Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - Final Poster - 3rd December

Thursday 3rd December 2015 

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of Practice                    Lecture - Lucy Leake

My Final Poster Concept - Falsem Prison

Poster created by Luke Curno with photoshop assistance by Simon Childe (PCA Student). 

Overall I am really impressed with my poster project and I am glad that I chose to work with someone in order to create what I wanted, I think that I benefited through creating it this way as I was opened up to new techniques, effects, colours and just ways to make my poster look even better. I think that I would have liked to smudge out the outlines a bit more but it does give a pop effect, gives the impression that he has just been chucked on (into prison), not to mention the way that it pops out of the image, giving it a 3D effect. 

References 

Walk the Line (2005) Directed by James Mangold [Film] USA: 20th Century Fox

Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - Poster Process - 3rd December

Thursday 3rd December 2015 

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of Practice                    Lecture - Lucy Leake

Poster Project - Research, Initial Ideas, Evaluation and Pro's/Con's

Research

I decided to start thinking about how I could re-create a poster, using the two Johnny Cash posters that I analysed for my research, as well as watching the 2005 film, Walk the Line. I got thinking about how I could show my chosen theorist Sigmund Freud as the topic that I choose to link back to was psychoanalysis, thought about linking the elements of my poster back to the power of the mind which is the second strongest power next to the spirit. My initial ideas were to create a black and white film poster to represent the past, colours from his previous album covers, I thought that it could enhance the idea behind Johnny Cash being "The Man in Black" From my research through watching the film Walk the Line and doing some searching on the web I worked out that Johnny Cash always wore black, when himself and the ban auditioned they were wearing black, the audition lead to the band being given a record and they always wore black after there achievement as they saw it as a lucky charm which is why Johnny was known as the man in black. 

Initial Ideas

I came up with a lot of different ideas and techniques that I could use to create my poster, taking different elements from each poster and bringing it together with my background research. I knew that I could make a creative poster, with great visual ideas. I started to write down a few of my ideas so that I could get a starting point for my poster, wanted to explore the possibility of looking at existing posters for my chosen area of Psychoanalysis, this didn't bring much luck which in a way made me feel good as I knew that my poster would be my own concepts. I started to think about the choice of colours to represent my theorist, the types of fonts that I could use, what kind of quote would be suitable to link Johnny and Sigmund Freud, I wanted to really think about the way that my poster could be perceived or glanced at, should I give everything away? Perhaps I should have a few hidden messages within my poster, linking back to an issue that Johnny had within the film "Walk the Line". 

One idea that I came up with was to re-create the Walk the Line poster, had the idea behind using Johnny Cash's body and super imposing Sigmund's face onto Johnny's, I thought that the title for the poster could represent Freud, positioned above his head "Could be on his mind" I thought that the Walk the line text could link back to Freud being a lone theorist, lived his own way of life. This would tie in nicely with Johnny Cash, as throughout the film he follows his own way of life which leads to a lot of relationship issues, he turns to drugs and drink "Power of the Mind" as he can't cope with life, needs help and the impact of these choices slowly leads to him crushing his music career and messing his marriage up. This then links onto another element that I wanted to portray on my poster, I have started to think about how and where I could show drugs, money, alcohol on my poster as I feel that within the film Johnny's mind is all over the place, despite having a wife and children back home he flirts with a lot of girls on tour, not to mention the love of his life being June who he meets on tour. Again from doing further research I worked out that Freud had a cocaine problem, chose to take drugs just like in the film with Joaquin Phoenix (plays Johnny Cash). 

Here are a few more ideas that I have come up with but I am struggling to portray these within the poster;  

Bubble Writing - I feel like this could be used effectively to look like smoke, the way that the text appeared on the second poster that I analysed - would link the poster to the film and also in a way it would link Sigmund and Johnny Cash together through there drug addictions. 

