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To begin with I drew out a rough draught of the original idea for my film poster: 

I knew straight away that I wanted the poster to have a kind of artsy and unconventional feel to it. The way I first saw it in my head, was some kind of either black and white or sepia collage in the background, then a bold coloured shape on top, on which the title of the film would be written. As the theme of my short film is love, I though a heart would be appropriate, and would instantly let the audience know what the film is about. 


DEVELOPMENT
This is my second draft and style model:

While writing the voice over narration for my film, I came up with the title 'Jar of Lightning' (this is my personal interpretation of love). I felt like with this now the title, it would make more sense to have a jar as the main feature on the poster, rather than a heart. Since my original idea, I also decided that the collage in the background will be stills from the film. To  give it the scrapbook look I envisage in my head, I printed the pictures off, ripped them out and glued them down. I am still undecided as to whether they will be black and white or sepia on the final product. I think that I would like to incorporate more colour into my final design, maybe in the title, or around the jar. 

If You Could Make One Thing Happen By the End of the Day...

As documentary is so new to me, I thought it would be wise to have a go at filming and editing a set of interviews before my final short film. So, armed with my question and a camera I set about finding people around college willing to give me a minute of their time. Here is my finished product:

I learned a lot of things that I can take on board when completing my real film from doing this exercise:

• Firstly, it was quite surprising to me, how many people were actually unwilling to be filmed. This could obviously heavily impact my main product, because I am relying solely on the responses of other people to make my film a success. If I don't get any good interviews, even with the best editing in the world, the whole interview section of the film will feel like it is lacking in something
• Lighting is very important for when it comes to editing between film clips - There is just something very unprofessional looking when the lighting noticeably changes, even though it isn't a continuity sequence 
• The location of the interviews is key, as for this video I had to heavily edit the audio to try and eliminate as much background noise as possible
• I got a comment that somebody liked the 'raw' kind of feel to the video, however in the storyboard for my final product, the interviews are more staged. This has made me consider whether or not I should change this and try to capture the mood created in this practise piece instead
• As I was just filming this as a test and to practise my editing skills, I didn't actually use a tripod, resulting in some rather questionable shaky camera work. Obviously for my final product I need to ensure that all the camera work is steady and professional