Poster ideas

Here are some ideas inspired by the posters I've been looking at.

                                      

                                       

Pull Quotes for Magazine

Pull quotes are important in assuring that your magazine looks professional and follows regular conventions of a magazine layout.

Usually a different/ larger sized font than the body is used to stand out and occasionally a different colour is used. They are used to break up long bodies of text and in a way brings out a sense of visual power.

Size and Length: Online isn't enough, several lines and two sentences can be too much. They can be arranges however you like however it is comment use just a few words or up to a sentence.

The Design: Usually separated by exaggerated quite marks, the options are endless but they need to be recognisably different from the text. Make sure that the text has 'space to breathe'.

Placement: Inside the body of text is theist way to go about it, for example is there are three columns of text, it should span across two of those columns.

More poster research

I am obsessed with the imagery and graphics used in (mainly) Japanese film posters from the 60's through to the 90's. Here are some more posters that I particularly liked, below are some links that I used to help me learn how to even try to achieve this effect with mine.

100 Monsters, 1968

https://www.designcuts.com/tutorials/design-an-awesome-grindhouse-style-movie-poster/

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-an-epic-godzilla-inspired-movie-poster-in-adobe-photoshop--cms-20713

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/170151692155035922/

Magazine progress

Using InDesign to format the magazine review

Magazine image options

Here are some potential images to be used for our magazine. I took some still images from the film to capture the energy of the movie in the presentation.

Anime inspiration

I have always been a huge fan of Japanese anime, or manga as its also called. I have always found it to be my favourite style of animation and the storylines are always simple and enjoyable to get involved with. My appreciated began with comics and then graduated to films and series' ;

Studio Ghibli has always been a huge inspiration to me. I try to channel Hayo Miyazakis incredible eye for detail and beautiful story telling skills into everything I make and do. 

My ode to anime comes in the form of simply 4 letters of subtitles at a crucial moment in the film. I wanted to do my own take on the speech bubble and annotation element in Japanese comics (and occasionally video production too.

 

The importance of transitions

The art of the transition is not one that I have appreciated much in the past until recently, I have learnt from editing this film that transitions, whether they be as energetic as a wipe or as smooth as a fade, are all vital to the post production of a film. They allow the clips to flow seamlessly with one another to allow the audience to enjoy a fault free product.

I found an extremely interesting video about one of my favourite films (editing wise) and how they used the art of he transition to create a seamlessly flowing movie. After watching this video I took it upon myself to think of a creative transition for a scene change I was struggling with.

Make your transitions count (video) :
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pij5lihbC6k


I took inspiration from a classic cartoon that I used to enjoy as a child; Spongebob Squarepants. Whilst it is a comedy kids show one transition which they made famous was the fantastically  sarcastic french man announcing the change of time. I took my own take on it and think I successfully managed to make it fit the style of the film. Here is my little homage to Spongebob and the joy he bought me.

Original Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Z0Y3Kk8nU

Editing notes

I wanted to play on the idea of ones conscience. Many films poetry ones conscience as an imaginary creature or inside voice telling one what to do. I liked this idea as I believe it ties in with the theme of regret which is particularly prominent in our film. I wanted to convey to the audience Eli's (Matt) regret at how he handled the situation. I chose to show this through more expressionistic techniques in the editing.

 For the first clip I wanted to edit I chose a second face of Eli to appear along side the original clip to suggest that second voice taking over. I used an opacity layer on the second video and set it to darkness to achieve the deeply contrasting effect.

For the second clip I decided to play with audio and insert a couple audio files from the previous scene to create an eery effect. I wanted this to, once again, symbolise his conscience and allow the audience to get inside the head of the character. I used an echo delay filter on the audio and increased the amount of reverb. 

Unfortunately I was not able to attach a video clip but the effect can be heard in the 3rd demo which will be uploaded soon.

                                         

Enhancing the auditory experience

In order to achieve that cinematic effect so that the audio can be enjoyed effortlessly alongside the music, I chose to add a surround panner to the music tracks on the film. I haven't yet decided if I will use the same technique for the dialogue but I plan on testing that soon. By using this panner It created a 360* effect with the music which I believe enhances the experience.
At some point in the music I tracked the panning from left to right or visa versa to create a more atmospheric, almost dramatic effect.

Magazine review 2

This is from Screen. A magazine where the target audience is a lot more directed at industry people, and the words used are a bit more sophisticated and relevant to the industry. You can see that the font is a lot smaller, and that the article isn't broken up as much and there is statistical information which one wouldn't be able to understand as much if they weren't in the business. The title is really obvious, so you know immediately what is the film. The picture is a good selling point, and gives an idea of the genre of the film and the tone. I like the way that this review looks but would want mine to be a bit more fun and visually exciting. 

Magazine Review

There is a variation in colour of the titles, this is useful because it immediately draws your eyes to the important parts of the review; the certificate, director etc. This review differs from some of the other ones because of the look closer aspect, where it gives you some facts about the poster in relation to the film. The tagline really sells the film, with adjectives used like 'epic' to which immediately tells the reader that this review is a positive one and that it is definitely worth watching. There is only one photo but it appears to be the main photo which clearly shows the characters and introduces you to what the genre of the film will be, I like how they have chosen an image which includes the kite as that is crucial to the film. I chose to analyse this film review because it is one of my favourite novels and I haven't seen the film, so I can look at it purely from an object point of view. This review is from a more mainstream magazine and for the more general audience, this is shown by the article being broken up into sections. It follows all the conventions.