Costume and props: Interigation scene

Costume for Antagonist lackey:
The antagonist in this scene is dressed in appropriate wear for this dark scene. He is wearing a matt black coat that is relatively tight and is not baggy. He is also wearing a gas mask that is used in an earlier scene and this could give the audience a sense of continuity which would make it less jarring and erratic. This allows the audience to start to build up a representation of these people even before the film has come out.

Costume for Protagonist:
The protagonist will be wearing a pair of black trousers and black boots, but he will not be wearing any form of clothing on his upper body this is due to the convention of the protagonist when being beaten being seen as very masculine and showing off his or her muscles. Also to make him look more tired and exhausted I will pour water and earth onto his body to give the effect of him being sweaty and dirty.

Props that were used:
The props that were used in this scene were:

• A black gas mask
• A simple swivel chair
• machinery in the background

starting our research for our Film magazines

Examples of professional Film magazine front covers.

 

This magazine is done by Empire and is a well known for its evaluation and reviews of films.

Research for Posters 1

For my media studies course work I have to create a poster for my teaser trailer. To find out what I should include in my new poster I am going to look at posters that other producers have made for their films.

The poster above was made for the film Final fantasy Advent Children which was a anime based film. The film's genre is a action and fantasy based movie. This means that it is the same form of genre that my film is. So I have taken great amounts of inspiration from this poster to put ideas forward for my own poster.

In the poster there are the two main characters which attract the target audience due to their striking figures and looks. This allows the audience to look more closely at the poster and recognise the name of the film.

Due to the white background the the two main characters in black stand out from the background which allows the audience to notice them more easily. Also because of the poster being simple the target audience don't have to look at the poster for more than 5 seconds to realise that it is a poster and then what film it is. This technique could be described as a minimalist approach. This convention seems to be popular with lots of current films as it allows the cost of the poster to be kept low whilst being able to attract the highest amount of attention from the audience. Also due to the special effects that are being used it again attracts the attention towards the characters in the centre of the screen.

Some of the the techniques used in this poster make it very appealing to the audience which I hope I can replecate and use to make my poster as profesional as possible.

Research for Posters 2

This is the second poster that I am going to evaluate and use to get ideas for my teaser trailer poster.

This is a poster for the film Iron man 2 and was released on may 7 in 2010. This poster makes use of the conventions of minimalistic designs as the poster is mostly just the picture of just the two iron man soldiers. This is due to the franchise of ironman being a famous blockbuster release, this means that it doesn't need the same sort of introduction to tell the audience what the film is and what its about. The title for the film is only the number 2 which is both symbolic of there only being two characters on the screen and also that it is the second film in the iron man series. The only form of writing on the screen is the number and the release date which adds to the simplicity of the poster. The pose that the two main characters are standing in would look good in my poster to use as the stance for positioning the protagonist and the antagonist.