Second Lesson of 2013

Today was the first lesson for two weeks due to last weeks lesson being cancelled due to the snow. We continued on our magazine, poster and trailer editing and got a better glimpse of how our poster and magazine would turn out like. We researched past Empire magazine covers to get a feel for what types and how they are laid out and we have decided to go with a magazine cover very similar to the Django Unchained issue due to it's dark, simple yet mysterious front cover. The lack of writing adds to this mysterious allure and that would fit in perfectly with the horror narrative.

First Magazine Front Cover Draft

This is our first draft of our magazines front cover. This is the basis of what we will be doing. We will add some more text about the film and whats inside the magazine and we will be making the background darker to fit in with the horror genre. We will also be changing the colour of the title.

Risk assessment form.

This magazine cover from Empire is the magazine cover I'm going to base mine around. It's dark and to the point. There is a dark background and the use of a gun pointing at the reader shows what type of film it is, an action thriller.

Here's the photo that we will use for our magazine cover. It's very similar to the Django Unchained cover where there is just the character and a little bit of writing. The majority of it is also dark and makes the reader uneasy and curious to find out what the film is about. This fits in really well with the horror narrative as a result of this mysterious air to it.  

First Lesson of 2013

Today was our first lesson since last filming the final parts of our trailer. We all looked at the footage and the initial editing that Matt had started which was very good. We debated how and what to do next to make it even better and thrashed some ideas about. We started to add more of a description to our photos on the right tab of the blog about why we took them and what we like about them.

We have also started the magazine cover and poster and getting used to the software like photoshop that we're using to put them together. We have also decided to bring in the mask next week and to take more photos of it and then edit it into our trailer and poster to make it our antagonist more of a mystery, that will also add suspense.