Almost Finished...

Now that we have completed our teaser trailer, film magazine front cover and film poster we are in the last stages of our coursework. All that remains for us to do now is the evaluation of the work that we have already completed. Some parts of the evaluation will be hard but I think that we have done enough work on the blog so far that it will make it easier for us to produce a successful evaluation.

Analysis of our Film Poster

I decided to analyse our own poster so I can see whether we created the product intended and if it is similar to a real media product.

This will also help my group and I in our evaluation.

Analysis of our Magazine cover-Spotlight

here is the analysis of our film magazine:

Analysis of our Teaser Trailer

Here is the analysis of our teaser trailer Nowhere to run:

Poster Final Copy

This is the final copy of our film poster, we are satisfied with what we have created because we feel that we have created a poster that matches the ideologies and represntations of our trailer. The images we have included in our poster make sense with what the film is about and what goes on in the trailer. We have developed our poster from the last time we added it to the blog by adding the institution logos and taglines and other pieces of text that are found on film posters.

Poster analysis and audience feedback

We have been working on our poater for the past week and have almost completed it. We chose to go for a black, white and red colour scheme because from my research I found this was apopular choice for representing the horror/thriller genre. I think the colours really do compliment each other. However the juxtapositions are not final. In order to help my group and I to further this poster I asked 10 people several questions regarding the poster. These are the same people who watched our trailer so they were already aware of the ideologies and theme of the film.

Here are the questions I asked and the answers I recieved:

Do you like the positioning of the text and image? Do they compliment each other?

Most of the audience responded with yes the positioning is good but there is too much going on at the bottom and not enough at the top.

So we thought we should add a tagline at the stop and move all the text and images slightly up.

Are the sizes of the text easy to read?

Majority answered Yes the sizes are fine however it is not obvious who the main character/ actor is of the film.

We like the way the text is in the same font as the trailer.

After gathering that my group and I decided to increase the text size of ‘Abbie Smith’ since her name is also mentioned in the film teaser.

What stand out on the cover/the unique selling point to you?

I found out that what most appealed to the audience was the use of the colour red as that is very frequently used in horror/thriller films to alarm the audience. This is exactly what we wanted and were happy that the audience realised the significance of this colour.

Another comment they made was that the eyes were too bright and needed to be blended more, since they were dominating the page and diverging the concentration from the background image of the trees which is important since many of the scenes of the film teaser were of the forest.

We felt this was very helpful and now will decrease the opacity.

Does the billing block look realistic?

All the people asked answered Yes and they couldn't even tell we had done it ourselves! Pat on the back for us!

Any suggestions?

The suggestions made were to add institution logos, film certificate and release date!

But these were things we already knew we had to do! Just had not gotten round to it yet.

Overall we are all pleased with what we have created and with further alterations hopefully it will end up like we had imagined.

Further Development

We have been continuing to edit our film poster in Adobe Phohotshop and we have added some more things to it that are found inother filmposters. We think that it has improved but we will question our audience to find out what they think still needs to be added. Here is our poster so far.

Development of our Poster

This is how our poster looks at the moment. We have combined the image of my red eyes to one of our location shots after editing it to make it black and white. We have faded them slightly together and made the edges of the eyes image less harsh to make it blend into the trees more. We have added our billing block to the bottom of the page. We still need to add a lot of text to the poster to make it look like a real media product. Our poster may change from this and we may change the position of some of the features on the page.

More Editing

We have used one of our images and continued to edit it. We used the brush tool, blur tool and burn tool to enhance the image and make it more noticable and sharper. This is our current position...

The next step we will take is to combine this image with a photo of our location or a forest to make it relate further to our film.

Edited Images

We have edited some images to see how they look, here is what we came up with...


We don't know whether we will use these images for our final poster but at the moment we are experimenting with different ideas and it is helping us get to grips with photoshop. Our favourite at the moment is the red eyes so we will continue to edit this image and combine it with some different images.

Taking Photos for Film Poster

We have been taking photos for us to use in our film poster. We took some from different angles and in different poses and positions. We will now go onto to Photoshop to see if there is anything we can do to them to make them look good on our film poster and to see if they would fit the genre of our film. Here are some of our favourites...

Ideas for our Main Image

We have been brainstorming ideas together to work out what main image we will use for our film poster. These are some of things that we have considered using either alone or combined...

• Extreme close up of eyes
• Hand reaching out towards viewer
• Trees during the winter
• Close up of main character
• Main character looking over her shoulder
• Storm clouds
• Forest scene
• Blood tears
• Hand over main character's mouth

We will experiment with these images and take some photos to see what works best with what and go onto create our film poster.

