Plan for poster

Here is a quick plan of how our poster is going to be set out, it follows conventions of other movie posters which means it should be quite effective when we have our final result.
we have stated the movie title at the top of the poster, followed by our main image, which will take up the entire background. At the bottom of the poster is the date the movie will be released along with  the writers and producers names.

next we will create a draft version of our poster using images we have took and see if it works well using this layout.

Photos

Kate has took some photos of herself for us to use when designing our poster and magazine cover. she has uploaded them onto her blog so we can all gain access to them. the photos are close ups of her face and they are really effective, there is also some variation between each photo meaning we have a good choice to chose from. These are two examples of the pictures she took.

magazine research

 Today i started looking at how magazines have advertised certain films. this is because we will be designing our own magazine front cover. we will be looking at the codes and conventions of the magazines and apply them to ours.

This magazine cover is from Empire magazine promoting Terminator salvation movie. The use of the main image is good on this as this is what we decided on how we want ours to be with only half a face showing on the front cover. The eye contact from the actor, Christian Bale works well as it really captures the readers attention. the use of the shadow over one side of his face lets also know that theres a dark side to the film.The use of dark colours such as the black and red give the film a real action blood and violence feel, this relates to Terminator so we will have to make sure our use of colours relate to our film. also having advertisements and taglines also help with making the front cover appeal to an audience, and these are all things that we will include on our front cover.

This is another of Empires magazine covers, this time promoting, The Dark Knight. even thought this is not a horror film the layout of the magazine cover would make the reader think this is a scary twisted film. the use of just The Jokers face on the black background makes it stand out. the eye contact is also good as it is connecting with the audience, looking into his eyes is intense but captivating. this would be a good feature for us to use. sticking to a main color scheme also works well as here they have used green and black. For our magazine to look real we will have to follow these conventions.

Poster Research

 

For our further tasks we have to create a poster for our film. Today we started looking at posters for horror films to get an idea on how our poster is going to look. Here i have looked at a few different horror posters which each of them has aspects that we could use:

This poster is from 'The Descent'.

• Dark background, really effective gives the viewer a sense of suspense and fear.
• The image on the left is unclear, makes the viewer wonder what it is, the image has a creepy vibe to it, this will make the viewer want to find out whats going on.
• From the director of 'Dog Soldiers' a film that has done well in the past, shows that this film will follow in doing well as has the same director. 
• Tagline, 'Face your deepest fear' this is a catchy tagline as this will draw people in to want to face there own fear.

This is the poster for  "a Nightmare on Elm Street". 

• Dark, bloody background, blends in with the main image of Freddy Krueger. This gives the sense that the movie is quite gory and bloody.
•  Freddy Krueger is the main character, used as the main image on our poster, could take this idea and use it in our poster. 
• "Welcome to your new nightmare" this tagline will attract people in as they might want to see if it will challenge was they thought was there worst nightmare. 
• this is a more bloody movie than our trailer but we could use some different features from this posters layout.

This poster is from the Blair witch Project. 

• This poster is more suitable to our trailer, as our overall storyline is along similar lines to the Blair Witch Project.
• The use of the actors face creeping up from the bottom of the poster is really effective as it shows she is afraid. 
• The use of the woods in the background gives an idea of where it takes place, this could be useful for us to use as it would attract people to watch the film as they know it will be creepy.

feedback

As we have now uploaded our video to youtube we have  posted links to let people know about our trailer to try and get some feedback from them about what they think of it. Any feedback is good feedback for us.
we have 2 comments on our youtube page.

we also have 1 person that have liked our video, this is good for us as it lets us know that people have liked viewing our trailer. the feedback we got through the comment is also useful to us as they have left us some constructive criticism, but i believe they thought it was a full trailer, which means now we should state that it is a teaser trailer.

Kate and Katie also had some comments posted on their trailer blog entry.

The comments in grey were left on Katie's blog page, giving us positive feedback to our trailer as the two people who left the comments really liked it. 

The comment in orange was left on Kate's blog, it also gives us some positive feedback which is good as we now see that our trailer is very effective 

Uploading our trailer to YouTube

Today we watched our trailer again to see if we needed to make any more tweaks to it. There was nothing else that we could do to it meaning its ready to be uploaded to youtube.
we created our own youtube account A2mediakkt, and uploaded our saved video into our account. the next step that we took was to 'Share' the video onto Blogger where it can be viewed on youtube and on each of our individual blogs.

We now have to let people know about our trailer for them to give us feedback on what they think of it. To get people to know about it i have put a link to the video on my twitter account. below is a screen grab on the news feed of my twitter page.

A2 Media Horror Trailer

This is our horror trailer that we created and uploaded on to youtube.