Magazine Sketches

Following the conventions of a film poster, I looked at the conventions of the poster titles, taglines and image to begin the layout. Below is a few images of examples of layout

I have an idea for. After getting feedback on the magazine  and seeing that the previous ones Were quite mainstream, I made a new sketches mimicking a more independent Magazine.  The image remained in the middle and the name of the film but I removed all

sell lines the only convention I did follow was the bar code being on the magazine but I  made it un - conventional by putting it horizontal.  I’m going to put the names of the directors and actors on the bottom. The background I’m going to use matches what I used in the trailer.

Mood Board Magazine

I made a mood board full of independent magazines to give me inspiration about making  my own magazines. I used the ides of smaller fonts on the sell lines and the larger masthead.  It keeping everything I used minimalist and a to smaller standard.   All the magazines are unique and different which gave me the freedom to make daring decisions when coming to the magazine. 

Title Development

Title Name
After a brief discussion of names for our film, we needed a title to relate towards our film. With a look over the plot we came up with choices as a working title for now.

The look
We discussed how we would like to picture our title coming in. We don't want a plain text that enters or has a flashy entry with beaming lights or such. We want our title to have a build up, dark, and build tension by its own devices.
After searching around for a template for us to be inspired from, We like the idea of having our title launch out towards the audience letter by letter, however during testing I had the problem of getting the individual letters come forward instead having the whole text would. I came across a video that teaches how to make a text with the individual letters come forward which helped our progression and taught an advance way to make the title in a 3D camera view.

Production Logo

Logo

Like other examples from a previous post where we collected what other companies logos are, we gathered that the majority has a simplified drawing of their name. For example Blackwood Pictures has the image of a forest, or another example is Summit Entertainment has these curves that symbolises a summit. Other companies do have another similar design such as triangular shapes to form their logo, examples being The Weinstein Company and Spectrevision. Since are name consist of objects we could go along the lines of having our title simple and a image relating towards our name.

Fonts
After looking at other comparisons we saw that most lean towards a serif font with everything in capital letters. This can go for a more stylish look, while highlighting the name thus grasping attention in a smooth way. Other examples like Spectrevision use a sans-serif font which is bold and stands out. The font size is smaller than the logo, however the because of its bold appearance it still makes itself present. 

Brainstorm company logo name

After a selection of different ideas to name ourselves we needed it to all agree with it but most importantly if it will stay with the audience. After  reading a selection of the names we came up with Crystal Peak Production was soon the creation to be made with the majority of our class agreeing and after researching other company names we realised ours does come to a similar theme and we all feel it’s a name that is memorable.

Test

We wanted our logo to have the text appear letter after letter and then the design that would establish ourselves transits itself in.

Magazine front cover images from photoshoot

 These are the images for the magazine cover, we used dark clothes for his costume because he's suppose to have a dark atmosphere around him due to the fact that the teaser trailer represents him a dark way.
We used medium closes up to get his full costume and to see his facial expressions properly. We also wanted him to engage with the audience with his eyes while his image is on the front cover.

If I want to remove the background from the photo and just have him for them magazine i can just use lasso tool on photoshop.

Existing Teaser Screen Grabs

This image is from a horror film 'I know what you did last summer too'. We thought that this image would relate to our movie trailer because firstly this camera shot is very powerful. It's an over head shot (when the character is laying down) where the main protagonist is looking directly at the audience 'breaking the fourth wall' and letting us see or listen to there story.  We thought that this shot will would be very useful

in our trailer.


This is another image from official trailer of  'Sinister'. In this trailer they kept on going back to symbols which relate and are an important part of the narrative in the movie. In our film our protagonist has a symbol on his arm and that is a key part of information, so through out our thriller trailer we two will keep cross cutting images of symbols.

Where going to be playing with lighting in our trailer. There is going to be a lot of darkness which key bits of spot lights when needed. This long shot taken from 'Black Swan' is the type of shot that we are going to take of our protagonist. We like the idea of the lights only being on him highlighting his importance.

Screen grabs from existing teaser trailers

All the trailers here are from Hannibal Rising, Hannibal, Red Dragon and Shutter Island                                                          

These are screen grabs from Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising. The title that says Red Dragon the trailer i like because it blends in with the background well. I also liked the tattoo they showed on the back which is a hermeneutic code because the trailer doesn't explain the meaning of the tattoo or it's purpose so my group and I can take this into account and use it in our trailer. Furthermore I like the close ups of Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising where the blood is on his face because this use of cinematography clearly shows the expressions of his face which gives the audience an idea of this character or their personality which can show that he's crazy or just psychologically unstable. I like the use of the titles on Hannibal Rising trailer due to the way it creates an effect with the eye.

The use of the focus pull in the science laboratory in Hannibal Rising I liked because at that moment of the trailer someone was trapped and drowning in water so the use of the focus pull makes it seem like that he's losing life and slowly dying and his eye sight is becoming less clearer which is what the focus pull is suppose to represent.
I like the close up of Hannibal Rising while he's holding his weapon because it gives an insight of what is going to happen in this scene due to the weapon representing violence and danger.

I can apply this information that I've researched and use it in our trailer by using a hermeneutic code in the teaser trailer which limits information and makes the movie more intriguing. Furthermore we should use cinematography like focus pull to blur out the scene to make it more mysterious like the Hannibal Rising's scene. Close ups should be used in the trailer to show the clear facial expressions of the character being presented which will contribute to the atmosphere of the movie.
With the trailer titles which is a convention for trailers we must be able to use them effectively and support the trailer.

