Magazine Front Cover

Final Poster

Trailer Music

http://soundcloud.com/evieandersonmedia/blind-mans-buff

This is our original music for the trailer. This music was composed specifically for Blind Man's Buff us very kindly by Ciaran's friend and musician Jacob Hilton. The music created fits the dark and mysterious nature of our trailer and was created via Garage Band. It has an intense feel to it which reflects the footage of the trailer and provokes thought and interest from an audience member. 

Creating our titles for the trailer

In this lesson we created the titles needed for the trailer, we decided to use Live Type as we felt this would give the best results and we were competent 

Here is the full screen of Live Type

We thought that Baskerville Old Face was the best font to use as it has a historic look to it, we also used it for our teaser poster as well.

We changed the font to be a little smaller as we did not want it to crowd the screen and detract from the footage.

Titles on the time line

Close up of Ciaran Pinnell`s titles

We thought that "Blind Man`s Bluff" should be the most prominent title as its the name of our film. 

Poster Attempt 2

Magazine Front Cover Research

For our task of designing a magazine front cover we decided that the we should first do some research on some exciting front covers so that we could identify some common conventions to add into our magazine when we come to design it.

This is the first magazine front cover we looked at.  The magazine is by SFX and the main article and focal point of this particular issue is The Avengers 2.  This particular image is very useful to us because we can see what the image looked like before all of the writing was placed over the picture.  What is very easy to see from this image is that the main image that the again wants the viewers to see (iron man) is placed in the centre of the page.  This catches the viewers eyes and draws them to look at the magazine.  We will put this concept into our magazine so that we can grab peoples attention.  Also the image of Iron Man covers the title.  This clearly represents that the image is more important then the title of the magazine otherwise the title would be over the picture.  WHat is also interesting is the use of a limited palette.  On the cover there is only a use of about 4 colours.  There are not a variety of colours which is something we expected to see.  We will limit the colours we use like this magazine as we see this as being very impressive and we will imitate the style.  Also on the front cover there are pictures of other films such as Star Trek 2, Man of Steel and Wolverine.  This  shows the users what else is in the film.  We may add something like this into our film so that our magazine front cover is not entirely dominated by one story.  the use of the back ground image is very intriguing.  Fire and explosions are used in the background and the colour red is used a lot.  This connotes a violent film with lots of special effects.  This is something you expect to see in an Avengers film and if you haven't seen an Avengers film then by looking just at the background you can tell a lot about the film.  The choice of words is important to look at.  On the front cover it says "your definitive guide to a year of astounding films".  The word your implies that you already own the magazine and also that it will be yours if you buy it.  This is a good marketing technique as it implies to the viewer of the cover that they should buy the magazine.  Also the adjective "astounding" is used to show that the movies in the guide are particularly good.  If the magazine had said good movies for example then it would not have the same effect on the audience.  We will take everything we have learnt from the front cover and use it when we create our magazine front cover.

This is one of the film magazine front covers we decided to analyse.  The magazine is from the company Empire and the front cover is based around the film Django Unchained. Unlike the other front covers Empire uses limited text.  Apart from the title there is not much text.  The reason for this is that the company want the audiences eyes to be drawn to the three main characters of the film, Leonardo Di Caprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz who are all well known actors.  When the audience see this they will want too read more about these famous actors.  like the other covers there is also a limited palette with only white orange and black being used.  This is clearly a common convention of a magazine front cover and we will include this is our cover.  At the very top of the cover it says "18 huge exclusives".  This is a clear marketing technique because it attempts to try and sell the magazine by offering exclusives that you can only see in this magazine.   The directors name is used on the front cover.  This is unusual because on the other covers we have looked at the director is not mentioned however on this he is.  This is because the director of Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino.  He is one of the most well known directors in the industry and because his name is mentioned it adds credibility to the film and makes it more interesting to viewers.  It also says "how tarantino reinvented the west".  This makes the viewers want to know what has changes from traditional western films such as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  The words above the title say the good the bad and the bloody.  This is a play on words from the film the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, one of the most famous western films ever.  This in a way compares the two films together and suggests that the film may be as good as that film.  This consequently interests the potential buyer and makes them want to find out how it is similar to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

This is another one of the film magazine front covers that we have decided to analyse.  This is from the magazine total film and the front cover is based all around the Hobbit.  Unlike the SFX film magazine front cover it has a plain background.  The reason for this is so the main character in the film Bilbo Baggins is in the forefront of the cover and is easy to see.  the image of Bilbo Baggins is also completely on the page.  unlike the other magazines where not all of the character is on the page on this he is completely on the page.  the reason for this is so that the size of Bilbo Baggins is shown clearly as he is a hobbit in the film an Hobbits are generically small.  On the side of the cover you can see the title "12 films you should have seen".  What this implies by the use of the word should is that if you have not seen these particular films then there is something wrong with you.  This could potentially persuade a viewer to buy this so that the can clear this apparent wrong that they have done.  At the top of the page it says "the greatest one liner revealed".  This will interest potential buyers to buy the magazine to find out what the one liner is.  This is another tool of marketing to try and persuade people to buy your product.  near the title of the magazine it says "the world's best movie reviews".  This probably isn't true as there is no way to gauge who makes the best reviews in the world.  However like the other elements on the front cover i have mentioned it persuades people to buy the magazine because if they are interested in movie reviews then they will want the "best movie reviews".  All of these marketing techniques we will use on our front cover as we want to make it look as authentic as possible.  The actor who plays Bilbo Baggins, Martin Freeman is looking straight at the potential audience.  This will create eye contact and draw the audience in to look at the the magazine and potentially buy it.

