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The document summarizes features of a film review that effectively portray the horror genre and draw in audiences. Photographs of the main actors catch attention and set the mood with dark, cool tones. The film title stands out in blue against the black background, while the review text uses high-contrast white font. Features discussed copying include the dark background and white text to represent the genre, and using images to portray the genre and engage audiences.
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Film posters use various codes and conventions to advertise films and provide insight into their narrative and genre. Typography on posters corresponds to the film's genre to make it more eye-catching. Photographs and illustrations also correspond to the narrative and genre, showing characters, actions, and plots. Lighting sets the mood, with dim lighting for dark films and bright lighting for happy films. Color schemes are used cleverly, with colors like red connoting love in romances but danger in horrors.
Evaluation question 2
The combination of the film trailer, poster, and magazine cover effectively appeal to audiences and portray synergy across the texts. The trailer, poster, and magazine cover all reference that the film is based on a true story and feature inspirational messaging to interest sports fans. Additionally, the trailer and poster utilize a dark color palette and fonts to emphasize the difficult journey of the protagonist, while the magazine cover features a polished image and lighter tone to provide a behind-the-scenes look in a different style from the poster. This variety of tones and styles across the texts is intended to appeal to broad audiences.
Evaluation Question 2
The combination of the film trailer, poster, and magazine cover effectively appeal to audiences and portray synergy across the texts. The trailer, poster, and magazine cover all reference that the film is based on a true story and feature inspirational messaging to interest sports fans. Additionally, the trailer and poster utilize a dark color palette and fonts to emphasize the difficult journey of the protagonist, while the magazine cover features a polished image and lighter tone to provide a behind-the-scenes look in a different style from the poster. This variety of tones and styles across the texts is intended to appeal to different audiences.
The maze runner poster analysis
The poster depicts the main character leading other characters away from a large, seemingly endless maze in the background. The title "The Maze Runner" hints that the film will involve characters trapped in a maze trying to escape. The grey color scheme and vines on the maze suggest a mysterious atmosphere and an environment the characters must solve. The poster targets 18-24 year old audiences and promotes the film using the line "Get ready to run" and by noting it is based on a bestselling novel.
Evaluation Question 1
1. The document compares the media creator's products to existing thriller films and magazines to evaluate how they use, develop, or challenge conventions.
2. Key conventions that were followed include adding a suspenseful question at the end of the trailer like "Seven", placing credits at the end of the trailer, using consistent color schemes, and not revealing the full narrative to maintain suspense.
3. One convention that was challenged was not including a dateline on the magazine cover due to lack of space, though overall conventions were largely followed to make the products recognizable to audiences.
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The combination of the film trailer, poster, and magazine cover effectively appeal to audiences and portray synergy across the texts. The trailer, poster, and magazine cover all reference that the film is based on a true story and feature inspirational messaging to interest sports fans. Additionally, the trailer and poster utilize a dark color palette and fonts to emphasize the difficult journey of the protagonist, while the magazine cover features a polished image and lighter tone to provide a behind-the-scenes look in a different style from the poster. This variety of tones and styles across the texts is intended to appeal to different audiences.
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1. The document compares the media creator's products to existing thriller films and magazines to evaluate how they use, develop, or challenge conventions.
2. Key conventions that were followed include adding a suspenseful question at the end of the trailer like "Seven", placing credits at the end of the trailer, using consistent color schemes, and not revealing the full narrative to maintain suspense.
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Q1- Magazine
My film magazine cover uses conventions from existing magazines like Empire by featuring a mid-shot main image in red and dark colors to represent the horror genre. It also changes the font of the main cover line to match the featured film and includes codes like the barcode, date and price. The character is looking away instead of at the camera to convey fear of being followed. While most magazines fully match the color scheme to the film, this magazine maintains a consistent house style over accurately representing the genre. It also places the colored bar at the bottom instead of the top to move the tagline above the masthead and reduce clutter.
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QUESTION 2: HOW EFFECT IS THE COMBINATION OF MY MAIN PRODUCT AND ANCILLARIES
The document discusses how the film poster and magazine cover ancillary products work together with the film trailer to promote the film. Key points:
- The poster and magazine cover feature main characters from the trailer to link the products and remind audiences of the trailer. Dark colors and slogans are also consistent across the products.
