Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Possible Font ideas




This font is quite bold and stands out. However it's quite squished together and a little difficult to read. We liked the idea of having a loveheart over the 'I' to make it more feminine. We could perhaps change the colour
This font is a lot like the fint for the Disney company, it therefore has a childish feel to it. The writing looks handwritten but still clear enough to read it. There is also a love heart above the 'I' which makes it girly and cute.
I like this film title, the curled, rickety edges remind me of a late ‘Nosferatu’, the original vampire film. Although this font style is apparent it’s some kind of theatrical thriller film, it’s not however getting across the essence of our genre. The small heart inside the letter ‘A’ subtly emphasises the twist within our film however doesn’t give too much away.


This font reminds me of the film 'Bewitched as it has the sparkles over it. However I think the sparkles would be more appropriate for a film with magic in it rather than a supernatural film. The letters are clear although strangely formed and curled a little.
I really liked this one, the letters are bold and clear and easy to read and there are numerous heart shapes over the top. This is girly however because it's written in bold capitals and not hadwriting its not quite as feminine. This is the one we've decided to pick for our font.
This one is quite spooky looking so would go with our genre of the supernatural. There is no hearts or stars over the letters though which is what we were looking for. However we still wanetd to include this font as we could quite easily put a heart over the dot of the 'I'.

This font is always quite nice but the 'G' doesn't stand out as much. Although I think it's quite effective that the 'G' is inside the heart with a smaller heart next to it. The letters are also bold and in capitals so they do stand out quite well.
Although this one is quite nice and girly, its not particularly easy to read and doesn't stand out straight away because the hearts are inside the letters. The only bit I really like about this font is that the letters are bold and black.

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Initial ideas

As it is a spoof film, we need to take bits from all aspects of the vampire phenomenon such as other popular TV shows or books, etc. The whole point is that the audience recognises when we are taking the mick out of something, thats what makes spoofs funny.

We are also hoping to take inspiration from other Vampire films and TV series such as the CBS series 'Moonlight' which although popula
r at first, was cancelled after a year. It still however offers some good ideas because the vampires in the story are very open about their desire for blood and where Jason Dohring’s performance was concerned this was almost comical.


A relatively new series that has started recently is the extremely popular Vampire Diaries series on E4. Going into their fourth season, there is a lot to take inspiration from. One of the main characters 'Damon Salvatore' played by Ian Somerhalder brings the comedy in the series much like Jason Dohring from 'Moonlight'.

Our main aim is to make the spoof comical; we need to show this comedy in the trailer by including about 8 scenes from the proposed film. We need to show comical moments in the film without giving too much away resulting in the audience feeling no need to go see the film. We also need to take into account the humour of the audience that were aiming at. Young adults tend to have a pretty crude sense of humour and are easily amused by the weird and wonderful. This is something that we would like to incorporate into out film.


We also want to look at exploring our main characters sexuality in order to create humour. We thought that our main character can be straight but "in touch with his feminine side" i.e. he could have his hair gelled back with black eyeliner. We feel that is it important that the other characters in the film need to be really ordinary and much like the audience members so they have someone to relate too. This is important because it will help the audience feel like they are involved.
You need some trailer analyses with links & the use of appropriate pictures to support your points in these and your work on conventions. You also need some prop pics and written details about your potential locations not just found pictures and some thoughts and analysis on your title ideas including a justicication for your final choice.. are you going to do some audience research to find out which has the most appeal?

You also need to sort out the order of these posts. Trailer research should be before planning ideas