Wordle

Here is a wordle presentation showing some of the things people said about my teaser poster.

First draft of magazine cover

Research

For my magazine front cover I looked at 2 of the most popular movie magazines in the world, total film, and empire magazine. I did this so that I could establish some of the conventions they use and see whether i could pick up some ideas.

I liked the look of this poster because the layout design was both simple and effective. The magazine uses a close up image of the character, which is what I'm intending to use for my cover. Some of the conventions that I can see is that the color scheme is consistent. The cover uses predominantly grey and white. However the font sizes and types do not remain consistent, but crucially they are all of a similar size so that the differences in font size are not too distracting.

Here's another example of how a close up image of a character can be effective because it makes the poster stand out more. I think this would be a good idea to replicate this in my poster because I intend to use the villain of my trailer and so I want the magazine cover to be as imposing as possible. I also like the use of a red and white colors which I think will work well with my poster because the trailer contains blood in it, and so it will foreshadow to the target audience who are buying the magazine that the movie is going to be part of the horror genre.




I particularly  liked the layout of this because of the bottom half of the poster. Where it is offering a book within the magazine. This gave me the idea to possibly to something similar but instead of offering a book I would use it to advertise my film's teaser poster.

First draft of my teaser poster

Here is the first draft of my teaser poster. Some of the things I'm happy with is that I applied a granite effects on the whole of the poster that gave it a cool blurry effect that I think works very well. This is because its distorts the image of the creeper and as a consequence this conforms the conventions of teaser posters because in some horror movies they try not to reveal to much content.

I tried to make the poster as simple as possible so therefore apart from the mask there isn't anything else that's too distracting. I created a tagline that I also think is effective " This Halloween no one is safe" which helps to spread awareness of when the film is released and whilst also creating a scary atmosphere. I used different font sizes because I looked at previous posters such as my blog post with the teaser poster from the movie " scream" and they also used different size texts.

Improvements:

• I made some spelling mistakes that need to be corrected
• And I have used the words Halloween twice in the poster both at the top and at the bottom. So maybe a change of words to something like " coming to thereates this October" would be more appropriate.

making my teaser poster

I used photoshop elements to make my teaser poster. In this blog I will be running thorugh some of the stages I had to do.

First I added a black background and then I dragged the image I took of the creeper and placed on the black background near the top of the page.

The next step I did was go to filters and to look at the various effects that were on offer. I decided to us the graphite effect. The ffect dstorts the image and makes it look like a drawing.

After clicking on this effect the hardest part was choosing which stroke balance to use and what level to put the lightsdark balance.

After putting the graphite effect on the setting that I liked it came out like this. Afterwards I simply had to add text to the rest of it.

photoshoot

Here is all the images that we took form our photo-shoot to be used for both our teaser poster and our magazine front cover. We took pictures from numerous angles and focused on close ups of the mask to the teaser trailer. And we also took some mid shots that we thought would work well for the magazine. Here are 4 of the best pictures that we took.