Fonts to use in the Poster & Magazine Cover

Looking at the different fonts:

With looking at the different fonts: it’s hard to pick the right one as it has to be able to fit in with both the poster and the film magazine cover. As I wanted to be able to have the text in white; the text would then work with both the colourings, for this I have decided that the best text option for this would be ‘Complex_IV25’ as it seems to be slightly narrow, but still legible. I also like it as it looks like normal written script, which seems to help with the genre of the trailer, as its slightly more spooky.

Tagline Font Ideas

 Title Font Ideas

Magazine Poster Ideas

Here I have three hand drawn ideas: for different layouts for my magazine front cover, these ideas are rough and may or may not be used in my final product. But this is to start the ball rolling, and to expand my ideas on how the information and the images should be placed, to obtain a good looking ancillary task.

Conventions of a Film Magazine Cover and Poster

Introduction to 2nd half of the Project - Magazine Front Covers & Film Posters

Now that the filming has been completed I have to create a film poster, and the front cover of a magazine that has been completely designed by myself and contains my own pictures (none taken from the internet).

This is one that I created at the beginning of the summer holidays; I used the idea of the general Teddy Bears picnic rhyme and tried to used the storyline to create a darker poster to illustrate that to this rhyme that there is a hidden meaning. To do this I illustrated it with a selection of my own photos, to create this image I used a total of 4 different images; then combined them on Macromedia Fireworks to achieve the different layers , and to erase certain parts, but to get the images darker and to change the contrast ( the light to dark ratio) I used Jasc Paint Shop Pro.

(This is a prototype that was created in July 2011; this was experimenting with the different software options that I could use in creating my film poster, and the software that I could use in creating my magazine front cover)

To improve the poster the title I would have made the image of the bear and the Title of the film a bit larger; but the title used might not be the one that we end up using for the final images, but the idea of the image being in the wood, will definatly be used in the final product.

Final Product - Film Trailer

For the trailer it seems like not a lot of work goes in to making one; I mean it’s only (on average) 2 minutes long. But actually it’s really hard to come up with innovative ideas; for the scenes that go into creating a diverse trailer. At the start most of our scenes were with the characters running; this proved that our trailer needed more varied scenes, as ours were far too repetitive, to counter act this: we had to expand on our story idea. With the changes to the plot (posted on ‘Changes to the Plot’) we added more context to our story, and consequently more varied scenes.

 

The only difficultly that we did have whilst filming (apart from an actor being sick half way through) was the continuance of the shots; this was due to the changing of the seasons, from the beginning of the filming: which was very green, to the end of our time filming: which was very red. But I think that through the editing process that this is not that noticeable, that the audience’s eye will be on more the action in the scene.

 

One thing that we cannot change is that the picture quality (due to the download format) is not beneficial to the quality of our filming; for this I do have a HD version: this will be seen when the trailer is shown to the prospective audience. But because the HD version was such a high quality it would not post on the ‘Blogger’ site. To get the trailer onto the blog; I had to use a lower quality version, but in retrospect the quality of the picture is not that bad, it just because I prefer the HD version, as it shows our trailer off in the best potential light.

Voice Overs

To add more interest to the film trailer; I decided that to make the trailer more effective by adding in a voiceover, as it would add some variety to the voices heard throughout the clips (instead of just my own). With the voiceovers I broke the general convention of film trailers; this is using a teenage girl’s voice instead of a deeper male voice that you tend to always hear. Why I broke this convention was to keep the continuance of the trailer, and it would be still in keeping with the storyline. As we have no male characters in our trailer; it would be out of context to have a male voice if you had not heard any male voices throughout the trailer, and it would not make any sense, and would confuse the audience.

The First 3 Clips:

The first three clips are very quiet; they were the first ones taken, and were done as an experiment to see what the voiceover would sound like at the different intervals. For me the idea of them is good. But they did cause some unrest between my college and myself, as we both wanted to do this different ways. The idea of the voice “They weren't expecting it all to change”, "it took a turn for the worst" and “History can repeat itself” gives a sinister tone; which helps to build up the suspence,  and give subital questions to the audience, such as: what will can, and reitterating the fact that this event has happened before, and will claim even more lives.

Clip no.1 - "They weren't expecting it all to change"

Clip no.2 - "It took a turn for the worst"

Clip no.3 - "History can repeat itself"

The Next 5 clips:

With the next 5 clips the main aspect of these were to get the voiceovers louder, so that they  could be heard, and were loud enough to go in with the music.

In regarding the 3 inisial quotes I decided that it would be better to shorten “they weren’t expecting it all to change” to “everything can change” as the original quote was far to long. Here the main aspect was not the variety of the qoutes; but it was the volume needed to be louder, this is why there are more clips. Because the previous 3 clips had been so quiet it made it hard to edit them to a louder scale ( to make the clips audiable) and to make them legiable. This is why  there are multiple copies so that the different patterning of the voice could be picked up, and gave more of a selection that I could use in the final product.

Clip no.4

Clip no.5

Clip no.6

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Clip no.8

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

When should our film be released?

Question:

With what time that our trailer should be marketed at is a hard question to answer, when should it be released in to the cinema or the advertising start?

Answer:

For my trailer (and the film) the setting is in the autumn with it slightly going over into the winter; for me this is the time when it should be released into the cinema, this is help to integrate the audience into the story, as this is building a comparison to the setting of the film. As this film would be Low Budget it fits more into the Main Stream market; and so does not have to co-inside with the summer block busters or the Sundance Film Festival.

What festivals could it be showcased in (if any)?:

There could be the possibility that the film could be showcased in London at the ‘Zero Film Festival’; this festival is internally made up from self-financed films, and made up by independent film makers. Film Festivals such as the ‘Zero Film Festival’ could be a good place to show case this film; as it could be paid for by the directors (my work college and I) so would be eligible to be entered into such an event. This would also be a good place to start to get recognised for the work, and so would start to help build up a reputation in the film industry.