Another part of the pre-production procedure was the print design of our horror film poster and magazine. This included making drawn specimens of what our magazine and poster could resemble. Thus, we needed to take a look at normal traditions for blood and gore movie notices and also ghastliness magazines. From this had the capacity make our drawn drafts and additionally clarify the purposes behind our decisions. And our drawn drafts, we additionally needed to take a look at genuine media content illustrations of magazine spreads and notices. Therefore, we picked parts of the genuine media messages that we enjoyed and clarified why. Taking after on from this, we made a scope of advanced drafts for both our magazine and poster that exhibited the different designs we could utilize. The drafting stage likewise included taking draft photos that displayed the camera shots and edges we may utilize. Ultimately, from this we made working drafts of our magazine spread and blurb which helped us to try different things with Photoshop ability and procedures.
Real Media text - Horror Posters
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INitial visual drafts |
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These are our beginning attracted drafts high contrast to indicate generally what we need our magazines and posters to resemble. We have incorporated a portrayal of our fundamental pictures with included traditions of magazines and posters.
Hand drawn & digital drawn posters
We first sketched out our ideas so what type of main image we want on out poster then where to position the text like the title of the film, the tagline, the credits , release date etc. we then developed it further on Photoshop to add colour and experiment with different colour schemes we like.
From a lot of research we could see that may posters consist of the protagonist as their main image without giving away any ideas on whether or not the person will save the day, they just manage to make them look vulnerable, so we like the idea that the protagonist looks scared almost like a victim and with a hand over her mouth representing and introducing the antagonist at this stage we weren't too sure what we want the antagonist to look like so we made it look like a normal hand then developed it to look scary similar to a deformed hand. The concept of the mouse choking her really comes from the story line ,where the website causes people to do bad thing to harm themselves which is why she is bleeding from the cord which is our way of representing our iconic symbol. The typography of the film title we thought matched well with intense bleeding from the main image's neck.
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With this poster we thought about the main image relating to the back story of our film which is why we have an image of a person with their had on the mouse incorporating our theme of cyber bullying but we also wanted it t look scary so that it matches up with the rest of the industrial horror posters so we decided that the hand on the mouse should consist of blood but we are still uncertain whether or not the hand should be the antagonist or the protagonist. We followed the simple layout of real horror posters where the title of the film is above the credits and the release date is towards the bottom of the poster, what we did do differently on the other hand was make the tag line go under the title rather than on the top of the page but we are still discussing where we should should be
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with this poster that we made we like the idea of no blood shown or any sort of thing that relates to horror because it makes the movie seem a bit mysterious. The reason why we decide to incorporate a computer because most of the action is based because of the website and similar to the teenagers in the movie they believe its just a normal link on a normal computer so in a way we are sinking the audience into the same trick because by looking at this they might think the film isn't as scary or gruesome compared to other horror film. with the colour seem we like the idea that of the turquoise colour similar the colour of digital clock so it give it that sort of effect when it comes to technology
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with this poster we wanted make the main image relate to the title of the film even if the title is just a play on words, so with the main image even though we aren't sure what the antagonist should look like, through experimenting we put him in a doctor or surgeon's uniform so he looks like a real doctor but normal doctor a usual clean where as this one is covered in blood so that is gives impact along with the fact that the movie is a slasher, and slashers are usually bloody and gruesome. with also wanted to incorporate the protagonist without relieving to much of the film which is why we have her in the back in a shadow form this why the audience isn't sure whether or not she is another antagonist or a protagonist.
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These are our digital draft which help us have an understanding where certain things should be on the poster following simple conventions from other horror poster and we are allowed to experiment with our own style incorporating colour scheme that we like also.These 6 are the layouts we like the most and give us an idea of what one we should chose for our final piece.
experimental Layouts - Poster
These are experimental layouts for our 'Dr Barbitus' Trailer poster, this basically helps us with the idea of where we want certain thing to be positioned, it also make sure that we don't miss out any poster conventions, making us on step closer when it comes to the final outcome.
real media text- horror magazines
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Hand drawn & digital drawn Magazines
With the first magazine draft we made, we wanted the main image to look a bit gruesome so that the audience knew that our magazine was a horror magazine as it wasn't recognisable from the name of the magazine ‘deface’ alone. I loved the typography for deface as it aloud it to look bold and horror at the same time so we thought that we should keep the typography the same for all draft but change it up according to the colour scheme of each draft. With this colour scheme from research the colour are very common and well known in the genre of horror and it also allows certain things to stand out and attract the right type of audience
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with this magazine our main concept was to incorporate the colour scheme of Orange, Black and white because we saw it from a real horror magazine and we love the way that it was different from other horror magazine but still managed to keep the horror style. It also appears as if Halloween is all year round which we loved. with the main image we decide that a mid shot would be good allowing the audience to see the main image's costume which is very important in horror because that how the audience can tell whether or not the person is the protagonist or antagonist. with this main image we didn't make it too gruesome compare to the first draft and decided to show blood only on the main image's hands. we also loved that the side bar of other cover lines go across the main image which makes them stand out more
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With this magazine we tried to in corporate a mid shot but with the main image not complete in the picture and with them not giving eye contact which we love because it makes the image look more natural instead of posed, we also love from real media text the blend of a bright colour and cool colour so we tried to replicate the same type of idea, with the side bar most magazines that have sidebars look busy and very engaging which we would like to do in order to get our audiences attention.
