Cody, Izel Media A2 - Final Trailer

Magazine Front Cover

This is mine and my partners final magazine front cover. We tried to re-create a traditional movie magazine front cover in which our movie trailer was being advertised and was the main story. This again was created on the mac computers we are fimiliar with on the software of photoshop. As i mentioned, this made it simple for us as we knew how to use it due to previous tasks.
We stuck to our colour scheme of black and white but it looked too dull to be a magazine cover. This is why there is also red featured on the front cover which sets the mise en scene of a horror trailer. This adds emphasis and this si what we wated to create for our audience to visualize.
We used several components which most other magazines used and we done this to look professional. The first we used was a pug, this is feature on most magazine covers and just draws attention to audiences. This is what we wanted to do, we wanted to attract our audience and this is the reason for us putting it in. We also used a title for obvious reasons and a barcode. The barcode give the magazine cover a look as it it was real and would be on sale in a shop. The use of stories running sown the side of the cover is also present as this is a common magazing cover component. the rhetorical question is also present again as it fits in with our movie trailer.
The biggets part in which tells our audience that it is our movie trailer is the image. Again, we have included the image of our serial killer and this tells the audinece immediately that it is our film being advertised. However, the audience will have had to see the trailer to distinguish this, vice versa. So by me and my partner using these conventions, we tried to create a realisitic movie magazing cover that was advertising our horror movie.

Movie Poster

As you can see, this is the movie poster me and my partner created for our horror movie trailer. We tried to make it fit a horror mise en scene and more will be explained below:
This was pretty straight forward to create ans we used Photoshop. This made it easy for us to create as we were fimiliar with using this software in the previous year during our construction of our music magazine.
The first point me and my partner looked out for was the colour scheme. We wanted the colours to fit in well with the movie trailer so we matched the ancillary text colour with the movie poster. This made it have a horror feel about it and this is what we wanted to enforce on our audience. The next thing we done to make it a convincing horror poster was added the only image of the mask. This was put there to be a tell tale sign to our audience. This gives them an istant recognition as to what the film is and also represents the killer of our horror trailer. This, along with the film title will enable our audience to know what film is being advertised with just a glance at the movie poster.
We also chose to add a rhetorical question on the poster as we thought it would make the audience want to see the film. We added the question 'who do you suspect?' This will make the audience feel as if they want to find out who the culprit is which is good for us getting views. The last part we added was the smaller text. All film posters contain the banner accross the bottom of small text which inclued things such as the film make, director, actors etc. This is a common media trend and we thought it would be best to add it to ours to look professional.
Those were the reasons we chose different parts to add and why we done this. Overall, I think this is a convincing movie poster which was created in a very short space of time thanks to the software.