Film Review Magazines

I want to make my review page realistic, to do this I want to use a real film magazine name on the page. I researched different film review magazines.

'Empire' is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. 

It is the biggest selling film magazine in the United Kingdom and is also published in the United States, Australia, Turkey, Russia, and Portugal .It reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former.

Total Film is a UK-based film magazine published 13 times a year by Future Publishing.The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers cinema, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. Total Film is available both in print and interactive iPad editions.

I prefer the Total Film layout to the Empire layout, I will suit my film more. Total Film is UK based so it suits my film. My film will come under the type of an art film as its a short film made by an independent company. I will use 'Total film' as my films review page and set it out similar to other examples from Total films review pages e.g. spiderman 2.

My Film Poster Comments

I printed out my current film poster and passed it around my media class and asked for them to add their own comments so I can develop my film poster.

I decided after analysing my film poster I wanted to change a few small aspects. I didn't like how it said the word 'stress' twice on the poster, in the title and tagline. I thought I should either changed the tagline or the layout to make it look better. I decided to see what it would look like if I placed the tagline above the title. I changed the tagline to 'the alleviation of ...' to continue on to the title to finish the tagline. The other idea was to change my tagline completely but after brainstorming again I decided I'd rather keep it the same. This is my final film poster and I got rid of the extra word 'stress' so it doesn't distract the reader.

I used 'pic monkey' to make my film poster by adding layers like text, photos and logos. 

FINAL FILM POSTER:

Final Film Poster

Photos on my Film Poster

The next step to completing my film poster is to choose my 6 screenshots/photos from the film. I wanted each photo to represent/show a different hobby and all the photos to look different and have bright colours to show my main character happiness. I wanted a photo for:

• dance
• art
• dog walking
• holidays
• friends 

Below are some of the photos I chose from:

 

 

After looking through all the photo I took I decided on six. 

 

 

1.I chose this one as I think it is a good photo to show what she does when she gets home from school and does homework.

 

2.It was difficult to take photos of my character dog walking as I couldn't get 'Beth' and her dog in every photo and in focus as they were moving in the shot.

3.Dance was as difficult as the dog walking photo as in all the photos they are all slightly blurred but I thought the photo above showed her position nicely whilst having movement in the photo. 

4.I chose to have this photo to represent her passion for art as is sitting in her usual position (on her bed) sketching.

5.I chose this photo to represent 'Beth's' friends as she went to

London with her best friend 'Sophie' weekend. They went city seeing around the city and I caught this as they were near the Big Ben and thought it portrayed their friendship nicely.

6.As I filmed 'Beth' when she went abroad on holiday I took many effective photos and had the most photos out of all the hobbies. I found this hobby the hardest to choose as I liked all the phtos for different reasons. BUt in the end I chose this photo as it is action shot of her swimming under water and shows 'Beth's' interests as she loves the water.

Drafts of my Film Poster

I had an idea in my head of what I wanted my film poster to look like as I took inspiration from previous teen film posters. I wanted to include:

• screenshots to my film, not giving the film away but enticing the audience to watch it.
• big title to make it clear what film it is.
• near the title I wanted my slogan/tagline for my film.

 

 

Draft 1:

I used the layout of having the 6 photos at the top and the title, slogan and credits nearer the bottom. This was inspired by 'Confessions of a teen age drama queen' as she uses a similar layout but has colourful writing which I am not interested in using. I used the font 'Eraser Dust' which I like as it looks like someone has sketched it and relates to my character liking art. I used the font 'mossy' which I really like but it doesn't have the choice in making the font bold. Which is annoying as it is hard to read which isn't good to for a film poster as you need easy fonts to read from a far. 

 

Draft 2:

I decided to make another style of my film poster and changed the layout of where every section goes. I placed the title at the top as I think conventionally it is the best place to be to draw in the audience. I changed the font colour to a light grey but I prefer the darker grey as it stands out more. I placed the 6 screenshots/photos from the film underneath the title to give an brief insight to the film. I added the slogan/tagline under the photos in the 'mossy' font to test it out. But it doesn't allow you to make the font bold as it can come across slightly faint and wouldn't look effective on a large scale as its not easy to read. I kept the same credits as I think it fits the conventions of a teen/documentary film poster and looks effective on small and large scales.

 

Draft 3:

 I kept the same position of the title from the second draft as it was the most effective layout. I changed the colour from light grey to dark grey as it stands out more. I realised after making this draft that 'releivement' isn't the right word to use. I still thought the use of the 'courier new' font was good as it is what I use in my film. There is a blank space in between for where the 6 photos will be positioned. I want each photo to represent a hobby. I kept the same credits but need to change the first line as there shouldn't be an 'a' to start the line off as it will not make sense. 

 

 

Draft 4:

 The only thing I changed on my whole film poster draft was the slogan of the film and changed the word 'relievement' to 'alleviation'. 'Alleviation' is a better word to use as it can mean relief, freedom and release which are good words to use relating to stress. The next steps as I have chosen this draft as my final draft I need to add 6 screenshots/ photos summing up and not giving away the film idea.

Draft of Short Film

I realised after watching the film and uploading it to Youtube, I wanted to change a few things e.g. spelling mistakes and adding in two more clips.

Start of my film-Title

After starting my film poster and researching how I want the title of my film, I really took a liking to it and want it in my short film. On final cut pro they have a wide range of fonts but didn't have the font 'Eraser dust' which I found on pic monkey. I didn't think it would be very professional to have didn't styles of font for the film and the film poster. I want to have a film identity to brand my film and market it successfully. To do this I need my film to have a memorable title.

I found it difficult to get the title from my film poster on my film. I finally understood how to do it. I opened my film poster which is still being edited on the school iMacs on preview and cropped just the title from the poster and saved it separately. I imported on to final cut pro on my film and added it to the start of the film. I added a white background but it didn't match my title background. I edited the background and changed the colour from 'Smokey' to bright white'.

Final poster after changing the background:

Choosing a transition:

To make the title to move I had to select the transition and overlap it on the photo. I like three different transitions:

• puzzle- is a transition where the title is split into three and the first part joins from the left and then the middle from the bottom and the rest from the right and then doesn't the same.
• spin- is a transition where it moves the title very fast, it circles around in till straightening up in the middle.
• rotate- is a similar transition to the spin transition but is one full circle which is much slower.

In conclusion I decided to use the puzzle transition as it is very simple but effective and the title stays on the screen long enough to read without being too long or too short.

I have recently changed it again and found a different transition and title to start the film which looks more professional. I let my peers see the beginning and see what they though. 'Vicky' though it would look better with one of the final cut pro template so this is what i did.