The photo I intend to use for my final design is a screenshot from a piece of footage in our short film. As a group, we were intending to have a photoshoot with the actor Rory Wilton on Friday evening after shooting. However, Rory needed for an audition he received a few days before shooting and said he wanted Friday to allow preparation for his upcoming audition on the Saturday of that week. We had thus change shooting days and film the rest of the film, including the scene of the alleyway in that one day. This meant we couldn't proceed with our intended photoshoot we had planned for Friday. Because of this, we decided to use the footage from our short film and screenshot certain shots we wanted for our review page. I ultimately chose this image from our short film because of the stereotypical relation it has to the thriller/ crime genre. I also liked the focus the camera had on the knife, creating an 'out of focus' effect with the background. I believe this shot will allow me to create a tense and intriguing looking review one which will hopefully allow the audiences intrigue to fester, subsequently wanting them to go and see our short film based on the review and the supporting image.
The day of shooting overall went very smoothly which allowed to capture some great shots with the collaboration between Fin and Zack. I also suggested a few shots which came instinctively on the day, however Fin's direction has overall allowed me to get screenshots of some really nice looking shots from our film. Rory also was a massive help in allowing us to capture these particular shots. His focus and acting ability's allowed the still images to look realistic and believable to the audience, ultimately allowing my review page to hopefully look even better.
I believe with this image, I will maybe play around with the lighting and contrast to see if more light or less light is needed to make the image look more sinister, however I am already very happy with how this image looks. One thing I do want to do however is to make the blood on the knife stand-out more. To do this, I could play around with lighting and contrast like I said before, or I could try and select that certain colour on the image and somehow make it stand-out even more. I'm not sure how I could do that, but with playing around on Photoshop I'm sure I can get something similar to what I'm initially looking for.
Another image I was also considering using for the shoot is the one of me as the drug dealer. We also captured these shots on film, and as you can see the colour in these shots are really professional looking. On the day of shooting, we were able to film with myself and Rory at around 8pm, so we were able to get really nice lighting coming from the streetlight above us. The streetlight created a really nice eery tone to the scene which is something we were looking for in both our footage and the shots we were going to use for our review pages. I also liked the fact the baseball cap was covering my face, allowing the image to look more mysterious leading the audience to question whats going on.
I ultimately chose not to use any of these photos because of the fact I liked the other one more for its 'teaser' and the threatening tone it instantly gave. However I do really like the colours in this image and will still test it out in editing to see if this particular range of images looks better than the one I am initially looking to use.
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