Completed Trailer. Poster and Magazine.

This post is to organise my actual trailer poster and magazine. This post is to show how I have developed all my ideas and improvements into three products that in twine with each other. It shows my trailer poster and magazine AFTER my improvements.

        ACTUAL POSTER:

•  I feel that my poster is eye-catching and appealing to my target audience and genre. With the eye and a ghost within the pupil insinuating someone looking straight at you and seeing a ghost.
• My focal picture which is the eye, with the hand crawling out the eye showing horror and pain.
• A large title easily read "Necromancy" which means the summoning of ghosts and spirits
• The suggestion of the film genre is easily shown via the photo of a girl and the eye with a hand coming out the eye. The colours which is a moldy white with a colour code of dark red. white shows purity and good so it contrasts with the whole horror effect and stands out well. With white writing naming the two main characters (showing some information including the production company twisted productions and facebook logo showing they are on facebook linking to teenagers via social networking sites)
• Using starpasonia adverting two characters from the film written in white (no other colours suited my colour code, even though its not that clear I feel it still works well in a nice order)
• Attracts my target audience of teenagers by starpasonia and showing we are on facebook
• Tag line used " the night she came home" showing it is a horror film.
•  Date of the film coming out which is on Halloween night, linking to teenagers as they are to old to go trick or treating so they would want to scare themselves in other ways of going to the cinema!
• My poster is well layed out and goes in a nice order: Tag line -- main photo-- title (including two actors names) -- small boring writing -- date film is coming out-- a website including a logo of facebook and production company both sides of the website to show the search name on facebook etc.
• Relates to my genre by the obvious gory photo and cover lines "the night she came home". the use of colours, white which symbols purity which contrasts with the red cover lines which symbols evil, anger, blood, death.

Positive:

• It does connote horror and easily seen as horror
• The overall layout seems to be simple and easily read
• Enough information is on the poster to make them WANT to watch the trailer or look up information
• The eye and the girl is stands out the most
• Halloween is a good time to release the film

Negative:

• "N" has a capital letter, just a typo but I feel it works
• There are some unbalanced colours which the layers on photoshop have created, cannot be removed
• Should add another actor instead of just having two as it looks unbalanced (I disagree)
• The characters names written in white not clear enough (agree to disagree as I tried other colours and it didn't look right)

Actual Trailer:

• In my Trailer I have used a number of camera angles such as low angle high angle eye view shots with shots such as an establishing shots, hand held/dolly shot , medium and close up shots and also using the zoom lens with editing techniques such as jump cuts, straight cuts  with transition editing such as fade in and out white/black.
• I  have also used a soundtrack starting from 0.00 all the way through my trailer. I have used diegetic and non-diegetic sounds throughout my trailer.
• Used teenagers staring in my film; this can relate to my audience which are teenagers- also my age rating is 15 also relating too my audience.
• It connotes horror and easily tells a story line stage by stage.
• Challenges Vladimir props theory of 31 character types (cant show all since only a trailer) but there is no obvious main character which throws the audience off since you dont know the characteristics of any of the characters- making them all equal and equally liked- dont know who dies. since researching into trailers you can obviously see the main character (and since main characters usually survive it makes it less appealing to watch)
• Out on Halloween, my audience 15-24 year olds will be too old to go trick or treating so this is a good time to release my film
• As its only a teaser trailer i found out in my research they do they tell a pacific date, so i have used "coming this Halloween" at the end
• Negative: the sound dips half way through

                                  Actual Magazine

• Using a print screened image from my trailer helps to link all three products well together and adding to the continuinty.
• Colour code is red and light blue, stands out very well on a white background
• Bars and collums make up the magazine making it easier to read and quickly finding what you want to read inside; making the front page look fuller
• The main image with the gittery effect helping it stand out and actually looks like shes being hung- bit dissapointing that shes a bit out of focus
• Cover lines linking to my film necromancy; thats what the main focal point of the mag is about is about my trailer
• Using facebook/twitter logo including a website linking back to my poster again and my target market of teenagers
• Bigging up my film saying "no1 film review magazine"
• A quirky fun look to my masthead which has quite a boring name "film review" by making the review bit to the side of the main larger word "FILM" in capitals standing out
• subheadings undernieth masthead saying "GO MAD FOR HORROR FILMS"
• "katie fletcher" written in big writting linking to the main image

Emailing if I can use the soundtrack within my film trailer: