omg, we have nearly finished! :)

We have finished our magazine cover and we are now just working on the music for our trailer, which has been the biggest problem for us overall. We have had to move our audio about as it was on the computer and we had to find some kind of way t put it onto the mac's, in the end we converted the audio with 'zamzar' which we then put onto a blank disk and then we uploaded it onto the mac's, we just need to use garageband now to play around with the audio and change it to how we want it to be!

Cinematic magazine cover changes

Here are two other drafts we have done in attempt to improve our magazine. The feedback we were given was that the darker magazine is more effective. We are still looking at improveing the magazine but need more feedback from peers and teachers so we know what to change.

practical feedback :)

Yesterday we had a class showing of our pratical which gave us a chance to get some feedback, both from the teachers and from the class.
For our trailer we had possitvie feedback, students said that they liked the make up we used, they liked the mise en scene and they also liked the fast paced editing in the second half of the film. One student said that they didn't like one particular shot of a hand as they thought it would look better closer. The teachers also said that they liked our editing and they thought the mise en scene created in the first half of the trailer works really well.
For our poster we had alot of positive feedback, students said that they liked our background as it suited our horror genre and they said that our image is very striking and caught their attention. Teachers said that they liked our tagline as it was catchy; 'clawing it's way to a cinema near you'.
Our magazine cover had mixed reactions as our image is quite big and 'in your face' students thought that with the text it looked too busy and that the text was too spread over the cover, they also said that it would look better on a black background rather then a white one so we have changed it to a black background with white writing, we think that this looks better as the white makes the image stand out and makes the red on her face stand out aswell.

FINISHED FILM MAGAZINE!

This is our finished film magazine, we had finished the main part of the magazine, as in the mast head, and all the other text parts of the magazine. However we didnt know whether to use a colour image, or to use a black and white one. So we asked 8 people for their views on witch one should be chosen. They all agreed that the colour version was alot better.
I have uploaded both versions, the colour version being the final copy, and the black and white one to show the development. We created our magazine on photoshop. We used an image of one of the charachters from our actual trailer from one of the pictures we took on the day that we shot our footage as the actors where still wearing the special effects make-up, which played a large part in all of our work as it is the main thing that shocks and interests the audience. It also links our main task to our anciliry tasks. We went for the colour scheme of reds and blacks as they are strong bold colours. We used this colour scheme not only because it is a strong colour that stands out, but also from our research we found that film magazines always had strong, bold colours that stand out and typography that gave a sterdy strong look. We also thought the red colour scheme went well with the make-up special effects as the blood is picked out by the contrast to the white of the background. This makes the image really striking and stand out very well. For the masthead we decided we needed a bold font in a dark colour that would stand out on a shelf and look professional. We didnt have much luck finding a suitable font on photoshop, so we looked on myfont.com to search for a more suitable one. We found many but the one we used particularly stood out to us as it had a cracked sort of effect round the outside and stood out as a "statement" font. We thought it really worked as a masthead. We decided on the masthead being black, and thats the only black we would use on it so it stands out even more. We looked to other film magazines to look at the sort of things that are presented on the front cover of magazines, so we added the month and year of the magazine, a tagline, a price, and a barcode. These are the things that would appear on the magazine monthly, without fail. The rest of the text is linked to the current issue. For example the biggest feature is the new relese, which happens to be our film "Carnage". We also feature the name of the actress, and competitions and other things linked to the genre, for example" best horrors..".

update :)

It is our deadline on Friday and we our very nearly finished, we have finsihed our first draft for our magazine and we have finished our first draft for our poster, we just need to finish the music on our trailer and we have finished! :D