Final Product Deadline

Final Product Deadline

We have finished all of the material for the film, the review and the posters. We still need to post the final review onto the blog and into the completed folder but we have plenty of time before the final deadline to do so.


We decided to include 3 posters instead of two because we think that they are all equally as good as each other. The review was written by me and then edited/formatted by Erol to create the final product, we did some of the planning together as well.


There are still some things that we would like to change about the film in retrospect however we don't have time to change them anymore. One of the main things that we think would have been beneficial to change is the countdown at the start of the title sequence, it doesn't fit and starts the film on a bad note. However, this will allow us a talking point within our evaluation, so it is in this sense beneficial for us in the future.

The Faceless man

Film Review Plan

Film Review Plan

Contexts: Sixth Sense, Mental Health Issues, Exorcist, Fight Club.

Summary Information about Protagonist and Antagonist: Protagonist has a form of schizophrenia, he sees another person which is a figment of his imagination. The antagonist is the psychiatrist who turns out to be the person the protagonist sees in his imagination. 

Key themes, Issues and plot: Mental Illness (schizohprenia), follows the story of the antagonist.

Narrative Devices: Non Linear narritive, Flashbacks.

Use and adaptation of genre conventions (+evaluation): Psychological Thriller, dark settings, flashbacks, distorted imagery, 

Reviewers experience of film: 

Summary Sentence evaluating:

Film Review Layout Annotated

Little White Lies-Oscar Martin

Language and mode of address style conventions

Little White Lies Consists of complex language and sentence structures, also includes a variety of techniques varying from similes, adjectives, metaphors, nouns, complex nouns, language code (film talk, adverbs, rhetorical questions and so on...
These techniques make the article more formal but also more enjoyable as its a far more interesting read. I'm going to be looking at the film review of 'The Impossible' written by Jess Holland.
Like many other Little White Lies reviews its starts off with some history and information about the film where it explains it was based on the real 2004 tsunami which separated a Spanish family. There's an example of a film by the director Juan Antonio Bayona during the first paragraph with a complex verb 'revelling' describing the directors previous film further.
The second paragraph consist of the strongest scene in the film which also happens to be the opening. The scene where the wave hits is described as `enveloping us' and 'the money shot' further explaining to the readers that this was a very good scene.
A paragraph later the review states that Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts both acted well with 'robust,' 'convincing' roles starts decribing how Naomi Watts character looks as if shes about to whither and die (here they also use a reference to the hit series the walking dead to describe appearance) whereas Ewan McGregor just walks around with a 'sexy' scratch across his cheekbone.
The next paragraph is where the review starts saying what went wrong with the film where the lines said by the child actors like Tom Holland (who was aged 16) having 'creaks' in their dialogue alongside poor deliverance with lines like, "Mum, look at you, we need help, we cannot risk it." Little White Lies described his emotional deliverance as the 'emotional torment of a golfer who's just hoofed one in the bunker.'
The last Paragraph talks about how the film is based upon a sensitive topic where 300,000 people lost their lives and the films effort to use CGI more than show emotional aspects can be seen as slightly offensive, hence the reason why they gave it a 1 in retrospect and an explanation of it being 'quite offensive when you think about it.'       


      

Audience in Little White Lies

 Audience In Little White Lies

The Little White Liars magazine is targetted towards both males and females between the ages of 25 and 36. Our target audience is also very similar to this target audience, being a psychological horror.

The font used for the titles in the Little White Lies magazine articles is Century Gothic, this font is one of the aspects that make me believe that the articles/reviews in this magazine are targetted towards 25-36 year olds as it is a very plain and professional font. The font used in the main body of the articles is 'Aparajita'; this is another very plain and professional font which has the same positive and professional, but artistic, connotations that Century Gothic. There is a third font used in the review which is Microsoft Yahei, however, this is only used for the word 'REVIEWS' down the side, as a page lable for what is happening. When stating the directors, the actors, and the release date aparajita has also been used.

The main body of the article is very simply laid out, with three columns of text, one of which having the number based reviews for individual elements at the bottom, keeping everything very formal and well formatted. This creates a professional look which is attractive to this 26-36 year old audience.

The content of the article consists of mature language, and not just following the mature themes of the film. Although the article is quite casually worded, addressing the reader in an informal manner, it the rest of the article still gives it an overall professional atmosphere, making it stil appropriate for the target audience.

There are three factors that they review/rate a film on in this article: Anticipation, Enjoyment, and In Retrospect. These three elements are likely to be interesting to the 25-36 year old audience.

The faceless man poster Jacob's copy

This is the finished draft for my poster, I have followed the psychological horror genre that we used in our film. The font that I used for the title is 'Poplar STD', this font shows resemblance to fonts used for posters in other thriller/psychological horror films. I have included all of the standard elements for film posters, including: Awards, title, imagery, contributors, rating, formats, and more.

I have included the antagonist in the poster with a blurred face on a black background, as he is the main focus of the film. I have also split the image of his face into three different colours and slightly displaced each of them to give a 'glitched' effect. I think that this glitched effect is appropriate for the poster and the theme of the film.

The layout of my poster is essentially split into two halves. The first of these halves is all of the information contained on the poster laid out in a well ordered manner. The title is in the top left quarter, in large font taking up a lot of space. The billing box, awards, ratings, and other information is in the bottom left quarter. The second of these halves is the main imagery of the antagonist.

I used a pixelated blur effect in order to blur out the face of the antagonist, as is appropriate for our film. Overall I think the poster fits the theme of our film and the genre that we've tried to apply.