learning how to make a movie poster

I decided to create a movie poster for my film 'Somnium' Because posters tend to be one of the most effective pieces of advertisement in the film industry. Below Is one of the websites which I looked at to help me create the movie poster.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/02/7-elements-of-a-great-movie-poster-design/

Age certificate

I did some research Into age restrictions for films. As our film is a horror film we already knew it would be in ether the 15 or 18 age certificate, due to it being a horror film. I researched into what the difference between two certificates. The  British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation which gives recommendations for age restrictions, which the different county's reinforce through the law. I have come to the conclusion that our film is aged 18 appropriate as it has supernatural horror.

Where researching into the 18 certificate it stated that any of the following would result in the film receiving an aged 18 certificate: hard drug use, supernatural horror, explicit sex, sadistic violence and sexual violence. Thereforeas our film contains supernatural horror, our film would be an 18 certificate. 

film techniques

I researched into different film techniques using Google. I found the '30-degree rule' which is essentially a editing guideline that states that the camera should move at least 30 degrees between shots of the same subject occurring in succession. This is to avoid the risk of the audience focusing on the filming technique instead of the story that is being narrated. For example, if this rule was to not be followed and it was to be followed by a jump cut it could result in lose in concentration of the audience. Below is the Wikipedia link which was my prime source of research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30-degree_rule
From this research I believe that this rule is not as straightforward and can be manipulated in certain instances.

Transitions

After learning about transitions, I needed to learn how to use it within my adobe after affects software. Blow was a YouTube video, which I primarily used to learn the basic transitions. Essentially what I learnt, that one needs to layer the different video clips together to create a transition.

Should we use stop motion?

When creating the story board we debated as a group weather or not to use stop motion film in parts of our opening sequence. We decided to find some examples of stop motion first to see what kind of affect it would create. Below was one of the examples which we looked at.

We decided as it was a horror that it wouldn't be very conventional and work very well with our idea.

Final Story board

Below I have posted our final version of the story board. We changed it several times as some of the shots where too complicated for our filming ability's. For example, we changed shot 7 to being more still as our original idea was to complex.

Production pitch:

We were set, today in class, the task to start having an idea of what our opening sequence is going to involve. The things we needed to include were:

• synopsis
• mood board
• location
• cast/characters
• treatment
• sound track

We created a power-point, which is below, explaining what our opening sequence is going to be about.

Production Pitch Media