construction of my movie poster



I used photoshop to construct my movie poster, within this screen shot it shows how i added the title 'INSIDEOFRUS' to the picture, however i have not managed to delete the background of it yet.

Within this screenshot it shows how i managed to delete the background of the title and position it at the bottom of the movie poster, I did this as I think that the title of the film being at the bottom of the poster is a normal convention of film posters.

Although it is unclear within this screenshot it shows how i added 'FROM THE MAKERS OF SCARY MOVIE AND SCREAM' i did this as i see it as being a typical convention of movie posters and also i thought by writing films such as scream and scary movie it would convey the genre of the movie to the audience incase they were unclear, they would know what to expect from the movie.

within this screenshot it's clear to see that I have changed the font, i changed it for that fact that i didnt think it fit or suited the genre i am promoting and also it was very hard to see onto of the background. Aswell as changing the font i also added a 'COMING SOON' at the bottom underneath the title as it allows the audience to be drawn in to the movie poster and i also from my research see it as being a typical convention of a movie poster.



within this screen shot i added a quote which includes the words 'LEFT ME SHAKING IN PURE TERROR' with five stars below the quote, i believe that this would make the movie poster to seem more believable and professional as it is a typical convention of many horror film movie posters

This is the final shot of the construction of my movie poster, in this shot it shows how i moved the 'FROM THE MAKERS OF...' to the bottom of the poster underneath the coming soon, also i decided to change the quote so it said 'GOING WHERE NO MOVIE HAS GONE BEFORE' as i thought the other quote would convey the movie poster as more of a horror film rather than the spoof horror of which i am trying to convey. I also decided to add text at the top which say's 'its not the house thats haunted, is anything haunted?' i beleieved this would be humorus to the audience and also it would portray a spoof horror type genre.

Planning of my movie poster

I have been editing this picture on adobe photoshop to use on the movie poster of my teaser trailer, so far I have edited the picture by making it darker, i believe this will get across the horror convention of my teaser trailer. I'm hoping that this paired with the stance and costume of the main character will really put across the spoof horror theme.
What i plan to do further with this poster is to add the title INSIDEOFRUS at the bottom of the poster, above the title i will plan to put in smaller writing , 'from the makers of......' and make up some previous movie names as i see this as being a popular convention of movie poster.
Considering how this looks once i've added these i may include some quotes such as 'Best spoof horror of the decade -The Times' to really make it portray a movie poster and really get across to the audience the genre of the film.
Also i believe that using conventions such at this would really pull the audiences attention into my movie poster.

Teaser Trailer; First edit

This is the first edit of my teaser trailer, although it is 22 seconds i have published it so i am able to recieve audience feedback so that i can change and better my final edit.

Consturuction of the teaser trailer.

During the making of the teaser trailer I made many screenshots to show and portray how I was able to construct my teaser trailer, this also shows the software I was able to use and my method towards adding certain effects and aspects of the film.

 This is screenshot which shows how me and my partner were able to add an underlying theme tune to our teaser trailer to add a thrilling effect to the trailer. This will then add tension and portray to the audience that this is infact a horror film as this is an expected convention of horror/spoof horror films. We was able to do this by converting a link from youtube onto adobe premier pro CS4 then placing it in audio number 4, locking this as an audio so that no videos are shown.

 

 

 

 

This is a screenshot which shows how me and my partner used a website called behapppy.me which allowed us to make an original quote which we were able to use and place in our teaser trailer. I believed this would further portray to the audience that we will be making a trailer as this is an usual convention of most trailers.

  This is a screenshot which shows the finished quote that was generated by behappy.me which we have included in out trailer. We thought by using the quote being by 'the director himself' would add a sense of humour within the 'horror' trailer to further emphasise our spoof aspect.

 After doing some trailer research me and my partner found that many trailers contain an audience preview screen which notifys the audience of what audiences this trailer has been approved for. I believe that this makes our trailer seem more professional and believable.                   



