Exercise 44. Writing a report on the cinemas in your city.

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Exercise 43. Storyboarding a trailer.

Try to make your poster as original, colourful and interesting as possible.

Exercise 42. Designing a film poster.

Design an advertising poster for a new film. First, study several different film posters and answer the questions:

- How is the information on them arranged?

- Where is the title?

- Is there just one picture or are there several?

- What do they tell you about the film?

- How many actors' and technicians' names appear in the credits?

- Does the poster include one or two sentences which describe the film?

(For example, 'In space no-one can hear you scream'- Alien)

Storyboards are drawings which show, shot by shot, what's going to happen in a scene.

They don't have to be very good or contain a lot of detail - they're just to show the director what the scene will look like. Draw two or three storyboards for a one-minute trailer.

First, choose a film you've seen recently.

Next, decide how to promote it on the screen. Select which clips to show and arrange them

in order. After that, draw a storyboard for each clip.

Finally, write a short script to go with your drawings. It should fit with each one and make people really want to see the film.

Compile a 'Cinema Questionnaire' and give copies to your fellow students. Ask them to fill in the questionnaire next time they go to the cinema. Here are some examples of questions you could ask:

- Do you think the ticket prices are... low / reasonable / high?

- Is the sound quality… poor / OK / good?

- Are the seats...uncomfortable / quite comfortable / very comfortable?

- Are the staff…polite / impolite?

- Is the location…convenient / inconvenient?, etc.

Read and discuss their answers. Then write a report about the best and the worst cinema in your city.