Research and planning - REVIEW LAYOUT RESEARCH

EMPIRE MAGAZINE from looking at various magazine reviews and layouts i found that i prefered those of empire magazine, and felt that my film would be suitable for a less mainstream version of emipre magazine. conventions used within empire layout include

• a large still from the film which covers sometimes more than half the page.


• a large bold title of the film being reviewed.


• simple colour schemes empires being black white and red.


• movie stats which are in a seperate box from the main text.


• columned review in a small simple font.


• a verdict and star rating.

i feel that i can use some of these conventions as well as challenging them as i feel that the audience of empire magazine is similar to those of our films target audience.

Research and Planning- FILM POSTER PRODUCTION

when creating my film poster i decided to create a polaroid picture format from researching films which used this technique, as i felt that it complemented the films theme and genre as well as appeal to the target audience.

• i began by using photoshop to create a border upon the picture, which i had taken with a retro filter on my camera to create a aged look relating to the title of our film 1970


• i then used dafont.com to select a font which contratsed the aged photo by using a digital font relating to the technology brief. i then used an orange filter on photoshop as well the burn tool to make the photo seem un developed, as well as a texturising tool.


• i added the slogan 'who needs technology?' is a font which resembled handwriting to make it look as though it is a polaroid memory.


• i then decided that the previous layout didnt work so well as when people look at posters the main focus should be central and the title of the film wasnt so i made '1970' central. under this i added credits of the film in a basic black font so it didnt take any focus away from the main content. i also used a black simplistic background for behind the portfolio.

Research and planning - STORYBOARD

storyboard 1970 from abigail bell on Vimeo.

Research and planning- ANIMATION IDEAS

within our film we decided to do some stopframe animation to connote time travel this is a storyboard of ideas and plans for our animation.