Answer to Question 2

1. The
Envisioning

2. I looked at the poster, magazine and
trailer of Donnie Darko to see how
they all interlinked.
The poster has different
scenes from the film all
put together with a blue
colour. The main
characters are larger. The
image makes up ‘Frank’
The magazine follows the
conventions of the Empire
film issue, though has a
large image of Donnie (the
main character) taken from
the film.
The trailer focuses on the
main characters, with a
similar blue colour as in the
poster.

3. I chose to have a similar theme in my
poster, magazine and trailer.
In the trailer, I used VHS like effects, such as
‘Prism’ and ‘Bad TV’
An example of ‘Bad TV’ taken from my
trailer.
An example of ‘Prism’ used in
the trailer.

4. The ‘Bad TV’ effect was similar to how
I had made the font of ‘The
Envisioning’
I downloaded a font called Nervous
though was not happy with how it looked
alone. I then edited the font on Photoshop,
using the Liquify tool.
This created a wave-
like effect.

5. I had created anaglyph/ 3D
photographs in
Photography, so was able to
change the levels and
opacity to create the same
‘Prism’ effect.

6. It was a lot harder to incorporate the
VHS effect into the magazine as we
had to follow the conventions of a
typical film magazine.
I liked the ‘Film’ part of
this poster, where the
masthead had been
changed to suit the
theme.
This shows how two
characters which do
not necessarily get
along have been
portrayed in an
existing film poster.

7. Here was the final magazine.
To include the VHS effect, I applied
a motion blur to Fae. Fae is much
lower, showing the distance
between Ellie and Fae, highlighting
how Fae is not real and is far away
from Ellie, also highlighting they are
‘enemies’.
I chose to include my own twist on
the title, with the ‘It Should Have
Been You’, as this makes it seem like
this issue has been made to focus
on The Envisioning.