How and Why - Magazine Cover

How and Why- Poster

I made this video to talk through the decisions I made with my poster, why I made them and how I made the poster...

FINAL MAGAZINE COVER

FINAL POSTER

Final Magazine?

Magazine Making 1

Title For My Magazine : FRIGHT

Planning of My Film Magazine

I've sketched what I'd like my film magazine cover to look like

I am going to use this image

Billing Block

Here's what I put in my billing block

*PRODUCTION COMPANY* PRSENTS “THE MUSIC BOX” LAUREN JONES SOPHIE ROSE FREDDIE JONES JAMES SULLIVAN SUPPORT BY NATASHA PRETOT WRITTEN BY EMILY ROSE CINEMATOGRAPHY BY EMILY ROSE DESIGN EMILY ROSE MUSIC BY KEVIN MACLEOD AND THE BLAKE ROBINSON SYNTHETIC ORCHESTRA DIRECTED BY EMILY ROSE EDITED BY EMILY ROSE FILMED ON LOCATION IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Final Poster? + how I did it (with Working Title)

Decision on My Type of Magazine

After doing my research on different types of horror magazine- general magazine horror issus and specifically targeting horror magazines, I've decided that I'm going to do the latter - a horror magazine.

So now I can start making...

How I Did My Poster: Images

For this image I turned the brightness- light down as well as the saturation which made the image black and white.


With the black and white filter option I moved the yellow levels to the right which made any yellow tones in the photo whiter rather than black or grey- there were yellow tones in James' skin and so that's why he's so pale.


I then coloured in his eyes using a black paintbrush on Photoshop

For the second image I did the same technique with the black and white filter, sliding the yellow levels to the left.

I used an effect filter which was called 'crayon and chalk' that created the texture within the image.

I then de-saturated the image to get it even darker and greyer.

I lost some of the bright-whiteness in his skin when I applied the filter and so I upped the exposure which brightened any white levels.

I added a 'posterize' filter to this which created a cartoon effect and then I did the same black and white technique.

I am going to print each of these out and ask people what they think/ which one they prefer. Personally I prefer the first one as I think it has the most attention on James' character.

Poster Improvements

I am currently improving my poster from the feedback I got from my first drafts. I am focusing on eyes because everyone said they thought it was effective last time. I am using photoshop to create my poster and have found a lot of helpful websites on editing horror poster and generally how to use photoshop.

http://www.filmsourcing.com/blog/2013/creating-a-horror-poster-tutorial/

These are the 3 base images I've created and I'm going to show them to my media group and friends tomorrow and do a focus group before I add text and details to them. I'll add a post tomorrow on how I did these...

Where I'm at with all 3 products

I thought I'd do a little recap of where I'm at with everything so that I know what to do next
TRAILER

• Almost half filmed
• Not edited yet
• No music picked out

POSTER

• Drafts finished
• Improvements made in terms of poses
• Need to edit with new pictures

MAGAZINE

• Brief research done
• need to think of name for magazine
• Take pictures

Horror Film Magazines

Horror film magazines from emilyrosemedia23

Poster Images 2

I retook all of my poster images  on my Canon camera because it's much better quality. I asked Sophie and James to both wear what they wore at the last photo-shoot because I thought that their outfits worked well with their characters. Because I'm able to zoom in very far on my canon whilst still having a good quality picture, I took very close up pictures of their eyes which I wasn't able to do last time because it wouldn't focus on my phone.

Summary of Poster Focus Groups

I have made a Prezi of a summary from my focus group, I am going to improve the posters with this feedback and then show them again.

Breakdown of Film Magazine 2

Quantitative Results from Focus Group on Poster Drafts

I gathered all of my results together and made some graphs...

As you can see the preferred poster this one 

Around 54% of the 11 people I asked said this was their favourite, 5/6 of these people were between the age of 17-18 which I think is important as it shows that young people ie. my target audience found the scariest poster the best, thus emphasising why they're my target audience because it shows that most young people love horror.

Whereas 27% of the people asked said they preferred this one, 2/3 of these were my mum and dad who are obviously over 40 and again, I think this is important as it shows why they are not my main target audience. However, this could've meant that they thought the one with the black eyes was too scary and they wouldn't want their children to see it: so I asked my mum if she thought any of the posters were too scary to be put around public places where children could see them and she disagreed.

Finally, around 18% chose this poster as their favourite because they thought it looked original, however neither of them said it was particularly scary or prominent as a horror poster just that it was unsettling as his face is blurred.

Breakdown of Film Magazine 1