Film Poster

Here I have two film posters which are both extremely similar but there are a couple of minor details which are different but they have helped me decide which poster I prefer. The top poster is the one which I wish to recreate using my own images, for my film trailer we will be using a very dark room with a girl sat in the middle of a pentagram on a chair, this is the only image online which I could find that matches my description, I also had to find someone in a monk robe and someone sat in a chair online, so I used Photoshop to over lap each layer and make it look as if they are there inside the background image.
The top poster is a better example of where the photoshop looks better.

The top image has a few differences which instantly makes it look better then the bottom version, these changes I have made are that the top image, towards the bottom it begins to fade out to black, this is where I also chose to move the film title down nearer to the bottom to then cover where it begins to fade. I have also made each person who is in the main image darker, less saturated, I have also moved the tag line toward the top, through researching different movie posters, they all have one thing in common and that is that they all have the movie title in the bottom middle section of the poster.

To recreate this poster concept, we already have an building we can use for the setting, its then a matter of creating a pentagram and also putting lots of rubble, broken glass for example around the room to make it look authentic, this does also create a couple of hazards though. We have our costumes to use and also we have got our hands on a rocking chair which we will have an actor sit in. The posters I have created I feel are easy to tell are for a horror film, so recreating this will be very challenging, I want it to give off the same impression as these concepts, that is corruption, haunting, darkness etc.

Magazine Cover

Here are two magazine covers, which are the same but both have small features which I feel make a huge difference, the top cover is the one I wish to recreate using my own images, I feel it is the better one of the two, this is because the title 'WICKED' and the bar along the bottom are overlapping the white border, this gives the image a 3-D effect, it also makes the magazine cover look more professional. The main image also has a nice drop shadow around the top and right of the cover, again giving the 3-D feel. The second version does not have the same 3-D effect, all of the content is inside the main image and nothing overlaps the border. I decided to go for a Hammer Horror theme magazine, they are classic so I thought with my film idea it would fit perfectly, the title is very large and over the top I feel it also can resemble the stereotypical, old magazine feel, sort of a Frankenstein, large, crooked title.
Also using large, clear text is rather simple but suits the style of magazine I am trying to create.


The next objective would be to now use our own images instead of those I have used in the cover, they are from the internet, I used these images for a rough idea of what I am trying to achieve, we have our location which we can use to set for our background, if not then we will take pictures of us in our costumes over a green screen to put over a setting.

To improve my magazine cover, obviously I will need to use my own images, for the circle in the top right with the text, I decided to quickly erase small lines inside it to try and create an effect of it being broken, corrupt, however I don't think I have done a good job of this, it requires more time and attention to detail, this goes the same for for the bar across the bottom, where there is more text.