How effective is the combination of your main product and and ancillary texts?

The chosen posters for Bringing Back needed to be as serious and sombre as possible, this was done in order to to give the theme of despair a more authentic look and feel.

Our first fi lm poster makes good use of the colours black and white. This is because too much use of colour makes the film seem bright and quirky; and the point of Bringing Back Hope was to create a deep and dramatic atmosphere.
Dark colours such as blue were used for the font as it usually connotes the ideology of despair. However, the diary itself is coloured as it highlights its significance to viewers within the story; as Hope uses the diary to overcome her depressive state            

Our second design makes use of brighter colours, but uses blue/purple-like hues. Even with the colours being slightly more brighter, it still shows that the film will be dealing with serious issues (such as bereavement and the loss of a loved one).

However, this film poster challenges the idea of despair as it uses a a bright yellow which usually connotes happiness. But by choosing to use this colour, it becomes apparent to the viewer that there may be a happy ending to the story (Hope overcoming her depressive state) as a mixture of dark and light colours are being used in this film poster.

This shot (Priscilla's crying scene) taken from the film clearly adheres to the idea of using darker hues to create a feeling of depression and isolation, which was what we were intending to re-create.   
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The review makes sufficient use of the colour blue, this also gives off the theme of despair as the colour blue could sometimes symbolise depression.

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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The slideshow discusses what went well during the audience screening, and what was done to improve the film in general.

Commentary

Below is my commentary for the short film "Bringing Back Hope":




Note: The Climax part of Freytag's pyramid of dramatic structure was missed out. The climax is actually where the fight scene takes place; which eventually leads to Hope finding her sister's diary, leading onto the Falling Action.

What I have done

Today, I have learnt how to use Final Cut to create titles for our film. This was quite confusing to understand at first as it was more advanced than what I was used to.
I started off by creating a simple animation with a sample text, just to get used to using Final Cut. I was then shown how to create more of a professional title which would be more suitable for a film. This rather straightforward.. By the end of the lesson, I was able to create suitable titles that were good enough for the film.

My Film Poster Mock-Up

This is my mock-up for our film poster. It features a long shot of the sister (Priscilla) appearing to be uncomfortable with her surroundings (her own bedroom) clutching on to her beloved teddy bear. The teddy bear signifies that the sister could posses a child like mentality. The shot also has the drawer which contains her items, with her diary on top of the drawer. The other sister, Hope (Tosin) is located on the bottom right corner. The close up shows the emotion of unhappiness, this is because this sister is ironically in search of "hope".

The tagline for the mock-up is "One journal makes all the difference". I decided to use this tagline because Hope reads her sister's journal in order to overcome her depressive state,  so I thought that the tagline would be appropriate for a general summary of the film.

Existing Film Poster Analysis

This is film poster is from the 2010 film, Remember Me, the film relates to our film as it shares a theme of despair, as one of the main characters manages to overcome the death of a loved one.