Creating a poster

To create the poster, I used Microsoft Word because it is a program that I am familiar with and know how to use. I began by looking ta royalty free pictures that suited the effect I was going for and something that could represent the film as whole rather than reflecting just our opening sequence as this is how it would be if we created a whole film. I didn't use a picture from our piece as I didn't think any of them would be effective enough and also didn't bring the right message.
After choosing a picture for a background I then added the name in a similar font that we used for the titles in the opening sequence as I beleive this was more effective than using any other font as it had more correlation to the piece.
The smoke used to symbolise dreams in the opening sequence was also pictured as the hand was holding it as though it was mastering the dream/nightmare realm.
It took me a long time to find the perfect photo as I wanted it to mean something to the sequence.

End Title

Joel has been working very hard on the End Title of our opening sequence whilst I have been editing the original sequence.
Our idea for the for the Titles was originally to have them form out of smoke, but it was proving very difficult so we decided that we would save the effect for the main title and to do something different with the normal ones.
To create the end title, Joel used adobe after-effects and followed online tutorials that guided him through the process. It took a long time but was worth it in the end for the efefct that it has on the whole sequence.
The other titles took us longer to decide on as our original idea was to have all the titles appear as smoke, but this was too ambitious and would have taken too long to do. We looked through various fonts but many of them looked too friendly once we put them against the sequence. Eventually we settled on one that looked like old style writing, which was elegant but gave it a sense of creepiness as it is old and not practised anymore. We kept the colour to a greyish off white colour in keeping with the smoke theme so they did not look out of place.

Set design

The design of our set appeared straight forward at first but creating it was more difficult than we first thought.. our set was little girls bedroom that was filled with toys. We wanted an attic spaced room for the low ceiling because it creates a 'trapped' effect more than an open room. we show this in our production pitch when we were describing the kind or room we wanted. My room fit the requirements so we decided to use it as our set but before it could be used, it had to be altered and things had to be moved around so that it looked like a young girls room. the first thing that we did was take everything irrelevant   out of shot and out of the room if it fit. Things like my TV, games consoles, armchair and other various large object were moved behind my bedroom door and out of shot indicated by the red arrow.

The next thing we did was place relevant objects in the room such as stuffed toys and placing children's books on the bookshelf. we then placed our most important object which was the music box. It had to be placed perfectly in order to get the right shot and it took quite a few takes to get it right. the other shot we had a problem with is the shot that view the young girls face from the side. this is because there was very little room down the side of the bed and so it had to moved for that shot and then moved back in the establishing shots. A lot of planning went into the design of the set. we organised where everything would be and how it would be relevant in the shot. if it wasn't relevant is was removed.

In my next post I will talk about how we got the correct lighting for the room.