My Mock Magazine Front Cover

This are the two mock front covers that I have made which show the layouts that I made and I have followed to create two simple but effective magazine front covers. These will be developed in the future to make them stand out more to the audience I am aiming for and to make them look slightly more professional.

First Edit of Trailer

This is my first edit of my trailer, we had a small problem with the voice over which shall be reshot to put on the next draft of our trailer along with slightly more footage to make the trailer longer and show the narrative more, but overall I am very happy with how the trailer has turned out and I think that it shows the narrative well to the audience.

Ancillary Text - Shutter Island

When analysing more existing media products I chose to look at the film ‘Shutter Island’ which is in the genre of psychological thriller which is what I am studying and creating. The film ‘Shutter Island’ was very widely watched by the target audience of teenagers and young adults and lots of advertisements were made to make sure that the production company made as much money possible as they could from the production. The way that they were able to get as much audience attention than they did was through the use of making billboard posters, being on the front of existing magazines such as Empire and Total Film along with then making sure that the DVD cover stood out from others on the market.

To make sure that the audience was able to see that all of the different products linked together to create the film of ‘Shutter Island’ the production company made sure that all of the products made have things in common such as the dark colour scheme that was used to show the danger to the audience of going to Shutter Island along with then the dark black and white colours used in the text to make sure that they stand out from the dim lit background to show the importance of staying in the light and the brightness of a room (in this case not going inside the mental asylum). The font that has been used on all of the products is bold and stands out from the page with every letter of the masthead being in capitals and spaced out evenly from one another varying in colour from the red writing to white title to even in one of the products being in an orange/yellow to symbolise the flames that have been lit by the characters. The smaller text is in the same font as the bigger text, this could have been because the producers didn’t want multiple texts on the front to show that only one character takes part in finding out what happens about Shutter Island and that everyone there is just the same as everyone suffers with negative mental health. Along with this the images that have been used are all very similar as the one photo of the protagonist character Leonardo DiCaprio holding the flame is an image that is seen on multiple products which will be something that the audience is then able to recognise and connect with due to seeing it so many different times. He is normally shown behind the location which might show the audience that he is suck somewhere he cannot escape or maybe he is trapped as a patient, the image is very dark showing the genre of psychological thriller.

Due to all of the print products of the film having similar colours and fonts I need to plan what all of my print products will have in common due to making sure that the audience is aware of the link in my products, making sure that the film links with what the audience would want to see. Along with this I need to make sure that all of the products that I will make need to show continuity between the products and the film I have considered this through looking at different colour schemes such as shades of pink due to it being one of the colour schemes I used in my AS coursework along with more unisex colours like red and blue as my film will need to appeal to both different genders as this is my target audience. I looked at existing products already in the media and realised that they use a lot of red to maybe show danger and importance along with bold colours such as black and then shades of grey and white, I think that this will be the colour scheme that I choose to use due to the genre of my trailer and all of my print products being a psychological thriller where I shall aim to show the genre of my products through the use of bold colours and fonts.

Right at this moment in time I am not sure on what exact fonts I will be planning to use as when it comes to making my print products I know that I shall be using a range of fonts to show that some things on the page are more important than others for example all of the cover lines on my magazine front cover will be in a more informal font that has similarities to the other fonts to make sure that they do not look ‘odd’ or ‘strange’ together on the page and to make the audience want to read it due to it looking professional. This shall be similar when it comes to making my billboard, posters and DVD front cover as I need to make sure that all of the products have some sort of continuity and link which shall be shown in the fonts that I will be using. A good example of products that all have the similar continuity would be, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ make sure that they show similarities by the use of dark images of the main characters along with the colour scheme of red and white and then making sure that the title/masthead is always the biggest thing on the page and a different colour from the rest of the information. The same font has been used on the title as it has on the smaller text, as everything on the page is written in lower case letters rather than capitals which could suggest to the audience that things constantly continue and have the same importance during the film. 