I thought about super imposing prison bars over the main character to give the viewer the impression that they are both in Prison, when in fact my idea behind this would be to link Johnny Cash back to the film, right at the end we see Joaquin Phoenix (plays Johnny Cash) in his house looking at the fan mail that he hasn't yet opened, as an audience we slowly realise that the majority of letters are from prisoners, after reading one of the letters we are made aware that a lot of prisoners are impressed by Johnny's outlaw image, they look up to him and want to be like him. This leads to him playing a gig at Folsom Prison, he wrote a song called the Folsom Prison Blues. However, Sigmund Freud wasn't in prison, through my background research I worked out that him and a guy named Philip Zimbardo's linked back to the 1971 Stanford Prison experiment which apparently lead to effects that were so dangerous that the operation had to be shut down after it had been going on for 6 days of the planned 2 weeks. Anyway I think that by super imposing steel prison bar shadows over the top of my image, this could be used to link the film with Johnny and Sigmund and Philip's Stanford Prison experiment together.

I came up with a separate idea of portraying a consistency of red and and shades of black, the red linking back to the romance which I thought would tie in nicely with representation of women (thought about showing an image of June but changing the opacity - fading and blurring the image out and putting her directly in-front of the way that Johnny is looking, link back to the male gaze). I thought that the colour black would signify the dark stages within John and Sigmund's life, which is then being burnt by a ring of fire - on the walk the line poster that I analysed - this would link back to the film when June was disposing of Johnny's drugs and she wrote the song "Ring of Fire" which the two of them performed on numerous occasions).

I have been trying to think about a lot of elements to incorporate into my film poster but I was really struggling to create the poster as I only know the basics of photoshop, through watching some tutorials and working on this poster, I have been made aware of lots of different features that could be used for future creations. 

Poster - Here is the poster, I have also created a separate post to show the poster but this is just a deep evaluation and I feel that by placing it here, everything can relate back to each other, great way to show my whole thought process and the reasons behind my decisions. 

Poster created by Luke Curno with photoshop assistance by Simon Childe (PCA Student). 

Pro's

I really liked the way that the smoke text came out, I used a specific font creator as I wanted the title for the poster to be eye catching and symbolise the cigarette that both Johnny and Sigmund are holding in the dominant image. I think that it looks amazing the way that I stretched the bottom of the F so as to look like a small trail of smoke and then I placed the trail onto the end of the cigarette, looks effective. I liked the title for the poster as well because I decided to put a pun on Folsom Prison, called it Falsem Prison because with the bars I thought that I had created a false prison for Sigmund and Johnny, not to mention that the poster wasn't used for the film so it was a false poster. 

I thought that the bars which were super imposed over Sigmund and Johnny worked really well to tie into the Stanford Prison experiment as well as the fact that in the Walk the Line film, Johnny played a concert at the Folsom Prison with his band. 

The quote that I managed to find worked really well for my poster design as it linked back to Sigmund Freud as it was his quote "We are never so vulnerable as when we love" but it linked nicely back to the film as Johnny was emotionally and physically being vulnerable, attacking himself with the use of drugs over his relationships with both his wife and the love of his life, June. 

Con's

I didn't use my idea of Johnny standing at the front, and then a projection on a wall of a guitar, I thought that this would be a great idea of reflecting that he is a musician. 

I had another idea of using a guitar in the corner of the poster, super impose within the wooden veneer for the instrument a picture of June looking glamorous, this could be quite powerful for the film. I could make the guitar the colour of red to symbolise Johnny and Junes love for one another and I could use the colours red and black for all the elements on the poster. 

I wasn't very good at using photoshop and so I struggled to create the poster, I had all of the ideas but I needed help to put my ideas on the poster, so I had some photoshop assistance from another student but everything on the poster, I have created from my research or I instructed where I wanted it placed. 

