Poster and Magazine

My Poster and Magazine Designs

My try at creating promotional material. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Here on the left is my poster to go with our teaser trailer 'Dead End'. I have tried to go for a concept art feel by editing the photograph with different textured brushes to make it seem as half of it is painted. I like this effect and have seen it on many posters before and horror video games.

I have added the picture of the mask used in the film, and it sits subtly behind the girls head giving an eerie feel. It may not be obvious at first, but after you've notice it, it feels as though you're being watched.

I have gone for a black and white colour scheme, overlaying a hint of red on top. The black symbolises darkness and fear, while red connotes blood, anger but also passion. I also think that the white in this image represents hope, hope that the final girl will make it.

On the right is the magazine cover I have created that could also be used to advertise our groups film. I have used the very convention colour scheme, red black and white. I think that this magazine works really well. I have created a fictional magazine called Film Today because I prefered this over using a magazine that already existed. Plus I wanted the challenge of creating a name and finding a suitable font for it. By creating my own fictional magazine it has allowed me to create my own style of how it's layed out.

Here are my images that I used to create my promotional material.

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1. The is the original photograph that I took for my magazine. I captured the image with my Canon 1000D and stood by a window to get good lighting. I made my hair damp and smudged my make up to give off that distressed look like I'm running away from something.
2. The second image is basically a photograph of the floor outside of college that I captured again with my Canon SLR. I didn't just take a photo of the floor for any random reason. I thought that it would create a nice texture to overlay onto my images subtly.
3. This is the final edited photograph that I used for my magazine cover. I made the colours warmer because I found that the original image looked too pale and didn't want to give the slightest impression that the final girl is nearly dead or zombie like as this is giving the wrong idea to the audience. I overlayed the texture of the floor to create a distressed look. I also added blood royalty free stock images as I didn't own any fake blood when I took the photographs.
4. This photograph I took outside in my garden last minute when making my poster. I decided that the background in this image was weak so I replaced it with another image.
5. Here is a photograph of Fritton Woods that I took also with my Canon and I used this image for the background of my poster.

Here are some posters that I have researched. If you click on them you will see the bigger version and can read my analysis of them. I have also put my poster (the last one) with the existing ones to show you how it fits in well and has all the conventions of a horror poster.

You can see from these that depending on the film or company, they choose to put different things on the posters. For example some show the well known actors names, but it others if the actors aren't well known enough, their names won't appear on advertising. The Eden lake poster has a quote from Empire magazine with four stars on, but if the other films here haven't got a good enough quote to put on they won't have shown it. For my poster I haven't shown the actors name because I decided that I didn't want to use a well known actor (as they are very very expensive!).

Magazine Research