Film Poster.

As we had a few striking images, we had to narrow it down to our final image. 
This is the picture we chose to use for our film poster:

At first Joey and I tried messing around with colours and levels in this picture to see what it looked like.

Finally we decided that we would make the whole image darker and then have a spotlight on the dead body in the middle. This would highlight the obvious and make the whole cover look more cynical. 

In my opinion, deciding what font to use for the title was the hardest part of the cover. The font is a very important part as it can be used to hint what genre the film is.

Obviously we wanted our font to represent a horror so we downloaded a couple different fonts from Dafont.com.

We then decided to use the first one as it looks slightly old and has two masks in it representing the theme and USP of our film (being set in a theatre). After changing the font colour to red and adding the word '3D', we finally had our movie cover. Joey and I thought that making the film in 3D would attract a wider audience as it is a horror and in 3D (just like 'My Bloody Valentine 3D).

Our final Movie Cover:

Magazine Cover.

Previously Joey and I had looked at a couple of different movie magazine covers such as Fangoria Magazine and Mad Magazine. Comparing them both, one is more commercial, looking as if the character is posing for the camera, whereas the other looks like a shot from the actual movie. We decided to make ours look more commercial, but keep the atmosphere and theme of the film.
Our original picture looked like this:

Originally this picture was too light for a horror movie magazine and the sides around the cast were too big. So, in photoshop, we cropped the image and using the brush tool, coloured it in all black. We then made the black opaque so the image looked darker.

After this, it was beginning to look a bit more like a horror magazine cover. We then needed to think about all the other aspects of a magazine cover. Things like the title, masthead, font, barcode etc. 

We came up with a few different names for the magazine such as:

• Dark News
• Horror Times
• Terrible Teeth
• The Lost Limb
• Mean Movies

We liked the idea of having using alliteration, so chose to use 'The Lost Limb' to be the title of our magazine cover.

As our image is very similar to a 50's horror cover, and slightly resembles a scooby-doo cover we wanted our font to be very bold and striking. This is why we chose this font and decided to have it in red. 

All of our decisions were made and then changed due to audience feedback we received. This is in a video in another post.

Our final Magazine Cover:

Flickr.

To keep all of pictures we took in one place, I made a Flickr account. This will make it easier to see them all at the same time and for others to see them as well.
My Flickr Account.

Health and Safety.

As any professional production company does, we had to be careful using our location so we did a health and safety check. I work at the location that we decided to film at, so therefore I know the building very well.

I filled in a table that stated:

• The hazards
• Associated risks
• Persons at risk
• Control measurements
• Consequence rating
• Likelihood rating
• Risk rating

As I know the building so well, I know that I once made a diagram of the whole building and labeled where all the fire exits and fire extinguishers are. I thought this would be good to look at and show everyone involved in the filming. 

New Cast.

Joey and I are both still in the trailer. I am still playing the character of Vanessa, but Joey is now taking on the role of Morgan the boyfriend as well as the killer. 

Edward Roberts as Jacob.
Jacob is now going to be Vanessa's little brother. We thought this would make the trailer a little more like a horror as in a lot of horror films there is always that one vulnerable character and who is more vulnerable than a child. 
Edward has a very innocent, cute look which is perfect for his character.

Ashlee Sutherland:
Ashlee will now be playing Emily. She has a tough, tomboyish look with a weird coloured hair which is very similar to Hollie. This is perfect as we do not have to change much for her character. 

Set Backs.

The day of shooting arrived and Joey and I had received some bad news. Our lead actor (Hollie Bowden) had some family commitments and was unable to make it. Obviously this was devastating news as she had the perfect look for the character ‘Emily’ but fortunately I had an actor friend that lived not too far from our location that had a similar look. Thankfully she was available, so not much had to be changed. Unfortunately as time went on another actor (Kyle Lo Monaco) revealed he was unable to attend the filming. As there was so little time, we really had no idea what to do as it was the only day we could have the location. Joey and I then agreed to change the synopsis a tad, and use my little brother to star in the trailer. We thought it would work because there are children in many other horror films and we would like to repeat this convention.

In real life situations, things are not always going to go the way we plan them, just like this situation but you have to get over them and plan ahead, which we did. I now have to make some changes to some of the planning I did.

Magazine.

Thinking about our magazine cover, we had to think about many things such as: 

• Title
• Image
• Other wording 
• Other pictures

Title:

The Title is the most important thing on the cover of the magazine beside the main image. We decided to make our title very bold and noticeable, just like the one in the above image. 

Image:

The main image on this magazine is very gory and detailed. We want to challenge this convention by having a very commercial picture on the front of our magazine, such as a posed picture of the cast rather than a still of the actual film. 

Other Wording:

This magazine has some words around the side of the image but hardly any over the image itself. We want to resemble this as we think the image will be very striking and important.

Other Pictures:

Unlike this magazine cover, we do not want any other images on our magazine cover as we believe (as we said before) the main image can stand on its own.