Location

All of my pictures and videos were down on Old Hunstanton beach and cliffs. The area is quite quiet and made the setting perfect for a murderer to meet someone he has lured to him.

The location is the same through poster, magazine and trailer to keep continuity.

I originally planned to do all of my filming here I stuck to what I decided to do.

Film Poster Questionnaire

Media Questionnaire Post-production My Film Poster

1. What gender are you?

Male Female

2. Which genre do you feel this poster is?

Thriller Action Horror Comedy Drama

3. How much do you like my poster?
On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4. Why did you rate it with this score?
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5. What did you like about the poster?
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6. What did you dislike about the poster?
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7. What would you change about the poster?
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8. From the poster what do you think the film is about?
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9. Do you think the fonts are effective, and why?
Yes No ____________________________________________________
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10. Do you feel that the images have been manipulated effectively?
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11. Would this poster make you want to see the film?

Yes No

The Watching Poster - Final Cover

The Watching Poster - Final Change

Watching Poster Final - Changes

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Final Poster Analysis

The Watching Poster

This is my final poster for the film of my trailer.

After creating the step 9 poster I put that on my Facebook page in order to gain peoples' opinion of my work. Many came back saying they liked the poster but that there were things they felt would be better off changed. I used the audience feedback to edit my poster.

Before my poster had a very boring ident, it was just the text saying 'After Burner' but now it is changed to a blue and purple pill shape with my new production name 'Read Studios' within it. I prefer this ident as it stands out from the page better, and is easily transferable to other media products that I create.

Another change to my poster is the girl. Before she was fully visible with a drop shadow which was there in order to show she had depth. Now the girl has a black colour overlay. I think this really works for my poster, you know very little about her there, just the impression that she is planning something and watching the male - this thanks to the tagline and film name. Her black figure can be seen pressing up to the window and isn't immediately visible. The fact it isn't immediately noticed means people have to get closer and look to see what it is, thereby attracted to the poster to see what the unknown is.

Lastly from step 9 I made my title larger so it took up most of the top of the page. I originally didn't want the title so big but had problems getting the title central due to the size of the words 'the' and 'watching'.

I am impressed with this final version of my poster.

Poster Feedback

I put the poster from Step 9 onto my Facebook page so I could get feedback on what I was thinking of having as my final poster. The feedback was very helpful, it pointed out some mistakes that I had made in my creation process meaning I could change them for my final poster. Here is some of the feedback.

• Martin Howard - I really like the composition of this, looks really professional. As far as feedback goes, I think you need to soften the edges of Sarah in the background, especially around her arms and hands, looks like she has a black outline. I think if you did that she would seem more realistic in the background and it would be perfect. :)
• Rex Makemson - I agree with Martin the poster is a good one with just a couple of flaws blend the girl in just her right arm and shoulder and her left arm, the boys righht hand is a bit blown out the word after has 2 'f's'. I quite like the title its bright and sharp and draws the eye.
• Robbie Dale - The poster looks good, though I'm not sure if it was your intention or not but I think Sarah's face is too clear and should perhaps make her more like the effect on the hands.
• Victoria Waterhouse - Really great poster, needs a bit more colour and the images need to be blended in a little better as they look like they stand off the page, a little. But all together, looks really professional and great :)

These comments helped me to edit the final touches of my poster. I did not realise that there we

re 2 F's in my After Burner lettering so this was a big help for that. The contrasts in colours that people said I need I managed to have a look at too.

Read Studios - Ident

My ident is very basic, but by using drop shadows I can make it stand out.

Originally I chose to call my production company 'After Burner' but my Facebook feedback said I should have an orange flame behind the name in order to show an after burner. When I tried this is didn't work well with the rest of the poster as the colours didn't work well with the rest of my palette.

From this I decided that it was ideal to change my studio's name, and felt that READ STUDIOS was ideal as it doesn't imply it is for a specific genre of movie. This means READ STUDIOS could create any type of movie.

I created my ident by creating a rectangle and curving the edges. I split the middle and chose 2 colours that juxtaposed one and other. I used a calm blue and a lilac purple. The blue can denote calm whereas the purple denotes royalty. Using these colours make my ident look established. I coloured the inside with white to make the ident seem more professional, the drop shadows also help to make this seem like it stands off the page and is noticed well. Major companies that use idents always have an ident that can easily be recognised, mine can. I also made this into a pill shape as it can play on the subconscious as being addictive.

