Magazine Draft One

Here is the start of my magazine draft, I haven't gotten very far with it as I am still learn how to use Photoshop on the iMac so I have been going slowly and watching tutorials to help me. I am gradually getting there, and the image below is the magazine and we trying to make the background black, however because the background wasn't plain its a lot harder as I keep getting the image in the bits I want to remove from my photo. This was a photo I had taken during filming of the protagonist Maddie.

Here is me print screen of my progress on photoshop so far, in the right-hand corner you can see the different colour swatches and I used the black one as black connotes death, and this is a key convention within horror,and one I want to conform too. 

Poster inspiration

Here we have examples of montages which is something that I would like to consider for my movie poster, this is something I am going to experiment with on photoshop, once I have found a reliable tutorial in order to help me make it as professional as possible. My favourite movie poster from above is 'Ghosts' as this has a sinister look to it, and then more individual images within it. The use of colour is also very effect as red connotes death, blood and danger, also we have black which connotes death and mystery which adds enigma because what lurks in the darkness. However all the images above are very effect due to their use of colour, images and the text. The text, colour and images are something that I need to consider in great deal in order to makes my poster professional and effective. 

Whereas these film poster concentrate mainly upon one image, which is something else I may consider doing, and ensuring that the one image is effective as possible. My favourite movie poster from these is 'The uninvited' as the colour black is predominately use suggesting death and mystery, but it is contrasted with the colour white, which connotes purity. So this suggests that something or someone good is seduced by the dark side. Also enigma is created because the face is concealed which adds curiosity to the audience because we don't know who is seduced by the darkness. 

Editing session 7

Today we looked at the order of our shots to ensure that they are the way that we want them at this particular part of our editing, however we still have time to change or update our ideas. Our trailer is based upon the Todorov’s theory and we wanted to ensure that our shots were in the correct order to represent this theory. So we just went over our montage again to ensure that the shots were short and concise to ensure that it was sinister and quick paced.

Here is our montage, since we have used the blade to cut it, I got the blade and used it to trim down some of our shots to ensure that they were quick and effective.

Here is the aspect of our trailer where the normality scenes our presented within the Todorov’ theory. However there are hints towards the realisation of the disruption of the Todorov’s theory, where we have the male whispering into the antagonist’s ear.

Here we have the realisation of the Todorov’s theory, this is where the trailer starts to take a more sinister edge to it and we see more antagonists start to appear.

Here we have a masked figure that I used to the blade on to make it more short and concise, and by doing this it enabled it to look more sinister, which will allow it to be more effective.

Editing session 6

During today’s lesson we didn’t get as much work completed as we intended, this was due to the fact that the IMac had been updated and had put our work into another folder, which we struggled to find. Fortunately we found the work, when the software had updated it had put all the work into another folder in order to save it.

Today I also changed some of our shots from
normal to a distortion effect, this was to add a
more sinister effect, however it didn't look correct. 

The original image.

Here is the image after I had
expanded the image to look
landscape. 

Today due to our set back in the lesson we decided to concentrate mainly upon our montage in the trailer sequence. I have previously analysed the ‘You’re Next’ trailer and I suggested to make group to use it as inspiration for our trailer montage. So I showed them the trailer and they agreed that the montage in this film was extremely effective and would be good to use as inspiration for our final piece. I also suggested that our montage shots were too long and the rest of my group agreed to be concentrated on cutting these shots down to between 0.5-1 seconds. The fact that we had increase our montage made it more sinister and a lot more effective.

Here above is the inspiration I suggested to my group that we should use, and they both agreed as they liked the montage and thought it was very effective, so we are going to use it as inspiration. However without the non-diegetic soundtrack I don't believe it would be as effective as it is, because I have watched it with and without sound the montage, and it is definitely more sinister with the non-diegetic soundtrack, so I think when we consider our diegetic or non-diegetic sound it needs to be considered very carefully.