Feedback.

This is one of the ways we collected feedback on our magazine cover and film poster. We asked two of our peers (both teens interested in horror which is our target audience) what they thought of the magazine cover and film poster before changes were made. They both gave both positive and critical comments. We used the criticism to make changes to both pieces of work and make it more appealing to people like David and Lowri as they are a part of our target audience.

Feedback

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This is a slideshow of screen grabs I made of some feedback Joey and I received about our horror movie poster, our magazine cover and our video. (Slideshare.net is one of the pieces of software that we used throughout our task.) The feedback was very positive and it reassured us that what we wanted the audience to understand and feel really came across.

Final Edit.

This is the final edit of our trailer. We took into consideration what Charlie Ward said and what our teachers and peers thought and made our final adjustments. We feel this trailer appeals to our target audience which is mainly teens and horror movie fanatics and with the help from our feedback we received, we believe our trailer looks quite professional and similar to many horror movie trailers out there today.

Charlie Ware.

Charlie Ware used to be a professional editor and we had the privilege of having him come into our lesson and give us some tips on our trailers. 
We showed him our recently more edited one (edit number 2) and he gave us a few pointers on how to make it a lot more professional.
These tips were:

• High frequency sounds to shock
• Strobe effect or moving on titling
• Perhaps white (for above note)

After these suggestions were made, we made some alterations to our trailer and now we have our final edit. 

Second Edit.

This is the second edit of our film trailer. It is shorter than the first one as we cut out a lot of un-necessary shots and made the whole trailer a lot snappier and increased the speed. 

First Edit

This is the first edit of our horror movie trailer. It is a bit longer than we expected it to be so we now class it as our theatrical trailer. As it was a bit longer than we wanted it to be, it did seem to drag on a bit and we wanted to change this to increase the suspense, the tension and the speed. We feel this would make our trailer look a lot more like trailers today. 

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: