My individual film poster
Sally's individual film poster
Hannah's individual film poster
We first looked at each film poster individually and pointed out what we think would work and what we didn't think would work well with a horror thriller genre film poster. We first started with looking at all the film titles. We came to a conclusion that 'Click' would work bests for our film title, as it wasn't too long and it was rel event to the teaser trailer as a camera clicks when you take photographs. Comparing to the rest of the mastheads we had to choose from, 'Flashing Trees', 'One Day' and 'Perfect Picture', the film title we choose was more relevant to the trailer and also foreshadowed what happens, which creates suspense for a viewer.
Secondly we shared our tag line ideas to decide which one worked best with a horror thriller film poster and our story line. As a group we decided that 'It lies beneath the trees' would work best with the film poster as it create thrill and suspense for the viewer. It questions that and leaves them wondering what happens in this film. The other tag lines that we had to choose from were 'Be prepared to be scared...', 'Was he only being friendly?' and 'All he wanted was a shot with her'. The reason why we chose the tag line from the film poster I designed was because we all felt as a group it was more relevant to the teaser trailer itself and the genre horror and thriller.
When it came to deciding which main image worked best for our film poster we struggled a little bit as there was two main ones that stood out to us as a group. We all really liked Sally's main image and Laura's main image on their posters because they bothy worked really well with the plot for the trailer. In the end we decided as a group to go with Sally's main image as it was a very unusual compared to previous horror thriller film poster we all analysed. Having this difference would hopefully appeal to the viewer and entice them to go see the film thinking its a lot different to previous horror thriller films. We also decided to include Laura's main image in the heart collage that Sally had create as we all thought that Laura's image would have a great effect on a viewer.
Also for the final film poster we decided as a group to only include the actress's name 'Kate McCormack' and place it in the center at the top instead of at the side in the corner. This would make it easier for the viewer to notice and read the actress's name.
As a group we all decided that there would be a black background because almost everyone film poster used a black background and it also would contribute to the horror thriller genre. Also went with the release date that the film poster I designed used ' 31st October 2011', as it would ironic for the film to be released on Halloween.
Deciding what should be included in the billing block was a long discussion as we were all unsure what we would include in the final film poster. However Sally found a template of a billing block
and we decided to follow this template including a made up producers names, our names and Kate McCormack's names for the lead actress.
We also noticed on Laura's film magazine front cover that she had included 'The scariest film of all time - Empire'. as a group we decided this would be really effective to use on the film poster. If this was a film poster for a real film having a quote from a well known film magazine would defiantly be a key feature to encouraging viewers to see the film.
One of my film magazine front cover drafts which we looked at instead
Sally's individual film magazine front cover
Laura's individual film magazine front cover
Hannah's individual film magazine front cover
After deciding which film poster ideas works best for our final poster we moved on to discussing each individual film magazine front cover designs. We first began looking at everyone mastheads and came to a conclusion that the masthead I designs in my final front cover worked best. Hannah agreed that she liked the way how the heart in 'FilmLovers' symbolised the word 'love' in the masthead. She said this made the masthead stand out and different from mastheads we had all analysed previously. also, I think if we all decided as a group to continue with the red, black and white colour scheme, this masthead would work well with it.
We all looked at every ones individual main image for their film magazine front covers, but none of the final drafts that we had all picked stood out to anyone, and none of us could come to an agreement on them. I knew that I still had some drafts left from previous main images I had experimented with, so I thought it would be a good idea to show the rest of the group. After showing the rest of the group these draft film magazine front covers we all came to a decision on one of the images. The image of Kate in a mid shot staring directly at the camera. We decided on this image of Kate as it represents the teaser trailers plot very well. With Kate staring directly into the camera immediately creates tension for a viewer. The shape of the image also creates good structure for the rest of the conventions on the cover.
We then looked at everyone different film magazine front cover conventions we all decided we really liked Sally's 'Saw 3D' plug. We all really liked the liquefy effect and the blood red colour she had used. It was very different to other plugs we had come across in analysing previous film magazine front covers. We also decided as a group to keep all of the plugs that I had designed in my front cover. They decided this because they thought they all worked well with the colour scheme and created a very realistic effect. The only things we decided to change slightly was the number in '20 new films' to '39 new films' which is what Hannah had included in her front cover. We thought this was a good idea because it was unique and different from what other film magazine front covers had used from previous analysing. we also decided instead of having the barcode, date and price separately we would include them together in the bottom of the front cover. This is a convention that almost every film magazine front cover do, so we thought this would make it more realistic. We all agreed that we were happy with the structure used in my individual film magazine front cover and the colour scheme, so we would keep them when designing our group final.
After the meeting we thought it would be a good idea to pair up in twos and re-design both the film poster and the film magazine front cover. As the film poster ideas were mainly from Sally's and Laura film posters we thought it would be best that them two paired up to design the groups final film poster. Whereas most of the film magazine front cover ideas were from mine and Hannah's front covers it would be a good ideas for us two to pair up and design the groups final film magazine front cover.
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