- Research showed maintaining similar visual elements like colors and using trailer screenshots helps audience recognize the ancillary products come from the same film.
- Both ancillary products follow genre conventions like dark schemes and mysterious imagery to represent the action/thriller genre portrayed in the trailer.
- Featuring young male characters appeals to the target 18-25 age range for both products and the trailer.
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Print analysis
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Mag overview
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Evaluation Task 2
The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a short film with ancillary texts like a film poster and review. It analyzes the film poster and review created for a 5-minute drama film. The poster uses color schemes, fonts, and character expressions to represent the film's genre and themes. The review also uses font styles and selective images to highlight key details while avoiding plot spoilers. Both ancillary texts effectively tie into and promote the drama film through their consistent design and use of visual elements and insights that build audience interest in the film's story and characters.
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- The poster and magazine cover feature the main protagonist and antagonist from the trailer to link the ancillary products to the trailer.
- Dark colors and a similar background are used across the poster, magazine, and trailer to create familiarity and identify the products as related.
- Genre conventions like a dark color scheme and ominous smoke are applied to both the poster and magazine cover to match the action/thriller genre established in the trailer.
The Pitch
The group discusses initial ideas for their thriller teaser film, including themes involving a stalker, natural disaster, and revenge. Afsana proposes a split personality theme, which the group agrees on. They finalize the title "The Façade" about someone leading a secret alternative lifestyle. The group storyboards scenes and creates a production schedule. They each design magazine covers and film posters to get audience feedback on the best representation of the film.
Titles 2
The document discusses titles for horror movies and inspiration for titles in a student film project. It provides examples of titles that convey horror such as using red text and having a glowing effect. Specific titles that may be used in the student's teaser trailer are proposed, including "Reality" as the film name, slogans like "When dreams become reality", rhetorical questions like "Will you risk to dream again?", statements like "Reality will be altered forever", release timing of "This November", and splitting up the phrase "CURIOSITY WILL KILL YOU" across clips. The goal is to intrigue the audience and leave them wanting more information about the film.
Conventions of horror trailers
The document discusses conventions used in horror trailers, posters, and film magazines. For trailers, they tease the plot without revealing everything and include opening titles and credits. Horror magazine covers typically feature a central image of the actor in character along with bold typography and colors like red and black. Film posters commonly use close-ups of eyes, sometimes manipulated, houses as creepy settings, or dark silhouettes of figures to generate intrigue without revealing too much of the story. These conventions attract audiences and promote curiosity without giving away all details.
Evaluation question one 2
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Film Posters
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Characters positions
The document discusses positioning of characters and objects in frames and how it can reveal relationships and draw attention. It then asks the reader to analyze 4 images and summarize what the positioning reveals about the characters or film. In image 1, a couple is sitting apart on a sofa looking displeased, indicating a disagreement. In image 2, a man with scars appears to be having a flashback based on a blurred woman behind him. Image 3 shows two men side by side holding futuristic guns, suggesting they are teaming up to face a strong threat. Image 4 depicts a man in armor amid battle, implying he will try to stop the fighting.
Evaluation 3
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Image 1 shows a drawing of two hands with a shadow, suggesting the artist has two sides to their personality. Images 2-9 in the film's opening sequence show close-ups of hands interacting with various objects like pens, scissors, and needles, making the audience wonder what the character is doing and why they are interacting with these potentially dangerous items. The images also show typed or written words being highlighted, crossed out, or edited, piquing interest around the nature of the character's research. Taken together, the extreme close-ups of hands manipulating sharp objects or words leave the audience feeling concerned or scared about the intentions of the character at the center of these images.
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This document analyzes and compares two potential double page spread images for representing a rock star holding a pink ukulele instead of an electric guitar. Image 1 uses a low angle shot but has distractions and does not clearly show the model's features. Image 2 uses a flat angle shot at the model's level, better showing her angry facial expression and body language as she points at the ukulele in frustration. The document concludes that Image 2 more clearly conveys the model's emotions and is selected for representing the stereotype-breaking concept.
Codes and Conventions Evaluation Question
The document summarizes how a media product challenges and conforms to conventions of real media products. Specifically, it discusses a magazine review and poster created for a film.
