Poster

For this final section of my A2 blog it will be all to do about the planning and conducting of my poster. For this section of my work I will be showing you my ideas of how my poster will look and then I will upload my final product for you to see.

Screen grabs of editing process

This is when my film magazine was only have complete but basically what I have done so far is got a picture of who the male passenger on the train was and then by using special affects on photoshop I managed to change his eye colour. I also looked at contact lenses on google images and but them on but they didn't look as effective so i decided to leave it like it is.

I have already talked about how I come up about my title back along on my blog so I don't feel I have to explain much more like I said I think it looks really effective the way in which I have done it although I had to play around with it a lot to get it the way I wanted to get it.

I decided to call this issue of the magazine the horror preview the reason for this is because my film is going to be a horror film and thats when all of the horror films are usually known for coming out although sometimes there are some exceptions one example of this would be scream 4 which is coming out soon and not in October.

I think the font that I have used on the front cover of my film magazine looks good I think the black font stands out good on the page and the red around it connotes blood which you usually see in horror films and I hope by using this technique that it comes across to my target audience better.

Like I said my film magazine is almost complete however there is no background so I decided to come up with this:

With my film being called the railway children and zombies I decided the perfect thing to have in the background of my film magazine would be a train. Now I believe that my target audience will understand what my film trailer is about. It also meant that I didn't have to do a lot of changing to it either I just had to rearrange the font a bit to make it stand out better the reason for this is because the train was black so some of the font you couldn't really see.

However I did change the font to white to see what it looked like and see whether or not it stood out better this is what it looked like:

I only changed a couple of the texts and decided that I didn't really liked it, although the font stood out a bit better I didn't feel as if it was quite as effective so I decided to leave the font black with a red outline.

Equipment List

The equipment I will need for the front cover of my film magazine is:

Camera

Make-up

Photoshop (Mac programme)

In order to create my front cover of my magazine I will not need to much equipment. The reason for this is because I will only need one main image on the front cover of my magazine and I decided that my main image will be a zombie. This meant that I had firstly put make-up on someone and then after that I put the picture on photoshop and edited it to make him look even more like a zombie.

In order to complete my film magazine I will have to do a lot on photoshop such as creating a title for the front cover of my magazine and then putting relevant text on to the page to attract readers to come and pick it up.

3 flat plans

I have came up with three flat plans for my film magazine front cover. The reason for this is so I can put down some of my ideas and draw them out so it helps me when it comes to finally creating my film magazine front cover.

Genre/ institution research

After looking on the internet I've found out a lot about the way institutions create their film magazine front covers.

All film magazines seem to use the same layout as each other. This layout tends to be one main image on top of a background and then text all around the outside of the main image. By doing this it immediately brings the readers attention just to this main image and if this draws the readers in then they are likely to read the text around it.

I've decided I'm going to stick with these conventions as I believe this is a very good way in which I can attract readers to come and look at the front cover of my magazine. Also I know this way works because people buy other film magazines by doing it this way so I don't want to try something new just in case it doesn't work.

Masthead/title ideas

When trying to find titles idea on went on a website to try and get some ideas and played around with them until I finally found one that I thought is the most effective for my film magazine.

The font above was my original font I choose to be on the front cover on my film magazine however the more I looked at it the last effective I thought it was. The reason why I thought it was good was because of the way it stood out on my film magazine however I had a problem with trying to get a word on the F of film because it wasn't bold enough.

This meant that I had to look around on the website again and I went through more pages until I found the right kind of text that I wanted.

I then came across this one which I thought was so much better than the first one that I came across. Te reason for this is because it's a lot more bolder and I found out that it stands out much better than what the previous one did.

This font also meant that I could finally but a word on the f in film which I liked because it meant that my title did not take up the whole of the top of the film magazine which it might have if I had chosen to stick to my first title idea.

Above is the font that I put on the f in film however I changed this font colour to white because if I didn't then it wouldn't have shown up. The reason why I chosen the colour white is because I felt it was the best colour that will stand out on top of the black.

Magazine front cover

For this section of my blog it will be all to do with my magazine front cover.