The Butterfly Effect Poster

The Butterfly Effect Poster

I am now going to write about the poster and explain the image, text and colours.

The image shows suspense as it is two images on a skull back to back in the image of a butterfly. The images are fairly distorted. It outlines the x-ray image of the skulls which is very bold. Makes you wonder why the skulls would be relevant to the butterfly.

The text at the top of the poster is the name of the actor - Ashton Kutcher. The writing is in bold white with a little bit of text shadow. The text is just basically plain but bold.

The actor is stood in the middle of the poster, with a shadow of himself stood behind and a bright shining light behind as well. This makes him look very powerful as the light is shining from behind him. You don't exactly know the relevance of the butterfly, actor and skulls but already it is building suspense which would make the audience want to view this film.

Just underneath the actor there is some text as well. This says "It will all end in the beginning." The text is in white, but not very bold... just so you can see it. The text itself sounds very interesting, and because the writing is interesting it will already have the audience hooked.

The title is in a different font to every other bit of text in the poster. It stands out because of this. It is in bold as well... this also makes the poster stand out as well. All of the text is in white part from the "Coming Soon" at the bottom of the poster. This is in red, which makes it stand out to every other bit of the text. This is because of the different colour, and usually people want to look at the poster to find out when the film is coming out. The audiences eyes will be drawn to this.

Shooting schedule

Friday 15th January

Filming equipment: Video camera + Tripod

Location: House

Actor: Nathaniel Bowden

Filming: Zoe Ashley

Outline: Filming the bathroom scene, and living room scene.

Saturday 29th January

Filming equipment: Video camera + Tripod

Location: Back garden on house

Actor: Nathaniel Bowden

Filming: Zoe Ashley

Outline: Showing Nathaniel burying the knife

Filming completed.

Sound effects for thriller

Me and Nathaniel were originally going to make some music for our thriller through Garageband. We tried, but we could not seem to make some music which would be suitable for the thriller opening. We then decided that sound effects would be more appropriate for the thriller, as it puts emphasis on the actions that are going on throughout the opening.

We found our sound effects on iMovie. We found some music on iMovie which was appropriate for the opening as it builds suspense. We then put the sound effects over the music which makes it sound quite bold. We wanted some music which would be able to build suspense but as we have no experience in making music on Garageband, it was fairly hard. We may have taken the easy way out, but we thought that it would be more beneficial to the thriller.

Risk Assessment

Reasons for the choice of treatment

The reasons why we chose to use this treatment for our thriller was because we thought that it would be a lot easier to do. With treatment 1, we thought that it would be quite hard to try and set it up to look like a person was looking through the scope of the rifle.

Treatment 2 seemed a lot more like a thriller and also looked easier to make. We thought that it looked a lot more interesting as well. The way that we have set out treatment 2 was a lot different to our initial idea of treatment 1.

We also went into more detail with treatment 2, so we thought as we were so far ahead with that one, it would make it a lot easier when it came down to filming it.

We wanted to make the thriller seem as realistic as possible. If we had gone with treatment1, it would have been hard to film due to the fact it included guns.

Treatment 2 is more realistic and also a lot easier to even think about doing before we start. The concept of this thriller is easy to do (e.g. washing blood off hands) and the fact that you cannot see the person’s face also sets up a mystery in itself.

Treatment 2 - Thriller Opening

Title- Love In Cold Blood

Scene 1

· First image is of a man washing blood off his hands

· Bright lights on sink. Dark everywhere else in room to show the emphasis of the blood running off the hand

· P.O.V shot so that the man’s face cannot be seen

· Sound of the taps and heavy breathing

Scene 2

· Background will be newspaper cuttings

· Credits will fade in from the centre on the screen

· Sound of sheet being ripped and the sound of footsteps

Scene 3

· Same arms as in the first scene but this time wrapping a knife up with the torn sheet

· Both the knife and the sheet are covered in blood

· Fairly dim lighting, still tell what the arms are doing

· P.O.V shot used again, so you still won’t be able to see the person’s face

· The only sounds that will be heard are the noise that the person will make e.g. breathing

Scene 4

· Similar to scene 2.

· More credits will appear

· The sound of the scene will be petrol being poured and the sound of a match being struck, then the sound of a fire

· This will be able to make the film more fluid in between scenes

Scene 5

· Image of a burning barrel, you will be able to see the knife wrapped in the torn sheet in the barrel

· The sounds you will be able to hear will be the fire

· The lighting will be the fire

· This scene will be a close-up f the barrel and the content

Scene 6

· Similar to scene’s 2 and 4 but this time showing an image of a person

· The final set of credits will appear on thins scene

· Sound of a car door being shut and the engine starting

· Font size will be medium

· Font colour will be black

· Font style will be plain

· This will be the same for all the credits

Scene 7

· Car driving off (can’t see driver) and the burning barrel in background

· Sound of the car

· Light will be the headlights of the car and the fire from the barrel

· Pan-shot to follow the car as it leaves

· Fade to black at the end of the scene

Scene 8

· Title of film appears in the centre of the screen

· Writing is very bold

· The colour of the writing is white

· Dull music starts to play