Thursday, 22 January 2015

Fonts: Title

While looking for suitable fonts for the title we found this font called Stainy, here is a picture of it:


We chose this font because it resembles writing in lipstick. We felt this helps to highlight the scenes which have the lipstick and to help represent the femininity of the two characters. This also helped to give a bit of an edge to our opening as women are often seen as weak, and the feminine font helped to portray this but the opening sequence is showing a murder scene.

The main font we will use is called Benchnine:

We chose this font because it is a much cleaner and more simplistic font. This has a cold feeling towards it to help give an unfriendly look. This represents the themes that will be coming up in our film and help to suggest that the characters aren't as innocently girly as the seem. Also this particular font is very close together and this makes it very easy to put onto our movie opening.

Saturday, 17 January 2015

Avoiding Lesbian Stereotypes

Upon research, these are some of the lesbian stereotypes that we found, and want to avoiding in the film opening:

  • In every lesbian couple, one has to be the man.
  • Lesbians all dress like men.
  • All butches have short hair and are overweight.
  • All lesbians hate make-up, shaving, bras and dresses.


We have decided to avoid these stereotypes in our opening sequence and create something that fits a more modern representation of homosexual women. This helps to break out of the current conventions that are in film and to appeal to young adults who are helping to break out of these conventions and are wanting to see homosexual characters used in normal shows without having their sexuality as the main theme of the show or character.

However we have decided not to subvert every stereotype that both females and lesbians portray. This is because trying to fit every subversion will give an unnatural feel  the film. To fit both criteria we decided to avoid the stereotypes we found in secondary research but to include the stereotypes we found in our primary research, our interviews.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Genre: Thriller

Me and Jess chose our second theme would be thriller. This is the genre we went for in the end. We chose this theme because the genre has  more room to add content as the horror genre sticks very rigidly to existing conventions. Also the horror genre is used very frequently in AS media openings so we decided to go with something different.

After our research these are the main points that we found summeried:

  • Protagonist at mercy of antagonist
  • Montages of shots
  • Quick cuts
  • Tension music
  • Protagonist is brave male trying to restore equilibrium 
  • Revenge
  • Use of mirrors to 'see' into the character's soul

Friday, 9 January 2015

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Monday, 5 January 2015

Filming Schedule: 5th Jan

Wednesday-

Zoe coming over 4pm

Reshoot.
Breakfast preparing scene
Alarm clock scene
(New) Extreme close up of eyes shot
(New) Close up of packet opening, pouring into coffee shot

Location-
My flat, kitchen

Props and costume-
Pyjamas
Resealable packet with sugar in it



Saturday-

Zoe coming over 12pm
Sophie coming over 5pm

Reshoot
Breakfast preparing scene
Waking up scene
(New) Extreme close up of eyes shot
(New) Looking at message on phone
(New) Money passing scene, outside
(New) Lipstick shot

Location-
My flat, kitchen, bedroom
Outside the flat

Proper and costume-
Pyjamas
Jeans, jumper, shoes
Lipstick
Money