Magazine Cover Analysis- Total Film

The main image of the magazine is Spiderman himself. This links in with the title so that the audience can get an idea of what the main character looks like and also as the image is fairly big the audience will be able to easily identify that it is Spiderman- particularly the costume which is extremely visible. Underneath the title 'The Amazing Spiderman' there is four different words: 'New Guy, New Girl, New Spin and Spidey's back'. This is talking about the new features of the film. This will excite the audience as they will want to know how it is different to the original Spiderman films. The film title 'The Amazing Spiderman' is written in bold across the centre of the magazine cover. 'The Amazing' is written in white. This is effective as it will stand out against the fairly dark background. It is also eye catching to the audience. 'Spiderman' is written in yellow. The point in this is that it stands out compared to the white text and white is fairly plain. So the yellow stands out even more, drawing the audiences attention to it. This makes them fully aware it is a Spiderman magazine so if they are fans of Spiderman, or just have an interest in it, they are more likely to look at it and read it. There is information about what the magazine includes at the side of the front cover. This gives the audience an insight as to what is included in the magazine. This could therefore attract a wider audience as there is more likely to be something included for everyone. We can also see there is a puff on the side of the magazine. This will excite the audience as it says about great films being released in 2012. This will attract more people because they will want to read the magazine if they are interested in films.

Relevant Online Tutorial

These tutorials have taught me how to use the gadget "Chroma key" on adobe premiere elements 10. This will allow me to change the background of my trailer which would come in handy for the titles. At the moment my titles are on a white background but with the use of this new gadget I can make the title on a plain black background to help it stand out. This is effective because it will make our film more interesting to watch as the audience will be able to clearly see everything and it will also look more professional. This means that the audience are more likely to want to watch our film and enjoy it more. 

Mood Board

Updated time Management Schedule

The table below shows the schedule for our upcoming trailer of our new film called "Psycho". We filmed in various locations, including Ashtead, Leatherhead and Fetcham. This gives the audience a sense of realism as it is set all over instead of just one location. Each individual had a role in the planning but when it came to creating the trailer we all shared the roles with helping in the filming and editing to give us a better understanding and experience of the production.

The mise-en-scene, such as the clothing, was chosen specifically to get a certain reaction from the audience so they understand who the main protagonist is and who the extras are too. The black clothing of the main antagonist (Ryan Eastman) shows he is the murderer of the film and is the evil within the home of our main Protagonist. 

The lighting of our film is quite light as it is in a house but is dark at times, especially in the woods, which adds to the Horror aspect. 

We used many shots, including high angle shots and close ups, to show the vulnerability of the characters and enhance the situation they have found themselves in. 

Production Update

On Wednesday 7th January we travelled to Fetcham to continue the production of our film, "PSYCHO", and we used a variety of camera angles and locations to add a dynamic angle to our film. Each individual had a different role; Connor's role was to help film and also star in the film, Rachel was the main protagonist and also played a directing role in the film too by offering ideas, Ryan was the antagonist and I was also a Director.

On the day we filmed most of our trailer and included many aspects from the horror genre, including props, such as knives, suspense-packed scenes and the idea of a vulnerable woman home alone. We had very low lighting to give it that horror aspect. The mise-en-scene of the antagonist was a long black coat that covered the entire body of the murderer as if he was a shadow-we chose this colour as black is the typical colour of an antagonist but also because the colour black connotes evil and darkness. He then had a knife in his hand which was his murder weapon for the film but throughout the film other props/weapons would have been used.

Practice Film Titles

In this post I will examine different types of film titles and analyse each one to see if they suit our film.

This font is the "Face your fears font" and it is quite simple but is my favourite at the moment as it does have a sinister look to it and it looks like the killer has written this with the victims blood. I used a red font to connote danger and give the audience an indication to what the film will include.

This font is the "You Murderer" font and is similar to the first font and offers the same sinister look. The font looks as if it is the victims blood smeared onto a wall and the choice of red again connotes danger. This is a great font that offers a "slasher" theme to our film but I think that the first font looks more realistic.

This font is called the "Lumos" font and it is different to the others as it's not red and it's very plain. This font is plain and simple which follows the codes and conventions of a horror films as it is similar to other horror film titles, such as "Texas Chainsaw". The font stands out and is very sharp which gives the audience the indication that the film will be sharp and straight to the point. 

This font is from the horror movie "Scream". It has all the letter aligned apart from the sharp "W" as it stretches down lower than the other letters. This font may make the audience associate our film with "Scream" which is good because "Scream" was a successful horror movie, however we would like our film to have it's own style of font instead of just copying one that has already been used. 

This font is from the horror movie "Friday the 13th" which was another very successful horror movie. The font is not too bad but is a bit simple and plain for our movie. 

Overall I believe the top two,"Face your fears" and the"You Murderer", fonts are the best fonts for our horror movie as they offer a sinister theme and look like the victims blood smeared across a wall, which is perfect for our horror film. They also do not look very sketchy and could be seen in a big blockbuster movie. 

Script Preview

Beginning:

All 5 characters walk down a path in to the woods

Cory: Yeah lets pitch the tent here
Connor: Yeah looks a great spot
Ryan: Right Connor and Rachel go and get firewood
Rachel: Ok

Rachel and Connor walk off to get fire wood.
Ryan, Georgia and Cory stay to put up tent.
We here punching sounds but we dont know who is getting beaten up.
Phones ring, Cory, Georgia and Ryan all look around.

Peg 1 : We see a shadow on the back of the tent while some characters sit inside it.
Peg 2: We see Rachel taken to the ground by Alex
Peg 3: We see Cory get dragged along the floor
Peg 4: We see either Georgia or Ryan running through the woods to try and escape Alex.

Scream!!!!!!!!

Time Management Schedule

The following information will show how our groups time was spread out to create a successful film trailer.

In the first session of our filming we started  to do the shots which show the audience what part each character has to play in the group. for example, Connor is wearing a vest with skinny Jeans which would make the audience feel a subconscious hatred towards him. After deciding as a group we would have various filming sessions to gather a selective array of clips to add together and get the most effective results however we did film in the same locations (ashtead common, therfield school and fetcham) which does not give our film a varied location setting array.

People	Date 2nd December 8th December 11th December 29th December(forth coming)	Time 2:30-5:20 2:30-4:30 12:00-3:00 11:00-12:00	Involvement	Conditions The cast filmed in relatively light conditions under the cover of shadows in the Ashtead woods conditions ideal for a contemporary action horror film which features suspense.Even though  the conditions were much more effective and lighter than last years film Viet-Con our first filming session ended in almost complete darkness as there was no lighting available in woods
Connor Moreton			high school Jock
Cory Nelson			Shy boy
Ryan Eastman			villain 1
Rachel Herring			High School Girl
Alex Morgan			Villain 2