Website Research

I Have been looking at websites, at the information that is on them and what kind of methods they use to get their information across. The love actually one is very complex, it has videos of each character in their particular scene. This means lots of hyperlinks all linked to pages of videos, I hope that for our website we can do a similar thing but instead of videos have information about each character. The colours and themes of the website should match the poster and the font we use in the trailer. Below is a link to the website:

http://www.loveactually.com/

I have also been looking at the You've got mail website, the website has made use of the theme of mail, it uses the same sounds and logos that are used for email to tell us a bit about what the movie is about. It to has hyperlinks to different sections, the hyperlinks are quote from the film "Do you think we should meet" etc. It uses the same font that is used in the film and on the poster, even on the dvd. I hope our websites ends up being a bit more advanced than this one, a bit more modern, with more detail, more photos of the characters.

http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com/cmp/0frameset.html

Another website I have found it the Music and Lyrics website, this has loads of stuff for people to do, view pictures, downloads, "create your own 80s glam band" and other such things, it is a very high standard website. I like the photo that is used on the main page, but it would be impossible for Helena and I to create something like that first hand.

http://musicandlyrics.warnerbros.com/

-Lizzy

Poster Research

When thinking about the kind of poster we wanted to create, we started by looking at muliple Rom com posters. We particulary liked the poster for 'I Could Never be your Woman'...



We really liked the two simple pictures that focused on the two main characters faces. Showing expressions that fitted their personalities. The fact it's pictures of both a woman and man, tells the audience that straight away it's going to be a love story.

The font is simple but effective, the colour red captures the audience and emphasizes certain words. The flower gives the poster a girlier feel, but doesn't give the impression that it's not something boys could enjoy too. I think it's subtle but effective as it pays that little bit more attention to the female audience, the kind of audience who are more likely to see the film.

We also looked at a very similar poster from another Rom Com called 'The Holiday':



Once again it follows the classic conventions of a Romantic Comedy poster. The two pictures show loved up couples who are the main characters. The font is simple but pretty and overall it captures the essence of what the film is about.

Although we could have gone for the classic 'lean' convention that is shown in many film posters such as 'Pretty Woman', we dicided that the this theme often shows seductivity or immaturity in characters, which is not what we want to convey. We want to convey a mature relationship that is based on love.



Along with the poster we are currently creating we are looking at creating a poster similar to that of '500 days of Summer'..



This is because we like the idea of multiple pictures that build up an essence of character in the poster. We also have alot of fantastic photos from our photo shoot that would be a shame to waste as they have a lot of potential. After playing around, we quickly came up with a very ROUGH copy, just to get an idea..



-Helena

Film Pitch

Pitch:
When Ben's friend sets him up on an internet dating account he doubts that he'll ever find love. But when he gets typing to the beautiful but blonde Lucy, the possiblity of finding happiness becomes more and more hopefull. When the descision to meet is made, both Lucy and Ben find themselves getting into hilarious ordeals, in order to cover up the ridiculous 'white lies' they let each other in on. Will these fabrications get in the way ,or will the beauty of blossoming love in the Autumn prevail?

-Helena

Film poster..SO FAR.

This is a DRAFT of our film poster. Just wanted to show our progress:



There is still a lot to do, such as a border and more information etc...but it's well on the way to looking very professional. -Helena

A problem we found about this poster is that the photos will not stretch to the edge and have enough space in the middle to write information in. We are trying to overcome this problems by trying with different photographs. -Lizzy

Film Title!

We have finally come up with a film title, with great help from our beautiful and creative friend Alice.

@ccidentally in love

Lizzy and I think it's a fantastic title as it includes the internet theme that's the main plot in our film. A pitch will be up soon to explain this mysteriously amazing title!

-Helena

Blooper Reel

The bloopers from our film (mind you this is only a small proportion) We have decided to use Adobe Premiere pro 1.5 as its installed on our laptops and we can spend time out sides school editing if we need to. This was an excellent practice for us both as we would love to use some new techniques such as a split screen effect. Enjoy :D

-Lizzy

'It's a wrap!'

We have officailly finished filming our film! Yesterday we spent the afternoon finishing off the remaining shots in the film and today I filmed one last one (Lucy walking into a glass window!). The whole process has gone surprisingly smoothly, compared to the trials and tribulations we had last year, such as lighting and tripod issues. But I feel we have come along way since then and Lizzy agrees, for example, we planned out our locations and the time of day we shot in much better this year. We made sure there was always an appropriate amount of light and took the framing and mis en scene very seriously.

We should hopefully be able to start editing by Friday, a much quicker advance in the project than we thought. Soon we will be able to upload a Pitch and our story board ,which we have worked hard on to get the shots how we wanted!

Here is a picture of Lucy and Rob to further whet your appetite for our film!

Beautiful.

-Helena