Film Poster

This is the poster that I have created for our film. I used a shot from our short film opening and I have chosen this scene, as this is artsy and this a dark scene in our film opening therefore the writing would show up easier than using a scene with a light background. We chose as a group to use Ben Griffiths production logo as it the most artsy logo and stands out the most out of our production logo's.

Archive Footage

Archive Footage For Our Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOjOHly7gig

- This video is from YouTube and this footage from a Catwalk for TopShop and we will use a small short clip as we are not able to record a catwalk as we do not have this footage.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhtowFSi0Vk

- This is another video that we have chosen to add to our short film and this another cat walk and we have chosen a part of this clip, which is a short clip of Stephen James (a model) walking who is covered in tattoos and therefore this will hint that our documentary is about tattoos.

Teacher Feedback

First Draft Feedback - Teacher Feedback


Mrs Brookes


WWW - Camera shots, Editing and Mise En Scene.

EBI - link between intro and tattoo where is that? Voice over a little to complex maybe shorter and shorter. When you walk into the parlour, you need intro. Job title needed. Lower tattooing sound. Cut out "yeah". Need more tattoo scenes.



Mrs Field


WWW - Shots are very well done. Editing is good.

EBI - Need to simplify the narration at the beginning of the film opening. Improve sound of the tattoo noise. Job titles should be added. Need to remove the constant "yeah".


Mr Amato


Really like the titles but can be positioned better.

Feels TV Documentary rather than a film, this could be because of the instant voice over. More instant talking and change the font that you use as it goes on and on and I do not like the late titles. Subject matter hands you some potentially beautiful shots that wait really evident.


Improvements from Feedback


We can improve from this feedback as we are able to go into other tattoo parlours and we are able to film more tattoos and we can film other tattoo parlours to change the scenery and we are able to film for filler shots and to make the documentary film more interesting by using different scenes. We are able to cut out the "yeah" throughout the interview and we will use subtitles to be able to understand what Alexsandrs Hirsfelds (the tattoo artist) his answers to the questions which we may display almost as subtitles to understand the questions and the answers and this will solve the problem of not understanding his voice clearly. We will be attempting to reduce the sound of the tattoo gun and we will most likely use a program like audacity to remove or to quieten the noise of the tattoo gun.

Evidence of planning

This is an image presenting Nathan beginning with a range of ideas for shots that we could add in our film opening and myself and Nathan began this and I did help with ideas to add to our film opening.

This image showing how we presented our shots, we used a piece of paper for the sticky notes to attach to and on the piece of paper had one of three titles, "montage", "interview" and "fillers" and we chose to show our shots this way to present the shots that we have thought to use that would be good to use in our tattoo documentary.

This is another image showing how we stuck every shot we done for each different title and this allowed us to add and take away shots that are a good idea and are not a good idea and shots that are necessary for our film opening.

This image is showing me and Nathan working on the storyboard and this is after we decided which shots to use and we wrote onto a storyboard sheet which shots to use.

Group Photo

This is our group for our final film task.

Aaron's job was to stay on top of research and make sure everyone's blog is up to date and he focused on shots for the cinematic parts of our film opening,

Nathan's job was to do basic editing and narration for our film opening and he was the person who had the original film pitch idea and we began with his idea.

My job was to focus on subtitles and research for titles and music to be able add this to our film opening and to make sure that there is nothing missed for research for our film opening. I had the idea of our film to be based around culture.

Shot List

Shot list:

Shot 1 - 6 will be a short montage of a 'hustle and bustle' of people walking, a cashier, buses. This could vary depending on shots which could be 1 second instead of 0.5 seconds.

Shot 7 - This shot will last 4 seconds and it will focus on a young and old person at a bus stop, this will be a still long shot.

Shot 8 - 11 will include 4 shots that last 2 seconds each which will show a catwalk clip, someone reading a celeb magazine, a girl looking at herself in the mirror and a extreme close up with a blurred background.

Shot 12 - 18 will include a shot beginning at a extreme close up on someone typing on a keyboard then transitioning to a mouse, then a fast zoom out to a high right angle facing down, then to a mid shot over the right shoulder slowly going closer to the computer then to a POV shot of looking at YouTube and Instagram.

Shot 19 - 23 will begin at a foot and then slowly go upwards from the shoe to the person looking through a camera, we have done this to present the creativity of our generation. Then there is a transition which is from zooming into the camera and transitioning to someone grabbing a pencil presenting our generation is artistic, then zooming out to present the person drawing.

Shot 24 - 25 will be someone drinking from a Starbucks cup then quick cuts back and forth from a Starbucks cup and a Costa cup to show similarity.

Shot 26 will be a long shot of a group of people and all dressed very similar.

Shot 27 will be a series of images showing hipsters to fill up screen with a collage.

Shot 28 this is where our film opening will tell the audience our film opening is about tattoos as this will be an interview about tattoos and this will be presented in a mid shot and we have chosen tell the audience this late is so enigma is created throughout the film opening.

Shot 29 This is where the title will appear and the title will be surrounded in tattoo related images.

Shot 30 (possibility) We could have a final clip after the title scene but this will be to create enigma and we are not sure what it will include.

Marketing Research

Marketing Research

Our target audience is 16-24 year olds. Therefore our marketing will be based on what influences people of these ages. We believe that most people young people who would be influenced by a tattoo documentary usually use all kinds of social media. Therefore we will advertise our film on the most popular social media sites. Such as:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Tumblr
• Reddit
• Imgur

Another idea for our marketing is to use YouTube, as many teens frequently use YouTube. We could use a trailer of our film as an advert on YouTube to advertise our film. We could also chose to only include the advert on tattoo related videos as the people watching these videos are most likely to watch our film.

We would also create a website for our Documentary as a way of finding us. Our website would include such things as :


Home page - short introduction of the documentary.
Newsletter about the production of the documentary.
Links to our social media
Trailer Tabs
The team portfolio
Diagram Plan of website :::