Target Audience

The target audience for my poster would be teenagers aged 16+. I would not want this to be viewed by young audiences as the plot line for my film is to do with a paedofile which is not suitable content for a child's viewing. I conform with normal movie posters by not having an age rating on the poster. The action thriller Die Hard 4.0 is a 15 movie but you can clearly see the poster has no age rating whereas the DVD cover does. If I was creating a DVD cover I would include the age as 16.

The genre that my target audience would like would likely be thrillers and horror movies. My movie tries to fall into both of these catergories.

Fonts Analysis

For my movie poster I used 3 main fonts which I downloaded from Dafont.com and Abstractfonts.com. The fonts I used are:

1. Reprise Stamp - The Watching
2. I Still Know - Patience is a Virtue
3. Steel Tongs - All other text.

'The Reprise Stamp' font I chose because it looks good in all capital letters and catches the attention of the audiences. The text looks slightly supernatural and appears a bit spooky. Adding glow affects also means it looks paranormal.

'I Still Know' again looks good in capital letters, it looks quite an old font so that means it can appear kind of gothic. Due to the mystical themes within my trailer a spooky font is important. It suits the words of my tagline which is important.

'Steel Tongs' is a very important font. Using lower case letters turns the lower case letters into movie credits, such as : is the word, Presents. To have the actual word you type in this font it must be all in captials. The font is very proffesional for a movie poster and helps my poster keep to the normal conventions of a movie poster.

Cinema Trip - Majestic King's Lynn (27/09/2011)

I used the feedback from the interviews with the women to try and make my first attempt movie poster. The women told me they wanted a bit of mystery within my poster to attract them to my film.

After creating my first poster I went back to the cinema to try and get some more feedback. I took along with me and A3 printed out movie poster.

I showed it to 25 people outside the cinema with many people liking it but feeling that improvements could be made.

Most people felt that it looked terrific for the thriller genre, it was spooky and gloomy which made people sense fear and terror. One person linked it to the gothic subgenre which I was pleased with.

People did however tell me that the girl in the picture didn't look realistic. They weren't sure whether she was a ghost or just watching him. One man said, "The girl looks frightening until you notice the fact that the shadow around her made her look at though she is being pressed against the window, rather than pressing herslf against it." From this comment I know I definately need to change the girl in my poster.

One person, Darren, was on hand to give me some feedback to my poster.

Darren Interview by MiniManJamJam

I am pleased with the feedback as it means that I can go away and change a few things without having to start from scratch. Darren said that he liked the fact it was 'dark' but it was hard to see everything. This means that altering the brightness should be done, but not to an extent that everything because too bright. The poster needs to remain gloomy so it is still supernatural and fits well into the thriller genre.

Other Completed Poster

This is my other poster for my movie trailer that I made. I chose not to use this poster as it didn't look very supernatural and Sarah's ghost figure looked too photoshopped into the image.

The trouble with this image was that Sarah did look very pale and ghostly, but her feet were too hard to insert her into the picture. Trying to scale her to the correct size was also very difficult. In relation to the shelter she kept appearing either too big or too small and everything about the image looked wrong.

I also didn't like that making her very opaque in order to looking unreal actually made her look very fake. As you could see the lighthouse behind her but she had a shadow it all looked very fake.

I wanted my poster to scare the audience, being very spooky in the process but this poster didn't capture that.

Creation of my poster - Step 9

This is how my poster looks after all the layers come together. I am pleased with it but intend to put it on Facebook to get some feedback from my peers in order to see if there could be any improvements made to it and anything that is wrong.

I intend to change my poster accordingly to the feedback if I feel it is worthy of change. I will write another post about feedback to show the criticsms and then show the improvements.

Creation of my poster - Step 8

For the next stage in creating my postersI had to add the text layers tomy poster. Getting the text layers right is very important as it gives away little bits of information that help the audience get attracted to this poster. With the 2 pictures there is only 1 major difference, the actor's names.

The actors names are only on 1 of the posters as I wanted to compare the differences between them. The reason for the actor's names not being on both posters here is due to the fact that I felt putting them on the poster overcrowded the text layers and that there might be too much text for the poser. This is something that I will use feedback to decide on.

