Deconstructing Posters To Create A Criteria

Fonts for Website, Poster and Trailer Anchorage

For our trailer we need to carefully select a suitable font to use for the anchorage, it is also important that this can be transferred effectively onto our poster and website and still accurately portray the tone and theme of the film we are promoting. 

We have chosen the fonts below because we feel they would all fit appropriately into our promotional package. 

squared display

We chose this font because of the futuristic and technological appearance. We considered that the thin lines may not show the power that we intended, however after deconstructing the film poster for 'Strange Days' we realised that the thin font stands out and create intrigue. 

induction

Evaluation of our first draft of the trailer

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media texts? (Evaluation of our first draft)

After completing our first draft we have made these observations:

What has been successful in our first cut: 

- the positioning of the clips

- the use of white noise 

- the music chosen (which has appropriate dynamics)

- the shots of Charlie watching the youtube video 

Codes and conventions used:

- quick cuts

- anchorage and inventive ways of getting in anchorage (google)

- dialogue

What we need to change/add:

- add reviews in forms of Facebook posts

- change the font of the anchorage

- add the name and release date of the film

- add clips with higher quality footage and camera work

- add credits page

- add a wash to make it more blue and technological 

- close ups on face 

- computer screen light on face clips

This is the link to our first cut on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faz-yaGGiHA&feature=youtu.be

Influential Films

In our film trailer we intend to include certain aspects and concepts from a variety of films.
As our film is a dystopian thriller, the main themes are isolation

Films that have influenced some of our choices for costume, set etc. are:

Dystopian Thrillers: (1984/ A Scanner Darkly/ THX 1138/ V for Vendetta/)
Dystopian Sci-fi: (Blade Runner/ Children of Men/ Minority Report/ Idiocracy/ Metropolis/ Equilibrium/)

Tag-Line Ideas

'In Cyber-Space no one can hear you scream'
- Too corny


'Internet control is only a click away'
- Too long
- Aim of trailer is made clear

'Complete control is a click away'
- More ambiguous

'One click'
- Snappy
- Too abstract and vague

'One click to total control'
- Could mislead

'The Time Is Now'
- Ambiguous & mysterious 
- Link to the trailer
- Link to the YouTube video titled 'The Time Is Now'

Recent Violence Blamed on The Power of The Internet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/newtown-media-lanza_b_2311367.html 

This links to our trailer theme as the internet is used as a reason for why these events have taken place. These occurences suggest that the internet can influence violence through the means of control.