Billing Block

My media products will include a Billing block which is a block of text giving credit to those who were involved in a production with such titles as the producer, director and main actors. This is seen in every major film to come out into a market and seen in all products such as the movie poster and trailer. I researched into Billing blocks when looking at all key elements of a movie poster which was one section of poster I researched into. For our media products like the trailer we have used the Billing block to display all that were involved in the creation of the production. As well as the trailer I have used it in the poster I have created as this is the product that would be used in the market to promote the actual production promoting it in many different areas such as billboards, transport vehicles and cinemas.

Movie Magazine Inspiration

When researching into horror magazines, I have researched similar styles of horror magazines such as the ones shown below called Fangoria. It was necessary for me to research such genres as tthis magazine because if I was to research into other genres like comedy then this would make my magazine not effective to its target audience. These genres of magazines would have different conventions compared to other genres like comedy films. I recognised such conventions as bold texts, strong use of colour schemes and images that are weird and creepy to the eye. Fangoria is the brand I chose to research for my magazines for their use of these creepy images and outstanding colours they have used in their front covers. The first one I researched into was the Fangoria with the insidious issue. Fangoria have used a different style of text with using both edges of the text as a point for fangs which are linked with vampires which resembles the villain in films.

The next section about their front covers I will incorporate into my magazine front cover is the colour scheme , shown in these two they keep their colours to three main with red, white and black. Something I will carry on into my magazine as I believe this is effective, without keeping g to an overall colour scheme would leave my audience to question the magazine because using random colours would look unprofessional and confusing. I have implemented this colour scheme to my magazine front cover and also follow the one we have used in the trailer and also my other media product the magazine poster which follows this colour scheme as well. My main image for my front cover will be such as the style and positioning like seen in my research. Fangoria uses bold images which help the magazine to stand out from others in this genre. This kind of image which has been used in my research is bold and creepy at the same time, both front covers have used this style of image of one image and not multiple which may clutter the front cover, so using one image is what I will use in my front cover to make my front more effective.

Movie Poster Inspiration

When researching into movie posters I looked for similar posters in the horror genre and looked for characteristics of these. There are clear differences from other genres like comedy for one example being they are brighter in colour to attract the reader to it. Horror posters come in many different styles and the one I will be discussing about is the Strangers poster. The Strangers is about a couple who are living in a house in the middle of nowhere when their house is broken into by three strangers. I came across three posters from this film but I chose to use the Spanish for its use of two photographs and combing it into one to give it a creepy affect with the strangers standing over them. I have used this as inspiration in designing my poster combining two images. I am obviously not going to copy the movie poster but will take inspiration through the layout of images in the design of my poster. The main image is of the Intruder in the white mask looking straight into the distance. With the smaller image of the two teenagers who’s house is entered by the intruder. I have strategically placed the intruder on top as it is the first place where the reader will see in the poster so this will be the main focus of the poster. The main image being the intruder also works as it is seen to be on top and watching over the two teenagers like he has in the trailer when intruding in the house. I have used the image of the two teenagers looking out to the distance which is appropriate as they would be doing this when looking out for the intruder. This can also be seen in the stranger’s poster below with the female character looking out as well which is emphasised with her head being at a tilted angle to show she is focusing on something in the distance. I like this idea with the photography of the character as it gives more story and thought to the character instead of a normal plain picture, this develops the story giving more clues about the film and what they may be experiencing for example with the strangers someone breaking into your house. I have edited both images giving them a darker tint then instead of using the raw file which would not have been effective in looking like a horror poster, so to add to this adding the darker tints this makes both images more serious and dark which will appeal to the audience of horror fans because it would be pointless using bright happy colours when the genre is around darker terrifying colours.

 

Magazine image change

After reviewing and testing images of what they would look like in my magazine, I am now going to update and change this image to a new one. I did not think the main image was appealing and interesting to our chosen genre. To act on this I will now organise a new opportunity to which this new image can be taken. I was not happy with how the image was just centred in the page and after moving the image around I found it did not really work. This was backed up after showing it to family members which agreed, so I will now take more images when possible which can work as a final photo for my magazine.