Poster Update

This is an update from the previous mock up of our poster, we changed the contrast of the background photo and filled the background with more black so it's darker, this makes the poster look more scary becuse persons is hidden in the darkness so you can't fully see there facial features and surrondings. Having done this the title looks brighter making it the main focal point, this is want we wanted to achieve. to fill the black space at the top of the poster we going to put a tagline for the film here, we also need to add more information to the bottom credits.

Poster Mockup

This is a mockup of what we are doing for our poster. To test out the colours, fonts and layout. We think this image is most effective and we will do our own photo inspired by this one. We got the idea for the credits from the new Saw movie poster. We chose to use the same colour and style of writing for our poster that they used because Saw is also a horror film, by Lionsgate like ours. When we do our own photo for the background we will make it darker as in this photo the face is too bright and takes the attention away from the title.

Picture Ideas For Poster

Here are some pictures I found on deviantart.com in the photography/people&portraits/expressive section. I looked at portraits because we want our photo to be of the main character on her own, and I looked in the expressive section because we didn't just want a plain portrait of the character we want it to be showing something about the film. These photos have given me lots of ideas and inspiration of how we can do our poster photo and it's also given me some ideas for shots we could use in the trailer as well.

I like this photo because of how they've layered a few different positioned photographs. I think using the same technique of this but using a close up of our characters face would work well for the kind of effect were going for on our poster, a distorted view.

This photo doesn't really relate to our theme exactly but i think it looks really effective and real, but obviously wouldn't be right for the style of image we're going for.

I like this image because of how close up it is which is what we are doing for the photo on our poster, I also think just showing the eye shows more expression but keeps the identity of the person hidden. If we used the same setup for our poster photo as this I would probably want to have the eye look bigger and probably make it black and white and with the eye a little further down so the eyelashes aren't cut out of the photo.

This is my favourite of the photos I looked at, it gives off an obvious vibe of horror which we want and it also draws you in and makes you interested and look closely. I think the fact it's black and white with the blood drip in colour is really effective and makes it fit in with the horror genre. I think this image would be easy to achieve just using a good camera and the editing tools on photoshop. I think maybe combining this photo idea with the first one using layers of photos could also work really well.

I also really like this photo because it's quite scary, a close up version of this maybe of just one half of the face would work really well for our poster. The girls expression makes her look terrified but it also makes the person looking at it scared as well because the eyes are like popping out which scares me but I really like the black going down her cheeks.

This image was created by scanning the face directly onto the computer. I think it gives a really good effect of being trapped but I don't think we would want to use this technique or layout as there are a couple of other effects that look and would work better.

Poster Background Idea

This is a picture which advertised the most recent Skins series, we are going to look at the skins series to give us inspiration as they experiment with different camera angles, they have a teenage cast and use typical stereotypes for some of the characters. this is similar to ours as we want to have teenagers in our teaser trailer. In skins the friendship group seems to be mixed, you wouldn't like necessarily think that they would all be friends, so this challenges some stereotypes of teenage groups. We have included this poster as we think it illustrates the characters straight away and tells you a little bit about them, we may look at this sort of style of photograph for our film poster, showing you all the main characters. I think what makes the photograph effective is because its an action shot, which makes it easy to recognise with because it relates to the program.

Pitch

A2 Pitch

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Here is some of the feedback we got after we presented our pitch to the class.

• need to research/think about the kind of music/soundtrack we want
• dialogue?
• continuity of costumes/makeup because it's all set in one day/time space
• distinguishing who the killer is - show obsession

We now also need to think about

• institution
• film name
• poster background/photo ideas
• storyboard
• list of shots/camera angles
• music
• dialogue