For the poster, it challenges conventions by not including a house and using a black background instead. It conforms to using black and white colors to symbolize themes. For the magazine review, it conforms to the layout of Empire Magazine, including formatting of the title, information boxes, captions, and journalist name. It aims to make the review look professional by following codes and conventions.
Evaluation question 2
The student produced a short film for a course and had to complete ancillary tasks of a film poster and review. Photoshop was used to create the poster and review. Both tasks were meant to promote the film and relate to its genre and storyline to attract audiences. Care was taken to use fonts, images, and colors that matched the film's themes of depression and emotionlessness to effectively explore and represent the main character and plot.
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Q1- Magazine
My film magazine cover uses conventions from existing magazines like Empire by featuring a mid-shot main image in red and dark colors to represent the horror genre. It also changes the font of the main cover line to match the featured film and includes codes like the barcode, date and price. The character is looking away instead of at the camera to convey fear of being followed. While most magazines fully match the color scheme to the film, this magazine maintains a consistent house style over accurately representing the genre. It also places the colored bar at the bottom instead of the top to move the tagline above the masthead and reduce clutter.
Title sequences
The document discusses the purpose of title sequences in films. It notes that title sequences should create interest in the story and relate to the film. It also gives examples of how specific films like Zombieland and Blue Valentine used text and editing techniques in their title sequences to set the tone and engage audiences emotionally.
QUESTION 2: HOW EFFECT IS THE COMBINATION OF MY MAIN PRODUCT AND ANCILLARIES
The document discusses how the film poster and magazine cover ancillary products work together with the film trailer to promote the film. Key points:
- The poster and magazine cover feature main characters from the trailer to link the products and remind audiences of the trailer. Dark colors and slogans are also consistent across the products.
- Research showed maintaining similar visual elements like colors and using trailer screenshots helps audience recognize the ancillary products come from the same film.
- Both ancillary products follow genre conventions like dark schemes and mysterious imagery to represent the action/thriller genre portrayed in the trailer.
- Featuring young male characters appeals to the target 18-25 age range for both products and the trailer.
Horror Film Posters
Horror film posters typically use dark colors like black, grey, and red to convey mystery and unease. Fonts that resemble old styles or a child's handwriting are often used to add creepiness. Character designs aim to keep their identities mysterious or make them look threatening by dominating the frame. Backgrounds usually show isolated, dark locations to further the atmosphere of fear and loneliness.
Print analysis
This magazine cover for the film "The Woman in Black" effectively uses design elements to represent the horror genre. A large central image of the main actor in costume draws attention and identifies the film. Text is placed on the sides to avoid clutter. Animated images above the title further indicate it is about horror films. Although the main text at the bottom may distract, overall the vintage fonts, dark color palette, and ominous imagery create an unsettling tone that connotes horror.
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Silence of the lambs
The poster uses a close-up image with direct eye contact to make the audience feel uncomfortable and draw their attention to the eyes, which match the title and a butterfly on the face. Low-key lighting creates harsh shadows and shows detail, conveying an eerie atmosphere. The unusual lowercase orange title contrasts the white background and conventions. The three leading actors and tagline are prominently displayed below to attract fans. Common billing elements are placed at the bottom in a dark font to not draw too much attention. The poster captures attention through the eyes and mystery while appealing to fans through its established best-selling source material in a style consistent with the chilling thriller film.
Mag overview
This document outlines conventions for film magazine front covers. It discusses how the covers typically feature the main actor in character, with the masthead in a consistent font and color matching the film's genre. The main image takes over the center of the cover and is dimly lit to make the subject stand out. Close-ups are commonly used for supernatural films to show deformities, while medium shots featuring weapons are more common for slasher films. Text and taglines relate back to the central image and masthead to maintain brand identity. Color choices also aim to be aesthetically pleasing while conveying appropriate themes for the film's genre.
Evaluation Task 2
The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a short film with ancillary texts like a film poster and review. It analyzes the film poster and review created for a 5-minute drama film. The poster uses color schemes, fonts, and character expressions to represent the film's genre and themes. The review also uses font styles and selective images to highlight key details while avoiding plot spoilers. Both ancillary texts effectively tie into and promote the drama film through their consistent design and use of visual elements and insights that build audience interest in the film's story and characters.
