Photos for our magazine

This is the first photo the we took it is of the last one of the characters to die 'Eva'  she is being dragged back by the ghost and this will be one of the 5 covers in the collectors edition of our new magazine. This is going to show the audience the genre of the film and the style! The gritty dirty floor designed to demonstrate the helplessness of the situation.

This is a picture of us all showing very little emotion. As a magazine cover it is very ineffective as it isnt colourful or bold, this will need to be retaken.

This is the product of some clever editing, by editing out the elbow of fay we were able to get a severed had look. However the edit is messy and will need to be tidied.

This has no real purpose other than the fan site. This shows us all being happy and therefore is completely ineffective for a horror film magazine cover.

This is quite 'arty' with the lighting and the actor being off center however the arm looks messy and it gives away that some one or something is trying to kill us and i dont want that bein given away.

I really like the lighting in this the red really shows fear and danger and his expression clearly shows agony but it looks alittle untidy in the back ground and his arms arent level.

These first few photos are to give us a standard idea of what our magazine cover will look like, these are not the finished producted they are just the first of a few drafts. We want the covers to project fear, these pictures also show the ways in which our characters die. At the moment we are not sure if that is what we want as we dont want to give away the plot to soon. We are considering using just close ups of our faces as that would show fear but would leave everything else to the imagenation and could possibly spark some curiosity as well. Two of the photos show us standing together these photos give the audience an over all veiw of the cast, we may use these photos but i dont think that the photos look profesional enough, so they may be scraped. They dont show very much and they arent particularly intresting they show no emotion other than the one where we are just being silly in a 'fun' photo. We will use the 'fun' photo on ou fan facebook page as although the picture may appeal to those already fermillia to the franchise it would not to people who had never heard of us. The individual pictures look quite nice but i feel that they give far to much away and show to much to the audience. They show raw emotion which is what we want to grab the eye of the passer by but not is this format.

Fake blood (props)

This was the first time we had tried to create a prop for the film trailer and we wanted it to look realistic but reflect our intentions just as well. In most horror films props such as these are subtle and usually there just to create a sense of atmosphere but have no real meaning to the story. That is true for our trailer in two ways. We create a sense of fear and dred by the reaction of 'dani' to the bloody apron but  the story of that particular scene doesn't revolve around it much at all. However just because it doesn't matter to much to the story doesn't mean it doesn't hold any significants, for example in the women in black the house is full of different creepy old used furniture that doesn't affect the story line but is significant none the less, as with out it the house would look bare and unloved I'm which wouldn't have created such a good atmosphere. As for the creation of the prop, it can be seen in the picture that we used red paint and water splattered on to the apron to get the affect we wanted.

Magazine covers

These drawings are the preliminary ideas for our magazine, Total Movie. The idea was to have a series of magazines come out as a limited edition with special content and pictures relating to the film we are filming, including the cover. Each of the covers is the scene in which each of our characters die! The designs are the first of many we hope for them to change as the process goes on giving a good example of the evolution of our constant brainstorming of ideas. The first pictures will be subject to scrutiny and then we will take our final shots which we be used as the magazine front cover. The multiple edition magazine idea is good because it would not only be a fantastic way of advertising the film but it would also help merge two demographics, those who like the film and those who like the magazine would be encouraged to sample both the film and the magazine! The multiple edition helps to encourage people to buy the next edition. As for the designs we each looked at magazine covers and saw what was the main features and alot of it depended on genre. When I was researching the women in black magazine cover the characters face was the most eye grabbing feature, although it probably had alot to do with the character being Daniel Radcliffe. As his face was obvious and stood out that's what I thought my cover should be like too. I want people to see my cover and like what they see. I want their eye to be drawn and intrigued, so it is important to have an eye catching design, something with pleanty of colour and and bold simple shapes.