Poster and Magazine Plans

Magazine
Planning the poster and magazine cover was quite simple as we had done lots of research into the conventions of both of them. Our biggest challenge was choosing the images to use. Once we decided on our layout and image we arranged with our actress, Rosie, a suitable time and place to photograph her.

We began to make the magazine cover by fist designing a plan on paper. I drew out an idea of how the cover would look and labelled it with specific conventions. We chose to name the magazine 'Grande Films'. For this we took inspiration from various other film magazines we had looked at. We found that many of the biggest and most successful ones had simple yet powerful words, such as 'Empire' and 'Total Film'.

As you can see from the plans, we decided to use a red masthead as we feel it is very effective in creating a bold and eye catching title. This colour also connotes danger and against a black background we feel will also make for a dark and therefore suitable cover for a horror issue.

Poster
We went about designing the Poster in the same way by first writing down our key ideas in the form of mind maps and a diagram on a large sheet of paper. These paper plans will allow us a helpful visual aid when it comes to creating them on Adobe Photoshop.

We have chosen to use a colour scheme of black and grey, as this links to the colours in our trailer. We took inspiration again from other film posters in particular 'The Woman In Black 2' which shows both character types (antagonist and protagonist) and a similar colour scheme.