Over the past month I have looked at many movie posters and as seen in a previous post I have analyzed some aswell, the main place I looked for movie poster ideas was IMP Awards and because of this I believe I have found out how to make a effective poster.
- The main image must stand out from the rest of the poster.
- It must include the film name, release date, actors, producers, directors, production companies, distribution companies, photographers, music producers.
- The theme of the poster should represent the title of the film.
- The background picture would be more appealing if it has something to do with the film.
- The font should represent the theme of the poster.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
How to make an effective magazine cover
Over the past month I have looked and studied alot of movie magazine covers like Empire Magazine, Total Film Magazine, Impact Magazine and Premiere Magazine. I have noticed certain trends which have made all of their magazines effective.
- The main character is made the focal point of the entire cover.
- The theme of the film is usually incorporated with the magazine.
- The magazine name is usually in the background of the cover, in special circumstances their name goes with the theme of the film.
- The film name depending on how recognized the film is, is usually in the middle of the cover right across the picture so it can be seen, if it is well known just the character being shown will let the audience know what the cover is about.
- They occasionally mention other films either right at the bottom or on the right hand side of the cover; this would include reviews, interviews.
- Very rarely there could be a promotional offer shown on the cover like a free poster or win free tickets for a film.
- The main character is made the focal point of the entire cover.
- The theme of the film is usually incorporated with the magazine.
- The magazine name is usually in the background of the cover, in special circumstances their name goes with the theme of the film.
- The film name depending on how recognized the film is, is usually in the middle of the cover right across the picture so it can be seen, if it is well known just the character being shown will let the audience know what the cover is about.
- They occasionally mention other films either right at the bottom or on the right hand side of the cover; this would include reviews, interviews.
- Very rarely there could be a promotional offer shown on the cover like a free poster or win free tickets for a film.
Magazine Analysis
Since we had to make a magazine cover we wanted to look at covers so we went on Empire website and found some popular covers as well as some very creative ones. we chose 8 of them and decided to annotate them and see if we could find a common trend or something that stands out to make each one of them different. Also, we wanted to get an idea on what our magazine cover should/might look like.
Magazine Analysis
Magazine Analysis
[EDITING] Fourth Session
Today we near the final session for editing, I believe that I might have 1 editing session before I have officially finished editing the teaser(thats not including adding the music). During the last session my teacher told us that most teaser trailers are usually under 1minute; which he is right, and that our teaser trailer was going just abit too slow and explained that when you watch teaser trailers they usually start going really fast with short and shorter clips as it gets to the end; again he was right.
During this session our aim was to make the teaser trailer shorter and to make the clips shorter; by doing so it will speed up the film and make it look like a real teaser trailer you would see in the cinema or on youtube. So we wanted to put everything in the teaser trailer that will be at there once we have finished minus the music. So we had to add the production company, saying that the film was an adaptation and the title screen, when all of this was added the teaser went from 1:01minutes to 1:11minutes.
What we did was take out alot of the fades that was not needed to be there, we cut down certain clips that didn't need to be so long and we moved the 3 black screens containing our tagline so they weren't so far apart; this was done so that the audience wouldn't forget the tagline. Overall, we had done what we wanted to do from the beginning, made it start slow but then gradually go quicker with shorter clips; one thing I made sure was that when shortening the clips and moving them around, they would all make sense.
This session was very successful as we made the teaser trailer go to 51seconds long and made it look quicker with the shorter clips. I believe with a few minor changes I will only need 1 more session to finish the editing of the teaser trailer and once the music is made then it will be a very good teaser trailer.
During this session our aim was to make the teaser trailer shorter and to make the clips shorter; by doing so it will speed up the film and make it look like a real teaser trailer you would see in the cinema or on youtube. So we wanted to put everything in the teaser trailer that will be at there once we have finished minus the music. So we had to add the production company, saying that the film was an adaptation and the title screen, when all of this was added the teaser went from 1:01minutes to 1:11minutes.