Conclusion

Overall I am really impressed with my poster project and I am glad that I chose to work with someone in order to create what I wanted, I think that I benefited through creating it this way as I was opened up to new techniques, effects, colours and just ways to make my poster look even better. I think that I would have liked to smudge out the outlines a bit more but it does give a pop effect, gives the impression that he has just been thrown on (into prison), not to mention the way that it pops out of the image.

References

Walk the Line (2005) Directed by James Mangold [Film] USA: 20th Century Fox

Images

Sigmund Freud


Max Halberstadt, (1921), Sigmund Freud [ONLINE]. Available at: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Max+Halberstadt&oq=Max+Halberstadt&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.561j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8 [Accessed 08 December 15].


Johnny Cash 


Article - James Tait, (2014), Five Horrendous Crimes Committed by Famous Musicians [ONLINE]. Available at: http://howlandechoes.com/2014/11/five-horrendous-crimes-committed-by-famous-musicians/ [Accessed 08 December 15]. 

Practical Screen-craft - 1st December

Tuesday 1st December 2015 

Course Module - BAFI101                         Practical Screen-craft                    Lecture - Stu Bailey 

CODECS/Bitrate/Chroma-sampling/colours/compression/frame rate

At the start of todays lesson, Stu went over the piece of work that he had set us last week to do, based around Codecs, Bitrates, Chroma-sampling, he used the lesson to go through the questions we were asked and to give a deep analysis on certain aspects i.e. different codecs, their uses etc. 

Codec is an algorithm - Compression and Decompression 

Real important to use a codec to make images more manageable

All digital format use a codec 

A codec trades off image quality for file size

Balance between image Quality and File Size 

RAW - Known as uncompressed - 40MB

JPG - CODEC - 4MB

CODEC used in a 600D - H.264 (variations for the codec vary which is called Open Source) Re-work it to suit their needs. AVC CAM, AVC HD etc. It has become the go too codec, it gives very good image quality! 

Pretty much all DSLR's will record to H.264 - Can fit much more footage onto the card - seen as an advantage- 

H.264 IS OPEN SOURCE, H.264 CONTAINER IS MP4 

The newest version is H.265 (supports 4K) 1GB - H.264, H.265 - 100MB - will become the new replacement.


Another CODEC

Apple Pro Res - (Professional Resolution) is INTERMEDIARY - Within the pro res there is a family - lots of different versions.      

CANNON XF100 will give you an approved CODEC - . records in .mxf - MPEG-2 open sourced by cannon for their consumers.

CINEFORM - High end codec that is used by Go Pro but it doesn't have to be used for Go Pro.

If there is a film that is going to be extensive, steer away from shooting on H.264 - you could light up the film on camera with lighting equipment and shoot it the way you want to - You could get away with using H.264, however the colours wouldn't be vivid. 

Convert video - Transcode from on codec to another 

EXAMPLE - PRO RES ---- CINEFORM (Putting our film in a better container so we can do more and get more out of it, great for colour correction.

DVD - MGEG-2

Anything for streaming or for use on the web - H.264 - Codec's need to define video compression 

Bitrate - Decreasing the bit rate would decrease the overall size and quality of the image. Variable bit rate is good to use for motion. 

COLOUR - Chroma Subsampling 4:4:4 - used for red camera's like the alexia, doesn't chuck much colour away. broadcast colour system we use for PAL is 4:2:0. Were aiming for a suitable colour of 4:2:2.

Colour Bits ^ Amount of colours 8 bit/10/12/14   H.264 (4:2:0) 8 bit (28)

Pro Res (4:2:2) 10 bit (210)

RESOLOUTION - SD HD 4K 8K

FRAME RATE - 24/25/30 - FLASH VIDEO 15

COMPRESSION - INTERFRAME / INTRAFRAME - COMPRESS A GROUP OF FRAMES OR A SINGLE FRAME AND COMPRESSES IT, TAKES THE COMPRESSION FROM THE FIRST FRAME AND WILL GUESS THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EACH FRAME, ALL IT WILL STORE IS THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MOTION AND LIGHT, NOT THE COLOUR AS THAT WAS DONE IN THE FIRST FRAME.

