Evaluation
My first poster was a plain picture of a black background
with simple red writing on it. I was originally planning on filming a story
that I had created myself featuring the London Dungeon, hence my first poster
being the way it was. I had sent emails to the Dungeon asking if I could film
there, but all ended up falling through, as the London Dungeon was moving from
Tooley Street to a new location next to the London Eye.
I creatively made my first poster black and red as it gives
off a dark creepy effect and a few people who had taken part in my
questionnaire thought that it might be some form of thriller/horror, which it
originally was, and they would generally watch. But of course I've had to
change the whole thing and think of a new project and story, which I managed to
do and it shows from the second poster onwards.
I was due to go to the Warner Bros Studio Tour – The Making
of Harry Potter with my younger brother for his thirteenth birthday, who plays
the lead role in my film. So I sent an email asking if I could film there and
use the footage in my short film that I was making as my college project, they
agreed but on the condition that I only use it as my college project and don’t
broadcast it.
In my second poster it’s made up of two pictures that I put
together, one picture was of a shop front in Diagon Ally that I had taken
during my visit during the tour and the other was a picture of my younger
brother in Piccadilly Circus. To help combined both pictures and make it look
like a proper poster, I used Polygonal Lasso Tool around my brother in
Piccadilly Circus, to cut away everything around him, leaving only him, so I
could take him and place him on the picture of the shop front in Diagon Ally.
Before playing with the colour to make it look as if it was one picture, using
brightness and contrast, exposure and colour balance. It gives the viewers the
elution that it’s actually him stood there and walking past that shop and
having the time of his life rather than two different pictures combined into
one. Once I had gotten the perfect balance of colour and made it look as if
it’s one picture as I possibly could. I added purple writing to it, so people
knew what it was called and who directed, produced, edited and starred in it.
It gives the viewers the impression that he has had an adventure of being
accepted into the wizarding world of Harry Potter and that he loves it. It
would make the parents think that it’s the type of film that the whole family
can enjoy, especially the children. It will make them want to take their
children to watch it or even to visit the Studio Tour.
The third poster is made up of three pictures, a picture of
clouds, a picture of Hogwarts and a picture of my younger brother Ryan on
Hagrid’s motorbike. I cut around Hogwarts Castle with the Polygonal Lasso Tool,
once everything around the castle was gone I placed it on the picture of clouds
and played with the colour once again, to drain the colour to make it look like
as if there was a spell cast upon it. Before going on the picture of my younger
brother and using the Polygonal Lasso Tool once again and cutting away everything
around him. Placing him with the
previous picture of the clouds and Hogwarts, but instead of draining the colour
I left it the way it was and made it look as if it was flying around Hogwarts
and make it look as he was an adventure to save Hogwarts from the spell it was
under and become the greatest wizard ever, before putting a few credits on it
in red writing, as well as the title of the film and just underneath I wrote “A
journey he thought he’d never make”.
When it came to the film itself, it has turned out a little
different than I expected it to be, but then again everyone is like it. I had
decided to film random clips for my film and make a try and make a film from
the clips I had managed to capture. Once I had enough clips, I looked over them
and I wanted my film to look as if my younger brother Ryan was on his way to
the Studio Tour and have it look as if his remembering going there, before him
leaving had having a small smile on his face on the last scene, I added music
to it to help give it a more heart-warming feel to it, before the climax
ending. I also did a voice-over of my voice pretending to be my younger
brother, as it would have been difficult getting him out of school for the
morning for him to just to do a voice over. I edited the voice-over, before
placing the bits onto my edited film and made sure that the volume on my clips
were on silent so all you heard was the music and voice-over, but I made sure
that nether over powered the other and that both can be heard at the same time.
As the finished touch, I added the credits on the end as well as the title at
the beginning so that people knew what it was called. I admit that it turned
out a lot different than I expected, but I’m proud of the result none the less.
The scenes I used in my film is because they made more of a
story, than many of my other scenes I had shot, and with the voice-over and the
music it fixed together and made the whole thing much more magical. I started
off using a clip of my younger brother on the train leaving a train station,
with the voice-over over the top of this scene, the words “Hello my name is
Ryan, I’m only 13 years old and today I decided to leave home and enter an
entirely different world” are spoken. With this I thought it suited together
quite well much like a hand fitting into a clove. As the next scene I used a
scene of me rotating across Hogwarts from a certain place, so that way you saw
enough of Hogwarts rather than just one general area, like the owlery for
example and nothing else. As the
voice-over for that scene, the words “The wizarding world of Harry Potter and
the famous Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a world full of magic,
where anything is possible and much more better than the normal boring thing we
call life” being spoken. I used this scene and the voice-over together,
especially after the scene of Ryan leaving the train station, because it showed
you where his leaving from and where his heading to. The next scene in my film
I put another scene of his on the train, but this time instead of him leaving a
train station, it was of him on the train journey in between stations, I placed
another part of my voice-over over the top of this scene, with the words “But
then again why would the wizarding world except me into a wondrous and glorious
world they call normal” it gives of the impression that he wants nothing but to
leave his family behind and go onto an exciting wizarding adventure, but his
worried that he won’t be excepted by them and just be sent straight back home.
In the next two scenes I used the scenes I had shot of him walking through
Diagon Ally the panning shot of the Great Hall, which I added onto after the
Diagon Ally scene, with voice-over over the top of these scene, saying “Surely
I get my chance to enter Diagon Ally to shop for my school supplies, such as my
wand, a cauldron, robes, maybe even a pet owl, my god it’s so exciting just to
imagine going there, before making a nervous entry into the Great Hall of
Hogwarts, the greatest hope to enter the Gryffindor house, to have Harry Potter
and Ron Weasley as my fellow house mates” I used these scenes and the
voice-over together, to make it appear that his trying to cheer himself up
after that very glum moment, by imagining himself entering these places, he
feels excited about being able to do this. In the next two scenes I used the
scenes of the Gryffindor Common Room and the Boys Dormitory, with the
voice-over saying “So I can chill out in the Gryffindor Common Rom and exchange
stories, then when it gets late travel up to the Boys Dormitory to sleep or
maybe just to have a laugh with the lads” being said, I used these together to
make it appear that he is making new friends.
In my film, all of it went pretty well though a few scenes
did go missing, but other than that, it came together fairly easy. I wasn’t
over struck on editing the voice-over however that was a bit of a nightmare.
The angles I used was panning, high and low angle and it worked well. I may
have zoomed in once or twice, but it wasn’t too bad.
I have identified from my market research that in agreement
my film would be viewed for entertainment purposes, this would be in element with
the uses of the gratifications theory.
My film is mainly entertainment for the whole family, but it’s
extra magical for the children, despite it originally being a thriller/horror,
before it being changed completely into the film it is today. It will give
children hopes and dreams, with the influence it may give off, with any luck the
children will have enough hope and courage to follow those dreams and that is
what I am truly aiming for, to entertain all forms of people and to influence our
young children to follow their dreams, even if it’s a dream to become a simple
fireman.