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The document discusses how the film poster and magazine cover ancillary products work together with the film trailer to promote the film. Key points made include:
- The poster and magazine cover feature the main protagonist and antagonist from the trailer to link the ancillary products to the trailer.
- Dark colors and a similar background are used across the poster, magazine, and trailer to create familiarity and identify the products as related.
- Genre conventions like a dark color scheme and ominous smoke are applied to both the poster and magazine cover to match the action/thriller genre established in the trailer.
The Pitch
The group discusses initial ideas for their thriller teaser film, including themes involving a stalker, natural disaster, and revenge. Afsana proposes a split personality theme, which the group agrees on. They finalize the title "The Façade" about someone leading a secret alternative lifestyle. The group storyboards scenes and creates a production schedule. They each design magazine covers and film posters to get audience feedback on the best representation of the film.
Titles 2
The document discusses titles for horror movies and inspiration for titles in a student film project. It provides examples of titles that convey horror such as using red text and having a glowing effect. Specific titles that may be used in the student's teaser trailer are proposed, including "Reality" as the film name, slogans like "When dreams become reality", rhetorical questions like "Will you risk to dream again?", statements like "Reality will be altered forever", release timing of "This November", and splitting up the phrase "CURIOSITY WILL KILL YOU" across clips. The goal is to intrigue the audience and leave them wanting more information about the film.
Conventions of horror trailers
The document discusses conventions used in horror trailers, posters, and film magazines. For trailers, they tease the plot without revealing everything and include opening titles and credits. Horror magazine covers typically feature a central image of the actor in character along with bold typography and colors like red and black. Film posters commonly use close-ups of eyes, sometimes manipulated, houses as creepy settings, or dark silhouettes of figures to generate intrigue without revealing too much of the story. These conventions attract audiences and promote curiosity without giving away all details.
Evaluation question one 2
The document discusses conventions used in horror trailers, posters, and magazines. For the trailer, conventions like using a possessed object to base the story around and showing scenes out of chronological order were utilized. The poster used a dark background with white text for the title, included institutional credits at the bottom, and featured a black and white main image taking up much space. The magazine masthead was in a large white font across the top, had a tagline to draw readers in, included a website link under the title, and featured a creepy central image, though not covering most of the front cover.
Film Posters
Film posters are a form of promotion that display key information about upcoming films visually. They typically feature focal images relating to the film's genre and narrative, along with the title, actors, release date, tagline, and other identifying information. The goal is to attract audiences and convey what type of film it is through iconic visuals and text.
Characters positions
The document discusses positioning of characters and objects in frames and how it can reveal relationships and draw attention. It then asks the reader to analyze 4 images and summarize what the positioning reveals about the characters or film. In image 1, a couple is sitting apart on a sofa looking displeased, indicating a disagreement. In image 2, a man with scars appears to be having a flashback based on a blurred woman behind him. Image 3 shows two men side by side holding futuristic guns, suggesting they are teaming up to face a strong threat. Image 4 depicts a man in armor amid battle, implying he will try to stop the fighting.
Evaluation 3
The document discusses distribution strategies for an independent film produced with a very small budget. It recommends distributing the film through Vertigo Films, an independent distributor who has distributed similar low-budget films like Monsters. It suggests promoting the film primarily through online and social media marketing since those channels are cheap and appeal to the target audience. Potential exhibition options mentioned include art house cinemas and film festivals.
Seven presentation
Image 1 shows a drawing of two hands with a shadow, suggesting the artist has two sides to their personality. Images 2-9 in the film's opening sequence show close-ups of hands interacting with various objects like pens, scissors, and needles, making the audience wonder what the character is doing and why they are interacting with these potentially dangerous items. The images also show typed or written words being highlighted, crossed out, or edited, piquing interest around the nature of the character's research. Taken together, the extreme close-ups of hands manipulating sharp objects or words leave the audience feeling concerned or scared about the intentions of the character at the center of these images.
