Analysis of "The Notebook" poster.

"The Notebook" is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. 'The Notebook" cuts between the same couple at two seasons in their lives. We see them in the urgency of young romance, and then we see them as old people, she disappearing into the shadows of Alzheimer's, he steadfast in his love. It is his custom every day to read to her from a notebook that tells the story of how they met and fell in love and faced obstacles to their happiness. Sometimes, he says, if only for a few minutes, the clouds part and she is able to remember who he is and who the story is about.

I have chosen to look at the poster for "The Notebook" as I believe that our film follows quite a similar narrative as both our film and "The Notebook" as they follow the romantic relationship of an elderly couple whilst showing flashbacks of key moments of their lives in the past. Because of this we thought it would be a good idea to review this poster to see if we could draw any more similarities which could therefore provide inspiration for our poster.

Analysis of "Amour" poster.

"Amour" is a 2012 french-language romantic drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintigant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on the right side of her body. The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and was nominated in four other categories: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emmanuelle Riva), Best Original Screenplay (Michael Haneke) and Best Director (Michael Haneke). At the age of 85, Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

The reason why I have chose this poster for analysis is because the film is centered around the love story of an elderly couple which is similar in a way to our film as our film features an elderly widow reminiscing over the times she spent with her husband. We thought that the poster for "Amour" perfectly summed up what the film was about as it showed the husband protagonist affectionately holding his elderly wife's face. We have had an idea that we could do two separate posters, both being similar in style to the poster for amour but with one of them being with our protagonist as an elderly woman and one of them with her when she was much younger.

Analysis of "Wish You Were Here" poster.

"Wish You Were Here" is a 1987 British comedy-drama film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. It was written and directed by David Leland. The movie was based loosely on the memoirs of the British madam Cynthia Payne as an adolescent growing up on the Sussex coast. It was filmed in the West Sussex towns of Worthing and Bognor Regis. The reason why I am analysing this film's poster is because I think that the bottom section of the poster for "Wish You Were Here"looks very similar to some of the shots from our films which are pictured below. The poster of "Wish You Were Here" features a faded picture of the protagonist in the background and an eclipsed shot of the British seaside.

We think that the shots which are shown below are very similar to the bottom corner of the poster for "Wish You Were Here" because they both feature a female protagonist standing next to the metal railing near the sea with a retro looking bike, because of this we are considering using one of the pictures below as the main aspect of the poster for our film.

Analysis of Deadpool Posters

The poster for "Deadpool" pictured above is very misleading. The film "Deadpool" is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, however in the poster above it seems as if "Deadpool" is a romantic films as it shows a couple embracing one another with the tagline "True love never dies." which all makes it seem very romantic. I think that the makers of this film chose to produce this poster in this way for two main reasons. Firstly, for comedic effect as I think that people who are already fans of "Deadpool" will find it quite funny to see a poster which makes "Deadpool look like a romantic film. Secondly, the other reason why I think that the makers of the film produced this poster was to mislead audiences into thinking that it was a romantic film as it comes out on Valentines Day which is a very popular day for people to watch films. Most of the posters for the film look much more like the ones pictured below which are very different to the one above.

Location- Draft pictures from Deal beach

On the day that we went to Deal beach to get some draft shots which we could compare to other beaches we happened to be really lucky with the weather. We got to Deal beach at midday which meant that the sun was out and the sky was blue and clear which made some of our shots look really good. We thought that the draft picture of Deal looked a lot better than they did in Margate however this may be due to the fact that we took pictures of Margate beach on quite a bleak day and we took pictures of Deal in very good weather. There are some advantages and disadvantages of us using Deal as our shooting location. For example, Deal has a pier which is somewhat of a landmark in the local area which means that if we use it in our film local audiences may understand the film to a slightly higher degree as they will be able to relate to it more. Despite this there is a big disadvantage to the pier which is that it is very busy which could cause problems when filming as pedestrians may walk past and ruin some of our shots. Another disadvantage to using Deal as our location is that it has a pebble beach which is not what we had previously invisiged.

 

 

 A big advantage of shooting the film in Deal is the pier which we think could make for a very romantic location for our protagonists to meet for the first time. Due to there being a lot of vertical and horizontal lines in the architecture of the pier, it is quite good for framing shots. It makes it much easier to use the classical rule of thirds when framing our shops and it also makes it much easier for us to frame shots in slightly more different and quirkier ways such as the Wes Anderson-esque symmertical way of framing. As we are not using sound from the shots we don't think it would matter to much if people were to walk past during our filming. We also think that if we frame our shots correctly we should be able to film our actors without having anyone in the background.

 

 The beach in Deal has a beautiful, recognizeable shoreline which includes traditional architecture which would fit in well with our time period as the area close to the beach hasn't changed a great deal since the late 1960's. This shot shows a very idyllic and romantic landscape which we think fits in well with the theme of the scene which centres around the romantic first encounter of our protagonists.

 

 We thought that the shot above looked quite romantic as it showed to seperate couples together, one in the foreground and one in the background. The sun seeps through from the left side of the shot which eclipses both of the couple showing less detail on them. We would like to try to replicate this shot in  our film because we think that we could shoot it in a way that would completely cut out the beach as we are not sure that we would like to film it on deal beach but we are certain that we would like to use the pier. We also think that we could do this shot without showing any other people in the shot which could make them look isolated which we think looks more romantic.

 

 Another shot which we took that we thought looked wuite romantic is the one pictured above. It shows the beautiful landscape view from the beach with a single person standing facing out to see in the background. We thought we could adapt this shot in our real film by placing the camera in the same place but having our two actors walking away towards the background of the shot while holding hands.

 

 

 

 

Location- Draft pictures from Margate beach

On the day when we took draft pictures of Margate beach the weather wasn't particuarlygood which meant that many of our

 

 

MGS Targets 11/01/16

1. Uploads some screenshots and moving image and from recent filming and discuss the process.
2. Also in a different colour discuss how my skills have changed since last year.(Q1A)