Composition of Light

We deconstructed three photographs showing the composition of light in different ways.
Top Left (Edward Hopper's painting), Middle Right (Our own reconstruction of the painting) Bottom Middle (David Bailey's photograph of man).


In the first picture, a painting by Edward Hopper, the source of lights comes from the natural light from the window. This creates shadows under and behind the woman's body and the lightest point of the photo are in direct contact with the light from the window.


We decided to recreate the lighting from this picture. In our photo the brightest areas of the photo are in direct contact with the natural lights and the darkest comes from the shadows and reflection from the girl. Other aspects we wanted to create included a silhouette figure from the girl.


We also deconstructed a photograph of the man using black and white, high contrast lighting. The source of the lighting is coming from the right side and it is likely that the photograph uses artificial lighting to create the contrast with the light and dark areas. The photograph also has a central line of dark and light contrast.

David Bailey

David Bailey is a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Art, Manufactures & Commerce and Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designer. His work is highly recognised and has recieved several awards.

 

We chose to look at David Bailey as he uses black and white photography with high contrasting light. We are looking at creating our trailer in black and white.

We recreated some of Bailey's photographs here by using artificial lighting to create the high contrast of dark and light. We decided to use the photographs of Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson and The Kray Brothers as they all use interesting lighting. The top photograph using straight on lighting, the middle and bottom both use lighting from the right side.

Poster ideas

This selection of posters include advertisement of films, album covers, and posters from the 1960-70s. The few we have selected to analyse have relevance to our film poster either because of colour schemes, typography or imagery.

The Beatles 'Beach Boy' album cover

The posters use bright vivid colours and bold typography to draw attention to them. For Example The Beatles have used the image of a face which is made up of bright colour to make it more interesting and more eye catching. Another poster which uses bright colours is 'Narkomani' and also the album cover by The Who- Magic Bus. The vibrant colours gives an impression that the film/music is jolly and upbeat due to the colours used in the posters giving that impression.

The Beegees Album Cover

A theme shown throughout the posters is facial features, for example focus on individual eyes or complete faces the faces are usually representing the protagonist of the film or album, because they are the main focus in the film/album they are used central and close up in the imagery to identify who it is.

Teenage Mother Film Poster

In the film posters (TeenAge Mother, Dr.NO, The Lost World and Breakfast at Tiffany's) the protagonist is in the foreground with supporting characters in the background. 

This is done to keep focus on the main character but also to include supporting characters. For example, the Bond Girls are set back from James Bond. This could also be linked to the actor/actress used as the main character, if the actor/actress is very famous and well known, then a large picture of them is often used to draw attention of people who like or dislike the actor/actress. An example of this is in the film poster for Breakfast at Tiffany's as Audrey Hepburn is the main character and is very well known therefore she is used as the main picture, this is also the same for the James Bond Dr NO poster.

James Bond 'Dr. NO' Film Poster

Unlike some of the other film posters, the James Bond poster uses a colourful background with contrasting writing (yellow against red.) The rest of the poster is then un editied in normal colours, such as James Bond and the Bond Girls. The characters do not need to be edited because they stand out against the bright yellow background.

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Film Poster

In all of the film posters the credits are placed at the bottom showing this is a trend throughout posters of that time. It also shows that these are the least important pieces of information so are put at the bottom of the poster so that more important things; such as 'Audrey Hepburn,' 'Breakfast at Tiffanys' and the picture can be more centralised and shown clearer with the 'small print' at the bottom in thin writing.

'Boom' and 'Narkomani' Film Poster

The use of contrasting colours brings attention to the the central images and text of the posters because dark colours are used around the edges. Both of these posters include images of eyes showing that this is a theme throughout.