Locations for filming

 These are potential locations for the filming because we need a bathroom with a mirror due to the fact that at the end of the teaser trailer he will be looking into the mirror starring at his tattoo.
Furthermore it has great lightning within the scene because if the room is too dark then the lightning within the recording wouldn't be clear and just too dark which makes it to harder towatch.

This is another potential mise en scene locations because it     has a bed and we have easy access to this location.

Magazine sketch 4

With this sketch I decided to do a layout that is influenced by little white lies, so I left out sell lines and put a masthead and barcode. With this I only focus on the aesthetics of the product.

The only thing is that is different that I placed a triangle in the middle of the circle, I did this to make my version have an unique element.

Sounds research

 During the process of constructing the animated storyline, I did extra research for sounds and the reason is because I want to have clear, distinctive sounds that can co-operate with the storyline and help the scenes be more clearer. For example if a glass is meant to drop then the sound can automatically indicate that the glass dropped or with one of our scenes, the main actor is sleeping so I would use the snoring sound to indicate this happening.

Furthermore using sounds will have a high possibility of helping my group and I on using sounds during the trailer so it will be also preparing us before filming the trailer.


Sounds that I have, used: Drill, snoring, and glass shattering.

Magazine sketch 3

With this sketch all I did was chage the layout of the house style so the sell lines will be equally balanced on both left side and the right side. 

Magazine sketch 2

With this idea I changed the layout of the house style for example sell lines. I placed it at the bottom of the magazine.

I used this magazine from sight & sound to influence this design so I placed the sell lines at the bottom just like this magazine and made the image bigger. I also placed a white outline on the edges of the magazine just like sight out sound. I placed my small phrase at the top of the magazine.

Magazine front cover sketch

Film poster sketch 2

With this sketch I didn't include the credits to see how it looks. I added all the dashes at the top which is suppose to be the actors/actress names. I included the tattoo in this which is a hermeneutic code, this will help link the poster and the trailer together. This poster is influenced by the red dragon poster.

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Storyboard Part 3

Storyboard part 2

Difference between trailer and teaser

Trailer and teasers are both used to build a hype around the movie and to make it more intriguing for the target audience. However there are significant differences between a trailer or teaser.

Trailers are normally around 2 minutes with a variety of difference scenes and dialogue amongst a variety of different characters where as teasers are 1 minute long and show a short length of sneak previews in the teaser. While examining a teaser and trailer the trailer gives more detail on the narrative to the target audience about the storyline or gives the audience a clear understanding of the structure of the storyline where as the teaser doesn't relevantly need to, it just has to show short length sneak peaks of scenes to build a hype around the movie. The teaser still may give brief clues on the storyline and a teaser may still be just about longer than 1 minute but are definitely under 2 minutes. They may also have dialogue as well.

Cinematography
Teasers would use medium close ups or extreme close ups to show the emotions on a characters face while doing a quick shot of the character to create an atmosphere that could build up more of a hype around the movie. Trailers would also use medium closes up but they would use edits as well as such as shot reverse shot to show glimpse of dialogue between characters. Teasers use low shots as well to create this tension within the atmopshere such as the teaser for Hannibal Rising.

Draft One: Magazine

When making my magazine I realized it was an independent magazine and not a mainstream product. This meant I had to remember not to add many sell lines, or puffs. However, I keep the conventions like a masthead, bar code, and web address. So I also set up guidelines to help me keep everything  professional and keep all texts in line with each other. 

Fonts Ideas/ Logo and Picture Ideas

Our name is crystal peak productions, so I think that it would be interesting if we associated the picture of a crystal and mountain peaks in our company pictures. I like the black background because you would be able to see the pictures of the crystals more defined. I also think a black back ground will look more professional and as if this is a real production company.  This simple design wouldn't attract too much attention if it was on other platforms for example: magazines or posters it would allow the other images to still be seen.



I came across quite a few fonts  and they all had the same
thing in common they all where clear and easy to read.
They where also all sans serif,I think its important to have a cleat font so that you can real it straight away which saves any confusion for the audience and the name for our film is called FACE so that needs to be bold and memorable when you see to have an big have an impact.

Story board one

Trailer Synopsis

Our Trailer Plot:

The trailer begins with a young boy sleeping in bed. He is having a nightmare, we then have various shots of kidnappers in a private warehouse doing experiments on him. They seem to be speaking in a different language and but there voices are drowned out by the boys screams. We then flash back to the boy in bed who is shacking because hes affected by the nightmare he is having. We then have a montage of violence when the kidnappers psychically abuse the young boy, we see signs of struggle and resisting. We then have a close up of him in bed. Then cut to a wide shot of him on the floor and we see the kidnappers feet walking away (having finished with the boy) and we have a slow zoom to the young boys arm where we see a sign of triangle, then we cross cut to an older version of him self looking in the mirror with the same scar on his arm. And he has no memory of how it got there or what happened to him.

Film poster sketch

While drawing I used the black swan Natalie Portman film poster as a guidance so I include the conventions of a film poster which is the credits, the title. I included the actors name so people can be informed on who is the actors in the movie. I included coming soon at the corner of the film poster so people can be informed plus film posters always include a date or the sentence 'coming soon' and I placed the productions name 'crystal peak' at the bottom left.