Empire Cover

This is our film cover. We used the basic attribute of putting the character over the EMPIRE logo to add more significance to the character. We used empires bold and red colour scheme as it was the most effective as well as being a co-ordinate colour with the rest. We added the names of Guy Ritchie films at the side as it is our inspiration for the film, and the character shots of 'mickey' (from Snatch) and 'Tony' (from Snatch).

Introduction shot: Analysis

All of our character introduction shots follwoed the basic 'sepia tone with film grain' added colour and feel to them. Our inspiration was Guy Ritchies 'Snatch' when the characters are introduced in that, below is a picture of the character 'Sol' when this is applied. We however differed from this by using a different colour and by adding an extra image and nickname to the characters for the sakes of the trailer.

Introduction shot: Paul

The character Paul is introduced as probally the most serious character of the crew. Pauls attire is a leather jacket with a cap on; giving paul a shady look about himself as well as quite an intimidating look. The gun behind him is the image we used as he is more of a 'shoot first' kind of charactter. Once again we added the sepia tone and film grain texture to this, although we kept the brightness of the character down to add a sinister feel to him. We kept a slightly more simplsitic feel to this also to emphasise the bluntness of the character.

Paul is played by James Wood.

Introduction shot: Murphy

Murphy 'The Irishman', is evidently an irish character in our film. We used the four leafed clover behind Murphy to add to the irish representation, and this was further enforced by the 'Guinness' top, given the Guinness originated in Dublin. Given that, again, this character is smiling we follow on with the general quirky cheeky theme of our characters. Again, the sepia tone was added with film grain effect.

Murphy is played by Alan Andrews

Introduction shot: Jane

With the shot of Jane we used a giant lip-stick mark as her background picture. We thought this would add a sense of elegance about her, and given that the other characters all have quirky smiles on them and Jane is looking fairly serious we hoped it would reinforce this more. We again applied the sepia and film grain texture to Jane to match with the other characters. Janes label of simply 'Her' is intended to give a sense of curiosity about Jane as well as show she is quite significant.

Jane is played by Eurn Andrews.

Introduction shot: Jason

The character 'Jason' in his opening still shot is depicted as quite a quirky character given the smile nad the smart jacket. We used a picture of a car behind him to put emphasis upon the 'driver' label he has. As he is the driver. We again applied the basic sepia effect to the piece althoguh this time we solarised the car to give it a more significant part of the story, and given the following shots that exceed his still shot show the car itself we thoguht this would be apt.

Jason is played by Reiss Mckechnie

Introduction shot: Chris

As you can see by the picture above Chris is 'The dealer'. This still shot will be added before Chris is introduced into the trailer as a way of showing what kind of person he is. We will also have a spoken dialogue running through this still shot and what the character is doing. We used Cards behind him to emphasise as to what kind of 'dealer' he is. The colour tone we used for this shot is the same as the others: Sepia background and the character is sepia-toned also, but has also got the element of 'film grain' effect on it (photoshop) to make it look almost cartoon like. Although it is not evident also we used a back-pack on Chris as well as the cards behind him to give a sense of ambiguity about the 'Dealer' label, this was further helped by the hoody he is wearing.

Chris is played by Matthew Jones

Poster idea #1(a)

This is my first draft idea for a film poster. It is currentlyl acking a full title as well as credits etc; therefore this would ber more of a teaser poster as appsoed to a full one. I will edit this to add in credits as well as the full title across the main police tape. I feel this may be more suitable for a DVD cover as apposed to a poster.