Ancillary tasks

 Teaser Poster

This is our teaser poster which we have developed through a number of images, we wanted to use a striking image as we found most of the teaser posters rather than posters usually consist of one striking image. We chose the eye looking out of a hidden place as it links in well with our narrative, as the girlfriend is hiding away from the killer. there is a stiking light shine in the eye in the poster which was supposed to signify the knife of the killer, suggesting the killer is near to the girl. Over the entire poster we used a yellow tint effect using light, this is a characteristic that you would usually find in a horror posterto connote horror. The font we used was a serif text which also connotes sharp and phalic objects such as the weapons used by the killer, such as knifes. We used the colour red to signify blood and death to the audience which could also be a typical characteristic for the genre of horror.


Poster 


Poster Picture:

This is our original picture for our poster, we were originally going to just use the picture by itself with a blur filter over the top, including logos, information and some reviews. After some audience feedback we decided to add other pictures in, of the other main characters which were going to be faded into the background of this main picture to show the audience the other characters.















Magazine

We went through various stages in creating our magazine front cover. We started of with an image of three of the characters, Ben (Ben C), Catie (Sarah) and Lewis (Ben I). Here we used a form and convention of the 'Sky' magazine as they usually have the main character or characters from a film that they are featuring in that particular magazine on the front cover, a lot of the time the characters arnt in their costumes and are in normal clothing. This is the convention we were trying out, however after receiving some audience feedback we decided this style of magazine front cover wouldnt be suitable for our film as the genre is horror and the characters in this image have a happy expression on their face.




This is the magazine front cover we had developed after receiving audience feedback on the image we had in the first draft of the magazine front cover. We used this image because we felt it gave the film trailer a narrative enigma as it betrays the character Ben (Ben C) as the killer. However after receving more audience feedback we realised that the image was infact too dark and you wouldnt necessarily find a magazine with the front cover this dark. We then decided to go away and re-take the image, in better lighting.

This was the third draft of our magazine front cover. We had re-taken the image and we felt like this time it worked well. We thought that the film strip at the bottom of the magazine front cover was very effective as it shows the audience/reader what to expect and hopefully would sell the film more due to the fact that the audience can see that they will be receiving something free after purchasing the magazine. You will find this convention in many magazine front covers. however after receiving a little more audience feedback we realised we needed to change a few minor things. The title's font and size, take the stars off the bottom as it was not a review of the film, add more infomation on the actual front cover as it looks a little bare. After making these few adjustments we then had a final product.

This is our original image for our magazine front cover.