Film Magazine & Movie Poster Draft

Here is a draft of my film magazine front cover and also my movie poster. Both of these products were created using photoshop. For my film poster I didn't have to crop out the image as I wanted to keep the grey background because the colour grey is an emotionless, moody colour which reflects the protagonist's emotions in the movie. The title Duplicity suggests that someone in the movie is possibly living a double life, for all we know the actress on the poster could be the protagonist, it's ambiguous therefore people may be intrigued by it and may want to find out more about the movie.

For both products, I used other film magazines and other film posters for inspiration. I looked at many FILM and EMPIRE magazines to give me an idea on how to layout my magazine and what kind of picture I should take for my magazine. I wanted a character image, which is why my model has the same facial expression on the poster and on the magazine. She's also looking directly into the camera which is known as direct mode of address. direct mode of address is very effective as it makes the reader/ person viewing these products feel as though the product is targeted at them. This could possibly encourage a customer to purchase the magazine or to watch the movie after seeing the poster.

 Posters such as these inspired me. When planning my poster, I drew a sketch of a girl with her hair in her face covering one eye. The poster on the right has a close up shot of a young girl and only roughly half of her face can be seen clearly. I wanted this kind of look for my poster as well because I felt as though it linked to the title of the movie and also the theme of the movie. The emotionless look on her symbolises her psyche and the emotionless state that she has been put in. I think that using a close up was a good idea as the audience can examine her facial expressions and create a story out of it. From her face, hair and torn t-shirt (mise-en-scene) one could infer that she is broken, hurt, emotionally unstable, any negative connotations can come into mind which is why I think that her image alone is very important and it's the USP of the poster as well. Another significant feature of the poster is the movie title. The font I used was downloaded from a website called Dafont. I've used this website for most of my products as it's a very helpful and useful website.

The font above is what I used for my poster. I didn't exactly like the thickness of the font so I changed the thickness, I made it look thinner and I also added a gradient to make it stand out and to also make it look 3D. I used the same method for my film magazine, the font I used for the masthead was 'Trajan Pro' however it looked too dull. Again I changed the gradient and made it look sharp, I also did the same thing to my sell lines. The heading of the sell lines were made yellow so that it could stand out on the black patterned background. The background of the film magazine is a close up image of a prison cell wall. The reason why I used the cell wall is because the genre of my movie is police crime, however that isn't the only reason why I used it. Linking the reason to the storyline, the leading actress is playing a girl who has been assaulted by a detective but the wall reflects how she feels as the detective handling her case doesn't help her. She begins to feel trapped, lonely and isolated which is how prison can make you feel as you're trapped and isolated from society. 

Film Magazine Front Covers

I mainly used these two magazines for inspiration and ideas on how to layout my magazine. Both of these magazines are based on characters which is why harry potter has his glasses on and why superman has his costume on. This shows that conventional film magazines are usually character based. Both magazines have yellow and white writing and a dark background so this inspired me to also have a dark background (prison cell wall) and to use yellow and white writing.

Inspiring Magazine Front Covers

All of the covers have a large, bold masthead and the main image of the magazine is the main focus of the magazine as all of the characters/actors are looking directly at the camera and also either a mid-shot or a close up has been taken. For my magazine front cover I would like to have a close up image of either my antagonist or both the antagonist and protagonist, as for my front cover I will be using the main character who is the female protagonist of this movie. The magazine front covers have inspired me and have also made me consider what techniques and what kind of layout to use when making my own magazine.

Film Magazine Plan

The main image will be of the main characters in my movie trailer. the type of shot I would use would be a mid-shot. Using a mid-shot image will show a part of the subject in more detail, whilst still showing enough for the audience to feel as if they were looking at the whole subject. After thinking of various names for my magazine, I can up with the name 'Feature' for the magazine. The reason behind this is that the word feature could be interpreted as a newspaper or magazine article or a broadcast programme devoted to the treatment of a particular topic, typically at length.

The colour scheme of the magazine is very important, it could either make the magazine stand out or make it look dull and quite boring. The survey that my group created gave us an insight on what colours people would associate with the genre 'Police Crime'. I think the colours Blue, Grey, White and Red are colours that would be appropriate for the magazine as the combination of cold and gloomy colours link to crime as a whole. Crime is surrounded by negative moods therefore the dark colours emphasise this.

Headline: The headline of my film magazine will be the title of the actual movie that we will be constructing. Initially we came up with the name 'Apparition' as the title of our movie. However we realised that the title of the movie didn't necessarily match the storyline of our movie. We wanted the title of the magazine to link to the description of our antagonist, who is also a detective that's deceiving the ones around him. After thinking carefully about the title, I researched synonyms of the word façade, and the word duplicity came up. Duplicity is the state of being double, or being deceitful. essentially the definition of duplicity sums up the Antagonist. Sell lines banners of my magazine will be inspired by other magazines such as Film Magazine and Empire. These magazines have a minimal amount of writing and the main focus is the main image, therefore I'll make sure that my main image is the main focus of the magazine.