"Learning to Prey" - a Nelson / Double Decher Productions

Jeff Anderson said:
Coiled up rope light as a ring light... f'ing brilliant. How are you powering? May have to borrow this idea...

Shoot looks like fun - looking forward to seeing the end results. Good luck in post!
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Thanks! That was Josh's idea, and a good one. It didnt provide a ton of light, but just enough to make a certain shot (that we cant post yet) really shine. It was powered via a normal edison extension cord that he wrangled from the camera.
 
Jeff Anderson said:
Coiled up rope light as a ring light... f'ing brilliant. How are you powering? May have to borrow this idea...

Shoot looks like fun - looking forward to seeing the end results. Good luck in post!
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Hey Jeff, we just plugged it into the wall and let the cable puller handle it. Didn't put out TONS of light, but enough to do the job. The cable was lying around the set anyways so it was nice and handy. There may be other ways to do it more effectively if you don't already have a rope light.
 
Here are some potential posters. Would love to hear feedback!

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LTPPoster3.jpg


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Shawn Philip Nelson said:
My favorite is the last, I dont feel it's too cluttered, reminds me of this
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3161167360/tt0405336

Though I think the text shouldnt be pink faced
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The idea of the third one I like the best, but the compositions of the frames that were chosen for the poster make it feel incomplete / unbalanced to me. If you look at the Southland Tales example the individual frames all contribute to the final design unifying the overall composition. As the third one stands right now each individual frame competes for attention, and the eye has to work hard to read it as a poster. So I'd try and choose different frames that contribute to the whole.

If the posters are done, and cannot be tweaked, then go with #1, as it is the strongest of the three. If you can still tweak them, then I'd continue working on #3- as I think that has a lot of potential, and could be the strongest.

Anyway, just my $0.02 ...
 
I agree the third poster has the most potential. I wonder about the retro font choice. Not sure if that's the mood you want. I would suggest checking out dafont.com, where you can type in your title and search fonts by theme, ie. horror, scifi, historical, etc. That'll give you a pretty good idea of how it'll look on your poster.

Also, a tag (teaser) line might be a consideration.

And the credit block at the end is normally arranged in a specific order, ie. the vfx credit would be somewhere in the middle of the block, the director credit would usually be last.

Your grabs look great. Looking forward to seeing your film!
 
Thanks everyone for all the feedback. There will be some new poster options soon.

"If the posters are done, and cannot be tweaked, then go with #1, as it is the strongest of the three. If you can still tweak them, then I'd continue working on #3- as I think that has a lot of potential, and could be the strongest."

They are not totally done, I was just playing around with some ideas from the grabs that Shawn had posted. He's going to send me some more as well.

"And the credit block at the end is normally arranged in a specific order, ie. the vfx credit would be somewhere in the middle of the block, the director credit would usually be last."

Yeah, I was wondering about which order I was supposed to put it in haha. And thanks for the suggestion about dafont.com!
 
I still like the second poster the best. The font doesn't seem to fit, but the look on the face, the lighting in the background is all very intriguing.

For me poster three is too much. Sometimes the subtle has the most impact :-)
 
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