Conventions of a movie poster

Audit

In order to fulfil; the brief, what skills will you need to develop? In order to fulfil; the brief, I feel that I will need to develop my filming skills as I believe this is my weakest area, this is due to the little experience I have with filming. However I feel that if I am able to get enough practice with the equipment I will be able to use to properly and thus improve my filming skills. Another skill I feel that I need to develop is my organisational skills as I feel that i am too unorganised when it comes to my workload and organising my priorities. Although I feel that if I able to plan when I should complete the work and communicate with my teacher more I should be able to become organised. Are there any areas in ICT you will need to develop? I feel that my general ICT are rather poor and therefore causing me many problems when trying to fulfil the brief. But the two skills I feel I most need to develop are my Photoshop/editing skills. I feel that this is one of my weakest areas and believe that these areas are important for the brief so I will need to practice these skills more. Another area I believe I need to develop is my Blogger Skills as I frequently find it frustrating using the site as I am unaware on how certain aspects work.

My Narrative Pitch

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Initial Research Stage

When starting the initial research stage we each had to choose a genre of our choice, I myself chose horror. I developed my understanding of this genre by study different narrative theorists, this then lead into my research of Todorov and Prop, by researching these two theorists it enabled me to get a better understanding of the conventional narrative structure to the horror genre.  

After choosing our genre we started to research posters and trailers. While researching film posters I was able to spot codes and conventions such as the layout and the mise-en scene; which I could then use when making my own poster such as the billing block, which then expanded my terminology range. While researching trailers I was able to analyse layout of the trailer and the sequences in which they present their trailer. 

After watching numerous trailers I was able to see a continuous pattern in that they all mentioned their production company. After realising this I thought it would be best to conduct research into the production companies and find specific information about them. By doing this it enabled me to create my own production company.