^^^ Group of Pictures ------ USUALLY ABOUT HALF A SECOND 11-13 FRAMES

Ideas and Concepts BAFI103 (Evaluation) - 25th November

Wednesday 25th November 2015

Course Module - BAFI103                          Ideas and Concepts                     Lecture - Dan P

My written evaluation for "SUPER 8 CITY" PROJECT. 

Prior to last week lessons, I started to edit together a rough cut for my Super 8 City project, this was made possible because once our film strips had be telecined, we were all sent a link to download our films and import to our chosen platform/piece of software to edit on. I got together our research, from my blog posts, I started to have a closer look at our shot list and storyboard, thinking about how to re-create some of the shots that we hadn't captured. I took a look back at the ONA film that I discussed within the first week of our ideas and concepts lesson. I think that the whole short film was eye catching, had a great music track, collage of people shopping around New York City, used a variety of different camera angles, pans, close ups to show the movement of the public and transport within the area. After watching this film over I was determined to create an awesome Super 8 Film, with a weird soundtrack, use colours consistently and have a few pieces of footage that would be blown out, stick in the viewers head as they watched the Film. 














Initial Ideas  - What we wanted to achieve (planning)

I started off today’s lesson by listening to all the audio clips that I had recorded in the space of last month, these included sounds of the park, birds calling, waterfront, and a lot of wind from around the City Centre. I had recorded all of this audio using the H4N zoom recorder with the idea of getting ambience from around the town as our initial idea was to film in Plymouth, with a particular area of focus on the Civic centre. Whilst listening to the audio files, I discovered that the quality wasn’t as clear as I was expecting. The next step that I took in the lesson, involved replaying the edited footage over and over as I thought that from seeing the visuals, perhaps I could start to re-create sounds in my head to fit the footage, add a mood to the project, which again would be enhanced through colours and saturation from the clips. After watching it through, I took a walk around the college to record different sounds using a directional microphone i.e. the shotgun mic, I recorded sounds like the vending machine, elevator, people talking, and even a kettle boiling etc. 

Placing and tweaking the audio tracks, recreating new tracks (editing)

I had a clear understanding of what sounds would fit; from today I can now understand that I have completely re-created the audio, to sound mysterious and bring the visuals to life. I thought that the sounds of the extractor fan and the elevator would work well with the shots of the buildings, as the first shot in the film is a panning shot, a high angle pan, rising up the face of an old structure, when watching this clip back, it gave me the impression that I was in an elevator, rising skywards. I started to gather a few more audio clips of machines, especially the elevator as I wanted to re-create the noises and sounds of the mechanics, perhaps I could change the levels of the sound. I thought it could accentuate the amount of power of the elevator as it traveled from the first to the third floor. Listening back to the sounds of the elevator, it sounded tinny and pretty echoey but I used this to my advantage, throughout the sections of the buildings I played around with the audio levels, speed/duration of the clips, making both the clips and sounds faster as the camera panned up and slower as it panned down, giving my overall project a different perspective.

Direct sound and video footage amendments (editing)

In changing the audio to sound like another sound I thought it became pressurized, gave the film an industrialization feel, with everything moving and cranking, using simplistic audio to enhance the movement of places and machinery. My favourite piece of audio recording was from the sound of a kettle boiling, going back to the edit I can remember that I had taken one of the water shots and reversed the footage so that it looked as if the bubbles, surface of the water was being sucked up across the screen. With this in mind I then played around with the speed and duration for the kettle sound, reversed it and changed the audio level by placing key points and dragging them down to create a curve. I thought this worked extremely well as it gave the impression that the water was slowly building up as the kettle boiled (fading in and out).

