AS Media
Progress tracker of AS Media project by Matthew Facer
Candidate Number: 7547
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Our Production Company:
When we came to thinking up ideas of what to have as our production company, we had a few different ideas but not all of them worked for what we intended our tone to be. We ended up going through a few different names and symbols to test out what would seem to pop out but I unfortunately lost the piece of paper that Jordan used to brainstorm ideas. Essentially we went through different animals and creative representations of them with names/symbols going through silly ones like "Sleeping Ant Productions" and "Crying Buffalo Studio" to more serious ones like "Last Straw Pictures" and "Slo-mo Productions".
Eventually, we ended up getting a friend of ours to assist us with creating a logo for us. We gave him an idea of something etheral or mysterious and he ended up suggesting a spacially-themed background which we thought to be a good idea because of the mysterious connotations associated with space. James suggested "Realm Media" which stood out to us as a very unique idea as it went against the usual companies ending in "productions" or "pictures" and had an almost creepy connotation with the noun "realm". We decided to go for this name in the end because we felt it created an air of mystery best.
Film Titles:
For our film title, we had to put a bit of thought into it. Originally we believed that a name like "The Vendor" or "Up in Arms" would be a good idea but we soon came to realise that this sort of name appeared to trivialise the tone of the film when we wanted it to be serious. Thus we ended up coming up with a name that related to the actual plot of the film.
We decided to go with the name "Betrayal" to represent the story that we came up with in which our protagonist deals with arms and is later double-crossed by his old friend. We felt that we should go through a few different concept fonts to see what looked good. We felt like some of our fonts were a bit too inappropriate for our film like #2 and #6; we found that #2 ended up being too much like the font for a rock band and #6 to be too cartoony like it could be for a hero type film rather than a crime thriller such as our own film. For much the same reasoning we ruled out the use of such fonts like #1 and #3 as we found these to be too plain or lacking any kind of effect that would make our title stand out as an interesting film. Likewise, then, we ended up ruling out #7 for the same reason as we felt it lacked any sort of character.
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This font wouldn't work for our film we decided because it's again too cartoony and it almost seems as though it would work better for a TV series rather than a film. Not only this but it lacks a serious tone.
With this font, we ended up finding it far too similar to that found in a horror film which obviously wouldn't fit our crime thriller. We could have made it work if we claimed our film to be a dark thriller but we weren't sure we could pull off that feeling once we reviewed our footage, thus we ended up not using it.
This font was the one we came closest to using because it looks almost like a graffiti artist stencilled it. We also though it could look as though it's been taken straight from a crime scene but we ended up going elsewhere anyway purely because our actual font looked better.
This, then, is the font we ended up actually using; you can see it's very similar to the last one I described in that it has the same kind of graffiti-like style to it but we felt it looked a lot more sharper than the other font. We believed that the sharpness of the text could be linked with the idea of order and organisation which could then be linked to the criminal activity in our film. Overall we just liked the style of this font best and felt it represented the genre of our film best.