What we did was take out alot of the fades that was not needed to be there, we cut down certain clips that didn't need to be so long and we moved the 3 black screens containing our tagline so they weren't so far apart; this was done so that the audience wouldn't forget the tagline. Overall, we had done what we wanted to do from the beginning, made it start slow but then gradually go quicker with shorter clips; one thing I made sure was that when shortening the clips and moving them around, they would all make sense.
This session was very successful as we made the teaser trailer go to 51seconds long and made it look quicker with the shorter clips. I believe with a few minor changes I will only need 1 more session to finish the editing of the teaser trailer and once the music is made then it will be a very good teaser trailer.
Poster Analysis
Me and my group have looked at posters which are a both close to the genre of our teaser trailer and has the same sort of idea which we have for our poster. We each analyzed different posters and will take them into consideration when choosing the final idea for the our poster.
Altogether
Altogether
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
[EXCLUSIVE] Poster Pictures
Today we took some pictures which we believe will be in our poster for out teaser trailer. Here are 5 of the 28 pictures we took just to give a sample of what sort of pictures we was going for.
If you look at the pictures as normal stills they don't look like much but these pictures have 3 ideas incorporated with them, and when we learn how to use photoshop the posters should include some of these pictures.
However, I must say that we will be taking more pictures and hopefully with a better quality camera so that our poster will be of the highest quality
If you look at the pictures as normal stills they don't look like much but these pictures have 3 ideas incorporated with them, and when we learn how to use photoshop the posters should include some of these pictures.
However, I must say that we will be taking more pictures and hopefully with a better quality camera so that our poster will be of the highest quality
Monday, 1 February 2010
[FIRST DRAFT] Storyboard
This was our draft storyboard:
First Draft Storyboard
As you can see this was our first draft storyboard, from our first idea we came up with for the teaser trailer. It coincides with our first draft shooting plan; which I have already posted.
First Draft Storyboard
As you can see this was our first draft storyboard, from our first idea we came up with for the teaser trailer. It coincides with our first draft shooting plan; which I have already posted.
[FIRST DRAFT] Shooting Plan
This was our first draft shooting plan:
First Draft Shooting Plan
This was our first draft of the shooting plan, we made it a draft because certain things may come up and we might need to change the day we shoot the scenes. Also, as this was our first idea for the teaser trailer, we didn't want to rule out other ideas. At this point we hadn't thought of our official name yet, so we called it Echo Of Silence which was the first idea for the title we came up with.
This shooting plan was made before the actual shooting of the teaser trailer and you will see there have been significant changes to the shooting plan and the whole idea from my other blog posts.
First Draft Shooting Plan
This was our first draft of the shooting plan, we made it a draft because certain things may come up and we might need to change the day we shoot the scenes. Also, as this was our first idea for the teaser trailer, we didn't want to rule out other ideas. At this point we hadn't thought of our official name yet, so we called it Echo Of Silence which was the first idea for the title we came up with.
This shooting plan was made before the actual shooting of the teaser trailer and you will see there have been significant changes to the shooting plan and the whole idea from my other blog posts.
Thursday, 28 January 2010
[EDITING] Third Session
Our third session of editing happened today and it was a very productive day.
The second session ended with us leaving the all the clips which we picked together untouched and that added up to 1:42minutes. Since we knew we was going too add some black screens and fade in/outs eventually, we thought we should just add some of it first so we knew how much we had to edit out of the clips we filmed. By doing so it brought the whole teaser to 1:49minutes which was less than what we was expecting.
To the actual editing since we made the choice that each of characters scene would be shown simultaneously we had to move each clip so it would look right.
For example, we had my clip then a fade, then Samuels clip then fade, then Marks clip. This was the sequence that we wanted to have during the whole teaser trailer.
Usman came up with the idea to have 3 black screens all including part of our tagline and they would come up throughout the teaser trailer.
The tagline is 'What would you do if you past came back to haunt you?'
1st Black Screen - What would you do...
2nd Black Screen - ...if your past...
3rd Black Screen - ...came back to haunt you?
That would be the sequence the tagline would come in.
