POSTER
INITIAL PLANNING AND SKETCHES
INITIAL PLANNING AND SKETCHES
- For our teaser film poster, we have decided to research a number of 'The Strangers' teaser posters to help inspire our own work as the poster for The Strangers typically use the antagonist with a mask which is similar to our characters.
- Here are some examples of the teaser posters of 'The Strangers' that include the antagonist's mask as the central image.
We decided that for our film teaser poster will include just the antagonists mask for the central image. Inspired by the posters above, especially the Scream 4 teaser poster, we believe that we need to keep the simplicity of a teaser poster with the use of one large image, title, small credits and date or release.
PHOTOSHOOT
Firstly, we began with the format and layout of the written texts on our teaser poster....
CONSTRUCTION AND DRAFTS
Photoshop Poster 1 and 2
With our first 2 poster drafts, we used a photo of our antagonists mask, using photoshop we edited the mask, creating shadow and blending the mask into the black background. Following the conventions of a teaser poster, we also added the 'coming soon' title and the year of when the film will be released. With the second draft, we added a blood effect on the credits at the bottom of the poster to convey the conventions of the horror genre. The smudged and blood effect we have used for the written texts will be used throughout our media products to show continuity between each different product. This will reinforce our marketing campaign.
Poster 3 and 4
With these two other drafts for our movie teaser poster, we added in the title of our film. Again with the title we used the smudge effect to create a slashed effect. This is done to connote possibly a slasher type film. We also experimented the size of the 'Coming Soon' to see whether the size of it will distract from the actual film title. We decided to keep the 'Coming Soon' to a moderate size smaller than the title. We added the month and year of the release as to keep to the teaser poster conventions, usually teaser posters do not confirm the actually day of release but just the month and year. Then we added a small 'Twisted Pictures' distribution logo because we believe that this logo and distribution title fits in more with the horror genre.
MAGAZINE
Our Chosen magazine is 'Empire Magazine'. We chose this magazine because we prefer the title logo rather than the title logo of 'Total Film Magazine', we specifically appreaciate again the simplicity of the magazine and the focus on the central image in front of the magazine title. The colour scheme again is simple yet attention grabbing and keeps the layout of the magazine tight and clean therefore giving a more sleek professional look to it. The red will be ideal for us to use as our film title in our teaser poster is also red to connote blood for the horror genre.For example, the 'HellBoy 2' cover on 'Empire Magazine' edits the title of the magazine to show a relationship between the film that is advertised on the cover and the title of the magazine. By doing the same with our film magazine, it will show continuity between our media products.
INITIAL PLANNING AND SKETCHES
Our chosen central image for magazine cover...
We not only used photoshop for our magazine cover but we also used microsoft office powerpoint to create smaller images that can be uploaded to photoshop and added in seperately. For example, we created our puff on powerpoint and then just uploaded it onto photoshop to add onto our magazine cover. FIRST DRAFT- Our first draft only includes the written text on our cover, as you can see we have edited the 'Empire' magazine logo title in the same style as our film title to show a relationship between the magazine and our film. This also shows continuity.
We chose a red, black and white colour scheme, to keep the colours neat and tidy. Also the red colour can connote the genre of Horror.
This is our edited central image, adding a more darker tone to the actual image and enhancing the shadow on the mask to create strong contrasts of shadow. In our final product, we will merge the written text magazine cover and the edited central image together therefore creating a final magazine cover.
TITLES
