Film Poster - Third Draft

I have only made small changes in this draft as I have made the date larger and a different font, and made my production/distribution company logos smaller. I made the date a darker colour than before as I felt that although the bright white stood out, it felt out of place in the otherwise gloomy colour scheme, and so to fit in with my genre I made it a more grey colour to match the grave above it. This way it still stands out as it is brighter than the rest of the text, but does not look out of place.

Making My Magazine Cover

Here is a video showing all the different layers of my magazine cover giving some insight into how I achieved some of the affects and how I put my poster together.

Making My Film Poster

Here is a video showing all the different layers of my film poster giving some insight into how I achieved some of the affects and how I put my poster together.

Magazine Cover - Third Draft

This is the third draft of my magazine cover. In this draft I only made some small adjustments which consisted of changing the font on the skyline so that the word "horror" is in a horror font found on dafont.com. I moved my plug up and to the side a bit so it didn't draw too much attention from the main image and I changed the font for the details of the cover stories so that my cover has more range of fonts. I then moved the text in the middle down so that there was not as much empty space at the bottom of the page and some of the text is easier to read as it is now against a different background colour.

15 Second Trailer

Magazine Cover - Second Draft

In this second draft of my magazine cover I have added cover stories to the sides of the page. I added one underneath the plug and two on the left hand side so that all the space was filled and it has a sense of symmetry. I also added a headline between the banner reading "EXCLUSIVE!" and the film title "Vengeance". I put a summery of the article "Behind the scenes of this Halloween's biggest horror hit" and a quote from the article underneath. This is very conventional as seen here in an example from "TOTAL FILM". Here they have put a quote above the film title followed by a summary underneath. I preferred to have the summary above the title as it looks better as it means that the title can take up a larger space at the bottom of the page making it stand out more. I have taken quite a lot of inspiration from this cover as you can see I have put my cover stories in the same places and used a similar overall layout. This is mostly due to the fact that this cover has a similar main image to mine which takes up the centre of the page, leaving room for cover stories around it. I liked the idea of having the main story going over the torso of the actor as it means that you can still see the face and outline of the body clearly but you don't have lots of empty space in the middle of the page  where the writing could be.

In my next draft I will experiment more with the layout and add a wider range of fonts so that I have a more diverse cover. 

Film Poster - Second Draft

This second draft of my film poster shows some noticeable changes from my first draft. Firstly, I took some audience feedback for my first draft, and this highlighted some issues. Firstly it was apparent that the main title didn't stand out enough. My audience told me that the text needed to be brighter, so I made it a brighter colour but it still wasn't standing out very much from the rest of the poster. So I decided to try adding some light behind the title, This bright section on an otherwise dark poster immediately draws the audience's attention to the title. It was also apparent that the background was not dark enough, and so I decided that to make it more simple I would make the background clouds a darker colour and get rid of the trees in the background, as they were only cluttering up the poster. I then added a couple of small silhouetted trees where the original trees were and used the blur tool to make them appear far away. These more simple trees didn't mess with my house-style or take up too much space, drawing attention away from the main image. I also changed the colour or my company logos at the bottom as the research showed that the bright white colours didn't go well with the rest of my poster as no other bright colours were included. I decided to make them the same colour as the title to make them fit more within the poster. 

In my next draft I will add the last  missing pieces such as the titles at the bottom of the poster and the release date, as well as maybe some reviews.