The Who 'Magic Bus' Album Cover

Both of the album covers for The Who- Magic Bus and The Beatles- Yellow Submarine use similar typography showing it was a popular font of the 1960-70s. The colouring of the texts matches the images included in the poster creating synchronisation across the poster. The font represents fun due to it being curvy and round, it also represents an enjoyable and laid back atmosphere, the opposite of serious which is what the albums represent

The Beatles 'Yellow Submarine' Album Cover

Both of the album titles include an automobile; (Submarine and Bus,) both of these are featured as images on the album cover, this creates synchronisation accross the cover as the images relative closely to the titles. The differance between the images is that the Bus is a photograph of a colourful bus whereas the submarine is a cartoon which matches the style of writing (being curved and round)

The Who

The Who are an English rock band
formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey,
Pete Townshend, John Entwistle
and Keith Moon,. They became
known for energetic live performances
which often included instrument destruction.


Genres

• Pop/Rock

Styles

• Album Rock
• British Invasion
• British Psychedelia
• Hard Rock
• Mod
• Psychedelic/Garage
• Rock & Roll
• AM Pop

Active

1960s - 2000s

Formed

1964 in London, England

Group Members

• Kenney Jones
• Roger Daltrey
• Keith Moon
• John Entwistle
• Pete Townshend
• Doug Sandom



Fashion Icons of the 1960s

Jean Shrimpton was well known in the 1960's as being a fashion icon. She was a model at the time and was often on the front cover of magazines such as 'Vogue,' 'Cosmopolitan,' 'Bazaar' and 'Newsweek.' She also modelled for advertising of companies such as 'Lambrella' and 'Chanel.' She was often shot in black and white due to her pale clear skin and dark hair, these worked well in lighting to create a dark black and white contrast. She was well known for having big volumised hair, being tall and skinny.

Twiggy was another well known fashion icon throughout the 1960's and 70's. She was well known for her big round eyes, slicked blonde hair and again being tall and skinny. Twiggy featured on similar magazine covers to Shripmton and also advertised similar products.

The magazine article to the left was a feature in the 1960's talking about her teen life and how she was brought up in the mod era. The article talks about her dress sense in her teenage years and what she liked to do. Twiggy talks about how the mod lifestyle inspired her dress sense and how she liked to wear it even though it was slowly becoming unfashionable. Due to her being a fashion icon, it however stayed in fashion because of her being seen as an idol.

Title

Our film is about finding happiness within yourself and being accepted in society. We started to explore the idea of depression and seclusion and how it can make you feel, however we felt we wanted the title to reflect finding happiness instead of the dark times. We then researched about treatments for depression and anxiety; we found that Fluoxetine was a commonly used prescription drug that increased your serotonin level, therefore increasing happiness, and we agreed that it reflected the film well.

After chosing the title name of 'Fluoxetine' we experimented with different fonts. When chosing which fonts to test we researched into 1960/70s film posters and album covers. After trying out a range of fonts we chose these three as our favourites due to them being relevant to the name as its a drug and also them looking similar to old film posters of the relevant era.

Deconstruction of Weekender Trailer

 

Representation and Narrative Theories

Syd Field the American screenwriter has said in any good film the audience will be grabbed in the first ten minutes, therefore we aim to grab the audience’s attention by using past, action packed clips in our teaser trailer therefore grabbing attention. Field also said we had to let the audience know what kind of film we are creating; consequently we will include footage of all the thrilling parts as well as the disheartening moments.

Diagram of Syd Field's Theory

Levi-Strauss

The main narrative theory that our film coincides with is Levi-Strauss’ binary opposition theory, in which it based on opposition or conflict. The conflict in our film is based around the individual and society. The individual doesn't feel accepted and therefore rebels against conformity.


Our protagonist will be a 17 year old boy and we have decided to at first represent him in a stereotypical way, he will be lazy, bored and grumpy and then rebel. This is how society views male youths however we will also represent him using other issues such as loneliness and depression, therefore giving the audience the chance to re-evaluate the people we are signifying.   

Location Ideas

These are some photos of a possible location at the Hamlet of Shellness on the Isle of Sheppy. We are consdering this as a location because it is isolated and would be an interesting location to shoot at because of the features such as the beach, the water and the Block House.

 

Deconstruction of 'This is England' Trailer

We decided to create a deconstruction of This is England as it is a very well known youth culture film. By carrying out the deconstruction it meant we had better knowledge of the genre and its conventions.