Film Poster Process

Today I have finished my film poster, the process of creating a film poster has been long but enjoyable. Below I have listed 3 stages that my film poster has undergone.

Draft 1

The first process was incorporating my main iconic picture that would form the basis of my film poster and include the vast majority of my text. From my research I got a few ideas about what text to include.

Draft 2

The second process was adding in my film name title and my second iconic picture. I spent some time positioning and cropping the picture so that it would fit perfecting in the film poster and look appealing to my target audience. After this was completed I spent some time posting the film name title to a position that it would stand out.

Final Draft

The final process was adding in my final two pictures. This was quite a simple task as the picture had already been cropped and editing to a perfect length to fit my film poster. Therefore, positioning was not a problem. This is my finished film poster and I am happy with it, it fits the brief of what my target audience would want and the film poster conveys our film genre.

Background sound

It is fundamental when constructing a film trailer that the non diagetic and diagetic sound is addressed to best suit the trailer. From researching I have discovered that to best suit our trailer we will have a combination of diagetic and non diagetic sounds that will impact on added effect to the audience.By this tension is created by   the combination of voice overs and background music. Furthermore, the tempo of the background music will also be varied to combine with the montage of shots that will also become shorter and sharper.  Below I have outlined some ideas for soundtracks for our trailer:

 This soundtrack will be edited and used for the beginning of our trailer during the part where the couple are portrayed. The soundtrack is slow and reflects romance. The use of the guitar resembles a sense of happiness and passion which will be portrayed by our couple by the use of mise en scene.










- This soundtrack will also be edited and be used for the transition of ending up in kavos the music will signify the change. This music is slightly more hostile its conveys a change and creates an atomsphere whereby the encoder knows something is about to happen. The music will increase in tempo, and become louder. For this soundtrack I would like  to edit the sound levels so it fades in and gets louder.







The final two soundtracks would also work well as background music in our film trailer. The final part of the trailer the tension is created by the short sharp scenes of the kidnapping. Both soundtracks would work well as background music during the final part of the trailer. The genre of our trailer will also be reflected by this music. Action is reflected as the music is of a fast tempo that gradually increases. I aim to try and incorporate both soundtracks and by editing find the best bit that would suit our trailer applying to the codes and conventions of an action genre trailer.

Peer Feedback

Today I asked my two peers if they could give me more feedback on my blog, this was my third peer feedback and vitally one of the most important peer feedback posts as it involves a great depth of research and planning.

Dow- " It is clear that in terms of research you have gone into a great depth on both film poster examples and magazine front covers. This will really help you when producing both your film poster and magazine front cover. Make sure you post about the variety of colours you experimented with in your magazine front cover and the planning of pictures for your film poster. I like the way you have researched different types of magazines, why not write a post about why you chose one over the other? Overall you are making excellent progress"

Kassie- "Looks like you addressed my detail improvement idea, your research is clear and with a good use of pictures all posts are fantastically presented. Your planning is also very good you have covered most aspects that needed to be spoken about when filming and editing your film trailer, although you haven't done a post about costume ideas maybe this would be a good idea? Although your blog is looking very good"

Editing part 2

After shots had been edited and cut with animations and effects included, we then focused on the incorporating of different non diagetic sounds such as music that would create tension. After careful selection we narrowed down the best fitting music that would best suit the shot and combine together to create an intense atmosphere. When selecting the music we had to be careful  about what music would work best. 

Experimenting with different colours on my magazine front cover

Today I have finished my magazine front cover, although I spent some time finding the ideal colour that would best suit the magazine. Below I have some pictures of the different colours that I went for:

Here you can see using the colour scale to manipulate the perfect picture.