Film magazine cover.

This is a magazine cover that is advertising the new James Bond film. The main image on the magazine cover is of the main character of the film that is being featured. Since Daniel Craig is a very recognisable character in the James Bond sequence people will see this image an instantly be drawn in to possible buying the magazine. The sub heading that are placed down, mainly, the rigt hand side of he cover are something else i would also like to include in my magazine cover. These give the magainze an opportuity to further pull the audience into the magazine by giving a breif look into articles, stories and possible special prices or opportunities that may be featured inside. Magazine cover oftenly only fature a few main colours so to not complicate of over load the front cover and keep it looking professional. This is something i will ave to take into consideration when creating my magazine and take care top create an impacting yet simple colour scheme.

                                                                            
On this post I have briefly gone into detail about the two main kinds of magazine covers that I would consider following. I am leaning more towards the empire special edition cover 

                                       

This is a look through of a cover that i liked from an existing magazine that I would like to create myself. I have listen things that liked from this cover and what i would take into my own cover. s, as I feel they will be easier to create and also help me keep that level of mystery I am aiming to maintain.

Changing of production idea!!

Recently I have decided to change the idea for my film trailer task. Instead of going for a zombie horror theme to a more shock horror. My new idea is to make a trailer about a hidden neighbourhood that is discovered by three teens by accident. They enter the hood through a dark subway tunnel (as seen on my poster) After entering through this tunnel things take a turn for the worse after they are hunted down by the residents of the hood and are split up into two groups. Following the conventions of a teen horror all of the men are killed off before then end with only the dark haired girl surviving the ordeal. As planned with my first trailer idea i will still be keeping the deep level of mystery in the trailer to make it all the more interesting to the audience and drive them to want to see the whole film.

Poster

Here is my hopefully finished product for my movie trailer teaer poster.I have decided to stick witha a very simple design for the poster. I have done this so not much is given away about the film is given away in the poster, I have decided also to not include the name of the film. This again is to add more mistery to the film, and also to cause more curiosity about the poster, causeing people to question what it is for and there for causing them to want to find out what it is for. 

Originally for this poster i added the name of the film across the middle of the poster as shown below:

I decided to take the text out of the poster as i thought it over done the picture slightly and distracted from the two characters standing in the background of the shot. Also it helps keep the level of mystery I am aiming for for my poster and trailer.

Here is another font that i decided to try out on the poster after the first one, but like the first one it still distracted from the main image.

EDIT:

Here on this new version of the film psoter i have changed and added a couple of features. I have decided to remove the blur from the image to make the image look more clear and sharper. I have also added a small pool of dryed blood at the feet of the mysterious character in the forground of the poster. I have decieed to do this to further add to the horror film theme of the poster and also add more questioning to the poster, like where did the blood come from and does it suggest future events in the film?

Feed back on Finished Film Poster.

 

Photo's for Teaser Poster

The two pictures above are two of the pictures that i will be using for my poster. The lighting is very good in these two pictures and you can see everything in the frame very clearly, also the stance of the monster over the camera is exactly what I had envisioned in my plan. However I will have to edit this picture to make the lighting a bit darker and look grimier to add to the horror effect I am aiming for.

These are two reject pictures that I took but will not be using as they have various faults. Firstly the lighting is two dark making it so you can see the man standing over the camera clearly but you cannot see the two people standing in the background of the picture. One thing i liked about these pictures however is how the lighting on the ceiling stands out and is emphasised from the rest of the lighting in the picture, I may try and incorporate this into my finished product.

Movie poster research.

This is a look at some horror movie posters that have inspire me towards making the poster I want to make. Also here are some other poster i have looked at...

Class feedback.

Inspiring texts for movie trailer!

Here I have created a quick mood board that shows some of the texts that I have watched or studied in relation to the trailer I wish to create.
The reasons I have looked at these 6 texts in particular are because they all have the same sort of zombie/monster theme I aim to create a trailer for. I’ve looked through these six films to get ideas for: costumes, characters, settings, music and the main monster character that I want to be a cross between the monster from "Frankenstein" and a zombie from the film 28 weeks later. (when bitten by the zombie the person becomes infected)

The "Don’t be afraid of the dark" trailer is very much along the same lines of what I hope to produce for my trailer. What i liked about this trailer is the way in which you never really find out until the very last seconds of the trailer what the overall threat in the film is, even when you are showed the creature at the end it is still uncertain what it is. I also like the way the trailer is constructed: such as how sections of the film are cut together using rapid fade in/outs. Along with the sort snappy clips this makes the trailer very mysterious and it doesn’t give too much away about the film, but it still compelled me to want to see it

"The Grudge 2" trailer. Something i found useful from this trailer was how editing is used to make the trailer seem more tense and horrifying. During moments of suspense in the trailer flashes of white and black are used to help build up the tense. The flashes are mainly used in the trailer when the Grudge is on screen. This could have been done to make the audience feel uneasy when the Grudge is on screen and make the feel as they would if they saw the actual film.
I hope that I can take ideas from both of these trailers such as: The element of mystery created by the "Don’t be afraid of the dark" trailer and also the uneasy feeling that is created by "The Grudge 2" trailer.

The third trailer i viewed in research for my media trailer was The Women In Black (For some reason when ever the trailer is included onto this post it crases the editing process so i feel it is best not to include it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lReemWmO5o

Something i liked alot about this trailer was the score used in the background of the trailer. Although the music is very calming and relaxed it brings with it a scary element that emphasises the tension that is built up in the trailer in relation to the clips that can be seen on screen. The pase of the trailr also interested me. The trailer starts off slow and then quickens towards the end showing very brief parts of the film in a montage style. This alows the audeince to get an idea what the film is about in the beginning without giving to much of the middle of the ending of the film away.