Improved Film Magazine

In this mock up, I have editing the magazine and the film masthead but putting a black one in the background to give it a 3D effect. I have also put in a pug which advertises my poster. I have also edited the bottom coverlines to look more professional.
I decided to darken the background as a white background looked too bland.
I have also put in a barcode.

Improved Film Poster

In my improvements, I changed the background by making it more opaque and also by lessening the brightness. I then took out the '...' in the tagline and changed the colour of the masthead. When inserting this into a new layer, I kept the black masthead underneath, which has given it a 3D edgey effect, so I decided to keep this in.

I tried to give the background an orange/red  filter but it didn't look very good, so I decided not to use this.

Feedback for my Ancillary Products 2

Film Magazine:

What people liked:

• The long shot is good because it shows her isolation
• The synergy between the knife in HUNTED and the sharp edge on the 'F' in TOTAL FILM

Improvements:

• It's too bare
• The background colour needs to change
• Could the model look at the camera?
• Feather the image more

Feedback for my Ancillary Products

Film Poster:

What people liked:

• The masthead - effective
• the two shot - really creepy and mysterious
• the tagline is effective because of the domestic environment of the background

Improvements:

• background isn't quite right: either black and white or a red/orange filter
• lose the elipsis in the tagline
• create a darker tone
• make the knife in HUNTED red

Final Magazine mock up

Final poster mock up

I chose to use the poster mock up with the transparent background, because I think this was most effective. I made the background slightly darker though, so that it looked more professional.
I chose the tagline 'there are no safe havens' because the stalker has invaded the girls home - which should be a saf haven. This works in synergy with the image of him in her home behind her, as the poster shows his invasion of her 'safe haven'.

Potential Taglines for my film

TAGLINES for Hunted

·         There is a sinister presence felt everywhere she goes

·         Everywhere she goes the sinister presence follows

·         There are no safe havens

·         You can’t call for help if no-one’s listening

·         It’d never happen to you – would it?

·         The pleasure is in the hunt

Considering my film poster image, I have chosen to have the tagline 'There are no safe havens' because the stalker is in the girl's home, so I thought that this would be the most effective tagline.

Poster mock ups

In my last post, I uploaded a mock up of a film poster for Hunted. However, I hadn't cut the images of the man and the girl out very well, and I'd only really experimented with one effect on the background. I have now made 6 more mock ups, with my characters cut out properly and with the backgrounds completely different.

1. Black and white background:

I don't like this one, because the girl character doesn't really stand out on it. I like how the stalker stands out in the foreground though, because this is the sinister look that I am trying to achieve.

2. Brightness and Contrast background:



This mock up is quite effective because the colours look sharp and surreal, and the situation she is in is quite surreal. However I'm not sure this would be right for the final poster because the background seems too busy.

3. Cyan and saturation change background:



I drained the image of colour because the background was so busy, but I decided to get a less-boring grey/blue hue to it I would experiment with the cyan hue on the background. I do like this image, because I think that the background works well. However, I don't think that the stalker looks quite right.

4. Hue and Saturation change background:

I drained most of the colour out of the background, and I like the effect it has had. Both characters stand out nicely, but I don't think the title looks very good against this background  because the black seems to harsh.

5. Sepia background:

All I did was change the background to sepia on this image. I don't like this one because I don't think that sepia suits the genre of the film and therefore it would send out the wrong message to my potential audience to use this effect on the poster.

6. Semi-transparent background:

I like this one because the two characters stand out really well against the background, but I think I need to blend it in more, but making the background a little less transparent.



Ancillary research: Film Poster Mock up



I decided that the background was too busy before, and that I would need to change it. In this mock up I have cut out
both of the characters and changed the colour saturation of the background. This is a rough version
of what I could potentially do as my final poster. 



Potential images for the magazine



Long shot of Fran walking down her road to her house.
Body language, visibly dejected. no eye contact however,
so therefore it may not be good.

Mid-long shot of Fran tied to a chair in the Stalker's basement.
Physically tied up, face down, scared. Again no eye contact, but
you can see her face, so it may be good.

Two shot of Fran and the stalker.
It's sinister, as is the subject matter of the film.
No eye contact however, so it may not be a very good image for the film.