Another clip that I thought worked well was when there was a pan shot across a granite wall, I decided to take the noise of the elevator doors closing and again reversed it.  I then increased the sound by dragging the audio bar up a little, reversed the sound and started cutting segments together from when the doors opened, once finished and played back it sounded like the cranks, machinery on board a warship. I thought it made it sound unbelievably abstract and again links into the idea of industrialization, thinking about the brief that we were set, to make an abstract type film and be creative with the sound to reflect the visuals.

Colours

I played around with the colours for one of the window shots, it came out over exposed but I thought that this looked really cool as all of the windows were blown out, after I had studied it a few times, I thought it looked like railings. I played around with the white balance and the PARADE RGB colours that we were instructed on how to use in Stu’s lesson, Practical Screen-craft. Once I glanced at the shot several times,  I thought that the film grain was really detailed, it gave the impression that the clip was fading away. 

I also played around with a few of the water clips, changing the saturation and brightness to help bring out the reflections in the water, linking back to our initial idea. I can remember our lecturers stating its amazing how much of a difference little tweaks can have on things like the audio and footage of a film, I now understand what was meant by this. 

I wanted to leave some of the colours the same as they came out really nice and it looked realistic and I was afraid to add colour correction onto individual images as some might stand out and other shots could just look out of place. However, now that I have played around with the colours,  it has given the film a dirty/grubby look, linking back to my idea of industrialization. I thought that the sound enhanced the colours for the footage too, especially with the noise of the kettle, the colours of the water were changed slightly to make them seem dark and add more detail onto the ripples and bubbles as Jay pressed his foot into the water. 

Additional sound/speed changes and titles

Once I had edited and placed the majority of sound clips and video footage on the timeline, I asked Jay to have a listen with me to gage his views and opinions on what I had created. Shortly afterwards we tweaked the starts and ending of certain clips, replaced a few shots, experimented with more colour correction, which all helped to improve the outcome we were looking for, We then finally added our titles on, including the title for the film “City 8” and then our names and the PCA (Plymouth College of Art) end slide. 

Conclusion

What went well?

Overall, I was really impressed with the final product that myself and Jay had created, I felt like I had achieved a different perspective on how the city looks and feels, how everything moves. Thinking about what specific things sound like and in re-creating interesting audio I was able to create a satisfying abstract film. After letting a few of the students view our film, I discovered that everyone had a different perception of the whole video which got me thinking that this sort of film could have been used as a segment in a Stanley Kubrick or a newer Alfred Hitchcock film. Looking back at the end result I still can’t believe that through all the problems that arose, we still managed to create a really good Super 8 Film for our Super 8 City module, I really enjoyed the whole experience, especially working on a different medium.

What I felt could be changed or improved for future projects?

For future projects I would like to approach the edit in a slightly different way, by cutting down the raw footage to a minute, then starting to view the content and arrange the clips into sections, water, buildings, designs, colours etc. I would then get a clear idea as to the sorts of sounds that could be used to give my films a different perspective. 

Depending on the sound that I want to collect for any particular project, I will now think about using a directional microphone for recording near-by sounds but I will still use the H4N zoom recorder to capture ambience. 

We were unlucky with our project because the weather was too sunny on the day of our filming, we wanted a lot of cloud coverage. The sunny weather meant that we had to change the locations pretty sharpish and we weren’t able to utilize our initial idea of reflections in the water but we still managed to get a few of our proposed shots i.e. panning shots of buildings, the pole reflection, water bubbling and various shots of the money centre’s windows and architecture. Throughout the shoot, we kept thinking about light conditions and how shots could be pieced together but it was just too sunny and we wanted it to be a lot darker, besides it rained for the rest of that week. 

I would like to explore the camera setting a lot further for future projects, playing around with the light metres, focus, iris, frame rate etc. 

References

All of the images above have been taken by myself, screen grabs using preview on my Mac laptop - November 2015 - Images from our film City 8

ONA. (2014). Super 8 Short Film . [Online Video]. 2014. Available from: https://vimeo.com/92069466. [Accessed: 25th November 2015].

