Ancillary Tasks

Alongside our trailer we had two other tasks to complete. They were to create a magazine front cover promoting our film and to make a poster advertising our film. After researching different posters and magazines we found that we needed to return to the shoot location and take some digital stills. Photography is one of my main hobbies and I also study it as one of my other A levels so I was happy to take this task under my wing. My camera is a Canon EOS 450d, when taking the pictures I tried to obtain good lighting and show strong emotions through the main character(Mickey Stanton-Louis Palmer). We dressed Louis in stereotypical street fighter clothes, black vest and dark jeans. This created a rough fight club look.

Once I felt I had a large amount of images to work with I uploaded them onto the computer and viewed them in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I found some pictures that I had taken in London of graffiti which related to the genre of the film. I experimented on layering the graffiti on the pictures of Louis, this worked very well. I also downloaded a brush for photoshop which allowed me to print more graffiti onto the image which gave it more of a rough street feel. I only used this technique for the poster because magazine front covers tend keep its simplicity and clarity so it is easier on the eyes. But with the poster I didn't mind it being slightly abstract because it reflects the views on the film, the film doesn't contain conventions of a American blockbuster. On the poster we found the right font in keeping to the street theme which we then made very bold with strong colours that stand out.This is meant to attract the public's eye.We found our font on www.dafont.com .For the magazine front cover we looked at 'Empire' magazine and based it around the layout that they set.
Here are a few examples of research that we based our pieces around: