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Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Plans for new voice over...

Possible Script for Voice-over:
We've been friends for as long as I can remember. When we were younger we were care-free and nothing else mattered. Those three took me in and gave me a place where I belonged. Our club started out as just being a bit of fun but it evolved into a place of refuge when we were older. A place where we could go and just have fun. We didn't have to worry about anything. We called our club, Connect Four simply because we that was our favourite game. We would meet two or three times a week and spend hours in our cabin. It would be night before we even realised, but we didn't care because we were having fun. As the years past our friendship grew and we became closer as a group. We never expected things to change…

Further Music Research

After much deliberation we decided, as a group, to change the song we used in our film opening. This was purely because the song we originally chose was not original. After a while it became repetitive and irritating which is not the effect we wanted it to have on our audience. So with this in mind we set out and spent a couple of days each researching possible music choices for our opening. We each conducted music research and then decided which song we felt encompassed the themes of our film and our opening.

Brother by Mighty Oaks is the song we have decided to use. This is because it is simple but different and quirky which is what we were looking for in our song choice.

Film Poster

This is the finished film poster for our film Connect Four. This poster will be present throughout all of our marketing campaigns including all of our social media platforms and our film's website.

Justification of Criticism

After viewing the first draft of our film opening we received criticisms from both our teachers and from fellow students. One of theses critiques was that one of our titles "would not feature in a film" as it looked childish, low budget and is difficult to read. This is a small clip of that title and below is the justification of our title. We will explain why we chose to keep and not re-shoot this particular title.

Below is a small clip of a similar title that features in the opening credits of Napoleon Dynamite. When conducting similar film research we stumbled upon Napoleon Dynamite and considered it to be similar to our film because of its creative and low budget title sequence. As a result of this, we drew much inspiration from its title sequence and tried to present ours in a similar and quirky way.

It is because of this title that we chose to present our title in the way we did. It does appear low budget but we are essentially a low budget film and so we wanted to make it authentic and quirky, like Napoleon Dynamite, and we believe that our titles create this effect. As an audience member you struggle to read the name on this title just as you struggle to read the names featured in our title but this is what makes our titles, and Napoleon Dynamite's, quirky, unique and low budget.