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From many horror magazine we have seen not many of them have close up because they normal what to put the costume of the main image in there, we thought that a close up would go good with the horror genre as you can show scary in facial expressions and within make up so we had that type of vision also because we would like our magazine to be called 'Deface' it would make sense to have a deformed face as the front cover because defaced means spoiled surface. we also didn't want to do to much with this idea because we want the audience to focus on the main image.
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These are our digital draft which help us have an understanding where certain things should be on the magazine following simple conventions from other horror magazine and we are allowed to experiment with our own style incorporating colour scheme that we like also. These 3 are common layouts that we like the most and hope to follow out in our final piece.
These are experimental layouts for our Horror Magazine, this basically helps us with the idea of where we want certain thing to be positioned, it also make sure that we don't miss out any Magazine conventions, making us on step closer when it comes to the final outcome.
Experimental layouts - Magazine
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This is the first photo shoot we did together as a group we each took turn being both the cameraman and the main image so that we all experience the feeling of how to make good picture, we also had studio lights which we were new to also, we did start to get the hang of it after a while in order to get the perfect lighting that was too bright or too dull. Overall we think our first photo shoot went well as we got a chance to learn new techniques and have fun with the costumes at the same time.
Good and Bad quality photos
As a group we decided a looked through the picture we looked a which picture had good quality and the ones that didn't really meet our standards. It was good for us as we got t experience the difference between magazine quality from phone quality
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Working drafts - Poster |
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Stages for the First Draft - POster
These are our first experimental photos that we took in order to get an idea of how the main image would look on our poster or magazine by not only using our visual thoughts but by the audience research results that we gathered from our potential audience, we took a range of different shots of our potential protagonist and antagonist using different props,certain lighting angle and various poses.
We were pleased with the overall design of the first draft we liked the idea of both protagonist and antagonist as the main image we like the turquoise colour coordination in the colour scheme and it is very rare to see in a horror poster so we like the way we made it unique but still manage to follow the typical horror convention of a film poster. overall we are happy with the positioning of the text and like the different fonts used for different section in the poster. This draft will now help us have a better understand of what our final will build up to from this, and how we can arrange certain things for our poster to look amazing
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We liked the idea of having a bright colour scheme but still trying to maintain the scary/horror type of look so that's the reason why we decided to put a bit of turquoise in there.
With the title name 'Dr Barbitus' we liked the fact that with the font it looked slightly smudged like a blur effect, similar to as the Dr is a play on word it makes the audience feel as it they are seeing it correctly. |
With this outcome the thing we was most impressed about this outcome was the fact that the main image was cut off the page so it gives the audience only a snippet on what could be in the film and it also gives more space for other poster conventions to be positioned on the poster, in order to make the poster look busy and now cramped together.We also really liked the colour scheme and how it made things on the poster flow in a way, and also the gradient of grey and white and the bottom where the credits are.
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we decided to use the colours dark red, grey and white in order to give the slasher poster and more horror look,as from most of the real media text the poster mainly had some sort of red in it, giving it that gory look. We incorporated 'Based on a true story' from the poster conventions, in order to get the audiences attention you could either put this or a pull quote.
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Stages For the Second Draft - Poster
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Working Drafts - Magazines |
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Stages for The First draft - Magazine
The first thing we did was import the picture onto photoshop and expand it towards the right side of the magazine
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The second thing we did was adjust the brightness and contrast and then added a colour balance on top in order to get a yellow fade colour on top but not completely.
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We then added the film strip and added a gradient on it to make it follow the horror vibe and with the grip the masthead could be placed straight.
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Stages for The Second Draft - Magazine
With the masthead we wanted to make it interesting and eye catching so considering that Deface was one of our options in Audience we thought it would be a good idea to but a face inside the words and replacing the 'E' with the skeleton face was a good look as even with the e missing it still spelt Deface. we also decided to fill the inside with a broken glass type of texture to make it different from the background.
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Overall we were pleased with the final outcome of this magazine front cover, the thing we like the most would have the masthead we love the level of creativity that we put into the masthead which is good as it is eye catching tot the audience when they pick up the issue. We also like the main image how the direct contact adds tension which helps with the idea that it is a horror magazine. we tried to follow as many magazine convention in order to make the magazine look as realistic as possible. the colour scheme idea simply came from the real media text and how most magazine incorporate red representing blood, so we thought it would be a good look.
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By doing this typography and style in the masthead really helped us be creative and gain skills with Photoshop we started of by downloading a font and developing it by duplicating it with different shades of green and using different soft brushed to make a shadow looking drip almost like fog.
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With this design we love how the lighting helped enhance the main image a bit more, it consist of the same convections as the first one which really helped us understand layouts of how horror magazines should look, so we simply rearranged certain thing till we came up with something that we liked as a group. We decide the masthead should look the name of the magazine and 'Gore' was one of our option from Audience Research so we made the typography bold and added smudges to give it that steamy but gross look so it eye catching also. We followed the colour Scheme of Green,Black,White and Grey but we thought gore would look good with green and the colour compliment each other well.
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