2. Location Firstly we checked out locations that would be suitable for a horror film, a forest was our obvious choice, but other choices included places that looked barren and deserted, places that looked neglected and eerie.
3. More Location The abandoned look of the shacks and small buildings fitted with the horror genre, with a mouldering door and smashed rusty windows indicating a place that wasn’t pleasant, with wooden slats ideal for being watched out of by a pair of eyes.
4. Other ideas We thought these pictures didn’t look professional enough for a poster, due to how messy it looked position wise.
5. Other Ideas More ideas for our magazine and poster didn’t work out well, some appearing as if posing in a fashion magazine, whilst the close ups didn’t give a good effect either. Being creative we decided to try and use a skull in one of the pictures to indicate death, but it looked more like a fantasy type of shot. Another shot with preying and hands on the head was good at showing our distress and desperation but it wasn’t as chilling as we wanted the picture to be. Additional make up included fake blood, and black powder to create a bruised look, with the hair being disturbed greatly
6. Other ideas We then took some photos outside, but figured that the leaves and landscape would be distracting on a film poster or magazine, clouding the real intention of the main subject in the picture. We used wire across our necks to try and look trapped, but it looked tacky. Hiding under leaves made the type of story seem more about a real life story, on the genre of drama more than horror. Whilst against a brick wall suggested a gritty drama about gangs, and fighting due to the brick wall enforcing this idea. For the clothing, black was used to suggest darkness and the dress was used to symbolise innocence, with the colours not being too bright, so not distracting the focus of the main subject.
7. Other ideas These pictures out of the shoot were the most effective in conveying the horror genre, mainly the female picture was effective for it suggested enigma codes, and she wasn’t looking straight into the camera so it made the audience think what she might be looking at. The image was good in conveying her hiding from something. Though the wall however proved to be something too big for the picture, almost taking up half of the picture, so this wasn’t used.
8. Other ideas These ideas didn’t do well either, as the left picture suggested a comical element to the picture, whilst the other picture was too dark, with the blood not looking realistic and randomly placed. So in fact these pictures were just an idea of where not to go with future pictures.
9. Other ideas The first image we took in the dark, trying to give a surreal ghostly light around the face, but in fact this didn’t look professional. The second picture also suggested a psychological film of some sort with her gazing into a mirror at herself, as if suggesting a split personality. Whilst the third one did not really appeal well to the horror genre looking more rebellious in a “ST Trinians” way.
11. Edited pictures These were the final pictures we decided to use for use for the magazine and poster. These pictures were more effective and professional for our horror genre. The first picture was more useful in being as a poster because enigma codes were suggested in her posture and expression of looking away. In these photos we also added a torch, to indicate that this person could be lost or surrounded by darkness. The middle picture was useful also for a film poster, because the eyes were vivid in showing a petrified look, with the just a bit of light so that her face was in shadow. The third picture was more suited to a magazine because of the way the “shh” indicated a sense of mystery and curiosity to what the magazine might be about whilst communicating with the reader in a personal way by involving them with her body language. The edited pictures had sharper contrast, more darkness with the use of Photoshop, and using a tinted green/blue sort of colour was effective in making it look eerie, and mysterious. Whilst cropping the picture proved to make it more professional by not having any distractions and borders of walls, or objects in the way.
