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Poster Analasys - Daisy Hook

The poster for Shutter Island lets us know that its a thriller in many different ways.
The first way that it does this is through the use of the weather. We can only see that its raining, and other than that we can only see that its very dark, this tells us the mood of the film through pathetic fallacy showing that its going to be a dark film.
The island itself is a collage of a number of photos, giving us an idea perhaps that the film is about piecing together the evidence or completing a puzzle.
The main block of text is kept away from the main image and is kept to the middle alignment.
The main part of the text that our eye is drawn to is the title not only because its the biggest font but because its a vivid red colour, the font also looks like it has been stamped, this could give us an idea about the location, ie places that use red stamps, hospitals, drop in centres Ect.

The colour palette used in this poster is very synonymous with fantasy horrors, a variety of shades of blue and brown, most of them being darker shades. this gives us a clue that the storyline will also be dark in its theme.
Even though the title isn't in a striking colour its still the thing that our eye is drawn to because of its placement. The title also ties in with the setting with the R of the title leading off into a branch.
the main image is of a little girl (who is the main character) walking in to the split trunk of a tree. We are meant to veiw the girl as being vulnerable and innocent, which is very juxtaposed to the setting, being very old and ominous.
All of the main text is placed in negative space apart from the tag line which is placed over an image of the moon, which can tell us that the majority of this film will be set at night.

We can tell this film is probably going to be a comedy from the words saying "from the director of The Mighty Boosh" which was a very wacky comedy.
The poster its self is very colourful we can guess that the film is going to be colourful as well. The poster also has marks on it for instance over the U of Bunny is a coffee mug stain, as if its been used for a place mat or forgotten which you wouldn't really see with other film posters but in itself is quite quirky considering that posters are meant to be kept pristine and clean so this tells us that the film its self is going to be rather quirky in its nature.
The poster is split up into 3 sections, the main image, the title and pictures of the supporting actors. the production block is situated underneath the supporting actors images along with all the other production details.

First Day of Filming

Today was rather successful talked about how we were going to film the scenes. We weren't able to film the walking the dog scene because of weather conditions but we managed to get the ending filmed as well as the brushing teeth scene. We also managed to get a couple of transition shots filmed.

Notes

We're not really looking at any particular genre or theme at this point we are more considering what is within our reach in terms of making the short film in terms of our resources and actors available.

First we are assigning roles based upon our individual strong points

So Reece will handle more of the editing and blog as he is better with the IT side of things as has a strange aversion to filming but happy to do as much as he can from his computer and comfy chair.

Daisy and George will handle more of the filming side of things in place of Reece, as both enjoy filming a lot more and are not as capable with IT and are not as familiar with the macs as Reece is.
Daisy and George also do subjects within the drama department so will have better access to some actors from the drama department. These people also should be better actors than if we did it ourselves or sourced random people as they should enjoy acting more and have a better understanding or body language and facial expressions.

A film like the short film 2:20 is a great  for ideas

This film is a great short film to derive ideas for us as it doesn't really have anything that would be out of our reach as it just has a great use of camera shots and editing techniques.

I believe we should take this approach when trying to construct our film, keep it simple yet quirky but we do have to consider that our film will be about 3 minutes longer and this quite a lot of  time to fill with a short film as most I have seen while researching are less than 4 or they go on a lot longer and can span over 8 mins.