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.