Postcard planning

We have begun the initial planning stages of our short film's postcard. Our plan is to have a picture of a controller dominate most of the card's space. This simplistic approach is mainly inspired by the postcard of 'Indie Game: the movie'

We already managed to draw a rough draft of what we believe the postcard would look like just to get our idea onto paper and we are very pleased with the result. In the future we hope to recreate the drawing below digitally so that it may be used. 

We decided to use the classic nintendo 64 controller on our postcard as we believe it's a symbol for classical gaming and can be recognised by most if not all generations. We also wanted to use a different controller than the one used in the postcard we are inspired by, this helps to prevent claims of plagiarism.

 

We also had another idea which is to include a close up of our character, with the reflection of the television reading 'game over' clearly visible in his glasses. The fact that there is a character there shows that we will have a narrative story. And the 'game over' screen indicates that this is not just a fun short film about video games, but may discuss more serious topics.

Our third idea was to include a long shot of our character form the back as he sits on the couch and plays on an overly bright screen, the bright screen would be the only source of light in the room and the rest of the room would be extremely dark. The darkness can hint at more serious topics to be discussed in the short film.