Film Poster Analysis

In order to create a poster for our film, it was a good idea first to look at pre-existing posters, to see the type of conventions used in our genre. What to put on the poster, what not to put on the poster, things the poster should say, the message it should get across, all these things had to be considered when analysing the film poster. For my analysis, I chose to do "Fighting"

Casting

As part of the planning stage of our film we had to consider casting. This is an important issue as the cast must both be able to act and have the right look for the style of our film, as our characters types have to be established very quickly because this is a short film.

We chose to use Alex as the main character of our film because he does not fit the stereotype of a racist, our film shows that anyone can be racist, despite the contextual factors of their life.

We chose Adeel to play his asian friend as he best fitted the role. Adeel has an intimidating look about him, which suits our style of short film. It was decided by the group that A-Level drama students should be used as they have more skill than most. Both cast members are very talented and do A-Level drama together, so work well with eachother.

The Animatic

As part of our storyboarding process our group created what is called an animatic. We drew our story out on post-it notes and photographed them. We later uploaded those photographs and created a film out of them, recording a voice over to go over the parts where we had dialogue, creating our film in pictures rather than moving image. This helped us to see the amount of time it would take for our script to be read out fully, and also gave us some ideas on how to change and develop the script.