Poster Plans

After much consolidation i have designed a couple of poster ideas in draft form:

This design is quite similar to the promotional poster for Pulp Fiction, which would mean that using this design would highlight that Pulp Fiction was my main inspiration for this project. It would also be aesthetically pleasing to fans of that film which will attract the target audience for my production, which is important as my project has a pretty niche audience.

This poster is more in the visual style of Reservoir Dogs. This design will be more asethetically pleasing as the visual style is more interesting and more likely to attract an audience. The film also closely resembles the promotional poster for Pulp Fiction and the main advertisement poster for Reservoir Dogs so combining these visual and stylistic ideas my poster will attract fans of both these films and my niche audience and be aesthetically and visually pleasing to viewers who arn't fans of Tarantino.

Review Plan

For my other auxiliary task I have chosen to do a magazine review. This is the draft for my review. I chose to lay it out this way because it looks authentic and is general to the conventions of most film magazines such as Empire:

This style will make my article seem believable and authentic and therefore more professional looking. This things combined will make my auxiliary task successful.

Film Poster Research

For one of my auxiliary tasks I have chosen to produce a poster advertising my short film. In preparation for this I will be researching film posters for Tarantino films as my short film will be in the same style of these and I would like my posters to reflect this. I will also be researching gangster film posters as my short film will reflect this genre.

Here are some of the ideas I had for style models.

This style of poster would reflect that Pulp Fiction was the main inspiration for my short film. It would also showcase the two actors i will be using for my production in the same way this this poster has. However in the case of this poster it shows that there is two A list Hollywood actors involved in the production which would've been a large selling point for the film. However my actors will obviously be anonymous to the public at large.

This poster would also showcase my actors but would have the advantage of having a brash and interesting visual style that would showcase the unconventionality of my production. Though this poster looks more visually appealing the simplicity and edginess of the other one is more attractive to me.

This poster is similar to the style of the poster for Reservoir Dogs, however it is for a British film so it ties more into my short film as my short film is also a British movie.
I will be incorporating all of these styles in my own production which combined I hope will produce a blend of both British and American advertising to reflect the merging of the genre's of my short film.

Storyboard

Plans for this week...

Got a camera today... baby steps. Gonna be taking some photos over the weekend for my auxillery tasks and maybe do some sample videos to see how things look before i put the big cameras to the task. Storyboard should be coming up soon now i've finally got a plot down.

Bloody Dialogue...

So I'm trying to write a screenplay. Only problem is I'm having major writers block. I haven't wrote dialogue, ever , so thinking of clever and Witty things for people to say is becoming a challenge. I will get round to it, and i promise it will be the best dialogue you've ever heard, think i might have to talk to the actors about it, its just...urgh...

Plot Adaptations

Ok so I'm human, I eventually slip up and change my mind. I've had some ideas about the plot and I wanted to change them. So here goes.

The two aforementioned Hitmen are walking and talking and eventually enter a snicket. This then cuts to a short credit roll which ends in a transition shot with a title card on it. The Hitmen are then seen to enter a house and the shooting ensures. The Hitmen light a cigarette and leave.

This then cuts to another title card/ transition page. The Hitmen are then given their assignment by the angry women (Lyndsay) and leave.

Cue a final title card/ transition page and the camera cuts to inside the snicket where the Hitmen had entered in one long Match on Action shot. The Hitmen encounter someone being mugged and opt to help, pulling guns on the muggers. There is one final shot of the muggers and the Hitmen stood pointing guns at eatch other from a low angle shot and the film ends.

This new ending does 3 things that i want to achieve:

1. It shows the Hitmen as good people that kill for good not just money. This would break the typical movie stereotype as Hitmen being the antagonist and shows them as a sort of Anti-Hero. This also happens to Vinnie Jones' character in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which would show that this film has influenced my short film.
2. It would tie the begining and ending of my film together making them seem like they flow into each other. This is also how Pulp Fiction is ended which would also imply that my film was influenced by Pulp Fiction and Tarantino.
3. It would give my short film a cliffhanger ending which is how Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and is a quite common ending for films of this genre (one could argue that Reservoir Dogs ends this way) therefore I would have tied all the films that I am influenced by together.

I belive that this new plot will strengthen the success of my short film and make the watching of it more interesting as my plot before wasn't really well rounded. The new ending will also fully ensure the homages that i am trying to achive will be met.