Film Poster and Magazine

After creating and successfully producing my teaser trailer, I then created a film poster and a magazine front cover advertising the film. Both are show below with a summary of how i constructed each piece of work.

I created my film trailer poster within Photoshop. In order to construct my poster, I firstly took a close up camera shot of the main character’s eye and uploaded this image into Photoshop. Once uploaded, I then used the filtered tool and overlaid the colours within the image in order for it to look more fearful. The next step I took was to take a screen grab from the trailer itself of the villain and place this image within the eye and again, overlaid the colours. By placing the villain within the centre of the eye I was able to make the overall image look more terrifying and fearful to the spectators’ own eye. The last two final steps I took were to then add the tagline of the film and place it underneath the eye in small bold writing and then add the title of the film at the bottom of the poster in bold text.

When researching film posters, I came across ‘teaser posters’ which effectively contain one large image relating to the film itself and state the tagline and name of the film. I wanted to create a similar ‘teaser poster’ in relation to the ones that I had come across as I feel that teaser posters are a lot more effective and successful with the public as they leave the public wondering what the film could specifically be about and raise talk about the film. I feel that my finished film teaser poster is of somewhat effect as the overall image leaves you feeling tense, anxious and on edge, thus presenting my poster to be successful.

Again, to create my magazine front cover I used Photoshop. I decided to use the image that I had used previously for my poster and place this on my front cover to effectively show what specific film was being advertised to the public. The magazine title, “redrum” comes from the successful psycho-horror The Shining. The reason for why I decided on using this as my magazine title is because redrum is murder spelled backwards, which is typically what happens in a horror film. I then decided that the colour of title should be red as the colour red typically denotes danger, blood, killing and death which again are usually the typical elements found within a horror film. The next step I took was to place the title of the film on the front cover so as to establish what film is being promoted. The use of the phrase “psycho sleeper-hit” is a term that is used by the industry itself when publicizing a new and upcoming film and therefore decided that this would be an effective way of promoting my film. The last action I carried out was to place the barcode, date and price on the front cover to make the magazine look more authentic and genuine, thus completing my overall magazine front cover.