With the other pieces of text I have only used 3 fonts which I downloaded from abstractfonts.com and dafont.com. The 3 fonts that I used are:

1. Reprise Stamp - The Watching
2. I Still Know - Patience is a Virtue
3. Steel Tongs - All other text.

'The Reprise Stamp' font I chose because it looks good in all capital letters and catches the attention of the audiences. The text looks slightly supernatural and appears a bit spooky. Adding glow affects also means it looks paranormal.

'I Still Know' again looks good in capital letters, it looks quite an old font so that means it can appear kind of gothic. Due to the mystical themes within my trailer a spooky font is important. It suits the words of my tagline which is important.

'Steel Tongs' is a very important font. Using lower case letters turns the lower case letters into movie credits, such as : is the word, Presents. To have the actual word you type in this font it must be all in captials. The font is very proffesional for a movie poster and helps my poster keep to the normal conventions of a movie poster.

Creation of my poster - Step 7

Step 7 involved me creating the main supernatural character, the dead ghost. I decided that my character should be positioned behind the glass of the shelter because the male of the poster could not see her, but the audience could. The title of my film is "The Watching" and obviously this character appears to be watching the man. The tagline of "Patience is a virtue" also hints that she has time and is going to get revenge and it doesn't matter how long it takes.

The girl is wearing normal clothes but they are just plain black, the reason she is in these clothes is because she died a normal death, in the movie trailer I will make sure she is in this outfit at least once. Both costumes the characters in the posters wear will be used in the trailer in order to keep continuity.

There is a backdrop on the girl to try and make her seem more realistic. My audience feedback may suggest this isn't so good, so for my final version the backdrop might disappear.

Creation of my poster - Step 6

In this step I added on my main male character. I had the actor looking down because he is guilty for what he has done. This could lead the audience into wondering what he has done and maybe feeling sorry for him. This is in contrast to what I intend to do with my trailer, in my trailer the male character will try to divert any sympathetic feelings people might feel for him.

The clothes in this poster are very natural. The character is in no way supernatural so is wearing normal clothes. He is wearing a blazer with a tee shirt, this is smart casual, the look that I want this character to have. The jeans and trainers that he wears are also very casual. In some ways his clothes don't conform to the norm, other movies with the same type of character usually wear smarter clothes. I want my character to try to appear younger than he is as his character profile shows him to be manipulative in this way.

Creation of my poster - Step 5

The next thing I did was to add to the supernatural effect that I was craving for my poster. I started by creating a new layer, then I added a layer mask to the layer. To then create a new desired effect I went to filter and render and used clouds again. To makethe clouds have more contrast and better defined edges I also used defined edges. I then used blending options to make it into an overlay layer.

I also made a purple gradient on another new layer, this I also changed into an overlay blending option. Having both of these as my highest layers meant that they went over all the other layers that I had meaning everything below these layers would appear supernatural.

Creation of my poster - Step 4

With this step I created a new layer and slotted it inbetween the 2 layers of the shelter that I have. I then made sure on the higher layered shelter that I had eliminated the skyline as it was too bright.

Then using the clouds tool, in Filter then Render, I created some darker clouds that looked more like a stormy day. This was a simple but effective thing to do.

Creation of my poster - Step 3

I wanted to make the entire poster a lot darker so I decided so edit other main things in the poster.

I edited; Selective colour, Curves and Hue/Saturation.

For Hue/Saturation I left the Hue at 0% and had saturation at -54. This made my image look quite grey and dull, which was the intended effect.

Next I edited the curves. To make sure that I had a very dark image I kept the curves of the line very low and straight so that there wasn't too much colour or contrast with the image.

Lastly I added a Selective Colour Adjustment Layer. I used the drop down menu and selected the colour Black. Changing the methor to relative I edited the following.

• Cyan: +1%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black: -4%

The image in the screen shot is what all of this editing created.

Creation of my poster - Step 2

With my original picture before editing the colour to make it look darker and more supernatural I decided that I should make there seem a little bit foggy as fog is often associated with supernatural and gothic themes. On a duplicated copy of my picture I added a vector mask and with black and white as foreground and background colours respectively, I used the gradient tool to create a thin fog effect at the base of my picture.