Construction of film poster

This was the first stage of my poster where I'd edited the image with a blur and a black and white filter, then erased part of the image to create the white stripes along the top and bottom of the image. Then I used the chosen font Cicle to place the film name onto the poster. I'm generally happy with this and the placing of the title.

Here is the second draft where I have added some extra text at the top of the poster, featuring the production house which is seen in a lot of film posters. I have also added in an "award" the film has won. I am unsure of the placing of this two new features.

I decided against including the production house as the poster seem a little bottom heavy. I have added some text around the title of the film, however it is grey so the title still stands out against it.This is the final version of the poster. I decided to move the award to the top of the poster to balance it out, and included reviews either side to maintain a balance. I also added a credit block to the bottom as this is featured in a lot of film posters.

Composing the magazine Front Cover

Once I had chosen the particular effect to use of my chosen image in photoshop, I positioned it how I thought it would look best, however the decision wasn't final.

I then went about getting the Little White Lies logo into photoshop and onto the image. I did this buy importing a previous issue of Little White Lies into photoshop and used the select tool to cut the logo out and transferred it to my own work.

Once I had done this, I needed to add in my anchorage text. I wanted there to be a link between the products, which I originally planned to be a black and white theme. However, the final edited image featured colour. Therefore I used the same font featured on the inter titles in my trailer for my anchorage text.

After placing the anchorage text onto the image, I felt it was a bit too empty. In some of the earlier issues of Little White Lies, the front page consisted of a Featured section. I have decided to place one on my front cover so that the front page doesn't seem too plain.

And here is the final thing!

Intertitles development

Here is a video of the inter titles with the first font I had chosen, which I went on to decide I was unhappy with the font I'd chosen.

I'd used LiveType to create the inter title, and added a "fade in" and "fade out" effect. I decided this effect wasn't quite what I was looking for, however wasn't sure how to create the effect I desired.

Here is the second intertile I made. It was with the same font as the first, however it had no added effect to it. I created this as I was experimenting with the positioning of the text.

Again, I was unhappy with the font I'd used. So I went on a hunt for another font that I was more happy with...

This is the final inter title, and one that will be used within my trailer. This inter title features the final font I chose, which I am very happy with.

As you can see from the clip, there are no effects added to the original inter title file which means it looks blank. However, once placing it in Final Cut Express, I was able to use a tool within that programme to create the effect I desired.

Here is a screen shot of what I did to the intertitle to create the effect I wanted, of the writing dissolving in and out of the shot. I used the "keyframing" tool, which adjusts the opacity of the clip which resulted in exactly what I was aiming for.

Film Magazine - Possible edits for images

After experimenting with different effects within Photoshop, I have printscreened a few that I think give the image an artisitc flair, seen in magazines like Little White Lies. Here is a slideshow of the different edits that I think work well...

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Film Magazine Images

I took several pictures during a photoshoot with my main character for my film magazine front cover. Here are some of the best images...

Once I had decided what picture I wanted to used, I edited it slightly with the blemish remover in photoshop and adjusted the levels...

Now the image was ready to edit further...

Film Magazine Planning

After looking at a few front covers of my chosen magazine, Little White Lies, I have come up with a roughly sketched plan for my front cover.

Film Magazine Research

When looking into what movie magazine to use to feature my own film in my ancillary products, I tried to steer away from mainstream film magazines such as Total Film magazine, and Empire magazine. I wanted to find a magazine which featured more independent films. I came across Sight and Sound magazine which focuses a lot of the directors of films, however it wasn't what I was looking for. Then I came across the magazine Little White Lies. Little White Lies is an independent film magazine, that also features illustration, and photography that is related to cinema. As the footage featured in my film is quite artistically thought about, I thought that this magazine would be suitable to use within my ancillary products.

Generally the layout of the front cover is generally the same, the only thing that changes with each new issue is the image and the text and font featured. The image featured on the front cover is possibly the most important part of the page. This image is always an illustration of the main character of the feature film, and this image portrays to possible readers what type of magazine Little White Lies is.

Here is a close look at the front cover of the This Is England edition of Little White Lies. (Click on the image to enlarge)

Here is a powerpoint presentation looking at another of Little White Lies magazine front covers.

Little White Lies Front Cover Analysis

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