Contexts of Practise BCOP100 - 25th November

Wednesday 25th November 2015 

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of Practice                    Lecture - Lucy Leake   

Getting into virtual reality

Technology is always moving on, better cameras, equipment, software is being released. Got me thinking into whether these technologies make films, video games real or not?

Throughout the early 20th Century film has shaped most things to become digital, had a huge impact on video games as we have the option to play a campaign, helping to understand the story and impact behind the plot line for the game and explore the history of a specific place, person or character. It could be said that computers have started to become the support for any cultural media platforms.

I find it amazing how much in the 20th century that technology is moving, it seems like just a few years ago that we had consoles such as the PS1 and PS2 but now Microsoft and Sony are bringing out cross platform games, as well as new generation consoles such as the Xbox 1 and PS4. Places like the cinema have already started integrating 3D glasses which helps to give the audience a real world experience, I have been into 3D screens of films before and once I had positioned the glasses on my head, I felt like I was in the room with the actors, I was on the edge of my seat.

After watching a few, I thought that the examples of 360 videos was amazing for the fact that by dragging around the screen, it made me think that I was in the same room as the actors, however it was quite trippy at the fact that we could track people as they walked of the screen, especially for shots of cars, I can remember myself watching a short 360 surfing video, I loved the fact that I could track the surf board and the waves as they started to build up around the subject, metaphor of white horses.

After today's lesson I think that within certain films we could use video game techniques, by changing camera angles, having a particular narrative or storyline, we discussed that we thought this sort of idea would help to keep the audience interested and on track. There will be many ways that we can change virtual reality, this doesn't mean that any techniques not used could be erased or never used again, if there are complications further down the line we could then revert back to the old techniques.

Film is based upon time, take it all in at once, shows your narrative, where as when your looking at a painting, you create a narrative in your head, gets you thinking about why is this here, what does it represent, shows the artists expressing themselves. Film will always be a movie but you can choose to pick bits apart and analyse it but most movies nowadays have a clear narrative.

All of the lesson, it got me thinking about the products that I choose to make, how I make them, the technology that I choose to use and what software I choose to edit on. Also around the Video game idea, we need to be aware that not every theorist will support the idea, they might feel like the film could be used for subtle interaction between the audience and the content etc.

Reference

Backwater
Una experiencia cinematográfica en realidad virtual. (2015). Backwater . [Online Video]. 29 September. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEpgbcM_Wj0. [Accessed: 25 November 2015].

Practical Screen-craft - 24th November

Tuesday 24th November 2015

Course Module - BAFI101                         Practical Screen-craft                     Lecture - Stu Bailey

Researching different CODEC's, Bitrates, Chroma-sampling and what they do? 

What does CODEC stand for?

A device or program which is capable of performing transformations on a data stream or a signal.

Compression and Decompression

What is a CODEC used for?

Codec is a software that is used to compress or decompress a form of a digital media file, a few examples of this would include a song or a video file. Programs such as windows media player and other programs actually use these codecs to play and create digital media files. A codec can consist of two components, known as an encoder or decoder.

An encoder which can be a device, circuit, transducer, software programme that converts information from one format or code to another for the purposes of standardization, speed, secrecy, security or compressions.

A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals, it does the reverse of encoder, they are simpler to design.

At which point of the production workflow is a codec used?

A codec is the word given to describe the order used to layout data of an audio or video file, it may be used for playback, editing or changing to other codecs (known as transcoding). Codecs are used to organise media data but that data is held within something known as a container. There are many different types of audio and video codecs and they have their own advantages. Premiere will need a codec to analyse the files but then you would need to choose a codec to place the files, so it would be used at the beginning and end of post production.

What is the difference between a Codec and a container? What they contain?

Codec is a method used for encoding and decoding data, more specifically for compressing data.

Container is what holds the grouping of compressed video, a container can be referred to as a format, the container will take care of the packing, transport and presentation. An example of this i.e. MPEG 4 file is represented by a .mp4 file type.

