Dark Knight Poster

Welcome to a world without rules' on it's own it doesn't really mean anything, combine it with the sky filled with smoke and the decaying building, it adds a huge amount of connotation. Giving clues but no answers like this poster does is very effective, it makes the posters audience question what is going to happen, and whats gone wrong, even people that aren't particularly fans of batman will still be interested to see if batman can handle his next challenge. The poster doesn't just get the current audience excited, it gets others that have not seen the films interested (which is a great way to increase sales). The flaming bat on the collapsing building makes the audience think maybe batman is responsible for the destrucion, this again is very effective as it gets the audience asking questions and therefore interested. The main attraction to the batman franchise is the hero himself, so having him standing strong, infront of a collapsing building with his fists clenched adds a huge amount of buzz to the film as people essentially want to see how strong he is. Although 'The Dark Knight' is not a horror film

Bad Teacher Poster

Bad Teacher is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel. The film was released in the United Kingdom on June 17 and in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2011. It is about a woman (Cameron Diaz) who at the start looks like a gold digging woman with no care for her job as a teacher as we find out that her husband dumps her we don't start to sympathies with her as she is still on the prowl for a rich man as the film goes on like all romances there is a love intreset and that comes in the form of Justin Timberlake who acts as a cover teacher unfortunately another woman has her eyes on her mind and that Mrs squirrel this leads to them two competing. Throughout the film Jason Segel who has expressed his interest in Elizabeth who is Cameron Diaz but always being rejected and the audience really connect to that. In the end unlike most conventional romances Elizabeth doesn't end up with the man we all expect but with the unlikely funny man .

Waterboy Poster

Waterboy is a comedy film that was created in 1998 by Frank Coraci, and featured Adam Sandler, Katy Bates and Henry Winkler. The story is about a boy who works as a water boy for his local football team and by chance discovers his talent for tackling and is put on the team, the rest of the story is about his rise to fame.


The film starts with a Touchstone Pictures title, as this company helped produce the film, in the background is the sound of someone scratching on vinyl decks. You then hear a noise that is associated with Australia, a bouncy sort of didgeridoo noise. A bass line then joins this and the first shot is shown. It shows a river on a sunny day, the camera is panning up to show the forthcoming river, it then flashes to the next shot, which is of the trees on the side of the river. Some of the producers name is shown on screen as well. The upbeat song, does suggest to the audience that the film is a comedy as the music isn’t quick, which would suggest Action, or scary, which would suggest Horror or slow and mellow, which would suggest Comedy. This then is taken of screen using a ripple effect, this links in with being on a boat. The next shot is looking down on the river, which is moving, suggesting that the audience is viewing from a boat. It then shows the directors name, and uses the same ripple effect. It then also shows Adam Sandler’s name, it does this as he is a famous actor and showing this to the audience might attract their attention even more as they know he is a good actor. The camera then pans up to show a football stadium and the title the Waterboy rush’s at the screen. The font is blocky, and reminisant of American Football team logos, but the colors do not correspond to any actual teams. The colors are bright and clash, which do give off a comical vibe. The next camera shot is then on the inside of the stadium, you can tell the team is training as a man runs across the pitch with equipment in the background and the stadium is empty. The music fades out quickly as the player runs past the camera. The camera slightly follows him to stop panning on to coaches. You can tell this from the way they are not wearing any football gear and they are holding a stopwatch and clipboard. The man says something, from this you can hear that he is from America and this suggests to the viewer that the film is set in America. You see a quick shot of some players training with some dummies. The shot after this is a group of cheerleaders practicing their routine. The rest of the shots until 01:03 are footage of the team training. While this is shown some more names are shown discreetly at the corners of the screen. This means that they are less important than the people at the start. A convocation then occurs between 2 men, the second mans accent is American, confirming that the film is set in America. This is strange, as you cannot really tell that the film is a Comedy as nothing comidical has occurred so far, this could mean that some comedy fans may loose concentration from the film. The 2 men’s conversation carries on until 01:27 when the shot changes to the tunnel. You can see the teams Waterboy walking out, this shot is used in many actual Football games, making the audience guess the plot a bit, and that the Waterboy will one day become a Footballer. The music starts again, but this time is a bit more rocky, as it is played on an Electric Guitar. The Waterboy sort of staggers out of the tunnel. The shot then switches to a huddle of team members. This is reminisant of what they do at the start of a game when they form plans, this suggests to the audience that they are plotting something, and as the way the camera shots are putting together it makes it look like they are looking at the Waterboy. It then goes back to the Waterboy and you see the first sign of it being a comedy. The Waterboy’s facial expression is crumpled as if he is making a face, but it looks like it is his face. Also the way he comically pumps his water machine suggests that it is a comedy. He then takes a sip of his water and tastes it as if it was a glass of wine, he then starts describing it, his voice is high and in a funny tone, making the audience laugh at him. The way he also describes it makes the viewers laugh as well, “its clean. Its cold. Now that’s what I call high quality H2O.” This last bit shows for sure that the film is going to be a comedy.

Filming

Weather Issues

Conor and myself have had some issues with the filming of our trailer. The original plan was to film the majority of our scenes today, Sunday, the adverse weather conditions have stopped us. The reason Conor and I have decided not to film is because it may cause continuity issues as well as danger whilst filming. We feel that if we film a clip on a day when the weather is rare and we need to re film it we would have to wait for the weather to change again. We have delayed it a week with the aim to film next Sunday, 27th.

Storyboard

Conor and I have completed our storyboard, there is a storyboard animatic to follow. we have the storyboard as a brief outline to the trailer, the timing wont be as accurate as the storyboard. Conor and myself both worked on this story board and we believe that it fits our genre perfectly and if we can pull off all  of the scenes as planned we believe that it will be a very high quality piece of work. we will aim to film i as soon as we have the story board uploaded to our blog.

Diary

In the latest installment of what Conor and I are up too in our film we have decided that we will start production on our film on Sunday we have decided that we will open our film with universal pictures to show institutions and there research we will also open with a slow motion clip of a coin flicking in the air by doing this it adds tension to the scene and we will have a phrase which is ' Heads you die Tails you Live' then by the end there is a heads flick which makes the audience think that someone will die but also because of the way we have the voice over the audience wont understand who and what is leading to this build up.

Me and Alex are finishing our anamatic storyboard at the moment and hope to have it up on blogger in the next few days hopefully once we have done that we will just have to post about a few more films.

Weather Report

Recently we've been having some adverse weather such as snow and extreme frost and because we would like to keep continuity in our film we are waiting to this Sunday where even though it may be frosty we can keep continuity in the film through filming over the week period.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635167#extra-uk-content . This shows how the weather has been and is being.