Ancillary task- Magazine front cover

AncillaryTask- Magazine front cover

For one of my preliminary tasks, i chose to create a magazine frot cover, featuring the film my group and I made. Aftre plenty of research into the codes and convetions of the popular movie magazine, 'Empire'.

Preliminary task magazine front cover

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After analysing other teaser posters, I have chosen to emulate a design I feel will be effective in drawing in attention, with an interesting central image. the film poster I am emulating in for 'The Eye'. I am going to take a close up photo of an eye, and then photo shop a dark and mysterious figure into the reflection.

Ancillary task photos

Film teaser posters

Before creating my own teaser poster, i have research some famous and successful ones to see what conventions they follow. although similar to actual film posters, they are usually published a while before the film is released, as a way of drawing in the audience with its sense of mystery. Here are a few i found to be most effective.
I have noticed that each poster contains one stark central image to drawn in the eye, and little text. The Dark Knight poster and the Happy Potter poster both include a tag line and film title, whereas the X-men poster only includes a release date. this simplicity is effective in creating suspense and excitement towards the release date. we can tell that each of the posters belong to established films with a large fan base, due to their ambiguity, not needing to give to much away but as the same time the audience knows exactly what film is being advertised.
Another aspect that all three posters share is effective lighting. the Harry Potter and X-men poster both include well lit faces in good quality, in faded black backgrounds to draw more attention to this central image as well as further adding to the mystery. Similarly, The Dark Knight poster is dark round the edges, and the main lighting is thrown upon the central image which is effective in catching the eye.

Finally Filmed

We finally got down to filming on the 25Th of January. After a lot of difficulties to do with location, we did a fair amount of changing to our original idea. Instead of basing our idea on an abandoned building and a ghost hunting team, we decided as a group to change the idea to something a little more idealistic, but still suitable to the genre of horror. Filming took place in James' house and we had one character to keep things simple and manageable. Our idea is based on a girl who is babysitting and gets terrorised in the night. We have one actress that plays the girl getting terrorised and James steps away from helping filming to play the mysterious figure doing the terrorising. All in all, i would say it was a successful evening, we got almost all filming done, as well as taking some successful shots to use as the film poster and magazine cover. Here are a few shots of the team recording.

Anicllary Task- Finished Film Poster

This is the finished poster I have created from my previous shots. i have now added a title, that looks as if it is dripping, creating a scary and haunting feel, as well as adding a conventional tag line, and small print at the bottom, to make it appear professional, and conforming to the conventions expected from a film poster. i would like to use this design as a template for my final poster, as i find it quite effective in its role of enticing an audience who like horror films, with its theme of colours and abstract fonts/images.