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To improve - the maps text is quite dark and especially hard to read when printed. 

Put reviews and a title on the photo to make it look more like a film poster

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Map for the hand in

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Final text

Captain Lancy��s abode: This house was used for outside shots including the Royal Mail gravy extravaganza and the snippets of the man with the flute. On the other side of those dark peachy walls is where Lancy and Reeshka had many an exchange of ideas, revelations and intimate moments. Director Flatma Jones still refuses to comment on where Reeshka lived when she was not at her school or Lancy’s. (Is that F. Jone’s hinting at a sequel!?) This location was key in allowing the viewer to understand and interpret the villains with a greater perspective as we experienced Lancy trusting and welcoming Reeshka into her personal space, allowing us to see the villains out of their typical context.

Glasgow Green: Where Reeshka and Lancy first saw each other outside of the context of their professional lives. Also filmed in this park was the  poignant egging scene which caused controversy in the media five years on -  journalists reported that the number of egging incidents had increased in the UK by less than 1% since the release date and this caused quite a ruckus.

Lancy’s School of Salt Shaker Trick : One of the most iconic buildings in the movie - a partially selective school helping to merge groups of people at varying villainous levels together. Specialising in Spacial Awareness, optical illusions and hypnosis- but not exclusively. Ironically the film locations of both schools in real life are directly opposite each other. However in the film they are meant to be at opposite sides of the city, competing for entrants and bright talent.

Reeshka’s Lion Bone Academy For Cunning High Achievers : A Fully selective school with a rigorous exam. Focusing strongly on logic, philosophy and languages. This was the location for the euphoric graduation scene where everyone threw their bald caps in the air and turned them into thousands of…(Too many Spoilers). Since then it has been renovated into a JD sports which is shutting down.  

Map Locations

154 Brunswick Ln Glasgow, Scotland.(close to)

Royal Mail Turner Road - Mail 2 : G1-4,Baird St,G40AA

Osborne street (behind JD sports/oasis/barclays bank

Same place as 3 but opposite”level G"

peoples palace

Brown Street - clydetec systems

Somerset Place Mews

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I had a serious writers block and tried to go to sleep, however suddenly it came to me that these two characters were both in love. I knew by this time it wasn’t about two spies and saw them both as villains. I realised you never see fantastical villains inside their homes/with home comforts. Drinking a cup of tea and lying in bed. The quiet moments. If you see them in their space it is normally some cold dark un homely place. The main part of the film would be based inside Clancy’s Abode (Abigail Glancy). They would discuss their opposing views on how to be a successful villain/different perspectives and outlooks on life. They both have similar goals but different ways of achieving them. I had to change the whole aesthetic. 

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Turning it into a comic

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When I had tried to stimulate a narrative through drawing I had decided that I wanted bald caps to be involved in some way. Its funny how bald caps have never really been fashionable but lots of other absurd things have. People where wigs. No one ever wears a bald cap. I wanted it to be obvious they were wearing bald caps. Much like one would wear a hat - with their hair coming out of the sides and so you can see through it. 

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Harry and Lucy were not available. Luckily my flatmates Gabreeshka and Abigail were up for getting into costume. I had limited spy wear and they ended up looking like very eccentric characters but not necessarily spies. I had meant for Gabreeshk to be the villain originally, however both could be either. 

I photographed them for a couple of hours, they looked great together. I filmed shots of them in bed together fully dressed and bald capped up. There was something so intriguing about the double act. I felt like the genre of film had definitely jumped from spy to something else. 

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Thinking about what I could do technically digitally and also thinking about highly stylised genres, I felt like creating a map from a spy movie angle could be successful. The spy aesthetic = black background, green digital/computerised/type writer esque font, Round circles, points joined up.

I imagine it to be projected into the air, creating a touch screen device with futuristic technology. From creating a clear aesthetic for the poster I was able to get my characters together and photograph them. Harry and Lucy are the people who first came to mind as I knew that when they were younger they wanted to be secret agents (also similarly to my younger sister Eilidh and I).

Now I had:

Aesthetics

Locations

Characters

I didn’t have:

A story

Costumes

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Originally I had wanted to create a colourful, beautiful, characterful and decorative map which would fit in with the style of my film. It would be handmade. I dislike tacky posters with gloss, shine and dodgy shadowing, but I thought in the time scale this would be the most successful and also it could be ironic and funny.