Film Poster Ideas

For the poster we felt we wanted a basic and raw background and a simple portrait of the protagonist and antagonist with inspirations from Francis Bacon. This style is demented and twisted suiting the theme of our psychological thriller; the text would be layered on top with a scratchy style and a more readable font for other information. A plan for the poster is below:

The two circles will be portraits of the characters.

Initial Sound Ideas

With our non-diegetic soundtrack sorted we felt we needed to think about other use of sound in our film. I believe that music stings will make the actions in the film exaggerated and more dramatic, a sharp violin noise will do this job well, still fitting in with the classical non-diegetic soundtrack. The soundtrack will only be as a background noise and the original sound will still be audible and possible some accentuated sound to show the significance of some parts of the film.

The Name Of Our Thriller

The name of our thriller is one of the most important things that we as a group need to consider, the name will represent our entire film.  Therefore it has to be strong and catching, drawing the audience's attention to it, when discussing this in our group we decided we wanted a short, catching title that didn't give away what our film was about.  We studied different thriller film titles, for example: the film 'Taken' is about a daughter that gets 'Taken' by a group of men and her father has to find and rescue her.  The name is a clear indication of what the film is about, it is one word so it stands out against other titles and is easy to remember.
Here are some potential names for our Thriller that we discussed:
  

1. Hallucination 
2. Mistake
3. Delusion
4. Resentement
5. Existence
6. Alone
7. Emotions
8. After hours
9. Intuition
10. Disturbed
                

After looking at the good and bad points of these names we came to the conclusion that number 5 'Existence' was suited the best to our thriller.  However, as a group we felt it needed to be stronger - therefore by adding the word 'the' before it will make the title stand out.  'The existence' is the name we have decided to use as the title of our thriller. This is because it is relevant to our Thriller, as our protagonist is a ghost and the word 'existence' is suggesting that ghosts and other paranormal things exist.  

Non-Diegetic Soundtrack

As a group we decided we wanted a classical soundtrack so I went on various sites and went through the variety of tracks available, i eventually found something suitable on http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ with a classical genre and a mixture of tempos. We are slightly basing the pace of the film to the soundtrack so it fits in perfectly. I've uploaded the soundtrack below:

Costumes and Make-up

Tabi, (The Antagonist) her make-up will be like a normal teenager girl’s style make-up. She will have mascara on, foundation, bronzer and lip gloss. We will buy the mascara and it will be cheap as we have a small budget, however this is also good because when we do a crying scene the mascara will run easily showing black tears create the desired effect for the audience to feel intimate with the antagonist, whilst not wasting anyone’s own products.  The emotions used will also keep up the audiences expectations of the film, creating enigma for the audience.  Her costume will be black jeans and she will have a white top on that will flow this will suggest to the audience that she is innocent. 
This will also show a deep contrast with the black jeans against the white top which is representing her split personality as she is schizophrenic.  She will have military boots on, so when she is running the boots will suggest to the audience that she is fighting for her survival and is a strong character.  She will have a khaki coat on that will be quiet big so she can, sort of, hide in it to show her vulnerability.  Georgia, (The Protagonist) will be wearing/edited white contact lenses to show she is abnormal, she will have straight, hair sprayed hair in a middle parting. Her make-up, she will have black eye make-up and her skin will be pale white, representing her abnormality. 

She will wear a white dress to show her apparent innocence, this will create enigma for the audience as they will be unaware of who this girl is at this certain time.  The young girl will wear a white dress that will be dirty to show that she was innocent but a series of events has changed this.  She will also wear a hospital wristband to show that she was close to death.  Also, because the camera will have a close up on her face and makeup it will be clear to the audience that she is abnormal.   

                                 -By Rachel Wardley, Mary Sullivan, Charlotte Mackenzie and Alex Fresco

Demographic/Psychographic Profiling

Demographic is when you target people according to their wealth but because the film industry is suitable for anyone it is hard to base a film on a particular group of people just according to their wealth. This is because the different social classes can like a film or have the same taste in films. The film industry needs to cater to everyone’s taste not basing their target audience on those who are rich. A Demographic profile is a term used in marketing to describe a demographic group or a market segment. A demographic profile can be used to determine when and where advertising can be placed to achieve maximum results.

Psychographic is based on individual psychological characteristics, rather than demographic or other factors. In the field of marketing, demographics, opinion research, and social research in general, psychographic variables are any attributes relating to personality, values, attitudes, interests or lifestyles. 

This is also true to films, a person’s personality and values can have an effect on what film they want to watch. A romantic person might want to watch a film such as The Notebook, but a person they might want to see a lot of action because they like drama in their life might watch The Transporter.


By: Rachel Wardley

More Do's and Don'ts.

Do’s

- Find an interesting place to film which is cinematically interesting to the audience.

- The Poster has the most cinematic scene on.

- Use nice/expensive cars or extremely old/vintage cars, not normal cars as they are not interesting.

- Instead of using zooms, get up close to the thing you want to film.  

Don’ts

- Do not use zoom.

- Do not film inside your house as this is not an interesting location.

- Do not have girls running down alley ways as it is boring and typical.

- Don’t lose site on the visual media