Magazine Cover Analysis

May 2011


This issue of empire magazine is from May 2011. The feature article and the front cover is X-men. The colour scheme is the classic red, and white. There is a promotion on the front cover of the two X-men magazines, and it tells that this issue is the first of two issues on the film. there is a coverline 'apocalypse now special' is made on a background of torn paper, this makes the text and heading stand out. other coverlines just have the names of renowned actors, and on the right hand side there are titles advertising reviews on films. 

January 2010

This issue of empire magazine was realeased in january 2010, and the feature is iron man. the title works well wit the theme of the mazine, with a lighting bolt style affect and the blue on iron man. the colour scheme is electtric blue, grey an white, and while not emcompassing he magazine's red, there is still red on iron man himself. the colverlines incle popular movie and information in the movie industry, theres is not as muc information as the 2005 cover, below. but it's still through. i think this magazine cover is very effective and the use of photoshop is brilliantly used.  

February 2005

this magazine cover is from Empire February 2005, the feature is of oceans twelve with the three main stars, Matt Damon,Brad Pitt, and George Clooney on the cover.The headline tells how the film is full of A-list stars, with coverlines including more famous actors and actresses. the other articles advertised on the front cover are under the heading 'AMAZING START TO 2005!'this is on a film reel background which adds to the film magazine genre, and is effective. other coverlines advertise articles in the magazine, by using onomatopoeia it grabs the readers attention and the titles themselves intise the reader into reading. the colour theme for this issue is black, red and grey, these colours work well together with the masculine feature and other article. 

Tag Lines

In today's lesson we needed ideas for a horror tag line for our film. I looked at existing horror tag lines and incorporated my own ideas into some of the existing ones already. Max also had a great concept for the song 'when you go down to the woods today' yet adapted it to sound more 'creepy' and suits our poster. There is a clear winner and that's 'when you go down to the woods tonight....'.

Rough cut

we are editing and sewing together our footage for the first rough cut. This will give us a basis for our final product.  It gives us a base to build upon. we are cutting and editing our footage to give it a day-to-night process, which will give a chronological order. we have also put text screens in and fade-to-black screens. this helps us chop and connect together footage more effectively and tell the story.

Today we edited the footage for the trailer, to do this we used the program iMovie. We connected and edited clips together, the photo is mid process of editing. Editing the video allows us to use quality material, and ultimately create the best trailer possible. We also inserted black screens with text and other effect to enhance our final product. I have swapped different footage in and out of the cut for the trailer, to see which pieces of footage worked best. This is good because we shot some scenes a few times with different angles and shots to get the best clip for the final trailer.

Final Teaser Poster

This is the complete teaser poster for CREEP and a full poster will be completed very soon. We just wanted to create the 'creepy' feeling to set the scene and allow the audience to react to our poster. The teaser allows us to give away a small amount of information just through the picture and feel the blurred picture creates this effectively.

Teaser Poster!

We have created our teaser poster. This gives very little away and gives minimal description which of course creates the 'tease'. Only the release date is given and a very blurry, unclear picture. This is the main character in the film and he is the 'creep'. This picture is linked to our trailer due to the creep being hidden throughout the trailer also. This picture was simply created by scanning his face onto the scanner, and the effect was great and exactly what we were looking for. We felt that the simple picture was a lot more effective as we didn't want to overthink the photo and for it to not work as well.

FILMING Monday 5th December

Today we continued our filming, this included test shots and actual filming footage.The first shot was of the victims entering the woods, and others included the abduction of one character and a victims phone ringing in the leaves, being retrieved by the stalker. We will  use some of the footage that we filmed, however, some was of poor quality and only test shots we didn't consider successful and so wont use. We now have the most part of out filming done, but will still probably be filming more and developing our test shots to create quality footage.