing - Slides here
Task 5:
Pre-production: text designs
Carry out some research into your fonts/graphics/colours. Watch this.Pre-production: text designs
a)Produce a page of ten potential fonts on Photoshop for the title of your film/poster. Summarise which font you think is most effective and why. Use key terms: genre and audience. Use dafont to download at least half of the fonts.
b) Create your credit block (the somewhat illegible block of credits on all posters), use this font or this template, using your own name or names of your choice, ideally real Directors etc
Task 6: Colour Scheme
do a colour band analysis for the three main colours used. Summarise what you've learned.
Task 7: Colour Scheme
a) Produce a colour scheme page using different mixes of colours with examples of a part of your page layout in the specific colours.
Read through some theory here and the basics of colour. Colourlovers is a very good palette builder
Write a brief description for each or your chosen colour scheme and give reasons why linking to audience and genre? Try to use what you learned in the previous task to help.
Task 8: Add a contact sheet from two-three stills from your photo shoot to P1
Task 9:
You need to find a film poster that you like the design of.
It needs to be quad (landscape aspect ratio)
You will use this as a reference poster to create another film poster for a different film, using the same graphic design layout.
(c) Aidan Free
Take good quality images from outnow.ch
Suchen means search, bilder means images, click on the image to view.
Use this font for the credits.
The poster should be quad format (40x30 inches), but you can scale it down, so make it 20x15 inches.
300 dpi resolution
Use the design features of the original, spacing, size of image and text, but use the style and font and logo of the new one.
Suchen means search, bilder means images, click on the image to view.
Use this font for the credits.
The poster should be quad format (40x30 inches), but you can scale it down, so make it 20x15 inches.
300 dpi resolution
Use the design features of the original, spacing, size of image and text, but use the style and font and logo of the new one.
FINAL TASK: Organise P1 so it looks great, and if it does, it will get a merit, get this checked by a teacher.
Ignore this next bit.
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Task 8:
Pre-production: production plan
Shooting schedule.
Pre-production: production plan
Shooting schedule.
You need to have a " plan of action" for the next phase of the unit.
You need to consider when you will take your photos, prop gathering, location scouting, editing your image, rough version, feedback and a final version edited.
You need to consider when you will take your photos, prop gathering, location scouting, editing your image, rough version, feedback and a final version edited.
Produce a production schedule plan for the above. Use the template given to you.
Production schedule document
