Research into Film Posters - D.O.A.

i like this poster because it actually tells you something about the story rather than just displaying the leading actors. It shows a man reporting his own murder to a policeman, now to your everyday person (bearing in mind its from the 50's) that will see this poster that is a confusing scenario and it makes people want to find out whats going on. It Makes them want more.

This poster uses bright colours to draw attention to its title and lead role. It also gives a brief insight to what the film is  going to entail, "A PICTURE AS EXCITINGLY DIFFERENT AS ITS TITLE!". The artist appeals to the audiences curiosity by making it strange and different.

Research into Posters

Research into Film Posters - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The Genre - Fim Noir.

film noir was produced around the time of World War II and was named first by French film critic Nino Frank in 1946, who noticed how dark many of the American detective films had become. Films like M, Murder My Sweet and D.O.A. 

Noir films became more prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960. Many films reflected the anxiety and insecurities of the time period and film noir counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's happy musicals and comedies. Distrust, fear, misery and obsession are extremely evident in film noir, it shows the true feelings of the Cold War period when the peril of nuclear annihilation was always present. I have read that the violent, greedy and criminal perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphor for society's evils, there was rarely a happy or optimistic ending in film noirs.

Risk table

The risk	Severity of risk on filming	Solution to the risk	If the risk did happen what would we do
Actors not turning up	10/10	Ensure our actors are aware of the date and timing of our filming. Plus remind them a day before filming and on the day of filming.	Use one of our group members siblings as they will be more reliable
Actors wear incorrect clothing	7/10	Remind actors of what we would like them to wear the day before filming and on the day of filming. Also bring clothing of our own that could be used as an alternative if our actors forget	As a group we will bring clothing of our own that could be used that would still accurately reflect the genre
Forget camera/ camera not charged	10/10	Complete the charging of the camera a day before filming then pre pack it so that in the morning everything is already done and ready to go.	We would have to re schedule our filming with the station and return on another day
Actors/ Actresses couldn’t play a part in the filming.	7/10	Confirm the actors before filming and make them aware of the importance of the shoot. Also attempt to have back up actors incase either actor is involved in an accident	We would then be able to rely on our back up actor ensuring that we could always film.

Public knocking the camera	4/10	Ensure our group members stand either side of the tripod preventing the public from making contact.	We would re shoot the shot so that it would appear smoother and therefore more effective
Tripod not working	4/10	We would have to film our shots handheld meaning that they may be shakier. We will practice filming handheld before filming so that we become more accustomed to it	We would film our shots handheld
Public walking in shots	3/10	Sometimes it will be appropriate however when it is not we will try to use our group members to block off the area where we are filming so that it is obvious we do not want people to walk in on the shots	We would re shoot the shot until it was successful

Further camera research

We Lit only what we wanted the viewer to see. We Dramatised shots by filming a shadow of the villain slowly walking towards his victim sitting tied onto his chair. We kept this victim surrounded by darkness to portray his evil character.
We shot from provocative angles and cast light looking up toward a character's jawline during the torture scene to give a dramatic effect. We chose close up shots of the character being tortured whilst smoking a cigarette. We allowed the white smoke to enter dark scenes and tried to  obscure the characters in puffs of smoke and shadow.

Research into Film Posters

The difference about this film poster is that the director display himself, he even goes as far as to make himself one of the biggest objects on the poster.

I like this poster because it speaks highly of itself, through its confidence it implies that it is a masterpiece . It makes people want to watch it and again Hitchcock is the biggest thing in the poster.

I really like the caption in this poster because it's play on words involves both the title and the directors name, you must include both of these in a poster anyway but they have made a nice short quote out of it.

Location Research - Shotover Woods.

Sound

In Shotover we should have no issues with sound, it is a large forest  so the only sort of loud noises that could effect the filming is possibly the wind, the trees or some sort of woodland creature. In conclusion i think this would be a good place to film however it is not really a western scene.

Lighting

If we were to film in shotover we would definetly have to film during the day as i have been there to research it and it can get extremly dark very early. However if we felt the need to film later in the day i can the acquire the appropriate lights.

Health and Safety

This location is a forest so again there is little to worry about danger-wise, however Shotover is rather large and i speak from expeeriance when i say you can get lost very easily.

Power

there will be no way to recharge the equipment so we will have to make sure we are fully charged before we start.