AN IDEA FOR OUR MAGAZINE COVER

AUDIENCE RESEARCH ONE

We found when they didnt like the trailer it was because not enough desciption was given, they seemed to not like the idea of not having too much continuiety.
They didnt like the fact one of the trailers gave too much away. They liked the fact you could introduced to the chracters individually.
They liked the fast pace music to the trailer.

AN IDEA FOR OUR FILM POSTER

I particularly like this poster because of the font which has been edited to seem more ‘chalkish’. I believe it relates to the film narrative as the story is going to be scripted around a teacher’s life. The font used is named Buttercream. However, to make the font seem as if it has been written with chalk, I had to use Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur and then change the setting to 0.5. After the Gaussian Blur, I added a stroke effect named Parchment. After this I used the eraser tool on opacity 30% and started to erase around the edges of the text to seem more realistic.

Overall I believe the text used in this poster should definitely be repeated in our final poster, as it conveys a strong indication of our film narrative.

TRAILER SCRIPT IDEAS

( teacher goes to sit with kids at lunch, opens up biscuits and offers them around, the kids run away)

 

1.(wide shot of the teacher running into school then running up the stairs then into a classroom, sits down, exhausted, the kids come in shouting)

Student: ‘ miss I forgot my homework, the dog ate it’ (the class giggles)

Karen: ‘oh, oh okay, poor dog! How is he?

Student: (looks at her funny) ‘yh hes fine miss’

2. (Karen walks towards the staff room, is grabbed by a teacher)

Teacher: Karen I need those year 8 papers marked by the end of the day, oh and we have parents evening tomorrow so you need to be prepared for that by tomorrow morning’

Karen: oh okay, yep I’ll do that in one minute I was just going to have a little break, I haven’t stopped all day, john wanted me to help him with his marking but then….. ( tries to keep talking to the other teacher but the teacher walks off when she’s in mid-sentence)

(shot of her looking disappointed, walking into the staffroom, going to make herself a cup of tea)

Karen: um, does anyone else want a tea? (offering to the whole staffroom)

(everyone says yes without looking up from what they’re doing)   (Karen looks exhausted)

 

3. (shot of her walking into her house and past the next door neighbour saying hello with a huge smile on her face, opens her front door and then when she gets home she slumps on her sofa, looks sad and drops to sleep)

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(alarm rings) close up of her face in bed, wearing a face mask, turns off the alarm and looks shocked, wakes up in a hurry shouting)

 

Karen: shit shit shit shit shit (chucking on clothes )

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Running into school long shot behind her. – tracking shot

FILM TITLE IDEAS

Most of the British Realist films that we have looked at have had very un-cliched and deep titles, they have all been quite self explanatory and simple, such as 'happy go lucky', 'life is sweet', and 'this is england'. Therefore we want to make our title something similar.
As we are creating a film about a teacher it should hint at the idea but subtly.
We could name the character Ms Wright and use a play on words, such as 'Getting It Wright' but then we thought if people took a first glance at the poster without knowing the characters name that they might think its a spelling mistake. However, we then thought as a possible idea where we call her Ms Dunn and name the title 'Get the Job Dunn' as the film will be mostly about her job.

Pass mark
assesment objective
subject criteria
grade boundary

FILM POSTER IDEAS

 

When working on a mock for our film poster we first looked online for photos of teachers to use as a template. When i came across this image i had an idea for our film poster. I thought that we could get our teacher actor to stand infront of a board just like this and instead of writting encouraging words or something random she could be writting words that are accosisated with the stresses she has to deal with in school. This could act as a huge insight to the films purpose and story and also still be quite neat and simple, something we want to create.

 

POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR TRAILER

During our media lesson we decided to take a few photos of some locations we will be planning on using for our story boarding and trailer. 

 

 



SCHOOL BUILDINGS
CLASSROOMS
STAFF ROOM