Justification of double page spread images
This document analyzes and compares two potential double page spread images for representing a rock star holding a pink ukulele instead of an electric guitar. Image 1 uses a low angle shot but has distractions and does not clearly show the model's features. Image 2 uses a flat angle shot at the model's level, better showing her angry facial expression and body language as she points at the ukulele in frustration. The document concludes that Image 2 more clearly conveys the model's emotions and is selected for representing the stereotype-breaking concept.
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The document analyzes the choices made in designing a film magazine cover. A medium shot was used to show the villain's aggressive body language and knife. Medium shots are commonly used on film magazine covers to show main characters. The villain's facial expression conveys a serious, menacing look with direct eye contact. Text was included such as "4 menacing body horror movies being made right now" to indicate the subgenre and common themes to attract the target audience. A red font was used for the masthead to match Total Film magazine's font and grab attention. Consistent colors of red, black and white were used to signify danger and conform to the horror genre. High key lighting was used to create realism consistent with existing
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The document discusses the process of analyzing different genres of movie posters and designing a poster for a horror/comedy parody film. Key aspects discussed include researching horror, comedy, and parody posters to understand common styles; choosing a title font that fits the genre; editing photos of characters to look scared but funny; and including elements like a dark background and catchphrase to convey the hybrid genre. The final poster was created in Photoshop and Quark following the conventions of the genres to attract audience attention and effectively promote the film.
Evaluation 2
The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a film with ancillary tasks like a poster and film review. It describes how the poster and review for a student's short film incorporated conventions of the family comedy genre. Bright colors, fonts, and images were used that conveyed themes of happiness and humor to identify the genre. The poster and review worked together to promote the film and help it reach its target audience.
Evaluation 2
The document discusses how the combination of a student's main film project and ancillary tasks like a film poster and review were effective. It notes that combining the three elements helped promote the film to different audiences through visual and written platforms. It was important for the poster and review to be high quality as they influenced how the target audience perceived the film. The student incorporated codes and conventions of a family comedy genre into the ancillary tasks through fonts, colors, images and other design elements chosen.
Evaluation Question 2
The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a main media product (a short film) with ancillary tasks (a film poster and film review).
The goals of the ancillary tasks were to help promote the short film and target the intended audience. Considerations like color scheme, images, and fonts were chosen for both the poster and review to clearly reflect the drama genre of the film and allow audiences to understand the storyline.
Feedback is provided on how specific design elements of the poster and review met the goals, including conveying emotions, symbols, and hints about the film's plot. In conclusion, the document argues that the ancillary tasks were highly effective at promoting the film and engaging the target audience using drama conventions.
Evalutaion 2
The document discusses the promotional package the author created for a horror film, consisting of a magazine cover, poster, and trailer. For both the magazine cover and poster, the author used the same cropped image of the villain's face to create recognition across the materials. The poster uses a dark color palette and fonts to indicate the horror genre, along with images suggesting someone is being watched. Both the poster and magazine cover follow this style. The trailer also uses musical and editing techniques typical of horror films to build tension. Overall, the author believes the main project and ancillary texts effectively convey the film is a horror genre piece through their shared visual elements and conventions.
Evalutaion 2
The document discusses the promotional package created for a horror film, including a trailer, magazine cover, and poster. For all elements, the creator used a close-up image of the villain with an unrecognizable face to generate intrigue. Dark colors like grey, black, and red were used across elements to signify the horror genre. Both the poster and magazine cover featured the same edited image but with different crops to be recognizable as part of the same package.
Evalutaion 2
The document discusses the promotional package created for a horror film, including a trailer, magazine cover, and poster. For all elements, the creator used a masked villain image and edited it to be unrecognizable. Dark colors like grey, black, and red were used across elements to signify the horror genre. Fonts and layouts were designed to follow a consistent "house style" to tie the pieces together. Feedback indicates the tasks worked well together to promote the film as a horror project through shared visual cues and genre conventions.
Evaluation Question 2
The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a short film with ancillary tasks of a film poster and film review. The goals of the ancillary tasks were to help promote and gain awareness for the short film. Specific details such as font, color scheme, and images used were chosen to clearly relate to the drama genre of the film and explore the storyline and characters. The document concludes that the film poster and review were highly effective promotional tools that successfully targeted the intended audience through their clear representation of the film's messages and themes.
Summary of ancillary products findings
This document summarizes the conventions used in the design of two ancillary products - a magazine cover and film poster - for a horror film or franchise.
