Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Flat Plan for 'Empire' Magazine Cover


This week I have been working on our groups magazine cover, so I have done a draft sketch of what our magazine will look like, demonstrating where I feel the text is best aligned and what picture shot I feel will look best for the magazine. I am going to do another flat plan of this tonight before I start to create this magazine cover on Photoshop.  It is best to ensure that you create a flat plan for such type of media so when you come to actually doing it in Photoshop it is much easier as you already know what needs to be where and you have a vivid idea of how everything should look. Being organised minimises the time that you spend on creating something and as I only have until next Friday to complete this, creating a flat plan was a good idea.

The Products I Used



I have created a slideshow on the products that I used in order to create this look. http://slide.ly/view/6b1d866d2b15572a5a9f56269cb2f127
Asha Maria Pinder's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Friday, 24 January 2014

Meaning Behind 'Chained Souls'

Out of the Two...

Me and Shria, used the words from our mind map and came up with 7 potential film names, we then asked 8 different people what film title they like and the top three names were; ‘where evil lives’, ‘eternal darkness’ and ‘chained souls’. We then collectively as group selected the two titles we liked the most out of the three. That was 'Chained Souls' and 'Eternal Darkness'.

Coming up with a name

Even though overdue my group and I were really uninspired and could not find a title for our horror film trailer. Yesterday, myself and Shria created a mind map with a list of words that relate to our film with the help of an online thesaurus. The screen shot below shows the brainstorm we created as well as print screens of us using the online thesaurus.

Researching titles of other ghost horror films

As are horror film features ghost it only made sense for me to research into real media texts similar to ours so that we could be inspired to find a name for our horror trailer. I was inspired by some names and their concept. For example the use of having nightmare in the title I quite liked and thought was quite simplistic, as well as the word darkness or dark.

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Fonts for Trailer

One of the members of my group, whose main role is editing has been researching into real media texts to analyse what kinds of fonts they use as well as using DaFont to find an appropriate font for our trailer