Audience magazine research

First magazine cover draft

This is our final poster. With this, we ensured that we analysed several other magazine front covers to ensure that we followed the typical conventions. For example, i looked at empire and noticed that we needed to add certain elements for it to look realistic. Such as the bold title, date, barcode, taglines etc.

Out takes of our updates

Out takes of our filming

Our teaser Trailer!

Audience research for teaser trailer

Update

So far with our video, we are coming to an end; however we still need to make a few alterations, such as fitting the music in with the newly added shots, changing the colour etc. Aftr this we are going to do some audience research to get other opinions and see if we need any changes.

We have completed our final poster and added the alterations that people suggested within our audience research.

Our magazine is almost finished, we have added all what's needed, such as the images, the title, barcode, tagline etc. With the background image, we did the Ouija board idea and a green screen idea, where there was going to be a silhouette of the character playing the Ouija board, however we changed this to a similar idea without the green screen, where instead we are going to change the contrast, adding a similar effect.

Our ACTUAL Poster

Possible taglines

1. The game has just begun
2. One game. No Rules
3. When game becomes reality
4. No escape from the board
5. No game. No pain. (The 'No's' crossed out)

Poster audience research

Research questions for poster

1. Looking at the poster, what do you think this film is about?
2. Do you think the title font is suitable for the poster? Why?
3. Do you like the colouring of the images?
4. Do you think the poster needs a tagline to inform us more of the film?
5. Do you think the poster needs more colour?
6. Do you think the bottom of the poster is too cluttered?
7. Do any fonts need changing? If so, what?

Our poster

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Actual magazine cover/poster

Posters:


















Magazine covers:

Poster ideas

Magazine cover ideas

Further Magazine and Poster Analysis

Magazine and Poster Analysis on Prezi

To ensure that we make realistic pieces, i have analysed different posters and magazines to develop a wider understanding on the typical conventions, so that we can develop these within our further ideas.

Day 2 filming photos

Shooting schedule for Saturday 22nd

Throughout the past few weeks, we have been planning our additional shots to improve to our trailer. We decided to film this Saturday, so that in this week's lessons we can plan our other products, being a poster and a magazine front cover, so that we can take photos on the day of our filming. Below, on the storyboard video, are the pictures that we will be shooting on Saturday to add to our trailer. We either altered ideas that we already had, such as the running scene, with the close up of the feet, or created new ideas. We watched a range of trailers to get an idea on typical conventions, and expand our knowledge on the genre, so that we could achieve these ideas. For example, we watched a trailer where there were a range of quick shots of a man becoming increasingly scared and looking possessed, we adapted these ideas to fit our trailer; such as we are going to make the end of our trailer appear darker and faster, this will be achieved by speeding the shots up as they play and the music will help create a more tense and climatic feel.

Health and Safety

To help overcome any danger with our new added shots, we created another health and safety video so that we can avoid any dangerous situations.

Storyboard for new shot ideas

(These shots are not in order)

• The first shot is where we adapted the running scene, which is a point of view shot of the girl running and looking at her feet.
• The next shot is where the girl is being strangled to add to the danger element.
• There is a scene of a bath, where the girl looks as though she is being drowned.
• We changed the falling down the hill shot, to the girl crawling up the hill and being dragged, with the camera looking down on her, connoting that she is inferior.
• There is en a close up reaction shot where the girl has mud around her face.
• There is a shot of the protagonist with a cut on her face.
• After this, there a shot of the girl’s friend on the phone to her, which suddenly there is no one answering back. This will lead to a reaction shot.
• There is a shot of the girl studying the poltergeist activity.
• We are going to add more shots of the Ouija board to highlight that this is the cause of the strange events.
• There are a few shots of landscape as we felt that our trailer included too many people shots, and that it would look better with more scenery, we got this idea from The silence of the Lambs trailer.
• We are going to add a shot where the girl is talking on the webcam, and then the camera will go off. This will be a perspective/over the shoulder shot of the two girls talking to one another, this will probably end the trailer, where there is then a white noise effect, where the whole screen turns off
• There is a shot of the two girls, one reaching out to the other, as though she is helping her. They are under a bridge, highlighting a sense of freedom.

Update