SUBSIDIARY TASKS: POSTER AND REVIEW

So I have begun my subsidiary tasks - I have decided my layout etc for my two subsidiary tasks.

For my poster, I have decided that it will be like a series of framed photographs hanging on a wall adorned with old fashioned wallpaper. The photos will be both of the boy and the dog together, and alone. I have not yet decided on the title of my film, suggestions welcome.

For my review I have decided it will be quite clean and white, with a shot taken from the film as the photograph. I have decided that it will be quite cool because I don't want to overpower people with bright colours, which are also associated with tubthumpin' action films.

INSPIRATION

Okay, to distance myself from the 'cute' image of a film about animals, I have started looking at film drama posters. One thing I have noticed about myself today is that I like poster

s with people's faces in them - which you will see now.

As I chose so many posters that I liked, I am going to post them all, but only talk about a select few (If that's okay with you).

The firs poster I have decided to look at is the poster for 'Little Miss Sunshine', a quirky drama about a dysfunctional family who journey to California so their oddball daughter can compete in a beauty contest. Trust me, it is a barrel of laughs. The picture on the poster is taken from a scene of the film, and I like it because it is humourous, yet doesn't say too much about the plot.

The next film poster I looked at was for 'La Haine', Mathieu Kassovitz's

acclaimed drama about life in the Parisien suburbs during the

riots. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it to you. The poster literally just shows one of the main characters, Vinz's (played by Vincent Cassel) eyes, and the quote "A BRUTALLY BRILLIANT MASTERPIECE" leaves the plot totally open and creates tension for the audience.

The next film poster that inspired me was this one for 'The King's Speech' -

although it is not a poster that I have actually seen before, it definitely made an impact on me. The contrast of the colours used, and again it was not a complete giveaway about the plot - if you hadn't heard about the film, you would get no clues about the plot from the poster, although personally, this poster makes me want to find out about the film.

Also, please excuse the terrible formatting of pictures here!

INSPIRATION

I need some inspiration in my life for ideas for my poster and also for a name for my film. I kind of don't want this to film to be all about the dog, ooh look how pretty it is. No. One titbit of inspiration has been given to me, and it is a poem by Simon Armitage about leaving home.

Mother, any distance greater than a single span

requires a second pair of hands.

You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,

the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.

You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recording

length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving

up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling

years between us. Anchor. Kite

I space-walk through the empty bedrooms, climb

the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something

has to give;

two floors below your fingertips still pinch

the last one-hundredth of an inch... I reach

towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky

to fall or fly.

Pretty nifty, hey?