Ancillary task begins!!! HT

We have taken the advice of our teacher and have decided to split our ancillary tasks between the 4 of us, Me and Amy are going to tackle the advertising poster and Sophie and Claire are going to do the web page.

Me and Amy have decided that today we will try out different shots and mise-en-scene's for our poster. We've both agreed that we will try and mimic the picture of 'eyes' which Claire posted. We particularly like this and will take inspiration from this as it depicts the horror theme really well also with the eyes being off centre in the picture it allows us enough room to add titles and other texts. We hope to get all the pictures taken today so we can start on putting our poster together on photoshop; using the photoshop tutorial i added below.

Cold Night for Alligators Font.. AM

This type of font is very suitable for our media trailer as each letter looks like it has been drawn with blood. As the genre of our media trailer is a horror, it is important that we get a font that represents the intensity of the killings that occur throughout the trailer.

Eyes Idea CA

The idea of the dark background against the pale skin and the blood from the eyes makes the image very intense.

Useful link? CA

I found a link to another blog with research links into how to make a thriller poster.



http://a2mediacourseworkdanielparslow.blogspot.com/2010/11/film-poster-reaserch.html

Influences for poster HT

I think that this forest picture could be an ideal influence for what we should try and re-create for our poster; with the focus on the sun just breaking through the trees and depth of the picture we could create with help of photoshop to make it seem the ideal place to resemble and give connotations of a horror. It also ties in well with the theme of our film which is set in a forrest. We can grab the interest of the audience by layering the poster with different images; for example in the photoshop tutorial they use clouds to set the scene. We could also adjust the saturation and colour of the photo to enable us to pull of the correct affect and feeling for our poster to give off the correct message.

As the seperation of the trees leaves us with a lot of room to work with we could follow as the photoshop tutorial explains we could use an image to send off a message, in the tutorials case they use eyes i think we could also follow this as it would highten the fact the film is a horror and also add to the suspense of the film as the audience will want to find out who this person is.

We can set the eyes in a black background like the picture above in order to not give too much away and add to the suspense of the piece. Photoshop tutorial also explains that we should work on the eyes and make them more dramatic and other worldly so they fit in with the theme of the film.

How to create a Thriller/Horror poster HT

I thought this link on tutorials in photoshop will be extremely beneficial to us as it will allow us to take step by step gudiance and ensure that our poster is of the highest quality, depicting the corret message to our audience and also aiming to the right market sector for our film.


http://www.tutorialkit.com/tutorials/How-to-create-a-Thriller-Horror-Film-Poster-in-Photoshop-59857.html

Appropriate fonts...HT

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mZM51LbCQTYJ:marketingeasy.net/how-to-choose-the-best-fonts-3-key-tips/2007-07-10/+appropriate+fonts+for+marketing&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

This site will help us choose the right and appropriate font to use for our advertisement of our film. It offers a 3 point guide on how to choose and apply the most appropriate font for the genre of film.

1. The size of font would allow direct variation of attention to a advert
2. Colours, these are usually linked to emotion, these would help tell the audience the genre of the film in a subtle way
3. Typeface these need to be practical and easy to read