REFLECTING ON RESEARCH

Fran Matthews and Jordan Cruickshank

FILM POSTER

Our research into film posters helped us decide how we should portray our short film.

Films such as ‘Football Factory’ and ‘This is England’ were similar to the type of product we would like to create so studying these posters will help us achieve a much more successful product.

The film posters we studied also will help us with the costumes for our short film, this is because most of the film posters have an 80’s influence similar to ours. ‘The Firm’ has a Sergio Tacchini track top on the protagonist which influenced us to do this with our protagonist for our short film, as it presents authority and attitude.

‘This is England’ film poster has influenced our idea for our poster . This is because the characters are portrayed of a similar age to our characters against a urban backdrop much like ours. Showing the main characters gives a better understanding into the culture and allows to build an early relationship with the characters without even watching the film.

SHORT FILMS

Our short film research has helped us

recognise that creating the message is the

most important element in a short film. If

the message is not identified the short film

is a failure. Music and camera angles

seemed the most important in setting the

genre of the film and this helped us.

• ‘Where’s the money Ronnie?’ was the short film

we liked most as it obtained our interest throughout

and within a 10 minute period established the

characters excellently which we wanted to aspire to.

The use of comedy through editing such as

speeding up fight scenes created an alternate

meaning to the film which we thought was clever yet

challenging.

•We want to take elements from ‘where’s

the money Ronnie?’ and use them in our

production. This includes the setting,

music and dialogue which create a drama/

comedy genre which our short film will be.

FILM REVIEWS

When looking at the film reviews

we noticed that the mode of

address reflected the genre. For

example ‘Piranhas' 3D’ was

written in an address that had

connotations with the genre

horror.

Also we noticed the higher the

rating of star, the more

descriptive and complex the

review would be.

Also the sub heading

summarises the opinion of the

writer, implying what the tone of

the review will be like.

We have learnt that for our

ancillary task we should write in a

mode of address that parallels

with our intended genre.