Drafting and planning

this is my new idea for my movie poster as my last idea wasn't really the standard i was looking for. the idea will center around the Polaroids in the middle of the poster and the antagonist will sit aside to the left with a cloud of smoke coming from him. the cloud of smoke i wont add in using effects i will use smoke when taking the picture. the background will most probably be a black wall with and the whole picture will be shown with a low white light so the character doesn't cast too big a shadow that would ruin the image. the images on the wall will be of the protagonists and because there will be alot of images i will re use afew of them but you wont be able to tell that they are the same image as i will overlap alot of them so the wall will look legit.

Drafting and planning

the picture on the left gives the general idea of how my movie poster will look although it wont be as creepy. the idea for the movie poster is to have the antagonist on the left of the poster looking at the Polaroids of the protagonists. this will be able to indicate what genre of film im going for by the general disturbance of the image itself. for the movie poster i dont think i will use alot of photos as the two main focuses of the poster is the antagonist and the three Polaroids of the protagonists so if i include alot of pictures it will draw attention from the two main subjects of the image. if i follow this path for my movie poster i can just take the photos with more images and then some without alot of images. i mentioned in a past blog post that i would have a fourth main Polaroid that includes the missing character in the film but the photo will be ripped, i think i will add the fourth image but cross out the face of the character as if she has been ticked off the list this will mainly be done to force the audience to speculate what the antagonist wants from the situation which will force the subject of my film to be in their heads.

Drafting and planning

the initial idea for my movie magazine cover is too have a pile of Polaroid photos of my protagonists and have three very distinct photos of each individual protagonist so the viewer can see the three main characters. because this idea alone doesn't seem to relate to the horror genre i will more than likely add a blood effect as if it has dripped on the photos. the general senses will be that the antagonist has stalked the protagonists and gathered all of the information on them. but the antagonist wont be seen on the movie magazine cover as he is to be unseen so to include him would defeat the object. he will be included in the movie poster which i will cover in a later blog post. the image to the left is there to give a general idea to how the Polaroids will be laid out as if they have just been thrown into a pile to give the impression that there are alot more. another idea for the magazine cover is to have four Polaroid photos on a cork board and the fourth photo will be ripped in half to indicate it is the missing friend that the protagonists are looking for.

Drafting and planning

this is my first draft of my trailer. i have edited all of my footage together but when i was filming and story boarding i didn't take into account how much of the footage i would have to cut out so my trailer inst as long as i once thought it would be but i can find ways to get around that such as adding text screens in the trailer which is an option that is still widely used in professional and high budget films but if i was to do this i would need to make sure that i dont just use a blank background so i will probably use a photo that i managed to capture and lower the brightness and contrast to make sure it blends well with the scenes in the trailer. i am happy with how my trailer turned out it looks better than i thought i would. the one thing about the trailer that i am on the fence with is that in editing on every clip i turned the color vibrance up so the colors will really stand out which worked really well when i lowered the contrast and brightness on the second half of the trailer. im going to render two different trailers one without the enhanced color vibrance and one with the enhanced vibrance so i can ask my audience what they think and so i can get a solid opinion on which one i feel looks better.

Drafting and planning

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the image above was originally my film magazine cover idea. i like the picture and image but it was pointed out that in every single film magazine cover you can always see the character clearly and without obstruction. looking at it due to this fact i cant see a way that i would be able to continue with my magazine cover idea as it wont look realistic at all. i have two more ideas to what i can do for my magazine cover which both relate quite closely. the idea is to use Polaroids to show the characters which is also my film poster idea but i cant use the same image for both the film poster and magazine cover so for the poster i will include the antagonist with the Polaroids.

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this is another movie magazine cover for the new film suicide squad. although this film isnt the same genre as mine i think it is still valuable to look at the poster. im looking at suicide squad because their magazine covers are quite unique as the film could be classed as a action, comedy, horror due to the dark themes and humor. the magazines are unique due to the color scheme and how this is how the film is directly introducing the characters in the film. i like how plain the magazine is as it only covers the topic of the new film and has no mention of another feature in the magazine. they follow the generic convention of holding eye contact with the camera which i am and im not going to use as in my magazine you wont be able to tell where the antagonist is looking due to the hood and the dark colors.

Drafting and planning

this is a very rough idea of what my main image will look like on my film magazine cover. this is a very simple idea of what the magazine cover will look like but it will look better when i have actually captured the image in real life instead of using images from the internet to create the base idea.the photo itself shouldn't be hard to capture except from the darkness of the face but i can lower the brightness and contrast down when i edit the image much like i did in the last half of my trailer. alot of the magazines i have looked at have quite complex backgrounds but some of my favorite covers of Empire Magazine have no background which i will most likely try to imitate. Using a black background would look good but i would have to make sure that i edit the center image well enough do that it is fairly easy to see since the hoodie the main character will be wearing will be either a dark grey or black.

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in my last blog post (http://j4ka2media.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/tuesday.html)
i talked about my second ancillary product which will be the film magazine. the example i used was a action comedy film so im going to look more into films around my genre. because empire mainly deals with big budget action films. I found a magazine that relates to my film due to the dark subject matter it deals with. the magazine to the left is a genre crossover as it is a horror/ action film. the way they show the horror aspect of the film is the dark background and shading around the center character. that it is a main aspect of my trailer as i have edited at least a third of my trailer to show it as dark and mysterious so i could easily edit the photo i take to be dark and shady like the photo on the left, i wouldnt be able to create the cloud effect that is used for the suicide squad magazine but i could have the blue glow which could work really well with my photo idea but i will make a version using differnet colors so i can ask my audience which one they prefer as im making these products to attract my audience so if they like the magazine and give me feedback on it i will know what i have to do to get my audiences attention.

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the second part to my A2 project is my ancillary products where i have to make a movie poster and a magazine cover. for film magazines the most noted one is empire which covers all of the new upcoming films. the conventions to the magazine are very easy to copy due to one being that the cover is very empty and only relates to the main article giving no mention of what else is inside. this will be easy to do as i am going to be promoting one film and that is mine. another convention is that the is always someone looking into the camera, im going to have to go against this convention due to my idea to feature the villain on the cover. to do this im not going to have him look into the camera as that will give the identity of the character away thus spoiling the film so im going to center him on the cover with a hood on so you cant see the face and like the example to the left the character will be holding his weapon. the title to empire is only shown in a few colors which are Black, Red, Gold and white, im going to use black or red for the connotations they hold to represent my genre of horror.