FINAL MAGAZINE COVER

For our final magazine cover we came to the conclusion that using a screen grab from our trailer would not be good enough quality to be enlarged as it would become pixalated and fuzzy. So we decided to use a camera to take a series of images of Katie in character with make up, hair and costume done. We used a high resolution camera to create shots that would be enlarged and still of a good quality. 

We wanted her to still be in character rather than have her as her self shown as an actor on the cover as many magazines do. We felt this would link the magazine cover to to the poster and trailer keeping the main character and sense of genre clear. 

Taking a range of images gave up the ability to experiment with what images would fit into our magazine layout best. This is why we took a variety of angles, front on and side images. Also ones from different angles.

DETAILS

While researching other teaser trailers we were interested in the idea of creating a small credit bar that are show at the end of many trailers. This we felt would make our trailer feel more realistic and less amiture. Although we didn't feel we had enough time to create this title we put the idea to one side. Towards the end of the construction of our trailer we felt this aspect was a vital piece missing. So we made an end credit to be shown for a few seconds at the end of our teaser trailer. 

Above on the left is our design and on the right is the design from the end of the film 'Insidious' teaser trailer' which we took inspiration from. Taking the idea of making the names larger than the text such as 'In Association With'. This is what the style of most teaser trailers credits are like.

The Insidious credits are very long which isn't like all films credits, but as ours is a small scale production we made ours shorter and straight to the point. We overlapped our text in our design as we had seen it on another films credits which we felt is unique and different to the run of the mill layouts we have seen, also making our credits look more professional over all.

CONSTRUCTION OF COILED PICTURES PRODUCTION LOGO

Constricting The Production Logo on Prezi

FINALISING IDEAS

After playing about with screen shots taken from our teaser trailer we decided the quality wasn't good enough for use on our magazine cover. We decided to focus on the creation of the titles, backgrounds, and other ordinary features of a typical Virus magazine. We felt this would be best to focus on until we had taken our better quality photographs. We started to draw ideas from different elements of various magazines. 

On the Virus cover on the below and left the detail titles and snip its to what is enclosed inside for example what movies, reports, games, music etc. are located at the bottom of the poster in a very simple listed structure. This we found present on almost all the posters. Although we don't dislike this lay out we felt it was a bit dated but experimented in creating it anyway. After creating this section of text we felt it wasn't going to give our magazine cover the look we were hoping for but at the same time we wanted our cover to look like a real Virus mag. 

Doing some further research into virus magazine we came across a more current issue for Final Destination 5. We were intrigued by the new layout on the cover. We felt it looked alot more modern to the Hatchet cover and was what we had aspired ours to look like. We quickly started to experiment with the new layout of filling the text in a strip format. Finding a similar font and varying our text in size. On our poster i believe we have created a similar effect with great precision. 

On our design above we have incorporated both text ideas by having the strips down the side and also two lines along to bottom. This is not our final design so when our image is in place we will decided whether both are need or if only the strips down the left column are need to make the layout a success.

We then began to look into the smaller detailing such as the slat of blood shown on the Final Destination cover. WE again like this idea and wanted to create something similar. We came up with the idea of instead of having the splat displaying text like the one above saying 'JAMES WAN INTERVIEW' we would incorporate our previous task of creating a poster for our film and display this on our magazine cover. This using the cover as a promotion tool for 'Childhood'.

Finally we have used one of the barcodes from another poster with a blue them like our design. On all Virus magazines there is one set colour theme and we have chosen blue. This also ties in with the blue theme on our poster. Linking the two products together and helping make the connection between the poster and the cover more visable as different imagery is being used this helps tie them together.

If we have enough time we will recreate our own barcode to fit more with our own design.

Inital Magazine Cover

Below is our first throw together of ideas we have had for our magazine cover. We knew we wanted our man character to be enouperated in it some where. but also maybe another element from the film. This is where the television idea emerged from. We started by coping the title from an already existing magazine to give us a base to work from. We the encouperated the television image, merging the still from our trailer into the screen.

