Magazine Front Cover

This is our magazine front cover for Blind Man`s Bluff, we decided to use Empire as our magazine linked to the film due to our film seeming to be linked to films such as Sherlock Holmes and TV programmes like Ripper Street. So therefore our film would be linked to magazines such as this due to it being a blockbuster.

We thought having a picture of the Rippers would look best for our film due to it showing gthe main villains plus they good as being serious, if there was to be a counter to this cover, we would have Abberline and Moore looking like they are being watched or turning on each other. I like the shadows on the Rippers faces as it adds to their dark persona.



We started with a brick background which was originally yellow. We then typed "EMPIRE", after the film magazine. We also put at the top "World Exclusive".



Using the same text from DaFont.com we wrote the name of our film in red and then other little information snippets at the bottom of the magazine which is typical of a conventional magazine  front cover.



We then made some alterations to the colour of some of the quotes on it to make it look more stylish, such as changing the background of the colour of the brick wall, this as well "Blind Man`s Bluff" form red to white, but then changed the tex underneath it was changed to red along with the dots at the bottom and the text at the top.

Our Final Poster!

This is our final poster for Blind Man`s Bluff. This is a combination of the first two posters we created; we took elements of the minimalist poster via the the use of the colours black and red, these connote the idea of murder and criminals. We used the font from the first poster for the titles and the billing list font from the second poster,which were downloaded from the website DaFont.com. We also got the idea to use the back of the heads and shoulders of the Ripper`s form the second poster, but decided to make them black outlines like the first one. If anything could be altered, maybe the website could have been something more catchy like BlindmansBluff.com or BMB.com. 

Rippers Screen Test

Jake, lewis and Joe Screen test from Evie Anderson on Vimeo.

Screen test for Jake, Lewis and Joe, The Rippers!

Music!

This is our orginal music for the trailer. This music was made for us very kindly by Ciarans friend Jacob, the music sounds amazing and was created via Garage Band on a mac. It has an intense feel to it which reflects what we want to see on screen. Now we have the music, we can tie the knots with regards to our trailers!

Abberline and Carter interview

Clip #243 from Evie Anderson on Vimeo.

Due to Alice and Charlie being round my house I managed to do their interview together. Though it is almost ten minutes long it shows a very natural side to the two of them and I think them being together made them feel less nervous about talking.

Creating our titles for the trailer

In this lesson we created our title for the trailer, we decided to use Live Type as we felt this would give the best results.

Here is the full screen of Live Type

We thought that Baskerville Old Face was the best font to use as it has an old fashion look to it, we also used it for our teaser poster as well.

We changed the font to be a little smaller as we did not want it to crowd the screen, simple is good!

Titles on the time line

Close up of Ciaran Pinnell`s titles

We thought that "Blind Man`s Bluff" should be bigger than the other three titles and in the centre.

Mary Kelly Interview/ Screen Test

Sequence 1 from Evie Anderson on Vimeo.

This is our screen test with Amy Holmes who will be playing the main prostitute in our film Mary Kelly.

Detective Moore Screen Test

Detective Moore Screen Test from Evie Anderson on Vimeo.

This is our second interview/screen test, we thought this would be a good idea to show the potential of our "actors" and gives people an opportunity to get to know the people in our trailer! This is the screen test for Ciaran who plays Abberline`s assistant Detective Moore.

Attempt at Poster Number Two!

This the second attempt at a poster, it looks a lot more professional look to it compared to our first attempt; I think the first one was more of a teaser poster and this is the stage on. I feel this poster looks like the type of advertisement which might be on the poster in the cinemas. I fell this is due to it being a freeze frame from it and the black banners at the top and bottom also give the impression of being a cinema poster.

To create this I used Photoshop and opened the image onto it, I made the image smaller and changed the colour behind it to black to give it more of a sinister look. I then looked on the website DaFont.com and found font which look like the billing list text and a sinister Jack the Ripper style for the title. 

We decided that black would be the best background for our poster as it gives mystery to Ripper, plus our teaser poster is red so it contrasts fairly well.

We found this font on dafont.com, it looks quite creepy and like its Jack the Rippers writing 

Our billing list! We tried to include everyone who helped, was in it and who in our Media group. Though I forgot to mention Jessa, who let us use her house.. 

I think this looks like a possible poster we may use for the end result, I think we will try a few different ideas and how they turn out. 

Magazine Front Cover Research

For our task of designing a magazine front cover we decided that the we should first do some research on some exciting front covers so that we could identify some common conventions to add into our magazine when we come to design it.

