6th October

This week, we started to focus on one of our extra tasks. The ones we chose to do was a radio advert and poster, with us choosing to this week look at posters. Before planning what our poster will look like we decided to look at other posters from a similar genre (psychological thriller) so we can see the conventions used and discuss how we could use them in our own poster.

1) The Happening

This is the first poster we looked at and we both thought it was very effective. We liked the dark colour scheme and the low key lighting used as we thought that it made the image seem mysterious. Also the mise-en-scene makes the city looks like a ghost town, with the distorted walls closing in on the three people in the centre. From this poster we thought the most useful aspects to use in our own was the colour scheme and lighting. This is because both of these aspect give off a scary vibe and makes the people in the image look helpless which is what we want to go for with our own poster.

2) Waz

In this poster we liked the close up on the face and emphasis on the eyes as it cleary shows what the person is feeling. We also liked the font used for the title as it looked scratched in giving off a desperate and frightened vibe, one which refects Lucy's character. After looking at this poster and many others we also think it would be a good idea to have a tagline, as they draw the audience in and gives a sense of mystery.

3) Murderer

Dispite this being a foreign film we bth really liked this poster. Like in poster two is shows a close up on the face which we think is a very effective idea as it can portray a range of different emotions, making it a useful tool for many genres. Like in the the other two posters this poster also used low key light. We like this aspect because it gives and air of mystery and fear which would be useful in our own poster. WE are going to use dark colours and low key lighting to, in our case, give off a scared vibe.

From these three posters we have gained many ideas for our poster including the lighting, mise-en-scene and composition of the shot, for example, low key lighting gives off a sense of mystery which in our case would be concerning wheather or not Lucas is real.

29th September

This week we looked at a number of short films on youtube which, like ours, have Schizophenia as the main topic. We did this in order to compare own own ideas to them and to see if they are common place in a film of this genre (phyciological thriller).


Film one - Schizophrenia Short Film
In this film, black and white is used to show hallucinations and colour is used to show what is really going on and what everyone else can see. We were intending to do that in our film as we thought it would make it easier for the audience to understand what is going on. The hallucinations are made to stand out using both heavy dark makeup and dark clothing. Any voices you did hear in the film were muddled up and sounded unorganised, we thought that this was good as it reflects the mentality of the sufferer. By making the hallucinations more obvious and visable in throughout the film it makes the audience feel more sympathtic as it is like you are seeing the world through the schizophrenics eyes. Also, as the end of this film they go through the events again how the rest of the world would see it, we liked this idea.


Film two - Schizophrenia: A Short Film
In this film, you can't always hear or see the hallucinations the sufferer is having, instead having to use his reactions to try and work out what is being said. This makes you more aware or just how violent his reactions are which makes you feel sorry for the sufferer. However, we thought, that the fact that for the most of the film you couldn't hear or see the hallucinations was actually a weakness as as lot mopre could have been done if we could, we did like the idea of just seeing his reactions, but thought the voices should have been used more. However when you did hear voices they were crazed and angry.

Film three - Paranoid Schizophrenic
In this film the lighting used in low key, whereas in the other two more naural lighting. the low key lighting made the whole film more frightening as well as the fuzziness of the movie. However as we are using black and white for a lot of our film we think that using low key light could make it hard to see what is going on.