First Rough Cut

Following my assembly edit, I have cut a few shots to decrease the length of the overall film. I also shot the final scene and a pickup to replace the wide shot in which there were two people standing either side of the entrance. I have used the same shot size, but now there is no one standing outside to emphasise that there is no one to collect the girl. However, this edit stands at 10 minutes long, and so I will have to cut shots and sections of scenes to get it closer to the 5 minutes mark.

Magazine Review Draft Five

I have changed this draft from the previous by playing with the footer area of the page, and experimenting with a different font, and adding a the month and year, as well as removing the bottom page boundary. I have also made some subtle changes to the review itself to improve on the overall reading of the text. To make the image stand out more, I increased the saturation and cropped it so that it was in line with the text.

Poster Draft Two

Having discussed my first draft of my poster with my teacher and revisiting the most effective sketch of my ideas as agreed upon by my peers, I decided to try and create a new draft of my poster that includes more features that were similar to the idea. In this draft I used a background that excluded most of the books and folders in the background and used an effect to make it look more artistic, to merge with the mise en scene of a school location. The advantages of making it portrait again, was that I was able to fit the conventions of the poster at the bottom, allowing the title to stand out more than the previous draft. I altered the background afterwards, making it darker, so that I could have a draft in which the font was black and white.

Magazine Review Draft Four

Having received feedback from my teacher, we reached the agreement that the synopsis should be shortened and that further examples of technical codes within the film should be mentioned. I have edited the review to accommodate this. I have also added an image, and made slight changes to the colouring on the credits section at the bottom. Furthermore, I also changed the page number area of the page, to make it look as if it is more integrated into the rest of the page.

Assembly Edit

The following video is the first cut of my short film, minus scenes 14, 17 and 18. It currently stands at over 9 minutes, so my next steps are to refine by cutting shots that I don't need, and trimming down scenes that are too long in accordance with my script.

Poster Draft One

I began to manipulate my chosen image for my chosen idea for my poster. I ended up erasing some of the random objects in the background that took away from the subjects and the meaning that I was trying to construct. I also emphasised the windows in order to place text in each pane of glass for the title. I then added text, which included a billing block, festival awards, and reviews. In my idea for the poster was portrait, although I found that the image I had taken had areas in both the bottom and top that wouldn't have been well suited to the composition of a conventional poster, and tricky to place text. Therefore, I cropped both of these areas and instead created a landscape orientation poster. The following image is my first draft of this ancillary task: 

Poster Design

In order to create an effective poster, I needed to take typography into account to construct meaning that reflects the events in the narrative. I was happy with a basic, san serif font for the intertextual references, and the font 'credit block' for the credits, although I needed a font that was suitable for the title. I downloaded the following fonts to trial:

Overall, I found Beauty School Dropout the most effective, it contrasts with the word 'Home', as suggested by a participant in the qualitative research I carried out on my initial ideas, the font resembles a motel sign. This contrasts between the staying overnight connotation - which also reflects the events in the narrative, and that of the words 'Home Time'.

The other fonts are effective in different ways, although I feel that Veselka 4F woud be a little difficult to read had the background not been a solid colour. I also think that Drive Thru wouldn't have worked the most effectively because the writing in my poster is vertical as opposed to horizontal, and so the underline part of the text wouldn't have worked well. Similarly to Veselka, I am unsure as to whether a non solid background would have made the font effective in standing out. I decided to use Beauty School Dropout II, using all capital letters, as to me, this resembled a neon/ motel sign the most.