We began to realise that the title needed to be worked on as, when we copied it we also coped a black outline with it meaning the title wasn't able to be manipulated. We wanted the title to be cut out so our imagery could be seen through the gaps in the title like any other magazine. This is where we started to work on cutting out the letters on Photoshop using the wand tool, to get the letters outlined perfectly so the background below was now visable. (this is shown on the next post above). This has also now been done on our film title 'Childhood' as we had the same problem with outlining on this also.

The last problem we came across on this teaster poster was the quality of the image. As this image was only a screan grab from our teaser trailer the quality was very low. This was fine for our poster we created as we wanted to effect of the facial image used on the poster to have a low oppacity, making the quality of the image unvisable. But we wish to have a larger image un edited on our cover inspired by the Virus covers we have researched.

We will take new photographs of our man character to use on our final cover idea for the best quality we can possibly get.

Chosen Idea

TITLE:
We all found that when researching different horror film magazines, that they all come across very tacky especially with their titles. But in this case we like the name of the magazine being "VIRUS" just not the font, so we decided to manipulate it into something that fits with our trailer, because we found our title "CHILDHOOD" has a similar font.

COLOUR:
All the aspects of the cover such as the bar code and titles are in keeping with the colour scheme of the photos used from the film. This gives off a simple but effective aspect that we are interested when designing our magazine cover!

LAYOUT:
We really like the layout of the cover because it is simple and to the point. It has the the Title of the film at the top and the content of what is included inside at the bottom of the cover. This is good because it is minimal and prevents distraction from the main image.

WHY APPROPRIATE?
We feel that this film magazine is appropriate for our trailer because, most of the films advertised are horror/ thriller so it fits in with our genre. Some of the films featured on the cover are ones which we have used as influences for our trailer. Our poster which we created is very minimal also and we want to stick with the same theme, keeping the imagery the main focus.

WHY NOT APPROPRIATE?
Although we like the idea of keeping it very minimal, this may prevent us from getting the highest grade, therefore we have decided to use aspects from other posters, to ensure it is a original design.

FINAL TEASER TRAILER

FINAL CHILDHOOD POSTER DESIGN

We are really pleased with our final poster design. The layout is quite simplistic but spooky- too many images would distract the audience from noticing the main image and the secret that lies within making her face as, if you look close enough you can notice, Katie's face, our chosen actoress to play the main character, is made up or coloured in if you like, with screen grabs of the props we used in our teaser trailer. We believed this would be interesting therefore the audience may be intinsed by the film because of how intriguing only the poster is and if they are found of our poster then they may go on to watch the film thinking the film must be much better. You will notice that practicing this poster design before hand, without doubt, extremely benefitted us to adapt a poster we felt best suited our fluent genre and teaser trailer design including all filming details for example, props, layout and colour schemes. For another example, Katie's eyes were very dark and a faded blue in our practice; we aimed to find the option on photoshop to change her eye colour to be more brighter and bluer, however at first we struggled and could not identify this option. Come next lesson we sussed out the colour option and changed her eyes to exactly how we wanted. We feel they really grab the attention of any individual viewing this poster- an audience member would almost be drawn in to the colour we have chosen for her eyes hopefully increasing the number of audience viewers interests. I thought that the title we used for 'Childhood' in our teaser trailer was slightly bland to copy this onto our final design poster, so I contributed and suggested to add effect, almost edit the title and came up with the idea to continue the theme and incorporate the effect of screen grabs from our teaser trailer of props that we created to form the visual of Katie's face for our main image, into our title. We took a lot of time and effort to fit the screen grabs into each and every individual letter. It was tricky at times, cropping the images avoiding not to step over the lines of the letters but worth the time and effort we put in. On some letters we even decided that not all the letters needed to be filled with individual screen grab images I felt it would look 'too perfect' and neat and if we did so, then that would be ignoring our genre and physcologial characteristics of our main character. Most importantly, the opacity was decreased on each individual screen grab, to the same figure of opacity as we chose for the formation of Katie's face (our main image) as I keep repeating that I believe for a chosen genre, there has to be a fluent link between images, information, layout design, colours, fonts etc. Not everything has to be the same, but tweeked in it's individual way which does not even have to be obvious.

Choosing a suitable magazine

Here I shall be discussing the design and suitability of each magazine design to our eery horror film 'Childhood'. I am the only one out of my group to write my part, but whilst doing so I am thinking on behalf of what I believe the rest of my members of the group would think. We share similar taste and thoughts.

