My Project Brief

Brief 2
I am going to make a promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with a film magazine front cover featuring the film and a poster for the film.

Evaluation: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?

Evaluation: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary?

Evaluation: Audience Feedback

Evaluation: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?

My Film Trailer: 'Psychosis'

Throughout creating my final film trailer, I had to make various changes and adjustments to my storyboard as some of the scenes I had planned either did not fit in the time constraints, or where too impractical for me to use. However, the overall structure and script used in my trailer was consistent and concise from storyboard to the final cut.

Final Film Poster

 This is my final poster that I have created, I have decided to use the two different photographs in order to portray the protagonists change in character throughout the film. I also used white and grey simple fonts to keep it conventional, contrast with the gradient black colour at the bottom and attract attention whilst not drawing focus from the feature photographs.

 

 

Final Magazine Front Cover

For my final film magazine front cover I decided to use a close up shot of my protagonist, just as I had with my film poster and continuously throughout my trailer. This camera shot reiterates the psychological thriller genre and makes it appear more intense and mysterious. I also used a typical colour scheme of red and white which makes them stand out against the black and white photograph, therefore drawing more attention.

 

Making My Film Magazine Front Cover

I started off with the intention of making a film magazine that would attract the audiences attention whilst also advertising the genre of the film.

 

 

I decided to 'play around' and experiment with various fonts in order to find one that fitted it's purpose and looked good with the overall design of the page.

 

 I made various minor changes to the design of the page before adding in my feature article photograph, which helped me to make the final decisions on colour schemes and fonts as I was able to see what worked well together.

I used a slightly enhanced black and white effect to give the page a darker feel to it, whilst also making the colour scheme of red and white stand out and appear more vibrant.

After adding in my feature article photograph, I realised that the positioning of the protagonist was incorrect in relation to the rest of the page, as the face did not appear to be the main focus on the page. Due to taking a number of photos before choosing my final one, I was able to effectively edit in another photograph to incorporate into the top half of the page, therefore making the photograph more central in the middle of the page.

In order to add an effect on the cover line at the top of the page, I used the features of the software to add a layer on top of the text so that it had elements of a darker colour to fit the continuity of the overall genre of both my main film, and my two ancillary products.

When deciding what fonts to use I choose to use the same font for the title of my film, in order to maintain a link and sense of continuity between my products. This also would help the audience to identify the film amongst various products.

Much like I had done with the cover line, I added an effect to the masthead of my magazine front cover to enable it to have a slightly different, edgy effect that suited the genre and theme of my products, rather than using a plain font.

Making My Film Poster

I started off choosing two of my photographs, one of which I placed in the middle and the other I cropped in half. I then placed one half on the left of the main photograph and the other half on the right, and made sure to align the pictures correctly.

 

 

Using the line tool I created two lines in each photo to divide the page equally and using the crop tool, I split each section of the photograph so that they were separate for me to add the shadow onto each line, making a distinct split in each of the photographs.

Then using the effects on the layer style, I created a layer to add a shadow and gradient onto and repeated this to fill all of the sections.

 

I also used the effects on the layer style to make the individual lines bolder and more prominent on the page.

 

 

I started to then edit the colours of the photographs and experiment with the use of black and white, however I felt like this colour did not work very well so decided to go with a different option.

 

 

I used the saturation tool to drain the colour from the photographs in order to give them a darker look but not being to bland by using a black and white effect.

I also adjusted the brightness and contrast levels to make my photographs look in a more professional manner.



I then added a rectangular shape over the whole of the poster and added a gradient effect on it to make the top look slightly darker and make a darker shade on the bottom to make the text look more visible and easier to read.

After experimenting with a number of fonts, I decided to use 'Type-Ra' and add various effects to it to make it stand out and look more interesting. I used a standard font on the actor names and date of the film, in order to not draw attention away from the title of the movie.

 





Magazine Final Draft

After coming up with various different designs, I decided to use this as a draft for my magazine as I felt it would be most effective and conventional.

 

Film Poster Making: Poster Titles

Before producing my film poster, I put together different ideas and fonts for my title. Whilst deciding which one to use, I started creating my poster and editing together my photographs so that I would get an idea of my title would work best with the overall finished design, I then choose to use the font 'Type Ra' as I felt it effectively fitted in with the overall design of my poster, whilst also portraying my genre.

Sound Editing

In order to incorporate sound into my trailer, I had to add in many different music files and sound effects in order to create the atmosphere and tone of my genre.

I also used features of Adobe Premiere that allowed me to 'Fade In' or 'Fade Out' the beginning and ends of my audio clips, this allowed better continuity of sound throughout the trailer. 

Magazine Cover Drafts

This is one of the first drafts for my magazine front cover, which consists of the layout of typical conventions that most magazines use. For example the positioning of the puffs, plugs and masthead.

 

 This was my second draft that still features all the typical conventions, however I have included space for three other feature photographs to boost the image of the magazine and make it look more appealing and packed with information.

Editing the Hallucination Scene

 Whilst editing a scene in my trailer that consists of the main protagonist Rosie experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia I started experimenting with the features on Adobe Premiere to make it look as though the hallucination was slightly more opaque than the protagonist.

 

This proved to be a difficult task as whenever I used the settings to make the opacity weaker, it effected both clips not just the one I wanted. It therefore took me some time to try and get it to work, which resulted in trying to find a new way of making this effect work well.

I then found that I was able to add a transition to the shot of the friend so that she would appear to change between being visible and non visible. This allowed me to show the protagonists view and demonstrating the symptoms of schizophrenia that she starts to experience.

Editing Process

When beginning to edit my trailer I discovered there were various effects that I could use to enhance and improve my shots.

Step 1

 

I started off without any special effects and found that the lighting on the figure in this shot was too dark due to the light of the window beside her.


Step 2

To solve this issue I used the effect 'Shadow/Highlight' to make the figure appear lighter, and also applied the effect 'Auto Contrast' to ensure I had not changed the colour too much.

Step 3

After making the decision that this shot was still too dark, I decided to take away the 'Auto Contrast' effect therefore resulting in the figure looking much lighter against the window than the original copy did.