'The Simple Truth' Extras

'The Simple Truth' Evaluation

The Final Film - 'The Simple Truth'

'The Simple Truth' Cast

The Protagonist - Nini Hadjipateras



The Boyfriend - Ryan Howard



The Best Friend - Kate Shurgaia



The Other Girl - Claudia Humphreys



The Older Guy - Woody Holding

Final Draft of our Magazine Article

Because we changed the colour scheme in our poster, we also had to change it for our magazine article. Therefore, we changed the article from this:


To this:

The Fourth and Final Version of our Poster

Above is the poster we designed for our film. We took the idea of the teenagers standing in front of something plain from 'Adulthood.' The poster shows a clear gap between the 'happy couple' and the rejected girl and symbolises how the main character went from having it all to having nothing. The space between the characters in the poster and their body language summarizes the film’s narrative. We chose to have the word 'Truth' in a bold red to make it stand out. As the film develops, the audience begin to understand why the word stands out on the poster as the protagonist soon learns the truth of what she's caused for herself.

When we first came up with the design of our poster, the word 'Simple' was in a baby pink and 'Truth' was in a baby blue. We originally chose this colour scheme as it represents both sexes in our film as well as relates to our genre of a teen drama. As a group we made the creative decision to change to a black and red colour scheme which is harsher and bolder. We felt that the baby blue and pink contrasted too much with the poster's narrative.

Third Draft of our Poster

As we had to re shoot, we had to take a new photograph for the film as the clothes we were wearing were different. Instead of having the characters pose against a red brick wall, we had them pose in front of a green hedge as it created synergy with our film as we broke one of the Dogme rules and used a green filter in certain parts of our film. We, as a group, decided to change the colour of the font for the actors names and the quote to black to make it stand out more. Another decision we made was to have the photograph cover the whole of the poster and put the font in front of it. We felt that this created a stronger image and conveyed the narrative better as the space between the characters was more obvious.

Second Draft of our Magazine Article

In the second draft of our magazine article, we changed the poster to the one from the film and wrote in the new characters and the roles we were all playing. As it was a still from the film it now looked like a proper magazine article.

Second Draft for our Poster

During filming, we decided to take a still for the film's poster. I as the main character and Claudia as the 'other girl' are both in the poster and we are also director and producer of the film. We had to create the look and pose for it.

Here is one try of the poster:


Here is the final image we used for the poster:

First Draft of our Poster

Above is the first draft of our poster. By having the photograph at the bottom it allows the title, quote and names of the actors to stand out. We decided to have the word 'Simple' in colour to also allow it to stand out. Having it in baby pink, in a way foreshadows what the audience are about to find out about the girl. The photo we used was just a practice one.

Creative Decisions for filming the Classroom Scene

After February, we came across a problem in our film whilst in the editing suite. In order to sort it out, a creative decision had to be made. The whole film had been shot with me as the main character having red hair. During a break in February I had to dye my hair back to brown. This caused a problem as we had to re film the classroom scene as some of the shots didn't work. If we had re filmed in a normal way, I would have had red hair throughout the whole film and then brown hair in the classroom scene. As a group, we had to come up with a decision and we had a few options:
- One was to film the door of the classroom and just hear voices, this could have been interesting but would not have fit in with the style of our film.
- The camera would be positioned as Nini's point of view so the audience would see the action in the classroom but would not see Nini, therefore avoiding the problem of her hair. Nini would be standing next to the camera and speaking so it seems like the camera are her eyes.
- Our final option was to film a girl with red hair over the shoulder and have Nini's voice next to the camera to record.

We chose to go with the second option and it actually turned out well and was an interesting effect on the film as it was a whole scene filmed from someone's point of view.

First Draft of Magazine Article

Part of this year's requirement was to also include a magasine review article about our film. This was done by Claudia Humphreys and tells of the film's narrative, filming aspects and information about the actors.

We created the magazine article on a program called Adobe InDesign. We combined the style of two film review magazines to come up with the layout for our own review. The magazines we looked at were Empire Magazine and Sight and Sound Magazine. In order to create synergy, we used the same colours that we chose for out poster which was a baby blue and a baby pink. We chose these colours in order to represent boys and girls similar to how they are represented in the poster for 'It's a boy girl thing.'