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Hello and welcome to my blogger page; In my blog I will be sharing all the work I have done for this unit. On this blogger page i will be sharing, the dvd sleeve, magazine cover and the film poster that i created, all the research i did in this unit and also my film analysis. 

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Evaluation/Film Poster

Film Poster

This is the completed version of my dvd sleeve and the genre of it is a supernatural horror. I analysed a lot of different dvd sleeves to get ideas about how to create one as i started with just a white background. One of the films i drew inspiration from was from the film 'Insidious'. As the film was sold to lots of different regions, there were lots of different dvd sleeves that was created for the same film. So I took ideas from all of them.

For it to be different than the movie poster, i had to put in more information, To make my dvd sleeve look professional and realistic, I had to create features and use different gradient effects. 

To make the background look misty and scary, i used a black gradient effect to make it look darker, on both the front and the back of the sleeve. The bottom of the sleeve had to be darker because the font would have been harder to read otherwise. On the front of the sleeve i used an effect to turn it black and the font was a lot easier to read. On the back of the sleeve i drew a black rectangle over half the page and changed to colour to red. I then used an overlay effect so you could still see a bit of the background. I did this because the credits bar and film companies were easier to see and were really clear, this effect also made the dvd sleeve look quite dark and haunting, which was good as the genre for the film is a supernatural horror.

The hardest and longest part about making the sleeve, was to create the credits bar. I drew different sized rectangles to fit the page and added font to make it look like a real credits bar. It took around 3 hours all together to finish it to a good standard. 

I  had to keep the same format and images from the original movie poster I created earlier on. The images i kept were the main character and the black figure, and also the main title didn't change, i didn't include the image of the house as i felt it looked to much like the insidious poster, and in my opinion i felt the sleeve looked better without it, and there was no where to put it without it looking too much.

I added a quote from a newspaper and I got ideas of the layout for the movie poster I made and the dvd sleeve from the film 'INSIDIOUS' in order for the sleeve and the poster to stay similar.

To improve my dvd sleeve i think i need to replace the image of the character and upload it again. I think this becasue the image is slightly blurred and i have a noticed a white line around the edge of the image which needs removing. However i am happy with the design of the sleeve, and i think it only needs a few more improvements before it can be completely finished.

Evaluation/Magazine Cover

This is the complete version of my magazine cover. I researched ideas by analysing different film magazines to see what the format was like and get an idea of how a magazine is made. I simply typed in 'film magazine covers' and got inspiration from two different film magazines.

On the magazines i analysed, the backgrounds were white, however to get the reader to know i was advertising a supernatural horror film, i had to think of something different.

 The genre of my film is a supernatural horror so i had to make it look i was advertising a horror film. By doing this i used a number of different effects and gradients and added a background. To make it look dark and misty, I dragged the gradient effect from the bottom of the screen and pulled it up about halfway, this made it look like i was advertising a scary movie.

I got the title of the magazine cover from another cover. However i changed the font, size, boldness,and even brought it off the screen by using a drop shadow effect. I got my inspiration from 2 different magazine covers. one called 'EMPIRE' and another one called 'TOTAL FILM'. By putting a drop shadow on the magazine title, it made it a lot clearer and much more effective.

I have used different sized fonts to make it eye catching for the reader, to improve i think i should of made the font a bit more clearer by either a drop shadow effect or use the stoke effect to make it bit bolder.At the bottom of my magazine cover, i have added even more information about what is included with this issue. Like any other magazine, you usually get something free with it to persuade a customer to purchase it, which is why included it.

The character in the middle of the magazine cover as when i analysed another film cover, the character was in the middle. I also thought that by doing this, the text will be clearer and easier to read if its placed down the side of the cover.

Like other covers, i have used three main colours, red black and white. I tried to makes it eye catching for the reader by doing this, as well as it looking professional at the same time.

I tried to keep the same theme throughout creating the cover. I used some of the same fonts from my movie poster and dvd sleeve. I have added an extra font that was called 'code bold'. I took this font from a website called the 'da font',  I needed the right font to fit my magazine cover, and i didn't want it looking to much like a film poster.

