SLR Camera

For my film poster, we used a digital camera take the pictures we each used for our poster. the images were ordinary however for the magazine covers we are going to use the SLR digital camera to take the images of the main character. This would be of good effect to our magazine covers as the pictures taken by the SLR will be of much better quality compared to an ordinary digital camera, because its a very professional camera used by every if not most Professional photographers. Digital SLRs come in different name brands such as Sony, Nikon, Canon and other companies that specialised in media products. In our case Canon E0S 1000D.

With a 10.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor and technology inherited from Canon’s professional models, the EOS 1000D offers EOS imaging power in an affordable, easy-to-use package. this camera features:

10.1 MP CMOS sensor

Up to 3fps

7-point wide-area AF

Self-Cleaning Image Sensor

2.5” LCD with Live View mode

DIGIC III processor

SD/SDHC card slot

Picture Styles processing

Compact and lightweight

Compatible with EF/EF-S lenses and EX Speedlites

starting my film poster

in today's lesson, I spent most of the lesson browsing for background images I would like to use for my film poster: I found some and I'm going to attempt to use all of them in order to have more options to choose from.

Film Poster Analysis-Kill Shot

This is the film poster for 'Killshot'. This film is a 2008 Crime thriller starring Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke and  directed by John Madden. The main images are of a male and female character with a gun between them. the woman looks like she's in fear while the man looks like a detective and this, and the combination of the title 'killshot' allows the audience to identify the genre of the film. In the background is a shot low angle shot of the main character running holding a gun with an explosion behind him. This helps to emphasise on the genre of the film and that he's a main character in the film as there is focus on him. the font used is fairly simple to read as it's in red, black and white; red possibly signifying blood shed and it also compliments the explosion and effect in the background. The names of the most important characters are places at the top of the poster. this is easy for te audience to read, and the font and the colour of te actors names follow the same style in the film title. We are also told it is 'an unrelently thriller' by a magazine review which promises a potential of the audience feeling the same way after viewing the film. This poster only has a few conventions of a film poster as it is missing billing cards at the bottom of the poster; there is no tagline or even a release date and it doesn't include a website address but its still quite an effective film poster.