Monday, 11 April 2016

Location Shots

For the majority of our trailer we shot mostly at the train station, a house and the streets of Chilwell.
For our establishing shot however, we chose the location to be in Nottingham city centre. We did this because we wanted to capture the city that Lottie Lives in. Additionally, in both Fish Tank and This Is England, their trailers begin with an establishing shot to set the scene and overall represent Britain.

When filming, the train and the train lines are the main enigma codes which represent why Lottie's life has turned upside down.
Here are some shots that we took of where some of the filming will take place.



Other main locations used within our trailer include Lottie's House.





As we can see the house represents a working class house, again to represent working class Britain within our film.
We used this location throughout the film in order  for the audience to personally get to know Lottie and build a strong connection with her.







 

 

Thursday, 7 April 2016

Examples of cast on magazines





These images will help us develop our own magazine front cover, taking inspiration from these to create our own.

Codes and conventions of a film magazine

Masthead- Features on all magazine covers, usually at the top of the page and indicates which magazine it is. Our's is called "Film & Television". It is in large and bold text at the top right hand side of the page to catch the viewer's attention. We also used the colours white, blue and red to connotate the British flag as we have created an independent British film magazine.
Image- The image should reflect the audience and the styles of the magazine. The main image is usually mid-shot and should reflect what the film is featuring. This usually involved the main actor or actors that feature within the film. 

This is our main image which features some characters which will feature in our film, we cropped the image down to fit more of a mid shot before we put it on our magazine front cover. 

'Buzzwords'- These involve words such as 'free' and exclusive' which capture the reader's attention and make them want to buy the magazine. We have used the 'buzzword' 'EXCLUSIVE' on our magazine front cover in bright red bold large letters which makes it stand out from the rest. Telling the audience the interview of the cast and director from LOST will be exclusive to them if they buy this magazine as they won't see it in any other