The magazine cover uses conventions like a bold masthead, route of the eye layout, cover lines, imagery showing the main story, and colors like red, white, and black. The poster also employs conventions such as credits at the top, bold film name, blocking bill and copyright at the bottom, full-page imagery, and similar colors.
Both products effectively utilize conventions of the horror genre through elements like font, imagery involving darkness and blood, and use of red, white, and black colors. The document compares the ancillary products to real-life examples
Holly Corden's Evaluation
Holly Corden created a magazine cover and contents page to represent the alternative rock genre. She used dark colors like black, red, and white throughout. Fonts and images were chosen to look unusual or "destroyed" in keeping with alternative aesthetics. For the cover, she included an alternative-styled photo of a model, distinctive masthead font, and cover lines featuring famous alternative artists. The contents page also featured band photos and a scribbled-looking font for section headings. Holly believes her magazine appeals to a wide alternative rock audience through its variety of featured artists.
Rorys Evaluation Presentation Completed
Rory Parker created various media products for a course that followed conventions of real media in the horror genre. This included a magazine cover promoting a horror film with appropriate fonts, colors, and layout. Feedback indicated the cover was effective at conveying the horror genre. For a film trailer, conventions like ominous music and editing techniques were used. Audience research found that horror fans prefer films with death, violence and ambiguous endings. Modern media technologies supported the planning, production and evaluation stages.
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Evaluation question 2
The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a main product with ancillary texts. The author tried to use consistent conventions across their poster, magazine review, and short film to create synergy. Dark colors and similar themes were used throughout to make the products easily identifiable as related. While the poster and magazine review were largely successful due to their dark tones and legible text, the short film could be improved with better dialogue, camera quality, and a more representative poster image.
Magazine
Beth Carberry's new short film "Behind The Screen" is set to be the short film of the summer. The film tells the story of two friends playing an online game together, when one character threatens the other and strange events start occurring in one of the character's homes alone. Through fast editing, unsettling music, and realistic portrayals of the characters, the film builds an eerie atmosphere and sense of unease in the audience. "Behind The Screen" addresses real dangers of online gaming and will keep viewers thinking about it for days after watching.
Evaluation question 1
This document summarizes the forms and conventions used in the creation of a short horror/thriller film media product. It discusses using Windows MovieMaker and Microsoft Word to edit footage and create marketing materials like a poster and review due to their ease of use. It also describes conventions of the horror genre incorporated into the film, such as low key lighting, dark colors, camera angles to convey emotion, and props like knives. The film challenges conventions by setting the modern-day story in the 21st century and basing it around video games instead of historic times.
Magazine review
Beth Carberry's new short film "Behind The Screen" is set to be the short film of the summer. The film tells the story of two friends playing an online game together, when one character threatens the other and strange events start occurring in one of the character's homes alone. Through fast editing, unsettling music, and realistic portrayals of the characters, the film builds an eerie atmosphere and sense of unease in the audience. "Behind The Screen" addresses real dangers of online gaming and will keep viewers thinking about it for days after watching.
Poster
This short film was written, directed, produced, edited by Beth Carberry. It stars Holly Thomson and Jo Carberry, with costumes also designed by Beth Carberry. The film is titled "Behind The Screen" and has a production date of 01.07.17.
Poster
This short film was written, directed, produced, edited by Beth Carberry. It stars Holly Thomson and Jo Carberry, with costumes also designed by Beth Carberry. The film is titled "Behind The Screen" and has a production date of 01.07.17.
Short film poster
This short film was written, directed, produced, edited by Beth Carberry. It stars Holly Thomson and Jo Carberry, with costumes also designed by Beth Carberry. The film is titled "Behind The Screen" and has a production date of 01.07.17.
Short film poster
This short film was written, directed, produced, edited by Beth Carberry. It stars Holly Thomson and Jo Carberry, with costumes also designed by Beth Carberry. The film is titled "Behind The Screen" and has a production date of 01.07.17.
Short film poster ideas
The document discusses elements of effective short horror film posters. It analyzes three example posters, noting that they use simple and mysterious designs that draw the audience in. Dark colors like black, grey, and blue help set the horror genre tone. Titles stand out against dark backgrounds in capital letters or white text. Just enough information is included at the bottom of the posters in smaller font to look authentic without distracting from the main visual elements. Overall, the posters discussed keep the designs simple while effectively representing the films and intriguing audiences.
