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Social Realism - What Is It?
Social Realism is a genre used in visual arts that has, over the years, become a very interesting source of entertainment for all sorts of audience and people; an expressive way of showing a 'slice of life'. Click here to find out more and see various examples of the genre 'social realism' in use...
Friday, 22 February 2013
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Evaluation Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this evaluation, I decided to use my graphic design and artistic skills to explore my response and present it. I decided on creating various mind maps/explanation diagrams to show my response.
I needed to create some plans on how I was going to set the mind maps out though, as walking into it blind would be a very messy and foolish method of approaching the question.
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Evaluation Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I created a Behance portfolio presentation to explore this question. You can view it on the link below:
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Evaluation Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Here is a Prezi presentation, which was created by Matt, to explore and answer this evaluation question:
Overall, I think that we did a great job with creating the ancillary tasks to go alongside and work in synergy with our short film. If we were an industry, we would be using the film poster to advertise our films in various places such as cinemas and bus stops (as...
Evaluation Q1: In which ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In order to get my point across on how my project used and challenged typical conventions and themes in the social realism film idea, I decided to create a video to explain some big examples of how we used them.
Another note I would like to add is how we used people and directors as influence. We didn't directly copy anyone from the industry, as we felt this really limited our creativity and didn't allow us to challenge the ideas enough for our film. We wanted to create a piece that was no where near as dramatically led as most other social...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Final Piece: Anchored Renegade
Our video was then edited to the best quality it could be and a final cut was produced. The video below is our final short film product. It was uploaded to YouTube at full 1080p HD quality. Enjoy!
Using a website called Animoto, I created a 30 second long key frame compilation slideshow using the websites slideshow creation and hosting services. I would have...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Final Film Poster
This is our final promotional film poster.
I also printed this poster of in real life to envision what it would look like on a wall in reality. I didn't have access to any A2 paper, which is what film posters would usually be printed on, so we had to make do with A3. But, we think it still looked really legitimate and authentic, as well as felt proud of our product...
Monday, 4 February 2013
Creating A Film Poster Advertisment
Using Behance, I created a small portfolio page to present the creation process of our groups film poster. You can see the progress shots of the posters' creation here, so click the link below to view:
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Sunday, 3 February 2013
Inital Font Ideas For Film Poster Advert
One of the main aspects of a film poster is to have the film’s title on the piece of paper, often taking up a third of the page. I decided to design and test some fonts and see which I thought suited the film’s genre and themes better. Factors such as capitalizations, weight and kerning need to be considered during this design process.
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Photography For Film Poster
As we didn't want an illustrated film poster, due to the fact it would be silly to have a social realism film advertised in an unrealistic manner, we needed some photo's to work with and create it with. Below are the shots that we took as possibilities for our film poster.
We also had one more shot, which we decided was the one we wanted to use. It can be...
Creating Logos For The Film Poster
One of the other features we noticed during our analysis of film posters was that there were a sufficient amount of associated companies and sponsors in the credits section at the bottom of the poster. These companies were all represented by logos. These seemed to be an essential for a film poster in order to look authentic and professional. It's...
Creating Content For The Film Poster
Once we had done all of our research for our posters' content, I set to creating the content. You can see the content that we created for the poster in this Google Document:
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Saturday, 2 February 2013
Initial Design Sketches For Film Poster
The first part to creating an advertisement for a film in poster format is to create and sketch ideas for the piece. By doing this, I can create a rough plan on how the short film will be advertised, following the themes and conventions that I had researched previously. We had already taken some photography from our shooting sessions, so I could work on designs from them.
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Film Poster Research
In order to gain an idea on how typical film posters look, we had to do some research. We didn't want to waste time researching random film posters and felt our time would be best spent researching posters for films in social realism genre. This was so that when it came to creating our own poster, we would know the norms of a social realism genre based film in particular ...
Friday, 1 February 2013
Film Poster Advert
The second ancillary task we had to complete was a film poster that would advertise our short film. Poster design is a very creative process, so I feel we can show a lot of our creativity during this process and will also enjoy doing it, thus putting us at a good chance of creating a great result product for this task.
Promotional (or teaser) posters are a very common...
