April 22, 2009

Having finished all our editing we spent today's period working on the poster. We also had unanimously voted for the name "Wabbit Hunt" for our film. Personally, I though this name was a very witty title which makes references to the antics of Looney Tunes and also most of all, it is applicable to our film.

Our poster is of Justin holding is device in a seemingly very mighty pose, however contrastingly, we have edited over him making him look like an idiot. This was done by drawing on a mustache, a suit and tie and many other funny and awkward pieces of apparel. The theme of our poster is "childish antics". This is most clearly expressed through our crude editing which resembles that of a child. By only using the pen tool on Photoshop (even when colouring) it made Justin look like a bit of a joke.

The purpose of our poster is to evoke a sense of naivety and hopefully strike up memories of drawing on peoples faces as a child (which I have done profusely). This crude editing, as if done impromptuly with a colour marker, is very effective in depicting the childish concept or motif that we are trying to achieve with our poster and in our film.

Initially, we had chosen not to manually edit our poster, but to simply use the effects that are open to us in Photoshop. One such function was very appealing to us, which was called "Colouring". This function made Justin into a complete silhouette and the background a stark red. Also by adjusting the amount of redness, we also achieved a semi silhouette with the red that looked like blood. The contrast between this bloody and 'film noir like' poster and the actual comedy of our film made this poster not very applicable to our film. Although some of us argued that the stark contrast between the poster and the movie was amusing, personally I didn't think that this would be very appropriate. I think that the poster resembled a very similar communism poster of Mao!

Today was a very productive lesson in which we managed to finish our poster. Today exercised my ability to be "open minded" of the suggestions of my group members of how to improve our poster. This was also closely related to being able to "communicate" with each other, bounce ideas off each other and eventually arrive on a synthesis that we all agreed on. Making the poster also made me explore my "knowledge" on how to convey the theme of our film through a still image. This really got me thinking of how important a poster is for a movie and am beginning to notice how much time and effort it takes to complete a good one.