Production Process for Film Poster

I began by literally splitting my image down the middle, choosing the point straight between the eyes.

How it looked with just one side. 

I then inserted the board for my character hold. For this I simply used the rounded rectangle tool in white. I then selected the fingers that would be coming over the sign, and cut and re-pasted them as a separate layer. This allowed me to have Alfies body as the bottom layer, with the sign as the middle layer and Alfie's fingers on the top layer, to create the illusion of him holding the sign. 

To reduce the sharpness of the cuts around the fingers I simply used the eraser and lightly erased the edges of his fingers in so to blur them around the edges and take a little of the sharpness away. 

Here is what the hand look like after using the eraser.

I realised that I would need to erase the branding of Alfie's plain black jacket in so to became him look even more poor, it would be a little ironic for a bum to be wearing a branded jacket. To do this I used the clone stamp tool, and selected the black and shaded parts of the jacket and simply stamped over the brand name. Here is halfway through the process.

And here is the jacket with the brand name completely erased. 

I then chose to use the liquify filter to make Alfie look even worse (haha!). 

I wanted to focus on his eyes and using the bloat tool I enlarged the bags under his eyes to make them look more prominent, looking like he has serious lag of sleep. 

Here is the untouched eye.

Here is after I had finished. I also used the 'pucker' tool to reduce the size of his pupils and take the shine out of his eyes. This makes him look either on the influence of drugs and a lot more evil, and takes the innocence of big shiny blue eyes out. 

I then wanted to create  a slight illusion of a black eye, my character would then look like he'd been in a few scraps, a classic stereotypical activity of the poor. I did this by using hue/saturation and colour balance effects over that certain part of his eye giving them the purpley tint. 

I think selected the whites of his eyes and made them red and bloodshot, connoting either drug use or again serious lack of sleep.

To even further the damage to Alfie's appearance, I reduced the 'vibrance' levels of the image and this is what gives him this ghostly like look. 

Initial Ideas: Film Magazine Review

Film Poster Shoot - Bad Guy

Initial Ideas - Film Poster

Here is a draw up of one of my initial ideas, explained in the prezi below.

Filming day 1 Photos

Set up for the roundabout shot, simply pressed record and made Alfie bike back and forth.


I filmed a shot across the road from the telephone box, and tried a zoom into it to empahasise it's colour.


Filming Alfie actually entering and leaving the telephone box, making the character interact with the object puts even more emphasis on it.


Shot from across the road of William Hill the betting shop, something stereotypical of a poor man's location to hang about/visit on a day to day basis.


Quick lifestyle snap just to the right of where we were filming. This is a road leading onto Beverley road, living up to it's expectations of a dirty Northern working class town.

This is a shot looking across at the Humber dock. Hull is famous for it's docks and it's history of the fishing industry.


A shot of humber street, a prime example of culture trying to emerge from it's ugly/run down location. Skips, rubbish and battered old building try their best to hide away the paintings on the wall however I feel the colour of the graffiti is still more prevalent.


Alfie biking around.


Alfie posing while I bark instructions at him.

Here is where I filmed the shot of Alfie biking down Humber Street, towarsds the iconic tidal barrier.
This is obviously where the health and safety precautions were most needed as I did run the risk of getting hit by a car. The street was not busy at all however, with the odd car coming around every 15 minutes, giving us enough time to film the shot easily.

Alfie posing for his 'costume' photo in all black.




I got Alfie to take these photos while I filmed the trawler boat travelling off into the sunset.




For helping me out and being a brilliant actor, I treat Alfie to a panini from the local Italian bakery in the marketplace of which, from the above photos, I think he enjoyed.


Here is the shot of the infamous Bob Carvers fish and chip restaurant. This shot took quite a while and was the most tedious as the location is in the town centre and therefore there were many passers by getting in the way of the shot.

Mise-en-scene: Costume

Here is my talent Alfie. He is dressed in all black, with a black bike against a black background.
Black has connotations of evil, darkness and criminal activity, precisely the sort of light I would like to shine upon this side of the character I am representing.
Upon asking fellow classmates what how they would stereotypically dress a criminal, the most prevalent answer was in anything black.
Furthermore, upon asking classmates how they would dress a homeless person/alcoholic, they said that they were most likely to be wearing ill fitting clothes and a big coat.

I feel my research into stereotypical costumes of both homeless and criminals has inspired this look for my character.

Animatic Number 2

This is the new animatic for my film. The piece now features more diegetic sounds relative to the first one and also follows the more conventional todorov narrative structure. Alot of the shots are the same or similar and therefore storyboarding the piece wasn't as time consuming as at first. Furthermore, as I had already filmed a small part of my original idea I have made it so that I can use this footage also.