How I made my poster and magazine for my film trailer.

3. I chose this font as it reminded me of blood dripping
on a wall, my only problem was that although the style
was relevant to my genre the colour of the text was
not, therefore I decided I would try to make it red
which is conventional of a murder mystery. I zoomed in
so I could see the letters easier

4. I was unable to find a way to simply turn
the text red, therefore I decided I would
use the brush tool and simply paint on top
of the font.

5. I used red as it was
conventional of the
murder mystery
genre, this also
represents blood, by
using the brush tool it
looked as if
somebody had wrote
it which is the effect I
was trying to create.

6. The finished title:

8. I resized the
image as it was
extremely small
when I opened
it.
How I did it

9. I then added two smaller
images as I had seen this
done in another magazine
meaning I was using
conventions of a movie
magazine front cover.

10. I made my magazine black
and white as an
intertextual reference to
film noirs which are
murder mysteries which
are often shown in black
and white, it took me a
while to figure out how to
do this I found I could click
this button and it would
make my image black and
white.

11. I then added my
magazine masthead
as this is
conventional, I
made the logo
relate to the
medium that this
magazine is about. I
called my magazine
BTS as it is a
common
abbreviation of
behind the scenes
which is what my
magazine will focus
on.

12. I then added my
film title which I
had already
created.

13. I then added my articles
making everything black
and white

14. I received
feedback from a
fellow media
student saying
that the
magazine does
not stand out
and would not
catch her eyes,
therefore I
decided to
challenge the
conventions of
film noir on
which my
magazine was
based by adding
the colour red to
the titles of each
articles so they
would be the
most eye-
catching part

15. The top of my
magazine looked
bare so I decided to
add a header to fill
in the blank space,
this also makes the
magazine more
appealing to an
audience.

17. I made the image
larger as it was
small on the page.

18. I initially took the photo on location as I planned to have two actors looking at each other the
way the actor in the photo is, since I could only get one actor to be there I decided I would
remove the background and follow conventions of having a dark background, I removed it using
the eraser tool and the magic eraser tool.

19. This is the image after I removed the
background.

20. I placed a black rectangle as a
separate layer underneath the
image layer to create a dark
background which is
conventional of murder
mystery posters.

21. I then added my film title which I had
previously made as well as adding my
actors names at the top, I know that it
is conventional to have actors names
at the top and on the posters I
analysed it was common for the title
to be near the bottom of the poster.

22. I added my tagline which is
included within my trailer so I
had continuity throughout the
products, I added a
production logo as this is
conventional and I added a
website for people to find out
more information. Initially on
my tagline I did not have a
glow but after speaking to a
fellow media student I
decided to add the glow to
make the text stand out, on
my product the text is white
but for some reason on this
and the following slides it is
grey.

23. From the same media
student I also learnt my
title does not stand out so I
added a translucent
rectangle to make the title
stand out but so the image
behind was still visible and
so the box didn’t stand out
too much.

24. I added star ratings to make my
poster appeal to more people
as they are likely to see a four
star film as they know it will be
good.