Every issue of a magazine has the date, what number issue it is and the date it was published, i added this to my magazine however it isnt very clear to read, to improve it i think the change the colour and the size to make it little bigger.

To improve this i think i need to include images in my magazine, for example, pictures of the what is including in this issue of the magazine, or up coming films that are previewing soon. This will also add a bit more colour to the front cover.

Evaluation/Film Poster

Evaluation

Film Poster

This the final edition of my film poster, i based it on the film poster insidious however the story is completely different. I used a number of different layers to get the right colour effect for the background as i wanted it to look cold and mysterious. I simply drew a rectangle over the whole poster and put it behind all the layers, i changed the colour to blue and because it was a solid colour i used an overlay effect so the background was a blue misty effect.

I chose to use BBFC age certificate '15' because the storyline is quite scary and and i thought it fit with poster and the summary of the film. To get the the BBFC certificate and the film company logos perfect without any white background was simple. For example, i got the warner brothers logo from google and put into photoshop, i drew round the image with the magnetic lasso tool and took away the white background. After this i dropped it into the film poster and scaled it to the right size. I did this with all three of the images on the bottom of my film poster.

I got the font from a website called 'DAFONT' and installed onto my computer. The font looks mysterious and scary and the font is suitable for the film as it fits and it doesn't look out of place. For example the font used for the film 'BACK TO THE FUTURE' is a science fiction font and wouldn't fit this film because it is the wrong genre.

Every film poster has a credits bar so i wrote one myself and included it in my poster.

The image on the left is the a photograph of the character i used to put it in my film poster. 

I edited the picture of the boy to make it look scarier but first i took away the white background so i could edit it into the final poster. I used the magnetic lasso tool to draw a line round the character so i could take away the background but leaving behind the main part of the image. I simply deleted the background and dragged the image of the character onto another image. (The main background for the film poster)

Analysing magazine covers - Magazine Cover 2

Magazine cover 2

This magazine cover advertises one of the Harry Potter films was previewed and new at the time it was released. I found that a lot of magazines use the same colours and have three main colours that they always use. On this magazine the colours used are white, red and yellow. 

I took ideas of the layout of this magazine and created similar formats on my own magazine cover. For example, where it says 'MASSIVE PREVIEW SPECIAL' I took and my put on my own magazine. I think it the size of the font and the boldness uses the space well which is why i used it in my own. I don't think this magazine is as eye catching as magazine cover, however i did

 draw some inspiration from it, to get an idea of how to format my text. 

The main character is slightly been placed to the left rather than to the centre of the cover. However i decided to put the actor in the middle of the front page.

I think this magazine cover is good in the way it has been formatted, however i think more information needs to be included to tell us what is inside.

Even though i know that Harry Potter is an action/fantasy, The image of the character also tells the reader that the film is an action film, this is how the make up has been used on his face.

Analysing Magazine covers - Magazine Cover 1

Magazine cover 1

This is a film magazine that advertises a new film called 'Sherlock Holmes'. I based the format of the magazine cover i made on this magazine. I got the title for my cover from it, but changed the font so it was slightly thinner to make sure i didn't copy it completely. The purpose of this magazine is too advertise the new 'Sherlock Holmes'. Even though on this front page it is advertising the latest film being brought to cinema, by advertising even more even films on the front cover, will attract more people to buy the magazine so they can read reviews on the latest films, and any relevant information

about a film they have seen, or planning to watch.

The main colours used in this magazine are blue, white and black, and The main bold font is blue, and any . To keep the same format for my cover, i used the colours black red and white as my main colours, to fit the theme of the magazine and the film i was advertising.

The image of the actor is in the centre of the magazine, i took this idea and used the photograph of my brother and put in the centre of my cover. However the genre of film i am advertising is a supernatural horror, so i used a gradient effect to make it look it bit more scary.

By advertising Sherlock Holmes on the front of the film magazine tells the readers that this film is 'the one to see' before they even plan to watch it.