9th December- taking pictures for our magazine and poster.

On Friday we took pictures of our main actress Megan for our magazine front cover and our film poster. I took a few 'behind the scene' photos to show everyone what we got up to that evening.
In our group discussion we decided for our magazine front cover we wanted to do a picture of Megan in character and one out of character-as an actress. We took photos of Megan as an actress first and chose quite shimmery neutral eye shadows and pink lips.

We put up a black background for our shots so it would be quite dramatic.

We used a light reflector to change the contrast on Megan's face and make her eyes stand out more.

We all took turns so we could all have a go at taking the photos. We tried to put Megan in different scenery's so we would have as many photos as possible to choose from. We also did a few shots outside where Megan was in character.





For the photos where Megan is in character we added some makeup to make her look like she was crying and all her make-up was smudged. We had to use onions to make Megan cry, so i hope the photos turned out well!

Production Company Logo.

This is our production company logo. we realised that we couldn't re-use our production company from last year because it was a romantic comedy and we are doing a thriller trailer. I thought of the name Night View because it appealed to the thriller genre. We thought about how we wanted to lay out our logo and someone suggested we use cat eyes. We got an image of cat eyes and made the background black so the eyes would stand out more. Then we added the 'night' on top of one eye and 'view' on the other. I think this was very effective. We saw on other production companies that the word 'production' is usually spaced out and we liked how that looked so we added that on the bottom of the eyes.

Film Magazine Research.

This is an example of a film cover from the magazines 'Total Film'. The title looks like it is made out of metal, which makes an impact and makes the letters stand out. The title is quite big and takes up about a third of the page. This allows the reader to easily read the title. However the people on the front of the magazine are covering part of the title which shows that they are the main focus. The font all seems to be the same which is unusual for magazines as they use two or more different fonts on the front cover. The colours of font only use two colours white and peach. From my research into magazine covers I’ve concluded that magazines use two colours of fonts, usually white and another colour. The background of the cover is very dark and it looks like there is an X in the background. It looks like the Cerebro door from the X-men films, which fans would recognise. The text has a theme of ‘X’ on it, with words such as ‘X-plosive’ and ‘X-tra’ which is a pun of the title X-men First Class. The text on the cover seems to go in a ‘G’ shape with text at the top, side and in the middle expending in front of the actors advertised. There are four actors advertised on the cover which is very unusual because there is usually only one or in some cases two, but four is strange. They are all using the Gaze, the romantic or sexual pose. There are two men and women which makes the magazine appeal to both males and females. One of the women is a mutant which informs the audience about what the film would be about if they are oblivious.

Magazine Draft.

As well as doing a draft for our film poster we decided to do one for our magazine front cover too. We researched conventions of a magazine cover to decide what to put on there. We found that on magazine covers, the title is big and bold usually at the top of the page, the font is not the same on the whole magazine, different colours of fonts are used and there is always a bar code on it. We chose the name 'CineMag' because its short but memorable and it also tells the audience what the magazine entails. We decided to turn the word 'mag' on its side so it wouldn't look so cluttered. we also added some text above the title because we saw some magazines do that. When we were researching magazines we found that some magazines have a lot of text on it and some had very little. We decided that we would have little text, just the important things so you could see more of the photograph. We used red, white and grey for our colour scheme. We used the red for the more interesting words so it would be more eye-catching. We added a picture of a new upcoming director because we saw on other magazines there would be more than one photograph. We used our main actress's name Megan Curtis instead of her character so we could introduce her as an actress more than the character she plays. We put her name in big writing so people notice it.
We're not sure if we want the photograph on the cover of our magazine to be Megan in character, or as the actress. We decided we would take pictures of both and see which one works better.