Final draft of poster

When I did my first draft of my poster, people were impressed by the close-up image and effetcs. However felt it lacked features and aspects which would be on real media posters. I then went back to photoshop to finalise my final draft of my poster, I incorporated reviews which are an important aspect of a poster and made fonts bigger in places.

background image

Final draft

.Storyboard and Screenplay

Specific horror magazine research.

Fangoria. (official website)

First named in 1978 under Fantastica, made as a companion to the science fiction media magazine Starlog (just as Starlog covered science fiction films for a primarily teen audience, fantastica was designed to cover fantasy films for a similar audience. (official website, fangoria magazine)
- This is particulary important for me as I will be producing a magazine cover of a horror genre and will be targetting a similar audience.

Joe Bonham edited the first issue, shortly after publishing, the competitor of Starlog films, Fantastic films magazine pressed unfair trading and that the magazines would be too similar for the audience. (official website).

Horror film magazine covers have their own identifiable features, such as typical red, black and white colours. These to signify blood, death, gore and the serious attitudes and themes but forward in horror films. The font is also quite specific, bold font and font which  had a fang effect on it to add further anchorage for horror fans and the audience.

The stories are also horror related, giving me a taste of what type of stories I should include in my magazine and on the cover.

production logo.

When embarking upon creating a production logo I researched exisiting media products to enable me to produce a realistic product.
Some of these include:

 I liked the PIXAR (OFFICIAL SITE) production logo and wanted to create something similar which would reflect the genre I was working with, the simplicity of the background but the power of the writing was something I wanted to achieve

 These are the production logos I created to represent my teaser trailer, they were done in the programme Photoshop where I experimented with different background effects and fonts, the red to clearly signify blood and give anchorage into the genre, the blood dripping is clearly a stereotypical way to signify horror but I feel it works generally well.

Additional magazine cover photos.

These pictures were taken as additonal pictures to use as the front cover image of my magazine cover as the audience feedback reflected that I couldn't use the same two images on the magazine cover and poster as it wouldn't happen in real life on real exisiting media products.

Software

I am using a number of different technologies, some new and some old to create and produce my project,
Photoshop CS4

This programme allows me to edit my ancillinary tasks to a high level of quality. This was apparant when I started making my film poster and film magazine cover, I could over layer images, experiment with verious filters and colour effect which fit in perfectly with the genre I'm working with.

Garage Band

This programme I am familiar with from last years project, it helps me to create the music which will fit into my piece of work. I soon realised after watching various horror trailers that the music/sound is extremly important, it can effect the mood or how the audience portrays the product. This programme allows you to experiment with different instruments and different tones to create the sound you want.

Final Cut

A brand new and unkown programme to me, with using I movie last year to create my project. Final cut is a more sophisticated and professional way of editing a production, with neater cutting tools and a larger variety of editing tools.

Book Of The Dead: By Jamie Russell

Blurb.
AMAZON.

When there's no more room in hell...

One of cinema's most enduring monsters, the zombie has been terrifying audiences around the world for decades. Book Of The Dead charts the ghoulish history of zombie cinema, from the creature's origins in Haitan voodoo and its cinematic debut in 1932s White Zombie (IMDB), right up to recent blockbuster hits like 28 days later (imdb), Shaun Of The Dead (imdb) and Land Of The Dead (imdb).

Covering hundreds of movies from America, Europe and Asia, this extensive history chronicles the zombie's on-screen evolution from Caribbean bogeyman to flesh-eating corpse. Along the way, Book Of The Dead takes in Bela Lugosi B-movies, Italian Gore films, blind monk-zombies, shot-on-video backyard epics, all-time classics such as I Walked With A Zombie, Night Of The Living Dead (IMDB) and Dawn Of The Dead (IMDB) and the videogame phenomenon of Resident Evil (WIKI).

Complete with hundreds of stills and artwork including 64 stunning pages of colour illustrations, and an exhaustive filmography, Book Of The Dead explains why we continue to be so fascinated by these fugitives from the undertaker.

...the dead will walk the earth.

I used this book to help me extensivly with my zombie research, it gives valuable information about a range of zombie horror films created from a wide variety of artistic views.

The chapters include:

Caribbean Terrors.

The Zombie Goes To Hollywood

Down And Out On Poverty Row

Atomic Interlude

Bringing It All Back Home

Dawn Of The Dead

Splattar Horror

Twilight Of The Dead

Zombie Filmography