Text choices for my short film poster

In preparation for creating the ancillary task for my short film, I decided to start looking for font options for the title of the film. I think out of the 6 of them, my favourites are the third font and the bottom font. The bottomn font is thicker than the other, which means that it will stand out on the poster for my film and attract an audience, whereas the other font may be harder to see.

Ancillary task options

 

 

Before I can begin my ancillary task, I decided to create flat plans of options for my poster. I decided that to have a true representation of the film on the poster, it would be a good idea to take two photographs; a photograph of the character looking into the mirror from behind and then a photograph of the empty mirror. By taking two photos, I can cut out the part of the mirror in the image including the character, and insert a clipping from the other photograph of the blank mirror. By doing this, it can appear as though the character is looking into the mirror and there is no reflection looking back at her. This represents a scene in the beginning of the film where the character is getting ready, and upon looking up into the mirror she realises that there is no reflection.

 

Trouble whilst editing

Last week I filmed some of my classroom scene, in which I have a shot of; the class going into the classroom from the outside, the teacher telling the class to take their seats, a shot of the class sitting down, a shot of the teacher giving the class instructions, a shot of the class getting on with their work and the main character putting her hand up to ask a question.

When one of my extras who is in the class walks into the room, she comes in without a book. I took two shots were the main character puts her hand up to ask a question; one where the class are just looking at their books and she puts her hand up, and one where the class are flicking through their books whilst she puts her hand up. The shot where they are flicking through their books is the better shot, however in that shot she has a book.

I'm unsure on whether I want to re-film the shot altogether, or whether I could shoot the teacher telling the class to take out their books, followed by the shot of him giving the class instructions and then the shot of the class flicking through their books and the main character puts her hand up. I don't want to lose the last shot because I think it's definitely the better shot, so I'm swaying more towards just filming a shot where the teacher asks the class to get books out. In the first shot one of the extras is blocking the main character so you can't really see her, but in the second shot you can see her properly.