Along with this the images that I shall be using will show the main character who is played by Sophie who will be shadowed by her other personalities and character types to make sure that the audience understands the darkness of the separate characters and how they all live inside one body. The images that I am using will be different on every print product however include a different affect due to the lighting in the photographs even though the lighting shall be darkened to make the image stand out on the page along with showing the genre of psychological thriller and shows the under darkness of the character and there story (the narrative of the film trailer) which shall be shown in all print products. 

Intertitles

I made inter-titles that will be shown in my trailer in between the clips of the characters to help show the audience more about the trailer and the narrative of the story, many existing trailers use inter titles as part of a story to the audience and get them more involved with the trailer and make them want to find out what will happen next. An example of a film trailer that uses inter-titles; Shutter Island, this film is in the genre of psychological thrillers and includes inter-titles to be able to get the story across to the audience so that they want to watch the film.


These are the inter-titles that I created to be shown in my trailer. The dark background will help the audience realise that my film is a psychological and dark thriller with the white writing that stands out from the dark background showing straight away and not hard to see from afar.

Testing Fonts For Magazine Front Cover

I went on a website called Dafont where I tested out a range of different fonts where I layered one of my images that I had taken of my character in my Film and put the masthead ideas on top of the image so I could see what font I thought would go best in my magazine front cover and maybe other print products that I would create in the future. The image below shows one of the ideas that I decided to use and I think that it looks professional and structured. I asked one of the pupils in my class at school what they thought of the layout that I have made so far (even though I will need to add more information to it in the near future) what he thought about the product and the masthead text that I had used his reply was;
''Due to the back image being slightly faded I think that it looks very plain on the page and I don't think it looks right on the page however all of the font letters are evenly spaced apart and can be seen by the audience and customer for the product''.

Creating Intertitles

I wanted to start looking at fonts that I would be able to use for my inter-titles that appear during the film, I started looking at more basic fonts which can be shown in the middle of the page and then later on trailed more advanced fonts which gave the inter-title more of a uniqueness as it is not shown in any other films.

Hand Drawn Designs - Front Cover

 These are some hand drawn layouts for my magazine front cover they include all of the conventions of existing magazine front covers along with the text that I shall use for my cover lines and headlines for example when it comes to making the final products.

Location Update

These are two weather reports that I took during our filming and when we were taking still images for our trailer and print products as when it came to filming we came across some problems that we had not planned for very well due to not looking at the weather. On the 31st Jan during a filming session outside on the road side it began to rain so we had to reschedule to another date where we could do the filming without anything going wrong, the weather was something that we could not have controlled and meant that we should of planned ahead for bad weather.

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Testing Out Makeup

There are a couple of shots that will be put into our final trailer where the murderer is covered in make up to hide her true identity as she doesn't really know who she is due to her having Multiple Personality Disorder, we had a weekend where we tried  a range of make up until we found something that we both agreed would work very well to show the scariness of having a mental illness and would also show the character change to the audience during the trailer. Here is the make up idea that we decided would work the best for our production of 'Plan C'.

Planning For Photo-shoots

Plans For Photo-shoot’s

For all print products (front cover of magazine, DVD cover, and billboard)

On the 24^th Jan the photos were taken during a day of filming because we were able to get the characters into their costumes without having to get unchanged and then back into full costume later on that day.

People Needed	Time/Date	Resources
Erin, Sophie and Will all need to be wearing full costume so that the audience is able to see the difference between the characters.	11am – 4pm, 24/01/15	Camera, Tripod
Sophie needs to have all clothes for all of her characters that she shall be playing, Roxanne, Ava, Vivienne.	12am – 1pm, 31/01/15	Camera, Tripod
Erin, Sophie and William will need to be in costume and ready to film for all different characters.	1pm – 6pm, 26/01/15	Camera, Tripod

Location Release

I do not need to do any location releases as I am not filming in a public area, due to the only area that I and Sophie are filming in being our houses and the roadside where we have filmed so that no cars or houses are shown in the background. However I have asked my family as I am filming in my house where people will be present at the time. 

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