The Unconventional Truth fonts analysis

The Unconventional Truth tester posters

 

 

 

Here are two posters in which I have personally designed yet are still a working progress that I will eventually use for our fim noir 'The Unconventional Truth' once they are finished. We used the school photography studio to take the pictures for our posters, we used a variety of different lights camera flashes in order to get the contrast and shadowing that can be seen on their body and faces.

 

The top poster is my first attempt and although I like the design and they way in which the text and photograph are set out, I am not keen on the overall look of the poster itself. I feel that the top left hand side of the poster looks bare as though something else extra is needed. Although I really like the shadowing on Rosy's face, I think that the lighting on Jake lets the poster down and make does not help the photograph to live up to its full potential, this not helped by the pixelated look that the poster has which happened when uploading it.

The bottom poster was my second attempt and I feel that it is a lot stronger. I like the use of the dark shadowing that covers the majority of the right side of Rosy's face and the left of Jakes, showing that the two characters are contrasting one another either through their characterisations or they're actual agendas within the plot.

The use of the bold light that is focusing on Rosy's red lips and red nails help to promote her femme fatale character to the audience before they have even seen the film, it also helps us to view her as a mysterious and seductive character as the rest of her face and body are in a contradictory dark shadow. By using a matching shade of red for the word "heart", it links the two characters seen in the poster together showing that although they may have different alternative motives, they in actual fact need one another to help complete these agendas.

The angle at which the photograph was taken also helps to distinguish the differences between the two characters as we see Rosy facing directly into the camera with a subtle smirk showing that she is confident and has the ability to manipulate people in order to get what she wants. Yet, by having her slightly behind Jake, it shows that she is hiding a big secret and keeping it to herself, yet by having her loosely grasping onto Jakes shoulder it links the two together giving the impression that she is linked to him in some way and in firm control of his actions; showing a dominant feature to her character.

By having the character of Jake in the forefront of the shot shows that he is the lead character within the film, yet by having his eyeline looking slightly upwards towards the left hand side shows that he is perhaps not as straightforward as he may first seem. The bright light beaming onto his eye adds a sense of vulnverability to his character and leaves the audience to believe that he is the "heroic" type character to the plot, however by then having half of his face shaded it could possibly be revealing that he has a split personality, and that perhaps his deeper thoughts within do not quite run parallel to his vulnerable exterior.

The unconventional truth...

When thinking of a name for our Film Noir, we knew that we needed to in some way have it linked towards the secrecy and deceit that our plot is based upon. We were having a discussion about how we felt that we needed the word 'truth' in our title as it gave a subtle hint towards our storyline yet without giving to much away.

After brainstorming a few ideas, I came up with the idea of naming our film 'The unconventional truth'. The rest of the group members agreed that it was a good name as it fitted in with our plot yet also left a bit of imagination to the audience.

I thought of the name as I was trying to think of a word that described the idea of hiding the truth and secrecy. The word unconventional is another way of interperating the mysterious, distinct and unorthodox plot in which our film involves with its hidden enigma codes and subtle hints towards the final scene. It made sense as it linked with the idea of the unknown and not knowing what to expect, yet by then adding in the word 'truth' at the end it shows the idea of not knowing what is going to happen and how everything is not perhaps as it first may seem.

The wording itself for our film title 'The unconventional truth' we felt also had a nice rhythm to it and has a sort of darkness behind it that no one can understand until they watch the film.

We then realised we needed to think of a short punch line in which linked to our newly agreed upon film title and the storyline itself. After mapping out some possible ideas, Rosy came up with the slogan "Truth was in his heart, tragedy was in her mind". We all imediately agreed upon this as we felt it had all the perfect ingrediants for the perfect punch line; it was neither too short nor too long, it included the characterisation of both the main characters of Scarlett and Jake, the line itself linked in with both the title and plot of our film and we felt would leave the audience with a sense of curiousty as they thought about what the twist and contrasting 'his and her' emotions could represent.

Filming day 4

We re-filmed the scenes involving Jake, Dom and Rosy at school. We decided to re-shoot these as the transitions between shots did not flow as well as we had hoped and also we felt that we did not use a wider variety of shots, angles and movements as we could have done to take full advantage of the setting.

The first time we filmed these scenes I sat on a moveable chair and handheld the camera whilst Toby pushed me in order to create the tracking shot that followed the characters feet/legs as they walked down the corridor. Yet, when back chanelling through the takes that we did, we noticed that the movement was not entirely still and that the camera kept moving in and out of focus due to the lack of experience that we had with using that specific camera.

This time round, we came across a camera device in which enabled us to attach the camera to a piece of equipment in which acted as a moving tripod rather than a standstill one. The device allowed us to attach the camera at the front section and be able to move the different levers in order to create either a low, high or canted angle shot. By having the bar that ran across the right side of it, we were able to move the camera up and down in a smooth transition in which allowed us to create panning shots which we used to move up and down the body of the characters in which helped to reveal their identities as it moved from their feet to their faces. The fact that it was on wheels also helped a lot as it meant that we could create a much smoother and accurate tracking shot/movemenent when following the characters as they walked down a corridor.

Although it took us a while at first to get to grips with understanding how the device moved and worked, in the end we were all able to use it confidently and felt completely able to create the effective shots and movements that we were aiming for leaving day 4 of filming as a great success.

Filming Day 4

Editing- Voiceover

 

Here are a couple of photographs that we took when editing today and setting up a voiceover. We selected tools then the 'Voice Over' option on final cut express as we needed Jake to do a voiceover for the graveyard scene at the beginning. Despite an initial bit of background noise, over all the voiceover went smoothly and the sound was neither too loud nor too quiet. It fitted in perfectly with the scene and is used as a way to allow the audience to get the background information behind the plot of the film itself.

Editing Day 2

Today we edited the scene inside the Femme Fatale's house which involve both her and her dad. So far I feel that the editing is going very well. We are choosing the best clips and trying to show a wide variety of different camera movents, angles and shots. In this scene, this is the first time in which the 'villian' is seen so we felt that it was very important to have him portraying in the correct way. We decided to shoot him in a variety of angles and one that worked well was a low angle which showed that he is in control of the situation and used to being the most dominant. When watching what we had edited so far back we found that the lighting was worked really well so we decided to enhance this further by making the contrast slightly higher and the brightness level slightly lower.