Extra Poster Research By Matthew Helliwell

A Beautiful Mind is a film, like ours, which uses a form of schizophrenia as a topic. Early in the film John forbes Nash (the main character) contracts paranoid schizophrenia early on in the movie and this interferes with his life and his family. Nash also refuses to take his medication.

These are similarities to our movie where our film uses a form of schitzophrenia, but instead of refusing to take her medication, Lucy simply forgets to take them. We also see how it affects the people around her, most importantly her mother.

The poster for this movie is even more relavent to our film because the lighting used on Russel Crowes face is darkened on one side. This shows us that there is something wrong with him or there are maybe two sides to this person. Also i like the effect of the shadow seen in the background amist of a blur of colours, this would be a great affect to use for our film poster as the character Emily-Jayne is not real and a figment of Lucy's mind, therefore could be represented by a shadow or something else that is not whole.

Analysis of a film poster By Lucy Davies

This is a film poster of 'The Uninvited' I chose to anaylise this poster as we based our 5 minute film on this specifically. The eerie effect created by the woman looking through the window leaves the audience in suspence as the figure doesn't show a face. Furhtermore, the woman looking through the window implies that she isn't welcome, hence the title 'The Uninvited'. This also links with the tag line 'fear moves in', suggesting that the uninvited guest maybe the 'fear' that enters whatever is behind the window. The main title is the largest piece of text on the poster. This makes it stand out from the other texts, also making it obvious what the title is for the audience. Even though the title is the prime focus, 'from the producers of The Ring and Disturbia' is centered in the poster, which is a good advertising skill to make the audience want to go see the film. This is because there is no 'star actors' or reviews to persuade the audience and by showing pervious successful films, this could imply that this film is just as good because the same producers were used. Other relevant information is based at the bottom of the poster in white, but this isn't exposed as much as the title, tagline, producers or the release month (January). Moreover, the font used creates a ghostly effect, which continues with the eeriness throughout the whole poster.
No colour is used at all in this poster, however, this is cleverly done to produce a cold atmosphere. The trees in the background show seclusion, which also links in with the old worn out window suggesting that this could be a cabin etc isolated in a forest so no one can escape the 'fear'.

Poster analysis By Hayley Outhwaite

This is a poster of the film Ghost. When i first saw this poster my immediate impression was that this film was about ghosts and other spiritual factors. By the way the surrounding area of the two actors in this poster is highlighted this links in with the title of this film 'ghost' as when i initially think of a ghost i think of bright lights. The tag line 'believe' also links in with the title of the film as not many people believe in ghosts so i get the impression that this film is also going to be based upon the belief in ghosts and maybe trying to get people to change their views on spiritual aspects such as ghosts.

This film relates to our film 'The lost Hart' as our film too incorporates spiritual factors as one of the main characters 'Emily-Jayne' turns out to be a figure of Lucy Caskcan's imagination and is in fact a ghost.

The way the male actor in this film is kissing the females neck signifies that these two actors are in a passionate relationship of which ties in with the sentence above the title on the poster 'before Sam died he told Molly he would love and protect her forever.' This sentence also tells the audience a lot about the two actors such as the fact they are in a relationship and that the male actor obviously loves his partner very much, however the way it says he will 'protect' her forever gets the audience thinking that maybe something bad happens in the film that he has to protect her from.

All in all I feel that even though this poster is not very complex it tells a lot about the film and this is what i want our poster to be like.

Poster Analysis by Shelley Brookes

This is a poster for the movie ‘Frozen’. It has a dull setting implying cold, horrible weather. Which creates a frozen atmosphere and a negative effect on the audience. The writing also gives a cold impression as it is written in white which implys ice. Also, the title is in the biggest writing as it is the most important part, the reviews are slightly smaller because they’re less important and finally the writing at the bottom, for example the producer, is small as it isn’t that important to the audience.
The way it shows the person trying to stop himself from falling by holding on to the ski lift to stop him from falling. This will cause the audience to have a sense of fear, implying this film is a horror. Also it is emphasised by the way the sky behind them is the only light part to make this more clear.
A persuasive feature here is the quotes from the newspapers because it gives the reader an ideao n what the films about and is likely to make them want to see it.

Diary Extract by Shelley Brookes

On 3rd February we re-filmed the shots at Hayleys house of Lucy and Lucy’s mum. This was because the scenes we filmed here previously had been deleted.
We did a long shot from the door of the bathroom watching Lily brush her teeth, a long shot of her from the corner of the room and a medium close up of the side of her head. We then did a long shot, a medium close up and an close up of Lucy brushin her hair to get ready for college.
Next we did a long shot of Lucy grabbing a jumper out of her wardrobe which will then cut to a close up shot of her putting it on at the top of the stairs followed by a tilt down long shot of Lucy running down the stairs.
Finally we did a long shot of Lucy running in to the kitchen and pinching some toast off her mum whilst her mum is trying to say something. We also did a side on mid length shot of this.
Al these shots are put in the film to show that Lucy is in a rush to get ready. These will all be on for a shot length of time to emphasise Lucy rushing.

Diary Extract by Shelley Brookes

On Tuesday 19th January we did the corridor scenes again with the correct jumper. This was a long shot of Lucy coming down the corridor open an a door to look in to the room then walking off. We also got a long shot from round the corner of her arriving at the door looking inside then turning towards the camera and the camera panning to follow her down the next corridor. Then finally just a shot of Lucy just walking down the corridor after shes looked in through the door (this is not on camera).
We then did a scene from another corridor of Emily-Jane and Lucy walking towards the camera talking about the subjects Lucy has chosen. We then went to a shot around the corner of both of them walking up to a door for Lucy to enter the room and Emily-Jane walks back down the corridor they’ve just walked down.
Next we went in to the refectary for the scene where Lucy buys her and Emily-Jane a hot chocolate and they discuss speaking to a teacher about the bullies they had confrontation with earlier in the film. A problem we had with this scene is that the refectory is an open place therefore people are free to come and go anytime so there was a lot of noise and interuptions and we had to keep re-filming.
This was the last scene of the day and it overall went well. We now need to do the scenes in the classroom with the teacher again and then the car scene and the scene with the bullies. We plane to do this on Monday 25th or Tuesday 26th of January.

Diary Extract by Shelley Brookes

On Thursday 14th january we decided to film the corridor scenes although it took us half an hour to decide this and to get the actresses dressed and ready. We set up at the end of the corridor and did qa long shot of Lucy walking down the corridor holding her timetable. When she got to the end of the orridor she peaked her head round a classrom door and when she realises there’s noone inside she carries on through the corridors. We got several shots of this. We took a close up from behind her as she was looking in the door and one from around the corner of the corridor so we could just see her open the door then walk towards us. And finally a long shot of her walking away from the door and down the corridor.
We then took the camera to outside the classroom that we film in to see Lucy entering her first class. We did a long shot of Emily-Jane and Lucy walking down the corridor towards the room. They then begin a conversation about what classes Lucy is studying. A continuous shot is then used from round the corner of them arriving at the classroom door. The camera then jumps to inside the classroom to a close upside shot of Lucy entering and then to a long shot of the rest of the class and Lucy joining them. This is the last shot we did.
Although, when we put all the footage on to the computer we realised we would need to film it all again as Lucy was wearing a different jumper and therefore there would be issues with continuity. We plan to film this agin as soon as possible.