Music for Final Draft

We have looked at several different songs that we could use in the final draft of the film. As we have decided that the song used in the first draft didn't fit the film as well as it could have, we looked at the following songs and considered them as candidates for the final draft. The songs we looked at are as following:

I think that this song would go well with the very beginning of our opening as is has a very vague direction at the beginning. The simplness of it would not overshadow the dialogue and it does not sound overly upbeat so it does work with the tone of the film. However the change of the song after the opening section, does get very busy and as such, could become distracting and slightly inconsistent over the course of the film's opening,

This song definitely fits the slow pace needed and does not have a very crowded composition, something very important for our films opening. The problem with using this song for our opening lies in the melody of the song. It builds up to be very uplifting, something that is not at all fitting for our film.

This song does have a tone that is fitting for our film. Is is not especially sad and is far from upbeat and these factors would make it good to use in our film. The reason we haven't used this song however, is that it is a very well known song and could be seen as being a cliche if it were put in the opening of our film. It may also be a little too dramatic for the opening of our film to, having a full orchestra of instruments might confuse the audience if it were played during our opening sequence.

This cover was looked at because it is not too busy and has a very ambiguous tone to it, something that suits our film's opening very much. It is not too fast paced and having it play quietly over the dialogue sections is doable without distracting the audience. Because of all these factors, we eventually decided to use this cover song in our final draft.

Film Poster Research

To make a film poster that is appropriate for out film, both in theme and genre, I have looked at the posters of other similar films so that I can take elements from them to make a poster for the Parallel film. One film I looked at is the film, 'The Double', as this film has both genre and concept in common with our film. This film also has a two of the same person in it and uses it as the main focus of the plot. Although the second version of the main character in our film's plot is no more than a figment of his imagination, we could still have both of them shown in the poster in the same way that they are for the double to show that the film does have two of the same person in it as the premise and get people's attention that way. The poster also focuses more on the imagery than the words on the poster. All the text is very small and despite being in the middle of the poster, it is not the main focus and is instead used to separate the two images and further direct the attention of the observer towards them.

This poster is made for a movie that never made it to production, but shows all of the features that most posters have and should have. The name of the film is shown very clearly at the top in the logo, something also done in the double poster but to a lesser extent. The colour scheme for this poster is very simple, relying heavily on dark blues and using practically no other sorts of colours. This gives the poster a very clean look because there are no distracting factors, drawing the attention to the importan part in the middle. That is how this poster differs most to the Double's poster. Where the double's poster has the two images on either side, this film's poster has all the attention centered around the image in the center. The text at the bottom of this poster is also very important. The way the typeface is written, looking almost squeezed, is a style used in a lot of film posters and gives off the impression to a viewer that it is a professionally done poster.

Timeline of a Film Opening

These are the titles form the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The style of the titles is a computer generated animation that relies heavily on the use of contrasting colours and the clean typeface used for the text. The clean style is effective in making the titles clear to the audience and I think that this is a good idea to incorporate into our film opening. While we wont have an animation, I think that shaving a clean typeface used for the titles along side stationary camera shots, something also done in this sequence of titles, that a similar effect can be created and will give the titles more of an impact than using a more basic serif typeface.

Film Company Logo

This is the logo that I designed for my own film production company. The logo itself is comprised of as simple symbol that is surrounded by a more interesting shape around it. The design is supposed to be eye catching and something that can eventually become easily recognizable, hence the unique looking symbol. My reasoning behind having the explosion looking surrounding to the symbol is so that, depending on the movie, the shape could be altered and changed depending on the film it was shown alongside. This would allow the company to produce a wider variety of films as there is no specific genre automatically attached to the logo's design. The colours are also different from standard colours. Instead of standard bold colours, there are instead several colours to further make this logo seem distinct in comparison to other film companies.

The name for the company ism "Super Ultra Mega Films", which is an over the top name specifically with the intention of coming across that way. The bold exaggeration is intended to give off the impression that the company is a bold company and that any movies produced by it will be at the very least, worth seeing.

Title Sequence of a film

The film's opening starts mid conversation. The setting is the interior of a restaurant. The time is not specified but the two characters on screen are eating breakfast so the audience can tell that the scene is some time in the morning. The two main characters are not wearing any sort of fancy clothing and this shows that the two aren't wealthy characters. This factors into the conversation they're having and this opening scene is very dialogue heavy. The conversation between the two revolves around robbing banks and stores and how banks are easier to rob than the latter. The subject matter of the conversation suggests that the film will be an action movie, however the length and focus of the dialogue suggests that the action is not the main focal point. 

While the opening scene of the movie only has two actual characters, with the exception of a waitress that has only one line, there is never a suggestion that these two will be the protagonists of the film. The way they speak doesn't make them the most likable of people and the talk of robbing people doesn't portray them as good people. The scene ends with them commencing their robbery and then cuts away. This further gives reason for them not being the main characters as their actions are cut off and the scene ends.