After looking at all these magazines we have found many conventions and elements we will include in our magazine front cover and the research has been very useful to see things that we may have wanted to include but have seen that there is no place for them in the film

Trailer Update

We have successfully edited the fist thirty seconds of our trailer, we plan to further this success on to the next minute of so.

This is one of the effects we have for the external part of our trailer, we have changed the contrast and gamma levels to create a bleak but striking look to the film; this effects look quite Steampunk like which is what we are trying to perceive. 

We are using fade in for a certain but we won`t over use it.

This is the music we are currently using until we are able to compose our own score for the trailer which will be conducted by Ciaran`s friends.

These are the clips we currently have at the moment (More to be filmed).

Music on our timeline

Editing Week One

Week One:

For this week, we edited the first part of our trailer. We edited the first two scenes from our first two blocks of filming, which included the clips of the first scene and the second, voiceovers and music. By the end of the week, the first full part of the trailer had been successfully finished.

Our music for the film.

Editing the production logo

Editing the production logo, part II

Uploading the second part of the trailer

Putting the clips together.

Creation of a Logo

This week we have been creating our production logo for our trailer, a few tweaks were made to our name, such as changing "Supernova Productions" to "Euphoria Pictures"; this is due to our teacher advising us that sparklers do not give the effect of space and black holes.... So Joe thought that Euphoria may be a good title due to sparklers link to childhood and the "pure euphoria" of innocent play.

This is the document on live type, we decided to make the length of the logo around 7 seconds so that it was long enough to cut it and do whatever else we need to.

This is text we decided to use. We thought that the use of the text blue prints was a good choose as the graphic colours itself in while it is being shown on screen. This implies childhood and youth.

Due to the colours on the image we had to find the perfect colour for the text, we need it needed be obvious against the bright garish background. We choose blue as it was completely different to the black, whites and yellows in the photo.

 

Website Design Week Two

There have been vast improvements form last weeks website.  I have changed a great deal in terms of layout and information shown.  We have also created a mobile website for the film so that people can view the website when their on the go.  The URL for the website is http://m.wix.com/406482/blindmansbuff

This is the home page for our mobile website.  It has a simplistic and minimalist background with it being very plain with just black with white stripes.  this is a good connotation for our film because we want our film to be seen as being of a dark nature but also the white connotes a sense of achievement and in a sense a light at the end of the tunnel.  The Home page consists of a page about the film itself which is mainly a synthesis, a contact page where a fan can email us for example to find out more about the film, another information page about our blogs and release date etc and two social networking site which are twitter and facebook where a viewer can become a fan or follow the progression of our film.

This is the about page.  Its tells the viewer what the film is about.  It does this because this is the synopsis that we have used for our film.  It is not too wordy and is quite easy to read which is something we felt was essential becasue the majority of people who use mobile websites (teenagers and young adults) do not want to read a lot of text about something otherwise they may become bored.

The next page is a contact us page.  It includes different ways in which someone can contact the website about a particular thing they are interested in or if they want to know something about the film that is currently not on the website they can email or call us and find out about it.  We feel that this will benefit our mobile website because now if someone is interested they have the opportunity to contact us and find out more about the film.  this should make them more interested and this could spread the word about the film so that it can reach a wider audience which is something we are trying to achieve.

This page is similar to the information page.  It basically displays other websites where they can view more information about the film.  all of these websites are of our blogs which is a brilliant place to find out more information about the film.

First Teaser Poster

This is the first poster we have created for our film, its simplistic and gives away barely anything about it. Though very sparse it tells the reader the villains name, the fate it is set and a website to go to if they are interested. Though the poster is stark this interests the view of the poster and makes them curious of what this poster is advertising to advertise. This poster may be the type of advertising used on web sites and if clicked on it will link you the site mentioned on it.

Creating the teaser poster

We changed the colour of the background to red as it suggests the idea of blood, danger and possibly lust? 

We typed out the words "Jack", "1888" and the website "//406482.wix.com/blindmansbuff."- these words connote the idea of Jack the Ripper and readers may link it to this. the font we decided to use was Baskerville Old Face- this font has a blunt, Victorian look to it and may be the text they use on wanted posters. We made the text 200 for the two smaller words and the website in a smaller font of 30.

This was the poster of on Photoshop.

This is our almost finished project, all we have to do is add the website then is complete