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. 

Model Release Forms

Shot list

Script

Anematic