This picture lists a few side affects of schizophrenia, this is a good part of my research because it enables me to underastand my character.
I looked a lot at films that helped inspire me for my ideas and wanted to see how they made their posters look like, I wanted to make mine similar, from looking at these posters it gave me a clear understanding of what my poster should be like, dark and include the main character. I think it was a good idea to look at other films for inspiration because I can see what films are highly rated.
Hide and Seek was a big inspiration the whole way through my project because I know the film and also the idea is similar to mine, this poster is dark and I like the black and red combination. I would like my poster to be a little bit lighter and show some of my film. I had a clear idea what I wanted but it was very helpful to look at others. I decided I wanted the poster to show my character clearly as schizophrenic, I wanted to get a picture of him behind a tree and the other side of the tree him doing something else, I wanted him to be doing something weird. After going out with a camera and taking a variety of photos I found a very effective photo of jack pushing a swing by himself. He is pushing it away and is watching it and although it’s a still image you can sense that he is crazy because of his face and the fact that he pushing a swing by himself.
This is the image of Jack standing behind a tree by himself, the whole space behind him is deserted which makes him look alone and the look on his face gives off an eerie vibe.
I think this picture is effective because it shows Jack by himself pushing a swing which looks creepy and shows that something could be wrong with him.
As explained in my editing section of my blog I took the picture with the swing and rotated it so it was the other way round and then over the top put the picture of Jack behind the tree, these both worked well together, even though they were taken in two completely different places but the colours matched so they were able to be put together, I made the pictures look darker and creepier by using photoshop. I put text over the top and rated the film an 18, I think that text is very important and I included quoted from the film in my text and came up with this for my final poster. 
I am very happy with my poster because I had to edit both pictures a lot to get them how I wanted to, I think that the colours work well together because it shows an eerie atmosphere, the weather being dull and dark adds to the effect. I darkened one side of the tree and Jack because I wanted to symbolise in more ways than one his schizophrenia, his face is half dark and half normal which shows he is split in two and I think this is effective. I am proud of how I managed to show schizophrenia in two ways along with the half dark, half normal face the obvious one is the fact that he is in two places at once, this shows that he has two minds and that the one closer to us is the more dominating of the two minds. Overall I think the poster shows off the mood of my trailer really well, the colours work together and I chose to have white text because it stands out and contrasts with the dark and dull background.
My magazine cover was more difficult than my poster was; I did some research on film magazines and found out what they should consist of, this is what a film magazine should include: • A main topic (usually a certain film) in my case “The Schizophrenic” • Big Font • Big picture • Price and Barcode • Offers e.g. “get your free poster today” • What is included in this issue “read why Jack Gamble enjoyed playing this role”
I wanted to get the theme of my film across in my magazine cover, I also wanted to use my poster and say “Get you free poster” this way I could put my poster to more use and make them both work together and link them. The title of my magazine is “FirstChoice Films” my idea for this magazine would be that all the top films and their reviews would be in this magazine, it isn’t an error putting FirstChoice without a space, I thought it looked more effective and the sort of style you would see on a magazine. I included a price and also edited the lighting and the effects of it. I used the picture of Jack behind the tree but to show a different atmosphere I changed the whole thing to night time and the whole picture under moonlight.
I think both my poster and magazine work off each other well and effectively, I’m very happy with how I went from the two normal pictures to my final products and I feel that i really improved my editing skills by doing these two tasks. My first attempt of a teaser trailer was a disaster, the film quality was poor, the tape was broken and I was unable to edit, I had to do it again but was finding it difficult because my main character and the person I needed to film (Jack), we only had one day where he could make it so spent the day filming it all, the filming went well and I felt good about it. I had a few inspirations of trailers to start with and they were hide and seek, the grudge and the ring.
I think that my trailer works well by itself but is a bit of a letdown after my poster and magazine cover, I got footage and I like what I have done with it but would really like to have had some more and made it longer. It is short and straight to the point and I think it is definitely a teaser trailer but could have been made into more, my shots are there and so is the story.
I think that when it comes to the storyline and my character the three tasks link in very well together, they are all dark, they all show the character and they all give a dark and eerie feel from them, they all have the same settings and all keep to the story line, as individual pieces they all have good editing and they all look sharp just like a horror should do.
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