Final Poster Idea

I have designed several different film posters for my short film, I have felt none of them have really worked. The one I liked the best was the mug shot poster, but then it doesn't really apply to my film as Barbie never gets arrested. I then had the idea of have a photo of Real Life Barbie passed out on a park bench with a bottle of Jack Daniels in her hand and having that as my film poster. But due to time constraints and the fact my Real Life Barbie has a full time job I have not been able to take this photo. I then had a further idea of a crime scene photo as my poster, just the outline of a body in chalk on the ground where Barbie died of a drug overdose. This then adds to the title of the film as it adds to the conspiracy around the fact that this story was untold... until now. 

Narration for my Short Film

I decided upon narration for my short film as I didn't want to voice the Barbie and Ken dolls. As I've said before I wanted a Morgan Freeman type voice or James Earl Jones to narrate my film, but both of those actors were otherwise occupied when asked to participate. Instead I settled for my friend Lawrence to narrate, at first he tried to emulate Morgan Freeman, but that didn't go so well as he has a distinctive Norfolk twang in his voice! So instead I gave him the script and he read it normally. We did numerous takes at first trying to record it on my camera but that didn't pick up his voice too well, then we moved onto my laptop. I had recorded my voice on it before and it worked fine but when we tried to record Lawrence's it sounded muffled and we had to change our recording device once again. The third device we used was his laptop, but again it sounded muffled and almost robotic.

Lawrence playing with his Rubik's cube whilst I tried to sort out the technical difficulties

The fourth recording device we used was my phone, when we tested it, it sounded good. We then recorded the whole script but then when playing it back it had a strange buzz in the background! So we moved on to the FIFTH recording device!! We used Lawrence's iPod and miracle of miracles it worked!! After 3 hours, going on 4 we finally finished recording the narration for my film!