Feedback from the teacher/students for my poster

Some of the feedback i got for my poster was that there wasn't something right with either the postioning, colour, or the depth/layers of my poster. So firstly i tried altering the postion of the different layers and pictures. Then i tried altering the colours. Firstly i tried making the whole poster darker, but this didnt solve the problem, it just made it harder to see it. Then i tried making the picture of the murderer darker, it looked abit better but hen it didnt work well with the coloured picture. Therefore i turned the whole poster black and white, and adjusted the lighting slightly. This made the whole poster look alot better. The only problem with my poster now is some of the layout, i need to figure out where to put everything to make it effective.

Problems i had to over come with my trailer

Some problems i was faced with whilst filming which i had to over come...

• Obviously there was problems with the actors, finding times where they were all off together, however this was not too bad because i keep my number of actors to a minimum, so this problem didn't occur.
• The weekend i was going to take the cameras out to do my last bit of filming, i found out i wasn't going to be in on Monday so i could not take them. Because of this i manged to find a night during the week to take them out instead so i was not behind.
• How quickly it was getting dark at night was a big problem because i have to work till 6 during the week which by that time it was already dark and i could not do nothing about it. To over come this i done all my inside filming during the week, and all the rest of the outside filming on the weekend. I found this was a good way so i was not doing lots at a time but i keep filming then editing during the week so i knew exactly what to film the next time.
• On one Monday after i had finished the last bits of my filming, i went to do the editing and the mac i worked on was broke and i couldn't move my work onto another one until the next day so i couldn't do any work and i was nearly finished.
• The next my work got moved but then i found out that all the effects on my trailer had made the size of my work huge which made the macs stupidly slow, and unable to work on them. Because of this i had to take my work off the macs. It was put onto the library's hard drive. This meant that the mac was OK again but when i went to work on it, it was still stupidly slow.
• That night i found out that my sister had a mac book and hard drive so i could put my work on that and take it home. However my sisters hard drive would not work with the school macs because she had been using it on hers and her mac is a lot more modern the the crappy school ones. So i had to find another way of moving my work. In the end i managed to put on it on to a CD and i took it home. It was a bit difficult putting it onto my sisters mac as it was a lot different from the schools one but i finally manged to do it and complete my trailer.
• After i had completed it, i needed to get a Cd so i could bring it back school. However the biggest problem was that my sister went to Belgium and took her laptop with her with my work on it and wont be back before we break up for Christmas :(

Improvements since my first draft for my magazine.

This is my more improved version. The background of the trees has now been added in, although its not in this picture. Apart from that the other things i still need to add in is another picture advertising another film, which will be put under the night stalker. Then a couple more advertisements.

Ideas for bits and peices to go on my magazine cover

My titles sorted out, it's going to be called 'Picture Show' with the 'OW' and film reel and film. It's going to be in red as i have a red theme because of the connotations to it, and it's going to be in the font 'Imprint MT shadow'

The main focus of the magazine is the main character in the film. it's two pictures of the same person put together into one. This is to show he has a split personality in the film. The audience gets to see him leading a 'normal' life, falling in love, but then they also get to see him killing a number of women. This means this picture is getting across both sides of his life in one.

The background on my first draft is an effect called 'patina' which is on photoshop, which i then darkened. However i would like to put a setting picture in the background as this is what the majority of other magazines do. The setting in my movie is in a number of places, one being down a wooded lane. This is where i think I'm going to have my background photo taken.

I will also need some adverts on the front, advertising whats going to be inside the magazine. On other magazines they usually have other films coming out, and other contents that's going to be in the mag. For my magazine I'm going to have two or three adverts for other films with pictures. One of them being 'the night stalker' which was my film trailer in As. I will then make another two up.

Different Layouts for my Poster

These are some different layouts for my poster. If people could tell me which one they prefer or have any new ideas for a layout can they please comment. :)
The title in the first two are not that dark, there the same as the last one, they just didn't come out as clear.

To create these posters i cut out the two pictures on photoshop and placed the one of the girl in front of the one of the boy.

