The Elliot Sauverin Show

We featured on the Elliot Sauverin Show! A weekly film news show which myself and some of the cast were interviewed on our time working on the film. Don't think we gave away too much? Have to admit, never knew we were that well known! Must be doing something right in the advertising...

Though, we did have some trouble broadcasting. In response, we got this pictogram:

Pretty neat right? Despite it being late airing but never mind. Still a broadly successful broadcast non the less.

Magazine Design

another step toward a final magazine page, here is the latest in line.

Magazine design - concept

Placing up here my first draft of my magazine double page spread to show how much its going to change as I work on it further until the deadline. Current colour scheme is Black and Red to match the title of the film and the cinematography of the film itself.

Final Poster design

Taking in mind the criteria I set myself on creating my poster; Image must not be still from the film, writing must stand out and away from image etc.
I have created this as my final poster:

I've managed to capture the feel of the film by the two main characters being the centre of attention but also keeping in the other aspects to the film; the chatty friends, the 'laddish' father figure and smooth brother. I've also managed to capture the viewers attention toward the two main figures by blurring slightly the other figures, allowing your eye to be naturally drawn to Charlotte and Luke in the centre.

Poster Design

Now we've made the film, its now time to create the products which will aid the distribution of the film. We begin with the poster:
Obviously, posters aren't as popular in such a digital age where video trailers and vox pop interviews can become far more wide spread reaching far larger audiences, posters only really capture a very local audience, depending where it is sent out to and distributed. Even so, they still remain the most recognisable and traditional method of advertising a new film.

For my short film, I took inspiration from posters for some of my most favourite films. Posters for:

Scary Movie:

The Hobbit:

Love Actually:

What you may notice from all these posters is how there is one main image above the main bulk of the text and legal writing. They're also all featuring an after market image, where the main actors from the film have been placed in special photography set specially for the poster e.g. they aren't stills from the film. I really like this layout, as often I find I cannot read or make out the writing where its been placed in with the poster image. I also find it looks a lot neater and more pleasing to my eye at least. Hence, I shall develop my own poster with these criteria in mind!

Sweet 18 - Editors Cut

So the original cut of the film has been up for 2 weeks now, and in that time I've been able to collect people's thoughts and opinions on it and any suggested improvements and this cut aims to correct them to make the film the best as possible.

This will act as my final piece of work!

Sweet 18

So here is the first cut of my short film. I must stress however this may not end up being my final cut as I intend to produce an editors cut based upon any criticisms I receive about this cut with the ultimate aim in improving the film to its full potential!