15 December 2010

This week we finished our poster, the final result can be seen below:

Here is a link to the full sized version:

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb393/haylz4000/FINALFINALPOSTER.png

When making the poster we decided that we wanted a dark theme, due to the poster research we did a few months back. We both really liked the photo we used as the character looked vunerable due to the high angle used and we also liked how the chracter seemed to be trapped behind the fence as it matched the title 'Mind Trap'. Also, by making the character look straight at the camera it made her look desperate to get out. To make the character seem more vunerable we changed the contrast to enhance the characters pale skin, making her look ill, to a degree. To make the character stand out we made the background black and white while keeping her in colour.

8th December

This was the third and final attempt at taking photos for our poster as these ones turned out the way we were aiming for from the start. We did face difficulties, however, this being in the form of the cold. As you will see in the photos below I am wearing very few layers so shivering and tensing up caused issues however we worked around them. Some of the photos we took are shown below along with the final one we chose to use.

Mind Trap - Poster Shoot 3

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Final choice:
The quality of the photo is, of course, better when the image isn't shrunk down. But we chose this picture because we like the high angle we used, as it made the character seem more vunerable. Also the way the character is gripping onto the fence makes it seem like she is "trapped" which relates to the title. Finally, due to the initial gloom of the picture, it will be easier to edit to look darker.

We intend to make a poster each based on our joint ideas so that, in the end, we can bring together the best aspects of each and make a better poster overall. We are going to use photoshop to make our poster as wehave troubles with other adobe programmes such as InDesign, as well as this InDesign is mostly used for magazines rather than posters making it unsuitable.

1st December

The snow has delayed our progress as we were unable to get the equipment we needed. As well as this, the snow was unsuitable for our poster photo shoot as we felt it would convey a more romantic vibe than the unerving scary vibe that we are hoping to achieve. However the gloomy, dark weather that remains would be effective on our poster as it will cause more shadows and make the shot look more sinister, which will make it easier to edit.
when we got back to school we had a production meeting to see how we could catch up on lost time:

24th November

Shown below is the second attempt of our photoshoot. Even though the photos are better focused this time the shoot was, once again, unsuccessful. We decided that the photos would be best taken outside and now that the now gloomy weather would help set the right mood and make it easier to photoshop. In These photos, it was also impossible to achieve the idea we wanted so by taking the shoot outside we would have the resources we needed.

Below is a link to the album: http://s1143.photobucket.com/albums/n621/rosies13/Mind%20Trap%20-%20Poster%20Shoot%202/

10th November

On 3rd November we went out to try and take photo's for out poster. Before we went out to shoot we brainstormed ideas:


Due to lack of experience concerning the SLR camera we were using the photos didn't turn out as planned. As well as this after the shoot we thought of better ideas for the poster and therefore the photos were scrapped.
The photos we took are shown below:

Below is a link to the album with the photos in: http://s1143.photobucket.com/albums/n621/rosies13/Mind%20Trap%20-%20Poster%20Shoot%201/

All of these pictures are unedited, which is why they are so bright. We were, if the photos worked how they wanted, going to edit the photos to make them darker and more shadowed as out brainstorn suggests.

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.