This is the first magazine front cover we looked at.  The magazine is by SFX and the main article and focal point of this particular issue is The Avengers 2.  This particular image is very useful to us because we can see what the image looked like before all of the writing was placed over the picture.  What is very easy to see from this image is that the main image that the again wants the viewers to see (iron man) is placed in the centre of the page.  This catches the viewers eyes and draws them to look at the magazine.  We will put this concept into our magazine so that we can grab peoples attention.  Also the image of Iron Man covers the title.  This clearly represents that the image is more important then the title of the magazine otherwise the title would be over the picture.  WHat is also interesting is the use of a limited palette.  On the cover there is only a use of about 4 colours.  There are not a variety of colours which is something we expected to see.  We will limit the colours we use like this magazine as we see this as being very impressive and we will imitate the style.  Also on the front cover there are pictures of other films such as Star Trek 2, Man of Steel and Wolverine.  This  shows the users what else is in the film.  We may add something like this into our film so that our magazine front cover is not entirely dominated by one story.  the use of the back ground image is very intriguing.  Fire and explosions are used in the background and the colour red is used a lot.  This connotes a violent film with lots of special effects.  This is something you expect to see in an Avengers film and if you haven't seen an Avengers film then by looking just at the background you can tell a lot about the film.  The choice of words is important to look at.  On the front cover it says "your definitive guide to a year of astounding films".  The word your implies that you already own the magazine and also that it will be yours if you buy it.  This is a good marketing technique as it implies to the viewer of the cover that they should buy the magazine.  Also the adjective "astounding" is used to show that the movies in the guide are particularly good.  If the magazine had said good movies for example then it would not have the same effect on the audience.  We will take everything we have learnt from the front cover and use it when we create our magazine front cover.

This is one of the film magazine front covers we decided to analyse.  The magazine is from the company Empire and the front cover is based around the film Django Unchained. Unlike the other front covers Empire uses limited text.  Apart from the title there is not much text.  The reason for this is that the company want the audiences eyes to be drawn to the three main characters of the film, Leonardo Di Caprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz who are all well known actors.  When the audience see this they will want too read more about these famous actors.  like the other covers there is also a limited palette with only white orange and black being used.  This is clearly a common convention of a magazine front cover and we will include this is our cover.  At the very top of the cover it says "18 huge exclusives".  This is a clear marketing technique because it attempts to try and sell the magazine by offering exclusives that you can only see in this magazine.   The directors name is used on the front cover.  This is unusual because on the other covers we have looked at the director is not mentioned however on this he is.  This is because the director of Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino.  He is one of the most well known directors in the industry and because his name is mentioned it adds credibility to the film and makes it more interesting to viewers.  It also says "how tarantino reinvented the west".  This makes the viewers want to know what has changes from traditional western films such as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  The words above the title say the good the bad and the bloody.  This is a play on words from the film the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, one of the most famous western films ever.  This in a way compares the two films together and suggests that the film may be as good as that film.  This consequently interests the potential buyer and makes them want to find out how it is similar to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

This is another one of the film magazine front covers that we have decided to analyse.  This is from the magazine total film and the front cover is based all around the Hobbit.  Unlike the SFX film magazine front cover it has a plain background.  The reason for this is so the main character in the film Bilbo Baggins is in the forefront of the cover and is easy to see.  the image of Bilbo Baggins is also completely on the page.  unlike the other magazines where not all of the character is on the page on this he is completely on the page.  the reason for this is so that the size of Bilbo Baggins is shown clearly as he is a hobbit in the film an Hobbits are generically small.  On the side of the cover you can see the title "12 films you should have seen".  What this implies by the use of the word should is that if you have not seen these particular films then there is something wrong with you.  This could potentially persuade a viewer to buy this so that the can clear this apparent wrong that they have done.  At the top of the page it says "the greatest one liner revealed".  This will interest potential buyers to buy the magazine to find out what the one liner is.  This is another tool of marketing to try and persuade people to buy your product.  near the title of the magazine it says "the world's best movie reviews".  This probably isn't true as there is no way to gauge who makes the best reviews in the world.  However like the other elements on the front cover i have mentioned it persuades people to buy the magazine because if they are interested in movie reviews then they will want the "best movie reviews".  All of these marketing techniques we will use on our front cover as we want to make it look as authentic as possible.  The actor who plays Bilbo Baggins, Martin Freeman is looking straight at the potential audience.  This will create eye contact and draw the audience in to look at the the magazine and potentially buy it.

After looking at all these magazines we have found many conventions and elements we will include in our magazine front cover and the research has been very useful to see things that we may have wanted to include but have seen that there is no place for them in the film

"Status Update" of Trailer

We have successfully edited the fist thirty seconds of our trailer, we plan to further this success on to the next minute of so.

This is one of the effects we have for the external part of our trailer, we have changed the contrast and gamma levels to create a bleak but striking look to the film; this effects look quite Steampunk like which is what we are trying to perceive. 

We are using fade in for a certain but we won`t over use it.

This is the music we are currently using till Ciaran`s friends rather kindly offered to create original music for our trailer. Its is full of drums which gives a feeling of suspense.

These are the clips we have at the moment only one more bit of filming to go.

We now have 30 seconds! 

Music on our timeline