Once the session finished we had reduced the teaser trailer to 1:01minutes which we are very pleased with and it is starting to look really good. For the next session I want to get it down even further as we have to add a few more things.
Today was also the day where other people in my class could see our teaser trailer, we got alot of positive feedback, alot was the actual plot of the teaser one person said 'the way the trailer is set out makes me wonder how is this guy stalking all of these people and appearing out of nowhere' and there was a clip that was getting good feedback, this clip was a panning shot which Samuel walking across the screen whilst the camera pans right and once he leaves the screen another character is there.
The second session ended with us leaving the all the clips which we picked together untouched and that added up to 1:42minutes. Since we knew we was going too add some black screens and fade in/outs eventually, we thought we should just add some of it first so we knew how much we had to edit out of the clips we filmed. By doing so it brought the whole teaser to 1:49minutes which was less than what we was expecting.
To the actual editing since we made the choice that each of characters scene would be shown simultaneously we had to move each clip so it would look right.
For example, we had my clip then a fade, then Samuels clip then fade, then Marks clip. This was the sequence that we wanted to have during the whole teaser trailer.
Usman came up with the idea to have 3 black screens all including part of our tagline and they would come up throughout the teaser trailer.
The tagline is 'What would you do if you past came back to haunt you?'
1st Black Screen - What would you do...
2nd Black Screen - ...if your past...
3rd Black Screen - ...came back to haunt you?
That would be the sequence the tagline would come in.
Once the session finished we had reduced the teaser trailer to 1:01minutes which we are very pleased with and it is starting to look really good. For the next session I want to get it down even further as we have to add a few more things.
Today was also the day where other people in my class could see our teaser trailer, we got alot of positive feedback, alot was the actual plot of the teaser one person said 'the way the trailer is set out makes me wonder how is this guy stalking all of these people and appearing out of nowhere' and there was a clip that was getting good feedback, this clip was a panning shot which Samuel walking across the screen whilst the camera pans right and once he leaves the screen another character is there.
Sunday, 17 January 2010
[EDITING] Second Session
Today was the second session of editing, now that we have learnt how to use this new laptop and placed all clips into their correct folders, we now have to find the best clips we made and start placing them together.
We out all of our chosen clips together which made the length of the teaser trailer 1:42minutes, with past research it has shown me that this amount of time is not acceptable for a teaser trailer, so when we saw this we made the decision to cut down the teaser trailer to 50seconds to 1:10minutes. This will take a lot of editing as we still haven't added in the black screens and some fades which might be in the teaser, these we believe will add up to 5-10seconds of footage, in theory we need to cut at the very least 42seconds of footage, which hopefully won't be too hard.
Once we put the the clips together we made the choice that each character will be shown simultaneously getting stalked by their killer, this is because I believe that it is very unique to do such a thing as I haven't seen it in any of the teaser trailers I have watched over the past 2 months and it will add into the theme of horror and the name of the killer Lucifer will as he will be every everywhere all at one time. This will make the audience start to think how is he doing this as well as why he is stalking these 3 people.
We looked at this trailer to give us ideas on the way we should edit our teaser trailer.
We out all of our chosen clips together which made the length of the teaser trailer 1:42minutes, with past research it has shown me that this amount of time is not acceptable for a teaser trailer, so when we saw this we made the decision to cut down the teaser trailer to 50seconds to 1:10minutes. This will take a lot of editing as we still haven't added in the black screens and some fades which might be in the teaser, these we believe will add up to 5-10seconds of footage, in theory we need to cut at the very least 42seconds of footage, which hopefully won't be too hard.
Once we put the the clips together we made the choice that each character will be shown simultaneously getting stalked by their killer, this is because I believe that it is very unique to do such a thing as I haven't seen it in any of the teaser trailers I have watched over the past 2 months and it will add into the theme of horror and the name of the killer Lucifer will as he will be every everywhere all at one time. This will make the audience start to think how is he doing this as well as why he is stalking these 3 people.
We looked at this trailer to give us ideas on the way we should edit our teaser trailer.
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