I'm Not There Poster Analysis

Poster Ideas

One of the task we have been given with this A level unit is creating a poster to go with our teaser trailer.

I have decided that it is worth looking at Johnny Cash's CD covers and other pictures taken of him towards the end of his career. This is because he had an aged faced that was full of regret and sorrow. The life he lived was harsh, solitary and unforgiving all words that are summed up when you look at some of Cash's artisticly simple album covers. This album cover on the left is shows Johnny Cash's typical look "The man in black" as you can also see he is in a desert like enviroment which would obviously be extremely warm yet he is wearing a full length black coat and possibly a suit underneath. This suggests his outlaw like persona, not being like everybody else is what makes a legend. His guitar is like his only true love, the one thing that will always be there for him when lifes nasty road approaches will be his music.

These type of iconic images are the sort that we want to create for our film, pictures that crawl into viewers minds and bury a seed that grows into excitement to see a film.

Locations

Over the past few lessons we as a group have gone location scouting in the Howard school to find suitable areas where we can film John Walters. Initially we looked at the boys hall wanting to test out the stage lights and see what kind of resolution we get on my HD camera. None of us new how to turn the lights on so we tried a few switches on the main board but nothing happened. Then about ten people from reception and the finance department came into the hall and informed us that we had switched off all their computers and phones. We quickly put all the switches back and all the power was restored. We then left and went to talk to some drama technicians who work the lights for school plays so that in the future we know how to work them.

Liam Fitzpatrick

Locations: 22nd June 2011

In today's lesson, we had a problem with location searching. one of our locations for our trailer was the mnain school hall, we wanted to specifically check out the lighting situation, as we wanted our lead actor Jimmy Gore to be on stage with us recordin him, we could not conjour up the reason why the lighting for the stage lights were not working. we then scraped our issues with filming, to go back to the clssroom and work on some titles, and look at various influential trailers.

Whilst Dave, Liam and myself worked on the titles, jimmy was looking at trailers, which we could take inspiration from, and upload onto our blog. we finally agreed on the titles, of our four horsemen product, as well as our other production company, harlequin. we also looked at the trailer for walk the line, as this was an influential film for our own idea.

Editing with Final cut express

The problem we have as a group is that we have spent years editing on Adobe Premiere Pro program which is a simple yet effective footage editing program. We have now moved to final cut express with the mac which is very similar to premiere pro but it allows you to edit HD footage and create SFX and computer generated effects but it can only be used on a Apple MAC.

Since me and Dave have been editing on this program we have found many problems such as:

How to import text into the film.

How to add/take away sound from your footage.

As you can imagen for creating a film trailer especially a teaser, text and sound are absolutley fundemental for our progress in work. We are just starting to adapt to the program now and I personally have found that the youtube tutorials helped us with editing greatly infact I now know how to create good looking text that suits our film.

Filming

Here are several photos from The Barge pub in Gillingham where several scenes for our trailer were shot. The photos taken maybe used for some sort of advertisment in the future.

It was good that we actually went to a location to film because the mise-en-scene was fantastic which gives the trailer a sense of realism as opposed to craeting a fake bar in an empty classroom. This also shows our commitment to the film because as memory serves we were filming into the early hours of the morning so that we were able to get decent looking shots.

Liam Fitzpatrick

Influential films: Walk the Line Conventions

Conventions of Walk the Line the story of Johnny Cash's hardships in life.
Key conventions we must take from this film:

1. 1. Show the character healthy and free of addiction.
2. 2. Show the oppisite with the character suffering from addiction.
3. 3. Convey the fact that he onced had an incredible career but let it all out of his grasp for drugs and alcohol.
4. 4. Use realistic locations that look like Western America (possibly hard to pull of but can be done).
5. 5. Show love life interest slowly being ripped apart by addiction.
6. 6. Convey sympathy that will provoke the viewer to feel for this mans struggle in life.
7. 7. Put across that there is always hope in life no matter how bad the road ahead may seem.
8. 8. Great music comes from a depressed mind, music must be a key elemant, music is his saviour and realise from the harshness of the world.