Empire
I believe the magazine Empire will be the least appropriate and less suited to fit our film. If our film was perhaps a sequence/sequal then Empire may be ideal however our film is not. 'Childhood' is an original early arty film which is new in the market so I believe it will need to be featured in a magazine which is less familiar than Empire; not so the magazine is known to no one, just not on one of the most popular magazines covers. Empire cover films such as
  'Pirates of the Caribbean'   







               
   'Harry Potter'

 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'

'The Dark Knight Rises'







'X-MEN'






'The Hobbit', and many more fantastic familiar films!

My thoughts
Having taken in to consideration all examples of magazines these are my thoughts in as much detail to really feel an idea of mine I think we could perceive for our own magazine cover:

Total film
Considerable!

Little White Lies
Very considerable. Each and every example of Little White Lies' magazine covers I have researched, are slightly different in the own particular ways so we could easily adapt the design, perhaps keep to the layout as if we changed it completely the magazine brand will not be recognisable, to suit the genre of 'Childhood'. Below is the best example I found that I believe is the closest magazine cover design to suit a horror cinema advertisement:

My idea, I suggest, we could have the same use of colours; blinding white on a black background, and the image in the centre of the cover can be a white outline of Katie, our Oscar Award Winning actress starring as the main character in 'Childhood', sitting on a chair with her head down, hair all straggly and hanging down by either side of her face, in all white costume almost exactly the same to what we dressed her in our teaser trailer, most obviously in a lonely room with 24/7 surveillance. 

This magazine cover can distract some audience members and subtract the tackiness horror cinema can portray when published on paper.

Studio
The least best suited magazine for our film!The layout, colour scheme nor the design fits our genre of film. Plus on most examples of their magazine covers, the feature the main character and our film we wish to leave a mystery, we do not want to print the obvious as we want our film to stay eery and almost frightening.

Primary research
PARACINEMA- After viewing and comparing these examples to find the best suited magazine to feature our film 'Childhood' on the front cover, I continued further and conducted my own research but did not come across many more fantastic film magazines. Although I found one I was found of. The more I look at it the more I can see it working with our film. Positive: Para Cinema is a particular magazine for films with an obvious genre and most of the films featured on the cover are horror and our film has exactly this genre. Negative: the magazine can come across quite comical. The images aren't feautured as clear or concisely and our film is about detail.
Examples of Para Cinema magazine covers:

 Overall thoughts: I have come to a conclusion that Para Cinema magazine is almost tacky (it is a shame because most horror movie magazines come across as this and struggle to portray the true meaning of the film without it looking comical and childish). Para Cinema magazine's suggest they target the audience of young boys who are childishly quite boisterous and into gore.




VIRUS magazine- The suitability of this magazine to our genre of film is compatible. I simply found this magazine through the popular search engine 'Google'.. Below I have uploaded a couple of examples of Virus' magazine covers:

Above the large size text of the title of film 'Hostel' you shall notice that is where the tag line is inserted. This shall be taken into consideration.

Note to self: Underneath the title you notice the tag line printed in smaller text in comparison to the title size. This is important to notice and is most obvious as the title would most definitely be larger than the tag line.. but the quesiton is do we want to be similiar or daringly different we shall decide.

Positive:     simple and vague layout, therefore easily adaptable to make do and change slightly in a format that'll best suit a horror cinema film. The font text of the magazine title 'Virus' suits a horror genre so if we featured in this magazine the connection will work as the link is similar.

Negative:     the font of the magazine title'Virus' is possibly too similar to the font we used for our title for 'Childhood'.

Hearing my groups feedback towards this post will be needed to make a final decision towards the actual magazine cover we wish to feature our film on the front cover.

Experimenting

Above is another poster idea that we had, though it is unfinished we wanted to see what the picture effect would look like behind the teddy bear and if we were able to make the image fit the outline of the bear perfectly. We really liked the idea of using a teddy bear as the background as will felt it fit with the title "CHILDHOOD" as most children have teddy bears when they are younger. We were unsure whether this poster was a good idea or a bad idea, because at first glance you wouldnt be able to tell the genre of the film.