Analysis of Film Poster (Film Poster Explained)

In order to analyse my film poster, I have created an image on a photo editing programme in which I explain each element of the film poster I created. (Please click the image to enlarge it)

Other Ways of Advertising My Film

As a publicity campaign it is important that I am able to represent and advertise my film in many different ways and in many different locations. Advertisements on the side of buses are quite popular in doing this as they move around a lot and therefore the amount of people who view these adverts are informed of upcoming or new films, products or services.

It is also important that I am able to show that my film publicity campaign can be represented in this format also. Therefore below, I have edited images to show what possible advertisements for midnight massacre 2 could look like in terms of bus advertisements. In order to create this, I used the image editing programme named Corel. I have also included images from our film poster and also magazine in the advertisement in order to create a link between them.

Below I have included the images:

Production of Film Poster

As myself and Vanessa were happy with the flat-plans and decisions we had made, we both went home and created a film poster.

Below my film poster is featured on the left hand side whilst Vanessa's is on the right hand side.

As a group, we discussed which poster we felt was better and for what reasons. In the end, we concluded that we were to use my poster as appose to Vanessa's as mine looked 'more professional'.

HOW I MADE THE FILM POSTER

To construct the film poster, I used a photo editing programme named Corel. This is much like photoshop which I was used to and also gained experience of using it during my AS in year 12, creating a music magazine. Although Corel had some differences and therefore it took a bit of getting used to. I used some of the images we took whilst shooting and edited the brightness and contrast if them and also airbushed Jess' skintone in order to portray a more professional effect. I also inserted an image of bloody hands which we took whilst filming and made it more faint and flipped Jess' picture in order to create a sense that Jess is oblivious to the hands behind her. I included the title of our Horrror Film in 'Horror type' font and included the production details at the bottom and icons/logo which film audiences are familiar with such as the paramount logo.

Below are images of my film poster in the programme: Corel and also the original image I used

Beginning Magazine and Film Poster

I was fairly confident when beginning to plan the magazine and poster for my group as we had carried out good research and planning and therefore I was pretty sure what audiences wanted and expected from this. Myself and Vanessa sat down and created a flat plan after school in which we decided where we wanted things on both the magazine and the poster.

An Insight To Filming Day 1

Shot Content: Victim running in corridor
Location: Art Corridor

I couldn't wait to start filming after all the research and planning I had done between me and my group. The first time which we filmed was during my lesson time which meant that Vanessa and Chantel could record and I couldnt. So, to help out, I help them set up the scenery in which we were to film. Although we are using a range of locations in our horror trailer, our first setting was using the art corridor in our school. We wanted to make the scenary quite dark howver not too dark in order for the viwers to still be able to see the victim running. To do this, we found A2 size black paper and began to stick it on the windows of the art corridor, at first it did not seem to be making it darker however after the job had nearly been completed we could see the clear difference. We then used brown sellotape to create a wild and discomforting affect. After we used red paint to paint the words 'YOU CAN'T TURN BACK THE CLOCK'

We filmed Chantel running through the corridors scared and panting heavily. To ensure that we would get the best shot for our trailer, we recorded many shots from different angles. We also recorded a scene with a mysterious person in the background to see whether this would make our horror film scarier or cliché.

Film Production Still Images

Whilst filming, we also took images of what we were doing in order to show our work not only through clips but through images too. This ensures that we have a record of our work done and it also simply nice to be able to look at the photos and refer back to the process. Below is a slideshow of all the images we took whilst filming:

Photo shoot-Still Images

As a group, we visited Highgate Cemetery to take our still images in which we wanted to initially use for our magazine cover. We met up with Harriane who plays the cold hearted serial killer in our trailer. We all went to the cemetery and took various images from a range of different angles in which we felt would be beneficial to us in terms of our production work. Below is a slideshow containing the images we took whilst at the cemetery. We done this with the aim that we would show our peers and friend in order to gain other perceptions of what images other people felt were most appropriate.