Magazine cover for horror trailer.

This is the finished magazine cover i have created, using photoshop, for my horror trailer. I have changed my original plan for the front cover to have a image of a victim from the film with the shadow of the threat seen on the wall behind him because of circumstances beyond my control. However I have gone for an image of the director (me) for the front cover with the cover advertising an exclusive insight to the "Scariest film of the year" from the director of the film. One thing i would mainly like to change about this cover is the picture size. The picture was taken in landscape which is not conventional for a magazine cover, so if given the choice i would like to re-shoot the picture into portrait so it will meet the typical conventions of a magazine cover.

EDIT

New magazine cover.

I was given an oportunity to change my original magazine cover in the hoped of getting a higher grade and was able to create this new magazine cover. I have gone for the traditional magazine cover with a large image of a character out of the featured movie with verious other articles advertised on the front cover to pull the audience into buying the magazine. The image i have used issupposed to show a victim in the film that has been cornered and pushed up against the wall by the threat of th film. I steel bar is slightly visable in the persons right hand.

Trailer for Horror film.

This is the trailer, made using Sony Vegas 8.0, that i have created for my media coursework. The trailer does not give much away about the film which is what I was aiming for as I wanted to keep the film fairly mysterious to the audience. I am quite happy with how the trailer turned out but there are a few things I would like to change such as the sound effects in places and I would change some of the editing.

Movie Trailer Story boards

These are the two story board sheets I have produced that show the basic outline of my trailer. I have gone into slight detail about the shots I will use and the events that will unfold in each panel. I have been fairly realistic in this story board in the hope that I will be able to make a trailer that looks the same on paper as it does on screen. 

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.