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Ancillary product research

One of the ancillary products we must create to accompany our final product is a film poster. I have been doing my research on posters from films created by independent film houses, as I would like to do my poster in a similar style. This posters seems to have a more artistic element to them. Standard film posters created by huge hollywood conglomerate are usually stills from the film, however these posters frequently use drawings or specifically designed grafics for their posters. I have come across a web page, titled "40 Exquisite independent film posters" which I think will help me alot throughout my research.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/19/40-exquisite-independent-film-posters/

From looking at the posters featured on this website, I have gained a little insight into typical conventions of film posters of films that are produced by independent film houses. These include;

-Title of the film is generally the largest bit of text featured on the poster

-They feature a credit block, in the same particular font

-They don't always feature the characters

-The images used are quite minimalistic

-They are usually thought through in an artistic way

-They follow a particular colour scheme

Filming

I managed to get the same character from my test footage again in order to film the footage to go into my final product, and spent friday afternoon filming it. I had been previously worrying about the weather as it has snowed recently, however it wasn't too sunny, there was no snow and the weather was generally gloomy which was perfect for my filming. When filming, I came up with several ideas for my ancillary products which I will outline in other posts.

Actor issues

When filming my test footage, the actor I used I only intended to use the once due to it being test footage for my original idea and had yet to look at actors. However, due to my change in idea the actor seemed like the perfect actor for my new trailer. We planned to film at the weekend, however he became unavailable and I'm unsure whether I am able to book him to film again.

Fish tank

This is the trailer for the film Fish Tank, directed by Andrea Arnold. It is about a 15 year old girl who lives on a rough, british council estate. The main character, 15 year old Mia, is very isolated from society and doesn't have many people to turn to. I have decided to analyse this trailer as it has won many independent film awards and it has a similar backdrop to my own storlyine.

An analysis of the ‘fish tank’

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