Molly Owens A2 Media Studies

 

• The main image is simple yet effective
• The 'innocence' of the main image conveys a different look
• The poster generally falls into common codes and conventions of magazines
• The over-laid images are edited effectively (very 80's but fits well)

• The chosen text is all over the place, a maximum of two different texts would look more professional
• The size of the 'coming soon' text overpowers the feature title
• Press quotes are usually on DVD release posters and magazine front covers, rather than teaser posters

• The main image works very well and looks professional
• The colour scheme is effective and again makes it look professional
• It sticks closely with codes and conventions
• Not too much on it so it has avoided overcrowding
• It looks like it could be an actual empire magazine front cover
• Everything from the text, colour scheme, image and layout relates directly to the film
• It has a very strong house style

• The magazine masthead should be larger. Empire are known for never altering their masthead so this should have been portrayed so it can stand out more.
• The black 'splats' kill any connotations of blood and violence and connote ink more than anything else.
• The barcode is not in the normal place, it should be on the right hand side as it is less important and the left hand side of a magazine is reserved for important information as the target market read left to right so they will see this info first.

Fourth Day of Filming

This was my largest filming day as it involved my two actresses doing some scenes for me. I had to do multiple takes as they were doing it for the first time when I was filming. I also had to get on with filming quite quickly as I was relying on natural daylight for some locations of filming in the house so this limited their practise time. The first scene I filmed was the girls walking up and down the stairs, the natural lighting for this looked very effective to I chose not to add any extra lighting. I had to re-film this a few times to get timings correct, as well as the girls hearing me when I tell them to start as there were a few instances when one would hear me and the other wouldn’t, which led to some confusion. I then filmed Flick hiding the box, I asked her to look obviously suspicious as my trailer is intending to not reveal a lot of narrative so I am adding in very few, but obvious hints at my narrative. I then filmed the girls going into the place where Flick hid the box.  I decided to film this from a few different angles to make it look less staged when it comes to editing. After this I filmed Flick and Effy running off upstairs, this was my weakest piece of footage as they kept looking directly at the camera, so it doesn’t look too professional. Finally, I took a few atmospheric shots of slow zooming outside of the window and focus on nature to incorporate some verisimilitude into my trailer as I want it to seem somewhat realistic as this will make it scarier to the audience – I found this out from my market research. I also filmed their pet fish swimming around to test the camera focus but I feel this could be effective in my trailer somewhere, to again incorporate more verisimilitude.

Third day of filming

I had to re-film the majority of my blood splatter scenes as I didn’t make sure the camera’s auto focus was off for manual focus so all of the ‘splatters’ that I captured were out of focus. Another issue was the fake blood that I used as it appeared very luminous on camera and looked more orange than blue-red. It was also very thick and sticky so all of my ‘blood drawings’ looked unrealistic. What I did on my third day of filming to change this was to change the fake blood I was using, I replaced the shop bought fake blood with a mixture of food colouring, red drawing ink and black drawing ink. I combination of all of these looked very effective be weren’t thick enough to look completely realistic, hence why I used the black ink in an attempt to make it look thicker which I feel worked very well and with editing will improve further.