Magazine Draft No. 2

This is the second draft of my magazine, originally I was going to create my own magazine called "PURGED" but after multiple drafts and weeks of trying to find the right style I decided to use an existing magazine, and I've chosen EMPIRE. EMPIRE is an international seller and is one of the biggest magazines in circulation, and arguably the biggest movie based magazine out there. This is only my first draft of my new magazine so there's a lot of work that needs to be done. The hardest part is filling the pages with articles making sure they are in line and in the right place, it needs to look professional as if someone would actually buy the magazine. I am currently awaiting feedback from my teacher, I'm going to keep working on it over the next few days and hopefully I'll get come constructive feedback to improve my magazine. The main thing that is missing at the minute is the main image, like with my poster I had not taken any actual photos for my auxiliary products so I am planning to go out and film tomorrow with Thomas and Luke and we will be getting footage for the trailer but also taking some photos for my poster and magazine, I plan on taking quite a few so I can pick and choose what fits best.

Poster Draft No. 4

Draft 4, nearly finished. Upon receiving feedback from my teacher I made all the alterations I needed to. Firstly, I have changed the credit block, before it seemed like a list and the text was a bit to large, it was also to far into the middle of the page. So I changed the font size, added more to it and set it out better so it stretches to further across the poster. Then I changed the tag line "THE NIGHT IT CAME HOME" it was to small and did not stand out compared to anything else on the poster. The title "CASSETTE I" I also changed, again like the tagline it was too small and along with the main image, the title should be one of the first things that stands out, and it didn't. So I enlarged it after I made more room by altering the credit block. Also along the bottom I noticed that I had a British age rating of 15 but also an American G rating, reading "All Ages Admitted" which I did not notice, so i took it out and kept the British 15 rating. I also fixed the font for WWW.CASSETTEFILM.COM for before it looked like more like an armed forces font. Then I included my company logo, Gladewick Productions. The final thing I must do is find a new main image, I did notice at first the photo was quite creepy but wasn't very clear for it was a screenshot from the trailer itself, and also my teacher pointed that out. Tomorrow we are going out to film some more of our trailer and I am going to take a couple of new shots and decide which one I am going to use on my front cover.

Many of the changes made are minor and you would probably not notice at first glance unless compared to my other three drafts, but nonetheless they are effective. I am hoping to have the final poster finished and on my blog by tomorrow evening.

Poster Draft No. 3

This is my third draft and I'm very happy with it. I added a few more features, the tagline along the top of the poster and the 'general audiences', website link, and 'dolby digital' logo. I also put my main image into Pixlr and edited it. I darkened the nostrils, and mainly concentrated on the left hand side of the face for it was far brighter than the other side before i edited it, and it stood out significantly. I prefer using Pixlr to Photoshop, despite photoshop being generally better software. One, its easier to use, and two I wasn't doing very advanced editing, just shading in the face and manipulating the general brightness of the photo. I am waiting on opinion of my teacher to see what else I need to to or what could be changed.

Poster Draft No. 2

I've been testing out different images for my main image on my poster, so when I was editing the trailer I took a screenshot of the face of the 'Stalker' in our film, initially after the screenshot it didn't look very good so I put it into pages and altered the shadow, saturation and brightness and it ended up looking quite creepy. I'm not 100% satisfied with it yet, I'd like to try out a few more main images before I finally finish it, i feel there's something missing from it. I'm also going to put the image into pixels or photoshop where I can manipulate it more.

First Draft of my Poster

Here is the first draft of my poster for or trailer of CASSETTE I which I created in Pages. I took much inspiration from many other horror film posters and general film posters, generally many of them have the same kind of lay out as mine. I am currently in the process of taking photographs to use as my main image, also for my magazine. I will wait for some feedback off of my teacher to see what I can alter and change to make it better. My favourite [art about the poster so far is the title, I could not change the colour of the actual title font because it was an image so I had to find a way around it. What I did was mask it, get rid of the white edges so it fades into the black background. Then I changed the border and shape of the text in pages which game me a sort of, smeared blood look. Very effective. I will post my updated poster in the coming days once I have received some feed back and found a main image.

Magazine Front Cover Draft No. 1

Here is the first draft of my magazine. Instead of using an existing magazine, I decided to create my own because I believe it will give me more creative freedom. I am still un-decided on the mast head font, I like it but I'm not sure that it matches the thriller / horror genre I am going for. I am also still unsure about the incentive as-well, It is referring to the 1978 film of the same name but I don't believe many people will understand it, they will just think it's a Halloween shirt. Doing magazines last year in AS has really helped me crate my current magazine and poster, next i am going to mess around with the masthead and see if I can improve it. Also I am going to work on the main article and sell line. The most important thing I need to do is to get some photo's, especially for the main image.