Poster Template

From looking at other posters of horror films we have decided to create our poster with similar conventions to them. By using these conventions it will make our poster look more professional and less unorganized. We have decided to make the poster with as little writing as possible so there will be more focus on the image. The writing on our trailer will include a slogan, the title of our trailer, the release date and at the very bottom they will be the company and the classification. by making it simple it will attract the audiences attention and i a quick glance they will have everything the need to know.  

Analising 3 Magazine Covers

In this post I will be analyzing the conventions of film magazine covers, unfortunately while researching horror film magazine covers I have not been able to find three so I will be analyzing another genre to add to my research of the ideas of the conventions of a film magazine.

This is a magazine cover for the sixth Harry Potter film The Half Blood Prince. On this front cover they have used short punchy text so that the audience get some information of what is included in the magazine without there being loads of information to read this entices the audience to buy this magazine as allows you to see if you would like to read the magazine before you have read it. They have used a big picture of the latest most talked about film out at that time so that the audience are getting new and exciting information on this latest release, they have also included sell lines about the film to get the audience an idea of what they are going to be talking about before they have even bought the magazine, and gives the reader the chance to decide whether they are interested in the magazine and its contents. The title over the magazine has been made red so that it stands out against the dark and gloomy background this allows the audience to see the title of the magazine clearly and easily. They have also included an edited picture on three film characters into one picture, giving the audience an idea of what else is going to be included within the magazine. Also within the sell lines they have included a list of all the films that have been included in the magazine.

 

This is a magazine front cover for the horror magazine Scream. This magazine has a lot of the typical conventions of a magazine front cover as they have included the barcode and the bottom right hand corner, sell lines on both sides of the magazine, a puff at the top right hand corner with the issue number and price of the magazine and they have also got a slogan for the magazine 'blood, guts, gore and more!' the affect of the magazine including these things are that they have made it look professional and sell able. The Masthead of the magazine is a typical for a horror as it looks like blood dripping from it. They have used a main image on their cover giving it a focus point, also making the audience draw its eyes towards the ghostly eyes in the main image. They have also have a 'PLUS!' at the bottom of the page, making the reader interested in the little paragraph at the bottom of the page. Within the sell lines there are two interviews, one with and actress and one a director, by including these on the front of the magazine, for a reader that is looking for a specific interview they could have found it by looking at the sell lines of this magazine.

Magazine Title Fonts

These are the fonts we have chosen as a possibility for our magazine front cover. We are currently conducting a poll on which one people prefer, I will be posting the results of the poll later on when it has ended. We decided one these different fonts from our preferences.

Adobe Premiere Pro

This is a print screen showing us, playing around with some of our clips and figuring out what we are able to do with Premiere Pro. By doing this we are able to see where video effects are and how they work and respond to the footage. We are now starting to put different pieces of our footage together and see whether we will need to redo any of the shots we have already done. After looking at most of our footage a lot of it is quite dark and we have tried to lighten it on Premiere Pro and we have come to the conclusion its still too dark so we will have to be redoing a couple of the shots. 

Video Footage

In this post there is all of the video footage that we took on our first shoot, there will be another post soon with the rest of the footage in which we may or may not be using.

Green Band Rating Card

At the start of our trailer we will be inserting a green band rating card at the start of our trailer so the viewer knows the appropriate audiences in which the trailer has been created for. All trailers have to include a classification in which the trailer is and what it entails for example strong language and brief nudity. We are going to use this to indicate to the audince that our trailer is a rating 15.

This is the Green Band Rating card that we will be using;

We decided to use this green band rating card to make our trailer look more sophisticated and professional. We have also used to so we follow the usual conventions of a trailer.

Producer Logo

We have decided to add a producer logo at the start of our teaser trailer to make the trailer look more realistic and processional. We have decided to create our own producer logo and name as we are unable to use other companies due to copy right. We have used two different images for Google images and placed them together to make our own unique logo. The two images are;

 

 



After deciding to use these two images we was able to come up with this as our final logo;

 

 

We will be digitally tracing this image on to my computer using a graphics tablet. They we will be able to add this to the start of our teaser trailer, to increase the professionalism of our trailer.