Reflection

These last few lessons we have been working on our wbsite and poster. I started with my wbsite, and I basically got nowhere near anything in that lesson because of all the time it took mucking around trying to make things work. The next lesson I started on my poster and I think it's going really well so far, I looked up a couple more posters and I got the idea to use the park scene (with no people) as the badckground, as it isn't too busy but it is an extremely important part of the story. I was messing around with photoshop and I found out how to wash it out or something like that so now my poster is basically black and white and I think the whole effect makes it seem a lot more tragedy/supernatural etc. Now i'm, also thinking abut what to make the background of my website, as the image I had really had nothing to do with the film at all. So I think the same washed out park image will do perfectly, and if it is too small and streches out then that is no problem as will give it an even more mysterious effect, but i'll have to check it out next lesson.

Tree Diagram

Website

CoverPage -
The cover page will contain the title of the story and a one way link to the homepage. It will be a plain background with large, loopy text for the title and smaller text for the "enter site" caption.

Homepage -
The homepage will contain the blurb, film title, menu system and the film poster. The background will be the dark foggy one and the text will all be either red or blue depending on the appearance of the background.

Characters Page -
The characters page will follow the same trend colour scheme and background wise. It will contain short descriptions of each of the main characters and links leading to image pages of each of them.

Trailer Page -
This page will contain a blurb of the story or something simular and a placeholder for the trailer. Matching coolour scheme, title and menu linking the page to the character page, story page and the homepage.

Stroy Page -
This will contain the synopsis of the story and a few images from the film.

Poster

Images -
For the poster a background image is required, this could either be a background similar to that of the site, dark and foggy, or it could use the park background or a close up of one the characters, probably Suzie. If it was a picture of Suzie the background would have to be plain and dark, maybe the foggy type, with very few colours other than that.

Text -
The title would be the films title "Rules Of Life" with either the slogan or the blurb, depending on space available. The main characters names will be across the top, depending on the colour scheme they will be in plain text. The release date could be anything probably the date the task is due or something, and it will be in one of the bottom corners of the poster.

Planning - Text

Synopsis -
Blurb: Missing memories, visions of a dead friend, sisters who can't see you, Suzie doesn't know what has happened to her and when she finds out... how could she believe it?

Synopsis: After an argument with her mother, Suzie runs from her home. She unknowingly puts herself in the path of tragedy when she goes alone to the park. When she wakes up with no memory of having gotten home, and finds her dead friend sitting on her couch she and her family discover that the only way to be happy is to let go.

Slogan: When the only option is to acknowledge the truth.

Cast and Crew:
Suzie - Played by Emily Bennett, this tragic story revolves around Suzie and how she must accept her own death in order to let her family move on.

Lettie - Played by Katie Manchester, the dead friend of Suzie, this mysterious apparition endeavors to help her friend understand.

Mother - Played by Shelby Batty, this woman mourns the loss of her daughter but refuses to let the rest of the family stay in the past.

Sister - Played by Amelia Batty, Jess loved her sister dearly and holds on so strongly to her memories that she almost comes into contact with the spirit of her lost older sister.

Planning

Background -
If I am trying to play the genre of my movie to its fullest extent the image I want to use must reflect this. I'm going to use a picture containing fog, hopefully it will have a purple or blue colour tinge to it and possibly some water or anything else to exaggerate the mystery tragedy type of genre. These are some examples I found.

Colour Scheme -
The images I use from the film will also have to relate to this, maybe a few close-ups or the empty park or something, if I edit that it could also be used as a background image. Overall I'm going to aim for a cool colour scheme of blues, greens, and purples, maybe I'll make the text red/crimson to add more to the feel, and also because it is a complementary colour which will make it stand out without looking bad, it also represents blood an tragedy.

Reflection

Poster making was really fun the other day, and it was also really helpful because I needed a brush-up on photoshop techniques, I haven't used it in ages and it takes me fives seconds to forget what I just did. I got even better today, figuring out by myself how to change all different colours and parts. Making the same poster again but differently was really hard. I couldn't think of any other genre because my image is just a few scrunched up bits of paper fading into black. So when I tried to mnake it lighter and happy I couldn't change the brightness because it was just black and there was no former background to illuminate. I ended up just making it a faded brown theme, I have no idea what sort of genre it is now, but it's definately something old fashioned or seomthing to do with ppolitics, which of course is hard to get away from considering the name I had to use. It was still fun though, but I think I need to decide what image I'm going to use for my actual film poster, since I am using my own film. A plain background may be good, I think, with a picture of emilys face or the park or something related to the story. xp =^_^=