Storyboard
This document is a storyboard that depicts two friends playing a video game together online through headsets. During their game, one character accidentally kills the other. The storyboard then follows one of the characters, Holly, alone at home where strange events start occurring that seem related to what happened in the video game. The storyboard ends with Holly being killed by the character she had killed online.
Locations for short film
The document describes four locations for a horror film: the protagonist's bedroom, living room, kitchen, and the stairs. The bedroom and kitchen will have low-key lighting to create an eerie feeling, while the living room will be brighter to represent the protagonist. Key scenes like the first one and the protagonist's death will take place in the bedroom and kitchen. The stairs will be used to get shots that make the antagonist intimidating and the protagonist seem vulnerable.
Locations for short film (draft)
The document discusses four potential film locations - a rural setting, the main character Joe's bedroom, the living room where Holly plays video games, and the kitchen. It notes that the rural setting adds isolation and strangeness, Joe's bedroom will have game posters and low lighting to seem eerie, and the living room will have bright windows to identify Holly as the protagonist.
Storyboard Draft 2
The storyboard depicts two characters playing a video game together online using headsets. One accidentally kills the other in the game, shown through close-ups of their facial reactions. They continue playing but strange events start occurring at one of the character's homes, like hearing knocking and finding no one there. A message then appears saying "open the door" and a figure with a knife confronts them, implying it is the other player seeking revenge for being killed in the game.
Character Profiles
The document provides character profiles for two female characters in a horror/thriller film. The first character is 17 years old and her costumes consisting of dark blue jeans, white or grey t-shirt, and grey hoodie are meant to portray her as the protagonist using lighter, more innocent colors. Her natural makeup also aims to make her look more childlike and innocent. The second character is 18 years old and her all-black costumes and makeup designed to make her eyes look sunken in are intended to portray her as the antagonist using darker colors that blend into the night and connote evil and mystery.
Rough Storyboard
Two friends play a video game together using headsets. One accidentally kills the other in the game, shown through close-ups of their facial reactions. Later, one character continues playing alone when they hear knocking at the door and windows. Messages then appear in the game telling them to open doors, and someone enters the house wielding a knife.
Shooting Schedule
This document outlines 43 shots for a short film involving two characters playing a video game online together. The shots include both characters in their separate homes as they play, with close-ups of their faces, hands and the game on screen. As they play, the game intensifies and Character 1 accidentally kills Character 2's player, angering them. Strange events then start occurring at Character 1's home, with someone knocking at their door and window at night.
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- 1. Photograph of two main actors in the film at the top of the page catches people’s attention and may draw them in to reading the review. The photograph has also been edited to match the genre with the use of cool toned, dark colours including black, grey and blue. The facial expressions of the characters in the photo also help to portray the genre of the film through the review. The filmtitle is in a bold capital font and is coloured blue so it stands out against the dark background of the review. Sub heading also mentions Daniel Radcliffe who is a well known actor which would draw audiences in to reading the review and watching the film. The main body of the review is written in a white font so it stands out against the black background. It is also divided up into a review and an interview with Daniel Radcliffe about the film. This would attract Daniel Radcliffe fans into reading the review and watching the film. Features of this review which I would take forward into my own magazine review include the use of the dark background and white font as I think this is good at representing the genre. I would also consider using an image in my review.
- 2. Using images from the film help to portray the genre of the film through the review and also draw the audience in as the images would catch their attention. The images also use cool toned, dark colours such as black and grey and blood is also used which is conventional for the genre. The title and sub title of the film are in a bold capital font to make them stand out. They are also red and white which makes them stand out against the dark background and are also colours that a used stereotypically in the horror genre. The use of ellipsis also creates a sense of mystery and encourages the audience to want to read the review and perhaps watch the film. The main body of the review is written in a white font so that it stands out against the black background. It is also in the centre of the page which is where the audiences eyes are drawn to. Features of this review which I would take forward into my own magazine review include the use of the dark background and white font. I would also make my title bold and big to stand out against the background and be more attention grabbing.