Film poster criticism

Film Poster Criticisms

After producing the film poster for our film, we were told that it did not look like a film poster and that the poster looked as if it was promoting a band as opposed to a film.

We chose to create our poster like this because of the inspiration we took from the posters of films similar to ours such as The Breakfast Club, The Goonies and Stand By Me. We managed to find many similarities between all of the posters used to promote these classic teen films and so we used the research we conducted to aid us in producing our own film poster. 

Here is our poster:

Here is the poster for The Breakfast Club:

Our poster has many similarities to the poster used to promote the classic teen film The Breakfast Club. Our poster similarly features a group of teenagers standing together appearing united and has a tagline hinting to the narrative of the film. It was because of this poster, and others we found when conducting our film poster research, that we chose to create our film poster in this way.

                    

This above is an improved poser from the criticism from our teachers and we made it look more like a film poster and not a music video poster.

Justification of Film poster Criticism

After viewing the first draft of our film opening we received criticisms from both our teachers and from fellow students. One of these criticisms was that one of our titles "would not feature in a film" as it looked childish, low budget and is difficult to read.

This is a small clip of that title and below is the justification of our title. We will explain why we chose to keep and not re shoot this particular title. 

Below is a small clip of a similar title that features in the opening credits of Napoleon Dynamite. When conducting similar film research we stumbled upon Napoleon Dynamite and considered it to be similar to our film because of its creative and low budget title sequence. As a result of this, we drew much inspiration from its title sequence and tried to present ours in a similar and quirky way.

It is because of this title that we chose to present our title in the way we did. It does appear low budget but we are essentially a low budget film and so we wanted to make it authentic and quirky, like Napoleon Dynamite, and we believe that our titles create this effect.

As an audience member you struggle to read the name on this title just as you struggle to read the names featured in our title but this is what makes our titles, and Napoleon Dynamite's, quirky, unique and low budget. 

Music feedback

We are hoping to include a small song in our film opening as well as other uses of sound and dialogue. These are the possible options we have found for songs that will feature in our opening:






After trying this song on some footage from our film we decided that the song choice was too cliche and did not include a unique sound. We asked for feedback from teachers and peers and the feedback was generally negative about the song. The comments included that the song was too repetitive, too cheesy and very predictable. These are all elements that we do not want our film to be. Therefore we decided to research other possible choices for songs that would be more effective on our film opening and which are unique.

Teacher and Peer Feedback

Above is an emaze PowerPoint of the teacher and peer feedback which we received from pitching our film idea and it shows how we improved to make our film opening as good as possible.

And then after our first draft of Connect 4 was finished and we showed to our teachers we received this feedback:

Things we did well:

- Very clever titles

- Music is good

- Mise en scene is great

- Nice shots (love the titles)

Things we need to improve on:

- Voice over needs to be re shot, because is not strong enough.

- Need to signify how the kids and older kids are young and old versions of each other.

- Music volume feels off

- Cut to "I'll follow you"

- Fix Colour in grown ups playing in cabin

- More time needed on the "Tilly Hawkins" title

Prelim task feedback