Magazine cover improvements

I have altered the brightness of Andy's face and also made the writing at the bottom more visible.

Improved magazine cover

Magazine cover ideas

This is another idea I had for my magazine cover.

 

Questionnaire

This is the questionnaire that I will be handing out after I have uploaded some shots onto my blog.

Genre

Genre theory from EmHall

Editing and Questionnaire

I will soon be posting parts of my trailer that I have filmed and I am going to ask my target audience questions to see what features work better than others before I film more scenes.

Magazine cover progress

Here is a image of the first stages of producing my magazine cover for a film magazine which includes my horror trailer.

Front cover of magazine- ancillary

This lesson I have started the cover of a magazine which is advertising my trailer, I am looking at the covers of Empire magazine which are about horror films, this is so I can see the typical conventions and colour schemes used. Empire magazine will be my style model.

German Expressionism

German Expressionism was a creative movement in the 1920s in Germany before WW1. The economic misfortune meant that filmmakers found it hard to create films which could compare with the extravagant Hollywood releases. German filmmakers used their own creativity to come up with their own style of filming which involved symbolism and the use of Mis-en-scene to add mood and atmosphere to the film. The first expressionist films were made up of their low budgets by using set designs and wildly non-realistic geometrically absurd sets, along with designs painted on walls and floors to represent lights, shadows and objects. The plots and stories of the expressionist films often dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal and other intellectual topics. Horror films were especially influenced by expressionism.
The use of shadows meant that the film could have a deeper meaning, the shadows represented mysteries, this is one of the conventions of a slasher film. This technique has been used in many famous fims such as Psycho when Norman Bates' blurred image  is seen from behind the shower curtain.