Update of film posters

Final g

We have started the creation of our film poster, at this point we have finished our final product but we are still creating the other four film posters. The final film poster is quite excellent, the colours chosen is brilliant, there is a use of low key lighting, really making Usman look dark and mysterious in the background, and Sam face portrays fear, which is a great combination.

A nightmare on Elm Street Film Poster

I have looked at this film poster; this really interested me due to the simplicity of the layout; the film poster shows what seen to be Freddy Krueger bending his head down smirking; this poster reveals just one image which is Freddy highlighting that Freddy is coming back for vengegance or to kill, we could tell by the dimly lit background which highlights darkness and danger, also we see a glimpse of the legendary razor sharp gloves signifying the theme Death.

Magazine cover research

Undergoing further research into magazine covers, I0 have came up with the following recomendations to ensure a sucessful movie magazine cover:

>The maximum of font to be used is 3 ; if too many fonts are used this would confuse readers and will make the magazine cover look unpresentable
>Backgrounds have a bleed affect; this is done so the image will blend in and the cover will not look very basic.
>There must be a main focal pont; this is done to get readers attention; the main focal point most times is a main character from the reviewed film.
>Date and price is clearly labelled; this is done so the magazine looks professional and up-to-date
>The front cover must not be biased in other words it must show clearly that the whole magazine is not only focused on the film that is appears on the front cover;

Phone Booth

This film poster really caught my eye as discussed before, hear we see te terror on the victims face, this is what needs to be portrayed on our poster.

StoryBoard (Final)

Final Storyboard

This was suppose to be the final idea for our teaser but there was a few changes which I will brief you on:

1) the first square shows me, Mark and Nicholas playing football, we decided not to include this in our teaser, this would make our teaser a bit tacky so the idea was withdrawn.

2) Different types of shots were changed, this was decided on the day of filming which made our teaser more professional

3) the order of clips was also changed, we did this to cleverly show Usman stalking his victims simultaneously, to give the impression to the audience that Usman was everywhere, also we had to alter the order because we were to make the middle of our sequence the fastest, therefore we decided to place all the 'action' clips in the middle of our sequence.

Please leave comment if you think that we should have continued with our storybord idea.

Our Trip to CLC

Draft Magazine & Poster

Our Trip to CLC

Recently we went to the CLC to learn how to use photshop, the skills we were going to acquire was going to help us with the creation of our magazines and front covers:

While at the CLC we learned:
>How to cut pictures out
>How to use different fonts
>How to fade pictures in and out
>How to create a glow on a piece of text
>Layering
>How to use the gradient tool
>How to put a glow on pictures

These valuable skills will enable us to create professional looking posters and magazine covers. The skills we learned was put into practise while at the CLC and we came up with the above idea for our magazine cover.


From our previous magazine cover research, we knew that our main focal point had to be on one person; we enlarged a picture of Usman face and started to play around with the tools we found on photoshop, we also started to create the poster as well. We may continue editing with the above magazine front cover and poster or we may come up with another idea. Only time will tell. Watch this space.

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Poster ideas

Poster Ideas

Here are some drafts we drew up for our Poster ideas, these drawing are not great but we didn't want to waste time creating perfected pictures, as we had a lot to do in terms of creation of music, creation of magazine cover. Nicholas came up with an idea to ensure our film poster will be successfully, he recommended that we should make at the maximum three final film posters, so from this we can choose the best one, which I thought was a good idea.

Watch this Space to find out our three final posters.