Finished Poster

FINISHED POSTER :)

Finished Teaser trailer

Making of the poster

I made the poster in Adobe Photoshop as I had easy access to it at home. In our designs, our favourite idea was a handprint of blood on a window with our character in the background. We adapted this idea to have the handprint with our character merged into the palm of it. We used photos that we took when we were filming she looked similar to our footage.

The original photos:

In photoshop, i had to make the poster in 'layers' meaning putting photos/ backgrounds/text on top of one another. I started by having the background layer which was just a plain background which i filled in black using the fill toolbar at the side of the program. I then added the second layer which was the photo of the handprint and selected the handprint using the magic wand tool. This meant i could select the handprint and have it on a completely black background. After using effects such as the 'blur' tool, 'colour balance' and much more which are available on photoshop, i was able to make the hand print look very red and distorted to give it a scary horror look.

I then had to put in another layer which was our characters face and the idea was to merge it into the palm of the hand. After editing her face to make it a bit brighter and clearer making her eyes stand out, using the tools such as the 'overlay' I was able to dissolve her face into the palm of the blood hand print.
To make the poster look a bit more edgy, i downloaded a texture from the internet which i could have as another layer in photoshop on top of the palm to create a grainy effect over our characters face.

I then added the title and text in which i could choose the font for and the colour. We chose the title as red as it has horror connotations and represents blood and the white text stands out against the black background.

Website pages 2 and 3

 

This is a scan of more designs of our website which we have amended. Page two which is at the bottom of the scan shows the page that will come up after the website has loaded. The title is located at the top of the site on the right and the sound is located at the top left. The users will have the choice to listen to the music. We are going to embed the trailer and locate it in the middle of the page. The background of the website page will be black but we re going to input a picture of a hand print of blood to the right of the trailer.

To the left of the trailer, we will have the links that will lead onto other pages of the websites.

Page three of the website shows an example of the pages that will links from the main page .g. the synopsis. We will have the title and sound control in the same place. There will be a different picture on each of the link pages and information regarding the title.

This shows a print screen of a website we have created on wix.com so far. 

Final poster idea

 

We have designed out final poster idea which we will be taking photos of tonight. We have adapted our favourite design from our drafts. It is very similar but we have changed the layout as primary research showed that people thought that it was too 'bottom heavy' and there was nothing at the top so changing the layout spreads out the poster a bit more. The title will be at the top as shown with the tagline on the right hand side. The hand will be very obvious on the page as we have changed the size to make it a little bit bigger. We haven't decided if we are going to do the handprint in blood or steam yet so we will do both and see which looks better and do primary research to see what our target audience prefers. The handprint will be on a window and our actress will be standing outside the window and be seen through the handprint.

Website designs

Loading page

Using Flash, we will encorporate something on the loading page of our website that is very effective rather than using a standard 'loading' line with the percentage of how much is has loaded.

The first idea of our loading page was a syringe that was filled up with blood and then as the page loads, it loses the blood and drops out of the end. When all the blood has gone from the syringe, a scary image will flash up on screen, shocking the audience.

Our second idea was that a stopwatch would be ticking. As the hand ticks round, the stopwatch fills up with blood. This gives the idea that time is running out. Once the stopwatch has been filled up with blood, the page will be finished loading and the main page of the website will appear.

Our third idea which we haven't drawn yet also signifies time running out by having an hour glass filling up with blood instead of sand. This would be effective because it matches our genre and the blood will scare the audience.

Poster Ideas

I have designed 4 poster ideas that are drafts for our poster which is part of our promotional package.

The first design on the left is an image of daisy (our main character) looking into the mirror. This poster is effective because her reflection in the mirror is different to reality. The reflection will show her to be a 'normal' teenager so she sees herself as something other people do not. Her reflection will be an innocent young girl who is being taken advantage of and she is being betrayed. The reality will show her to be mentally ill with blood on her face, her hair messed up and greasy, her eyes very dark. Overall she will look extremely scary. The mirror we will use is an old mirror that I (Gabby) have that has cobwebs and dirt all over it. This will help with the mise en scene of the trailer as it has horror connotations and it an antique.

The second design is our favourite. This shows a handprint (which will be in blood or steam, we haven't decided yet). The handprint will be on a window and Daisy will be standing in the background. This is very relevant as the handprint has scary connotations and the blood or steam will look very creepy, meeting the needs of our genre and making it obvious to the audience what type of genre it is. The tagline is also very important so it needs to stand out on the poster. As the poster will be very dark, we think the writing for the tagline should be in white as it will stand out and the colour will contrast with the narrative.

The third poster draft on the left will be an image of a red wall with blood handprints on. We came up with this idea as we like the handprint on the window idea and thought this would be effective aswell. The tagline which is located in the middle of the poster stands out although looks oddly placed. We may try this idea zoomed out so there are smaller handprints on the wall.

The fourth poster draft is a zoomed up picture of an eye which I got inspiration from a poster I found of a film called 'skeleton key'. In the middle of the pupil we would use photoshop to input fire. This is relevant because in our narrative, at the end of the film the audience find out that our main character started a fire to kill her best friend.

(The skeleton key poster)