What is chroma-subsampling and how does it affect an image

Chroma sampling is the name given to a practice of encoding images by giving the images less resolution, in doing so it can reduce the file size, but the whole process can be sensitive to any variations within the brightness, changing colour. Has an effect on adding harsh lines, no visual difference which can be perceived by the person viewing the photograph but it can saturate the colours to form significant artifacts.

What is meant by Bitrate?

How much information is being analysed at any given point.

What CODEC(s) do you think you should be using and why?

H.264 .MP4 - Very good for it's compression, you can create a lot of information with a lot of space to compress files, making the file size smaller but this would be used for if you wanted to put your video online, website or Vimeo for people to watch, this CODEC wouldn't apply to broadcast quality as it makes the quality look flack and degrades.

References 

Matt Laufer (2014) The Difference Between Codec's and Containers , Available at:http://www.encoding.com/blog/2014/01/13/whats-difference-codecs-containers/(Accessed: 24th November 2015).

Margaret Rouse (2005) Bit Rate Definition , Available at:http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/bit-rate (Accessed: 24th November 2015).

Matthews (Not Posted a year) Chroma-Sampling in JPEG Compression , Available at:http://users.wfu.edu/matthews/misc/jpg_vs_gif/JpgCompTest/JpgChromaSub.html(Accessed: 24 November 2015).

Contexts of Practise BCOP100 - 22nd November

Sunday 22nd November 2015

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of Practice                    Lecture - Lucy Leake

Poster Research Unit 

I started to think about the Superego, ID, and Ego within films, prior to last weeks lesson, I have always had a keen interest in Westerns, the way that they are shot to bring the audience back to the times of the old west, fantastic characters, scenery. I have managed to work out who the Superego, ID and Ego are within films. I have previously watched the film FightClub which was a awesome film in my opinion and it tied into this specific theory really well because us as the audience would consider Brad Pitt to be the ID, Ed Norton (lack of ID) as being the superego, they work together to create the FightClub, however, we could argue that the ego would be Tyler Durden as we are torn between the two characters which towards the end incidentally becomes as one.

I decided to have a glance through my film collection at home so as to jog my memory and come up with a few ideas to talk about, since I have watched many films I felt that I would be able to connotate and talk about the content a lot easier, being able to understand always been interested in Johnny Cash, especially how the lyrics for his song link back to the issues that he has had throughout his life, this lead me onto wanting to watch the film "Walk the Line - 2005 Film"

Walk the Line - 2005 Film - Summary

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon - Film by James Mangold

Start is set in 1944 - Farmhouse - Children - Children are called Jack and JR - Jack who was using the log machine dies as JR abandon's Jack to go fishing

Germany 1950's - Johnny worked for U.S. Airforce and he writes his songs throughout his time of being out there. - He begins to sell things door to door when he arrives back home, whilst out in the town he spots a record shop, decided to make a band and practise playing songs and creating there own music so as to audition. 

Him and his band auditioned wearing black - He sung the songs that he had written himself and he made a real record, changed the mood for the film as he was happy with the achievement. His first single Cry Cry Cry came out, they got recognition, played their first concerts, began touring places, despite his touring life, he begins to struggle with his time as he is always on tour, finds it hard to make time to see his wife and family. Starts flirting with other girls on tour, begins to drink and take drugs, messes his life up, mind is all over the place (psychoanalysis).

Johnny and June start singing together, but before long they are arguing again, they always come back together. 

Towards the end of the film he falls out with everyone around him, he loses his wife, children and he begins to fall apart which is portrayed through anger, crying and having no-one to talk too, some of his band members follow his path and start to drink and take drugs. Slowly with the help of the love of the life, he begins to pull his life back together and starts writing and playing a lot more frequently, including playing at the Folsom Prison, he makes a family with June and he starts to interact with everyone around him, positive outlook on life, even him and his dad make a conversation. 