 

This is a screenshot which shows how we were able to add an audience preview screen before the trailer starts which shows that this trailer is able to be previewed by most audiences. This is an expected convention of a trailer and we thought by adding this would make it look more profentional. We added it by importing the picture into adobe premier pro CS4 and then dragging it down to where we edit the video clips. We then cut it to how long we wanted it to be shown for.

                                   
During the editing of our filming we decided to edit a screen which shows a 'COMING SOON' notification to emphasise that this is a trailer. We made this screen then imported it into the program we was using which was adobe premier pro CS4. We dragging it in and cut it down to the length we wanted it to be. We then added a 'fade in' and a 'fade out' effect which I think makes the trailer look more easily flowing and makes it look higher quality and more effective.

 

This is a screen shot which shows how we were able to import a move clip into adobe premier pro CS4 then we were able to lock it into audio so that the actual footage of the clip was unable to be seen but only the audio was able to be heard. This shows how we were able to edit the sound of the clip making the clip sound less muffled, more clear and more sharp. We also made the clip louder.

 



 

This screem shot shows the audio from the previous shot, however in this show it is showing how we were able to cut the clip down into shorter sections so that we were able to use the different sections in different parts of the trailer rather than it being a continuous chunk of voice over audio.

planning and research/ film magazine analysis

 

Layout-

The layout of 'Fangoria' is a cross between slightly chaotic and organised, while certain shapes or pieces of text may seem slightly out of of sync with the rest of the front cover of the magazine. Usually the layout has an organised and well balanced front cover to promote and show magazines.

 

Many conventional features of a magazine front cover are present, for example the masthead is located at the top of the page, above this is the slogan associated with the magazine. There are several sell-lines along the sides of the main image. This is accompanied by Anorchage text below it. A rather signifigant change from the normal convention of magazines is the 4 sub advertisements at the bottom rather than the full attention being on the main image of the front cover.

 

The colour scheme of 'Fangoria' utiilises conventional horror colours such as red and black to connote the genre of horror to the magazine. Typically black colouring relates to darkness and shadow, which many people hold a fear to. While red usually connotes blood and gore - again a popular feature within horror genre

 

A unique and very appealing feature, which i have already mentioned, of the front cover is the 4 sub-images located at the bottom of the page. These are scenes from either recent or very iconic moments of a horror film - the reason i believe this is a very good method is the incorporation of sell lines and topics which are discussed within the magazines to the images - this is very effective at gaining the attention of the reader who recognises these images and can then gather context from the sell lines above. Also, the sub-images help the reader recognise and relate to the genre of horror and the theme of the magazine. Although it does appear quite amateur it does add a level of depth. 

research and planning/analysising of potential poster pictures

This is a picture that has been taken that could potnetially be used for my movie poster, i like this picture as it captures both the comedy, yet potential horror within this picture. I like this picture as with some editing it could look as though our character is possessed. I would zoom in to the eyes and use one eye as my main picture. I would try and edit something within the eye to make the character look possessed, this would contirbute to the horror but keep the comedy aspect to the picture. The lighting within this picture is ideal as it it not overly yellow from artificial light, and can be easily edited. The picture is also clear and not blurry so it would look like a professional picture.

I also like this picture as a potential movie poster as yet this also captures the comedy and horror, personally I do this this picture would be better used within my partners poster as she will be doing a portrait poster, yet i will be doing a landscape movie poster. I believe that this picture would fit in better with hers as she will be doing a spoof poster of insidious, and this fits the convention of the picture that was used within the actual movie poster. 

research and planning/film poster analysis

I have chosen to analyse a landscape poster as i was thinking to use a landscape poster within the making of my poster, I thought that this would be a good example of a poster as i was intenting of using an extreme close up shot of the main characters eye which shows a difference within the eye to show a possesion of some sort within my character to give a ordinary convention of a horror film poster to let the audience know that this is indeed a horror film, even though it does contain comedy through it being a spoof.
With analysing this poster i can see the main image will need to take up most of the poster.
The text going along the front of the poster draws attention from the audience to the poster