The background at first was all black but i changed it to an gradient effect which i thought was appropriate because it's black on one half where the murderer is and its fades to white towards the bottom half where one of the victims is. This is portraying the typical good and bad, light and dark scenario.
The title 'Love Hurts' is in two different fonts. The love is in 'blackadder ITC', and the hurts is in 'chiller'.

Magazine Name

I decided to go with the name 'Picture Show' for my magazine. With choosing the name i fought i could be creative on its image. I decided that the 'O' in show could be a film reel, and the 'W' could be the film coming out of it. To do this i drew how i wanted it to look then coloured it in and outlined it in pen to make sure it was clearly visible. I then took a picture of it, imported it and cut it out in photoshop to put on my magazine.


This is the film reel in the shape of the 'OW' i drew for title for my magazine.

First draft for Magazine

This is my first draft for my magazine

First draft of Poster

This is my first draft for my poster

Names for my magazine

Some names of other movie magazines:

• Empire
• Total Film
• Cine Live
• Studio

When i was coming up with a name for the name of my movie magazine i wanted it to link to movies or have something to do with movies.

Some ideas i came up with was:

• Motion picture
• Moving Picture
• Picture Show

I decided to go with Picture Show. I came up with this name after going to watch 'The rocky Horror Picture Show' in Birmingham on the 6th November. I think it's very suitable and goes well.

What magazine Covers contain

After researching a number of movie magazine covers i found that they all contain:

• The name of the magazine- this stays the the same font and size across all the same brand magazine. It's also in a large font so noticeable and is always at the top.
• The title of the film its advertising- Most the time this in a large font too, smaller than the title but bigger than the rest of the writing and it usually goes across the main picture.
• Picture of the main character/characters- This is always the main focus point of the magazine, and it's usually just the one person.
• The background- This tends to be either plain or a setting of the place where the films set.
• Price of the Magazine- The price of a movie magazine is usually in between
• Bar code- This tends to be at the bottom of the magazine, but varies from left to right.
• Name of the main characters- Sometimes the main characters names and even sometimes the directors name are on the front too but not usually.
• Names of other films coming out- Pictures of other films coming out soon and the titles of them are often down the side of the magazine but not too big to take away the focus from the main picture.
• The films tag line- This is not always included, but is sometimes added in near the title of the film somewhere.

Cine Live

The last magazine i researched into detail was 'Cine Live'.

Profile:

• French cinema magazine
• Owned by Studio magazine which was founded in 1987.
• Price: 3 euros
  

Cinelive

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Unlike the Empire and Total film magazines, Cine live seems a lot more dull at first impressions. The colors are a lot darker and there is less of them. They tend to stick to one colour. The writing is also not as bold or obvious as the other two magazines, it's wrote in a smaller and thinner font and is set behind the main picture. Although like the other two magazines the main focus is usually the main character or sometimes two characters. Cine live magazine front covers do also show other films that are coming out but they don't really contain any other adverts.

Poster Idea 2

My Second Idea

I came up for the image of my second idea from the hills have eyes poster. I imitated the image of the girls face at the bottom of the poster looking scared with blood on her face and a hand covering her mouth. I think it's a very effective idea, that's why i chose to go for this style in my poster. However mine also contains the murderer in the background with blood all over his body and a knife in his hand. This gives more to the poster so it's not as plain, also to make it more unique. In the hills have eyes poster the main colour is a orangey, brown colour. For my poster iv decided to go for the same colours as the first idea for my poster as i believe that keeping it mainly one colour and then having red in it will be very effective and appropriate for the connotations. For my first idea the poster would be mainly white but for this one i want it mainly black. The background would be black and so would the skirt the man would be wearing. He would then have blood over his body and there would be blood on the girls face which would be the red, along with the titles, tag lines and actors names etc. Also for the title i chose to have the words love and hurts in different fonts. I want to put 'Love' in swirly, posh writing, and the 'Hurts' in a dripping font so it looks like it's been wrote in blood. This is to show how the story different and split by romance and thriller.