Poster

I have now added a comment and rating from Synergy Magazine, our fictional magazine we designed a cover for, this should hopefully attract a further audience as a reliable source as reviewed this a a great film!

The billing block did not need to be so large, so we decided to shrink like This Is England poster, where the production cast are not needed to be so noticeable as not well known. This also allows the title and tag line to stand out more, better advertising!

Actor and Director added above title, mimicking suck like Moneyball suggesting there is a following to these people or just to promote them, should attract a wide audience.

Studio logos added as well as website. One on each side helps balance the overal look.

Once we had overlaid our title did not word at the top as it became too busy and top heavy. We therefore moved the title lower and added our title and billing block.

This drainpipe was near the doorway, but not close enough to have in the same shot and Cally to still be large enough. We decided to crop this image and edit it to have the same white levels and then overlay to our main image. We wanted this in our poster as it adds an aspect of 'grittiness' to our poster which is representable of our genre.

Histogram edited, on Aperture, to give a more professional style.

Title over laid too, using Gimp.

Original photograph, subject off centre as this is more pleasing to the eye. Contrast between white and black with the subtle hints of colour catches your eye, similar to Somers Town poster.

BLOGGING!

Poster Research

All these posters have been taken from films that have a similar genre to ours, social realism, or storyline, a third party or ours interrupting the equilibrium.

In the Billy Elliot poster we have a close up shot of the main character. The high saturation of this photograph as well as the shapes in the background, which mimic the patterns created by flashing light, suggest this character has celebrity or high status. However we are not exposed to the whole face of the character, which could suggest there is struggle or something is not quite right, depriving this character to have this outcome.

Moneyball’s audience is very board. There will be the followers of Baseball, then Brad Pitt fans, as well as Jonah Hill and Phillip Seymour Hoffman fans, but also the people whom have seen the trailer and like this genre of film. Therefore the distributers have to incorporate all those factors and produce a poster, which will target these audiences. I believe it has bee done very well. Main character centred, with name above title aims at one group. Other famous actor’s also large to target another.  Photograph shot in baseball stadium. But the very realistic camera angle suggest a realistic nature to this film the final target audience.

Somers Town is a very eye catching poster.  The contrast between the black and white is the bright yellow type draws your eye straight to the title! Famous director also to target his following, and if unheard of a title of one of his previous films it on the poster too.  As this is a very independent film there will not be much of a following/existing audience so good reviews from reliable sources are also published on poster to make people want to see this production as it is thought to be good! The shallow depth of field on the photograph has been used to draw your eyes to these two characters, suggesting what the film will be about, their lives. The urban housing in the background suggest the settings as well as the costumes of the characters all portraying the mise-en-scene of the film.

Similar to Somers Town, This Is England depicts a photograph of the charactes with mise-en-scene to convey that of the film. Location, and time period are quite clearly shown, urban housing and “summer 1983” above title. But the main thing about this poster is all the awards and reviews given at the top. These are large and the main influence in making people was to watch this film, very typical of a niche independent film with low funds.  Billing block and studio logos very small as no recognisable names so this is not significant.

Final A2 Trailer

This is our final trailer, edited and complete!

Final Magazine Cover

After More Thought...

After watching our 'final' edit a few times we both realised it was just lacking something. We decided to move some the clips around into a more ordered fashion hopefully allowing the audience to understand our trailer better. we also added a scene of Cally looking extremely happy to empathises her happiness. We choose this scene as we didn't have a shot that showed her clearly really happy and this emotion directly related to riding. In this shot she is wearing her riding hat, and although you cant see, she is on a horse! Now we just have to adapt our music again to fit this new edit and then we have finished our trailer.

Magazine Research

Main character in costume (centre, very famous actor)

Type face and colours in style of genre of 'Inception'

Tag line relate to film aspect "mind-blowing"

Very similar to previous cover.

Colours and typeface relates to genre.

Main characters centred in costume.

Different magazine company, same style.

Character centred in costume.

More stressed on other aspect within this edition as well though.

Style representative of genre, american action.

Character's name overlaid a might not be as noticeable to who the actor is.

very stylised to the genre of this film.

Main character again centred in costume.

"bloody brilliant" risky comedy but apt. for audience.