Production Company Logos

I created this production company logo to make my film look more professional. From my research I found that most trailers feature production compnany logos. I have researched some production companies that produce social realsim film's. Warp films produced Dead Man's Shoe's and This is England. It also produced other British films such as Submarine which I have taken some inspiration from and Four Lions. I wanted to create a production company that was professional and sounded like it produced British films. I named my production company 'Grey Stone Productions' for a number of reasons.The 'Grey Stone' part of the name represents the tradition of dry stone walling which is famously British; it was used to mark field boundries and territory. This strongly relates to the theme of social realism as both things are notoriously British. The word 'Grey' has connotations of saddness and blandness. This is strongly related to my genre as social realism represents the hardship and sadness behind working class British life. Therfore I thought Grey Stone Productions sounded very fitting.

I created this production logo by downloading a font from dafont.com that looked like solid stone. I then created a Photoshop document and used the font. I made sure each of the words in the title were the same size and layered on-top of eachother. This represents a dry stone wall. Next to this I used an image of an actual dry stone wall to make the logo look eye catching. I could now apply the production compy logo to other media products such as my poster. This then helped brand identity. 

This is used at the end of the trailer to inform the viewer of the name of the film for future reference. The font is also the same as on my poster which helps create an effective brand identity. This will add to the professionalism of my finished trailer. It also features the age rating of the film so the audience is aware.

Magazine Development

So far my magazine cover has a basic structure. I have used the font 'HelveticaNeue' for my sell lines as the font looks bold and professional; it's also similar to the magazine cover I have taken inspiration from. Empire magazine is a reputable magazine and gives off a professional feel; it does this by using bold conventional fonts. I am trying to create this effect on my magazine cover. Being a magazine that represents the British film industry and British talent, I have included other arts such as music. Music plays a key part in social realism films as it helps influence subcultures, which are often shown in my genre. Thefore I have used Iggy Pop and his connection to Trainspotting in the sky line. The front cover has been created using a Photoshop document. I now feel confident with my Photoshop skills from my AS production. The font 'PulpFiction' has been used for my masthead. This is because the font was very bold and noticeable. The font works well with the text as it makes the word 'BritFlick' look strong and powerfull. This will hopefully attract my desired audience.

NOTE: Throughout the development of my products I will colate a number of screen shots of the production Process and present them in a Prezi towards the end of my ptoduct development

Poster Development

These are my first ideas for my poster. I have used stills from my trailer footage to create the bottom poster and my test shot for the top poster. I am confident that using stills will be effective, this has been done in the piece I have taken influence from. To create these examples I used Photoshop. I have used the font I selected in my font research and applied it it to a poster sized photoshop document. To achive the effect on my images I have desaturated the images to make them black and white. On the first poster I simply used the quick selection tool to move the character from the test shot to the Photoshop document. The second poster requred more technical ability. I created a background gradient and tried to blend the dark colours into a lighter red. I also had to make the end of the main charxters hammer into a seperate layer and put it infront of the main image. This makes the poster look more dimensional. I feel the images I have used represent the genre well sue to the strong emotion, however I will have to wait for audience feedback further into the development process.

    

Test shots

Before my photo shoot I decided to take some test shots for my print media products to see if I could achieve the effect I had visioned when I drew my flat plans. The image shows a close up with a downwards tilt, creating a direct eye contact with the reader. This draws more attention to the magazine cover therefore improving the advertising campaign.

The image bellow shows the proposed pose for my character on the front cover. The pose is replicated from a similar character in the film A Place Beyond the Pines.

A few days before my first day of filming I decided to take my film camera with me on my paper round at around 7.00am. The examples above are two of many test shots I took of my chosen locations. The first video shows the location in which my main character was attacked many times by the agressors, it is also shown at the end of my trailer. The second test shot shows the terraced streets where I filmed the opening scenes of my trailer, I did test shots to get to grips with the camera controls. The weather was in my favour when I filmed these test shots as the dark clouds help set a dark atmosphere for my film.

bbfc Black Card

All British trailers have to have a black card before the trailer, this is to ensure that this film has been watched and asigned an age rating from the BBFC. Therefore I constructed a black card myself using photoshop. To research this I looked on the internet for other black cards, I then downloaded relevant fonts from dafont.com. I chose my film to be a fifteen because of my initial research. Most social realism films are rated fifteen. This is due to the mature content in social realism films that is only apropriate for older teens and upwards. Social realism has a lot of dark themes that need maturity to be understood correctly. The violence and underlying theme of abuse has also caused my film to be rated 15.

Font Planning

The image above consists of a number of fonts I have chosen that most suit my film and genre. I have downloaded these fonts from dafont.com. In this following post I will analyse the font selection and choose the most suitable font.

1. The first font is effective because the characters are large and bulcky. This will attract attention. It also has an almost cartoon effect which I am looking to achive with my font. However the rounded fat ends of the characters don't look very threatening and wouldn't represent my narriative.
2. The next font again is effective due to character size, it would help attract attention. However the font looks rather western and wouldn't represent my chosen genre that effectively.
3. The next font is very effective because of the pointed edges of the characters, it helps represent my narriative well. It also has a cartoon effect. Another thing I like about this font is that the characters touch eachother making the title look stronger.
4. This font satisfies the comic book effect but it looks too light hearted and would not represent my genre very effectivley. This is because the characters are jauntily angled and it looks quite playfull.
5. The next font is not bold enough for my film, it also looks weak in some aspects.
6. This font looks very artistic and I chose it because it helps represent the artistic side of my genre, however it's not very strong in other aspects.

To conclude I have chosen the third font as it is the most effective from my chosen selection. The font looks sharp and agressive which is linked to my narriative, it is also related to the film name mantis as some of the characters look like parts of an insect. The font is also cartoon like and is therefore linked to the example font from Dead Man's Shoe's shown at the bottom of my researched fonts.