These sketches are ideas for our magazines and posters. The first, we had an idea, taken from our trailer where our protagonist sinks into the bath. We thought it would be really cool if we got a picture of her under the water with her eyes open. This would be really creepy, and give an idea to the audience that she is not totally sane. Also, having her eyes open makes it really uncomfortable for someone to look at as it is uncomfortable to open your eyes under the water. In addition, another idea that we could do is make the water black, either with a bath bomb or food colouring, then have Yuden's face coming out of the water, it would look really creepy.
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This idea is to have our protagonist sitting on a chair, then having her boyfriend's eyes behind her. We want her to be wearing a formal dress with a hard expression on her face, perhaps showing how ruthless and cold she is, while her boyfriend could look more worried. The problems with this one is that we can't get a really nice chair like we wanted into the green room, so we'll have to photoshop one in, and that may take away from the real look of it. Also, it could give off the wrong idea to the audience, of the protagonist being watched by someone, which isn't what our movie is about. We want to convey that she is in control but that may not come across with this picture.
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Posters
This is a practice for one of the posters. I tried it with some photos we took that weren't that good, but good enough for me to get a basic idea of what I want and what I'm going to do. I want to get it so that we have one main picture of Yuden at the front, then her different emotions all behind her, fading away. The problem with this one is that the pictures were only good from a point upwards, so you can see where I've cut them off and it looks really weird. I was thinking of putting something like broken glass or the title there so you don't see that, but as it is just a practice, I think it looks ok. I chose the background as a link to our inspiration, which is Get Out. That's also why I chose to have it in black and white as well as the face that it was impossible to remove all the green from the green screen behind her. I think it looks good, but we need to take better pictures.
This is the startings of my poster with the proper pictures. I used the burn tool a lot to make Yuden look more sickly, bringing out her collar bones, neck and ribs a little more just to make her look thinner, as we tried to do that with make-up but it didn't show very well on the pictures. I also changed the background as it we didn't like how the two different colours made some of the other pictures darker, while the ones on the other side remained light. It looked a little strange, so I tried a gradient background, which does look better. I've added the broken glass, which is something we want to have as a theme in our posters and magazines. I used the eraser tool with different shapes to make Yuden fade into the glass, as though she is breaking, fragile.
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I was trying out two different fonts for the title. One that was pretty simple, which I made a little more prominent by adding strokes and drop shadows. This brought it out from the black and white pictures or else it got lost. We also decided on this tagline 'Sometimes a lie is more painful than a truth' which creates intrigue for people who view it. However, I prefer the second font, which is called 'Awakening.' It looks a lot more creepy and broken, much like the glass, and it's a lot thicker, meaning it stands out more. I made the billing block, actor name and the tagline more prominent by adding drop shadows.
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Magazine
We took several pictures of Yuden in her bathroom, both under the water completely and with her face over the surface, but a lot of the pictures weren't too good. We had wanted to make the water black with a bath bomb, but the colour was bad and there were bubbles everywhere. I started editing one picture of Yuden completely submerged, but the problem with that was her eyes were closed under the water, which was weird for a poster as the whole point is to show off the main characters- for example in Avengers posters and magazine covers, the heroes have their masks off and helmets off to show the actors, many of whom will have a previous fan base. All the pictures of Yuden with her face above the water turned out looking really weird, so I tried to edit her face over the top of this one. It took a while, as I had to get the colour correction right so that her face matched her body, then I had to get it in the right place. I also had to make sure her hair and hair line matched and went into each other as seamlessly as possible, which was difficult as you could tell pretty obviously where one picture started and the other ended.
One way I overcame this was adding to the water a shattered glass effect. Some of the water was over her face, so I could put the glass over it and it lessened the obviousness of the two pictures. The reason I chose to do this was actually due to the amount of broken glass/ mirrors we are using both in our trailer and other posters/ magazines. It links really nicely, and makes the image look more exciting, as well as creepy, which I think the face also does, as there is something uncomfortable about the way Yuden is looking directly at the audience. |
For the magazine title, I had this idea of calling it final cut, and have the latter word cut out of the former. I wasn't sure how to do this, so I found the video above, which taught me. I then added a drop shadow and stroke to make it more prominent and bold. The only thing I couldn't do, which most magazine have, is Yuden's head over the title, as she is submerged in the water. This doesn't matter too much, as her head is too low anyway, and there is enough space above it to fit the title in.
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For the cover lines, I tried to fine movies that were coming out soon or already out to advertise and I came across a load of superhero movies, so I thought it might make a nice theme to have at the bottom. I took promotional picture from the movies and added them at the bottom, with the caption '2018:the year of the super and anti heroes' as Deadpool is also involved and he is an antihero. I then added the title of our movie with a caption 'read about the indie thriller...' as people aren't going to know our movie, we have to introduce it to potential audiences.
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I needed to add different cover lines as I didn't have enough and they were all to do with my movie. I added in a bit about the new fifty shades movie and Downsising, a movie that's come out recently. I had to try and make the cover lines stand out more, so I added a bevel and a thicker stroke and a different colour, but I think the colour could still change. I just can't find one that fits well. As for everything else, I misspelled heroes, so I need to change that, and I added a date under the title, but everything else seems pretty much fine.
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