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Friday, 15 April 2011

How has little white lies inspired me? Planning my cover

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The picture above has a lot of importance to me. As you can see there is A mans head almost moulded into an animals head.

My trailer plot evolves around backstabbing and a break in friendship. Therefore using this picture has triggered a very important idea for my magazine cover. This is using the two characters that discontinue their friendship and moulding their faces in a similar way to display the backstabbing, loyal and try to outline the situation in a picture.

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

What magazine covers suit me?

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Recently I have been doing a bit of research into the depths of UK independent film magazines to gain ideas, learn and explore different ideas for my own magazine cover.

Primarily I have decided to focus on ‘Little White Lies’ and the very basic aspect of their magazine designs. I feel they’re very catchy, attractive yet very affective!

You can generally see from this picture the majority of the Little White Lies magazine covers have a very repetitive yet unique style.

- Dull backgrounds are installed to direct your focus into their pictures in the middle.

- Pictures are always directly in the middle of the page

- A circular barcode often overlaying the main picture above the centre.

- A title matching the film theme.

- Usually a colour theme regarding 2 or 4 colours

- A cartoon like picture with low detail.

Nearly their entire magazine covers include a person directly staring at you, positioned in the centre of the page. This indicates a sign of power to the viewer instantly signifying confidence. This also connotes fear in some aspects.

Since my plot evolves around fear and similar aspects, Little White Lies is a perfect magazine for me to study regarding the way their magazines are laid out.






Monday, 4 April 2011

Camera work experimenting

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Recently i have taken some time to shoot some simple footage with me walking through a door. As well as this being very simple footage, the aim is to explore with the camera to develope, experience and explore with my techniques.

After analysing many different videos and witnessing their camera work I feel the need to explore in this way to gain more experience.

Here are the original videos, there are many angles.







Having combined these videos using movie maker i have displayed the way this scene would appear completed as a final result!


From this you can see there is a lot more involvement that just recording someone walking through a door, you have to plan everything shot by shot.