This is the poster i have made on Photoshop Elements for my film. I feel that this appeals directly to my target audience and it eye catching. I have chosen a font that I think is appropriate for my film title, and the background picture is a picture of me my friend took with the sun coming through my legs. I think this is good as the lighting is interesting and catches the eye. I used the lens flare on Photoshop Elements to brighten up the picture and add a more interesting effect. I also feel as though this is a appropriate photo as I am posing in a ballet move so the audience will know what type of film this film will be, without looking into it; a dancing one.

I am going to produce a poster for my film, advertising it. I have been looking around at other professional film posters and noticing what they all tend to do and what I like about them.

I like the colour's in this Step Up poster, they are vibrant and eye catching. The background is a street suggesting they are street dancers as they are not in a dance studio. But, looking closely, the dance school they attend in the film, is in the background. This adds suspicion to the audience wanting to find out what happens. The two main characters are the main focus in this poster and because of the way they are pictured; close together, the man holding the woman's hips as if to lift her up, or to bring her close to him, and their lips almost touching - this suggests they are romantically connected as well as dance partners. This will also attract audiences who like romantics. Every film has a catch phrase, a slogan. This is like a little taster, to get the audience intrigued about the film, to get them to want to watch it, for it to be on their minds until they do.

This poster for Step Up 2 is similar to the poster of Step Up in the way that the audience can straight away tell they are street dancers because of what they are wearing and the background. Again, there is a woman and a man in the main focus suggesting there is a romantic twist to the story. There is a spray of water coming up onto the dancers in the picture and they are wet suggesting the dance they do or whatever happens within the film, they are in the rain. This creates intrigue as the audience want to know why they are in the rain and the effect of it looks good. Also down the bottom of the poster there is a big crowd of dancers standing around the two main dancers and characters in the film, watching them, cheering them on, and dancing themselves. This suggests there is some kind of dance off held within the film, maybe a competition? The audience like the thought of this and make them more interested than they were to begin with. Again the colours are vibrant catching the eye and the slogan is at the top of the poster, just like Step Up, making it one of the first things the eye sees when it looks at it.

This is the poster for Stomp the Yard. Straight away, the audience know exactly what type of film it will be and exactly what type of dancing it will consist of. They know this because of the main focus in the poster, the dancer, who is pictured doing a street dance move. We know that there is some kind of competition or show going on because of the crowd standing around the main dancer cheering and dancing. At the top of the poster there is what looks like graffiti, suggesting that this show/competition is illegal and is done in some remote warehouse that the police do not know about.  Again, there is a slogan and it is placed right at the top of the poster.  It is in bright red whereas the rest of the poster are different shades of blues. This will have been to make sure the audience see the slogan as one of the very first things the eye sees. Having a catchy slogan will intrigue the audience to watch the film. The font of the title of the film 'Stomp the Yard' is in big and bold writing. Giving the impression it is what it is; no messing around; giving an impression of this is what the film is like.

This is the poster for the film 'Take the Lead'. It is showing a completely different style of dancing as pose the two dancers in the poster are pictured in is more of a ballroom hold than a street dance move, like the other posters. This suggests the film is more about ballroom dancing rather than street dancing; attracting a entirely different audience. The colour's in the poster are vibrant and eye catching making it easy to spot. This is an easy and effective way of gaining viewers as the eye will become attracted to it and want to see what it is about. The slogan on this poster is different to the other posters i have looked at. The others have all had their slogan at the top of their poster and in a different colour so the eye catches it. But instead, this poster has their slogan underneath the title. So the eye will read the title before the slogan. The slogan is in the same font as the title but smaller. Suggesting the producers want their audience to read the title before the slogan. Also in the same font as the title and slogan, but this time above the title, is the name of an actor who is in the film. Looking at where it is placed. above the title, suggests the producers want the audience to see who is in it before reading the title, this often means because the actor is a well-known one and popular with the audience the film is trying to attract.

I have been thinking about how i want my dancers to be dressed. I think whilst filming the scenes in the dance studio I might have them wearing more formal style of dancing clothes; i.e. tights and leotard or leotard and trousers.  This will make the audience think they are trained in dance and maybe even ballerinas. To enhance this thought I might even put the dancers in pointe shoes for small parts of the scenes in the dance studio. I will not have them in pointe shoes in the scenes outside, instead, i will have them in more loose clothes such as tracksuits and trainers. This make make the audience intrigued as to why the film has suddenly cut from prim and proper in the dance studio to hip hop dancing in the streets; this will hopefully make the audience want to carry on watching. 

I took a picture of three of my dancers in their point shoes:

Step Up 2 - The Final Dance (My inspiration...)

This is the dance in the film Step Up 2 where i got my inspiration from. My film won't be quite like this, as i wont have the crowd in the background and will only have 4 dancers. But this is the effect with the rain I will hopefully get.

One of my dancers; Laura Sheriffs, fell off her motorbike yesterday and in result has fractured her foot. This means she may not be able to dance in my film. She will be fine for the performance but might not make the rehearsals. I will have to think about someone else to fill in for her just in case she can't do it. 

Kat De Luna - Run the Show

This is the Song I will use:

The Dance, The song

Over the last few weeks I have been contacting the Fire station and organizing dates when my dancers and me will be heading down there to film my film. We have agreed on Sunday December 14th. I have chosen the song I will use, it's called Run the Show by Kat De Luna. I chose this as it is an upbeat song and could be easy to choreograph to also. 

I am going to have narrative titles fading in and out during my introduction instead of speech. I felt like speech would have been more difficult to include in with the dance. But if i use narrative titles I can easily fade them in and out whilst showing the dance in the water, but also set the scene and give the audience an insight to what the film is about. These are the titles I have come up with:

December 12th, 1991, one star was born...

There was only one thing she lived to do...

... Dance...

One girl...One dream...One chance...

Now she has to... Run the Show.

I felt as though including the title in with the narrative titles at the very beginning of the film would be quite effective as its the last thing written so will be the words the audience are most likely to remember, and the words 'Run the Show' are included in the song lyrics. Also 'Run the Show' will be the title of my film, i felt this worked as the reasons listed above and also it gives a story line to the film. So i felt this would be doubly as effective.

In between the narrative titles I will show tiny slips of the dance, just flashing up as the title fades away. I think this will be effective as the audience will get a tiny insight to what is to come in the film and it will hopefully be eye catching also.