June disposes of cash's drugs throughout the film which leads to her writing  "Ring of fire" which the two of them perform live on stage shortly afterwards. 

Cash discovers that most of his fan mail is from Prisoners, they are impressed by his outlaw image, the fact that some of his songs talk about crime, drugs and drinking, he then goes with June to play at the Folsom Prison. 

Walk the Line - 2005 film posters - Analysis

The whole poster reminds me of a circus act, the text, the font's, the layout of the whole page, in particular the dominant image along with the rest of the page makes me think Johnny is the performer on stage, he has come here to entertain us which he successfully does through his music. The ring of fire in the background makes me think about he's the lion. the flames are the same colours and shapes as a lions mane, a fierce animal. 

The text for the poster is clever as well "Walk the Line", it not only enhances the film title for the poster but it also linked me back to the fact that Johnny has everything that he could possibly have but he chucks it all away to drink and drugs. He starts to loose everything and he has written a song called I walk the line, the lyrics "Because your mine, I walk the line" really powerful and it links me back to the fact that he has a wife and children, he has everything yet he still wants June, he always goes back to her. 

Every one of his gigs started with the words "hello I am Johnny cash". You could almost say that it was his conversation starter or when he said those words you knew he was ready to perform/entertain everyone. - link this to the power of the mind once you heard those words you knew already what was going to happen. 

The colour red within the poster makes me think about the romance within his life, again reinforced by the ring of fire as he finds himself in a vicious circle around love, he has a wife and children but the love of his life is June. 

June herself looked incredibly glamorous throughout the film, when on stage with Johnny as they two of them played the nights away but also in the scenes where she was just out shopping, with her family and when she was in bed with Johnny. This got me thinking about representation of women within a particular film, we see camera shots as the two of the main characters Johnny and June, they are continuously glancing at each other, the camera has deliberately been placed to see the two main actors as they look at each other in fetishistic ways. Laura Mulvey believed that women were seen as erotic, portrayed across to entertain a male audience, also she wasn't always aware especially at the start of Johnny looking at her.

Tie into the american dream, Power of the mind - Psychoanalysis 

Why is he known as the man in black (good luck charm - he auditioned whilst wearing black, lead to him writing a song called "Man in Black" Throughout the film he was always wearing black, even in the scenes where he was with the band, or at his house. 

He once told Larry King (american television and radio host), “[I've] never done a concert in anything but black. You walk into my clothes closet.

Johnny Cash - The Man In Black

Another poster that I liked the look had a dominant image of Alcohol, Drugs and Money as well as a guitar, I thought that this image was so powerful because it showed Johnny's life and the different that he had within his career. 

I think that I could make use of the colours from this poster as they would link back to the idea that he is the man in black, reinforced by the wording at the bottom of the poster that says The Man In Black. 

Like the font of the poster too as the white bubble writing looks like smoke, gives a great effect, power of the mind but it links me back to the issues that his smoking and drinking brought into his life. Really powerful use of font. 


From analysing and glancing at these two posters, I had decided that I would like to bring lots of different elements together to re-create a new poster for the existing film "Walk the Line" Going back to the poster above, if we take a closer look at the image, the lines around the ring of fire looked to me like prison bars, I had the idea of a dollar bill, superimposing Cash's face onto the money, then slapping a picture of prison bars over the top, giving it the feel that Cash is in Prison. 

References

Poster 1

Studio Number One (2006) Walk The Line (2005), Available at:http://www.impawards.com/2005/walk_the_line.html (Accessed: 22nd November 2015).

Poster 2
CallumCrewGraphicdesignTypography (2015) Johnny Cash Poster, Available at:http://cargocollective.com/CallumCrewGraphicdesignTypography/Johnny-Cash-posters(Accessed: 29th November 2015).

Walk the Line (2005) Directed by James Mangold [Film] USA: 20th Century Fox