Film Poster Layout

This is the layout that we will refer to whilst creating our film poster. It gives us a brief idea of what to include on our poster and the positioning of these things. We may make some changes to this layout during the process of creating our poster because we may think that something looks better in a different place on the page.

Ideas for our Poster

Here are some things that we have thought about putting on our film poster because we either think that they would go well with our ideology, or we have been inspired by other film posters.

Mise en scene: We discussed and looked back at our research and these are the ideas that we came up with for what to include in our poster. All of these objects represent either our film or the stereotypical representation of the horror/thriller genre. We wanted to stick to this code and convention because we felt that you can not avoid using these things when creating a film poster for the horror/thriller genre as they a directly associated with this genre. When questioning our audience we found that they prefer to see these things on a film poster for a thriller film because it makes it easier to identify the genre of the film.

Colour Schemes: We listed the possible colour schemes that we could use for our poster. We chose these colours because they are related to ideologies that are found in our trailer and the one we want to portray. The colours are quite dark and gloomy which go with the codes and conventions of other film posters from the horror/thriller genre. Some colours also relate to themes in our trailer. E.g. Greens=forest, Red= gore, danger, blood. Blue=nighttime, mysterious.

Ideologies: We wanted to portray the same ideologies in our film poster as we did in our trailer, and make our poster the representation of our film. Also, we want our film poster and trailer to relate together so they do not seem like two separate products. This could be the main issue when creating our poster because from our research we found that all trailers and posters are related strongly together.

Effects/Edits: These are very important when creating our poster because effects alone can make a image match our ideology. They can also give a surreal feeling which will also relate to the trailer. We may use image effects like black and white because from our research we found that this is extensively used and strongly relates to the horror/thriller genre.

Slogan/Tagline: These are the possible taglines we may use in our poster because we found that many other film posters use taglines. All our possible taglines relate to our film and help to create suspense and panic.

Moving On..Again

Now that we have completed our film magazine, we will now move on and start creating our film poster to go with our trailer. We have already finished our research of film posters and recognised many codes and convetnion in them that we could take inspiration from, or manipulate to make them suit the genre of our film.

Gothika poster analysis

I decided to analyse the poster of the film I analysed. Here it is:

Fame Poster textual analysis

I analysed the trailer of this film and felt it would be beneficial to analyse the poster also so when creating our ancillary products we know the aspects which are kept the same in both. It will also help us design and create our own poster to go with the film.

(the shot of the main image is a medium close up) ( i forgot to write it in the actual analysis)

Things kept the same in the trailer and poster:

-basic theme

-title of the film

-tagline is shown in both film and poster

-institutions at the bottom and end in trailer

-actor on the cover is the same actor who is seen in the film teaser trailer

Keeping certain aspects the same keeps a house style and allows the audience to identify with the film and their theme. It gives a unique selling point and differentiate their product from others.

New Moon poster-textual analysis

Here is the analysis in more detail:

Here is the basic information about the film:

(this is supposed to before the analysis above but the computer would not allow me to do so. So read it before as it will make more sense)

Common aspects between the poster and the trailer:

-the cast on the cover are all seen in the trailer

-the font and style of the text of the film title

-institutions

-genre represented

-location of a forest is seen in the trailer as well the poster

Thing I may use in our poster:

-the location of a forest since it is the trailer but also creates the thriller feel

-the main charcter in the trailer will be the one on the cover

-the text of the main title will be the same

The Final Product

This is our final front cover for our film magazine. We feel that with this product we have reached our target audience, successfully portrayed the genre and representation of our film and presented the ideologies that we had in mind. Also, from our previous research we feel that we have filled a gap in the market with our product. After questionning our audience extensively, we feel that they agree with this too.

Questioning Our Audeince

Now that our front cover is almost finished we thought that we would ask our audience for their views and opinions on what they like about it and what they would make better. We asked open and closed questions and they were...

What do you like about the front cover?
Would you change anything on the front cover?
Do you think the main image looks good?
Would you change the positioning of the main image?
Do you think the front cover would be appealing to 16-24 year olds?

"I think that the masthead needs to stand out a bit more from the rest of the text"
"I would change the positioning of some of the cover stories"
"Maybe you could change the clour of the cover story fonts?"
"I like the main image, the eyes really stand out"
"I think that it would be appealing to 16-24 year olds because of the young person on the front and the cover stories included."

We will take this advice on board and apply it to our front cover. Once we have a finished product we will add it to the blog.