Photography Shoot

Alongside the short film which Alex and I are editing for, we are also planning out our time efficiently to produce the two ancillary tasks we are required to do for our coursework productions. When we both come to make the poster for our short film, we would both like to use really high quality photos of our main actors in the posters to help attract the audiences attention more to hopefully watch our short film. Most Action/Adventure posters for films like James Bond, Batman, Star Wars, Harry Potter etc. use really high quality photographs of their actors or main subject matter anyway and we wish to replicate this convention for our film poster. I have already researched previously some styles and layouts which I quite like from existing posters.

On the 17th February, Alex and I invited Luke and Morgan to come to our Photography Photo Shoot at school with their costumes on so we could take photographs of them for our poster. We set up a green screen and photography lights for the photo shoot inside the photography dark room. 

During the photo shoot, we both took it in turns to take our own photographs of Luke and Morgan standing in different poses based on some popular action poses we both found on several action/adventure posters which we had researched and analysed. We wanted to also photograph Alex in his costume too simply for experiments.

We also photographed a variety of camera shots of our actors too including low angle, high angle and even close up shots of the actors faces. The variety of camera shot would then increase our ideas in post-production to help generate poster that follows the typical conventions of an action/adventure film poster. The slideshow below is a compilation of photographs of the shots we took during the photo shoot.

Some photographs were more successful than others, however these will all be help begin building our ideas further for designing our film posters when we come to edit the photographs in Photoshop (which will be our primary photo editing software we will use). So far, the photograph of Morgan staring at the camera with the gun placed alongside half of his face is my favourite camera shot of the whole sample since the facial expressions and details in his eyes are really emotional and captivating to the eye.

I look forward to begin experimenting with the photos we have now taken from our photo shoot.