The merchandise we put together on the Merchboard is a collection of various items related to films. We dissected them and gathered research that we thought would help with our merchandise. As follows:
The t-shirt design used on the family guy t-shirt is bold and simplified. The colour scheme is very plain (using only black and white) which adds a blunt effect, yet a desirable one as it shows what the t-shirt is without any lyrical additives. When we looekd into other film-related t-shirts they all followed a very basic colour scheme or jsut simply adapted the film poster onto them. Very rarely did any t-shirts have an outbursting colour scheme unless said colours where used to illuminate any specifics such as a title or tag line. We concluded from this that in order to make an effect t-shirt we must also follow these basic guidelines.
Smaller merchandise and slightly more mainstream things such as cups and post-cards followed a very simple pattern of simply using the films poster on them; we adapted this and have therefore decided to do the same due to its high effect and cheap production.
More prominent items in the merchandise market are props and collectables from the films. Take for example the star wars 'stormtrooper' helmet. The storm trooper helmet is one of the most biggest selling movie props of all time, and not only is it a colelctable but it is also practical, alot of them actually being able to be worn. Other props such as supermans cape, predators wrist blade and batmans suit are also very popular, and normally very exact in detail. Given that these are the most successful pieces of merchandise we also decided to focus on reproducing the memory stick that is used in our film.
In the next post there will be images of a T-shirt, Post-card, a mug and a memory stick all in relation to our film.
Monday
Merchboard!
This is my collabaration of memorabilia and merchandise in relation to films. It has no intention of organisation but it was more to put out the intense amount of merchandise out there, being it costumes and props from the actual film, or simply mugs and postcards with the film name on it.Sunday
Mood Board
This is our mood board. Unfortunately the picture quality was not amazing as our own camera had gona AWOL but this is it. The moodboard comprises of pictures of snatch, Lock stock, Guy Ritchie, Guns, This is England and a centre shot.As the writing is too distorted i will type up what we wrote:
The Red Section (Bottom Left):
"MAIN CHARACTERS INTRODUCTION SHOT
The theme that we see here is used for all of our characters shots, that being a still shot of the character with their name being shown which leads onto their actions and their part of the story."
The Blue Section (Bottom Right):
"GUNS AND ENGLAND. Films such as 'This is England' and 'Lock Stock...' helped us characterise our costumes and adapt as need be to our mise en scene, but they also gave us an insight into the more violent side of the comedic side of violence represented in Snatch etc. We therefore used this to obtain and capture as much of this dark yet comedic essence as we can, whislt partially limiting violence as we could"
The Orange Section (Top Left):
"THE GUY Guy Ritchie is our main source of inspiration for our film, his enjambent of classic london and everything that goes with it helped us to use the correct attire, props etc in our films. The man behind Snatch, Lock stock and Rock n rolla. We studied alot of his work and picked up on key points such as his use of regional dialect, his use of basic costumes yet detailed accesories, the funnier sides of his characters (DOG, tyrone) and his clever use of location. His use of encaptioning the want for something material, (snatch, lock stock) helped us develop our key item: The memory stick. All in all Guy Ritche was our main inspiration for our film and we therefore thought it crucial to put him on our mood board as most of our atmosphere in the film is a manifestation of his.
The Green Section (Centre Bottom):
Snatches impressive use of each characters significance is prominant and obvious; each character playing an important role in the film, without them it would not work. We tried to encorporate this into our film by using the character title shots and character actions being shown after it. We felt that as everything was part of a puzzle each piece deserved appropriate recognition.
All in all our moodboard shows each aspect that we have developed our film from, being it costumes, era or Director.
rough cut
this is the rough cut for our trailer. we are going to add dialoge to give it more of a story. we also need to add titles like in profecional trailers.
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