Planning for Magazine cover/ Film poster!

fonts

Adobe Arabic italic 

Arial rounded MT bold

Century schoolbook

Constantia

Gabriola

Handwriting Dakota

Herculanum

Imprint MT shadow

Lucida calligraphy

Marker felt

Trajan pro bold

Zapfino 

colour schemes 


magazine

from my target audience results, i found out that they wanted the magazine colours to be quite bold reds and yellows, so for my samples i tried mixing a few together.
i feel the top one and the middle one will be the ones that are the boldest and the ones that will be the most eye catching.

film poster

for my film poster my target audience said they wanted dark colours like greys,  again i mixed a few colours together.
i think the second and the last one's are the best so i will most likely use them. 

Layout plan for magazine

 

for my magazine i will have a big bold masthead at the top of the page, this will be the first thing the audience see's so it needs to be eye catching.
i will have a big image in the centre of the page, this will be in the optical area so its thing that is viewed the most, i will have the 3 main characters, but have the girl in the middle and the boys either side of her.
at the bottom of the page i will have a cover line which will match the image, this will be the main story in the magazine, this also needs to be bold and eye catching for the audience. 

layout plan for film poster

for my film poster im having the film title at the top of the page, it needs to be big and bold to catch the audiences attention as its the first thing they see.
im having the main image in the centre of the page, this is what the audience will look at the most, in the image im having the girl and one of the boys, then for in the background of the poster its going to have part of the setting and then the other boy will be there too.
at the bottom of the page im going to have the film slogan, its going to be small but clear. its smaller than the title because its not the most important thing on the page.

Actors

Robyn playing Dani                                   Joe playing Jake                                      Ben playing Olly

Production Plan for trailer!

Locations: back roads of march, neale-wade, march town, house

Costumes: everyday clothes, casual, neutral make up

Props: car, knife/gun, phones, everyday items,

Equipment: video camera, tripod

Characters/casting: Robyn as the girl (Dani ) Ben as the boy killed (Olly)   Joe as the other boy (Jake)

script:

Dani: I love you 

Jake: I love you too babe.

Dani: (smiling) you mean the world to me

Jake:  nothing could ruin what we have (hugs dani)

Olly: (bumping into dani) ooo im sorry, didn’t see you there

Dani: no no its ok its my fault, I wasn’t looking.

Olly: im olly by the way (smiling and holding out a hand)

Dani: I cant do this jake. I just don’t think its working anymore

Jake: theres someone else isn’t there, I saw you with him.

Dani: I just don’t know where my heart is right now jake. (teary eyed)

Jake: (hits olly with his car) what you get for destroying my life mate. (angry)

Olly:  (slowly) she never loved you!

Jake: she always loved me and always will! (drives off)

Dani: (crying) why does everything in my life become a disaster? One thing that was going for me, and this happens!

Jake: i did it.

Dani: how could you do this to me? Why would you do this to me? If you really loved me you’d want me to be happy. You’ve ruined everything!

Jake: im so sorry, I was being selfish, I wanted you for myself.

Dani: (angry) im going to make him pay, he deserves whats coming for him!

Dani: (driving to jake) this is wrong , but has to be done, he ruined everything!

Dani: (barging in the house) jake? Jake? Where are you?

Jake: (walking down stairs) dani? What are you doing here?

Dani: (stabs/shoots jake) that’s why im here!

story board:















Shot list:

Shot number	location	Scene
1, 2, 3 and 4	School car park	Dani and Jake together being shown as a couple. Holding hands, cuddling, being ‘cute’
5		Black screen with text saying ‘when you’re in a relationship’
6, 7 and 8	Town	Dani bumping into olly, instant chemistry
9		Black screen with text saying ‘but meet someone new’
10, 11, 12	Town	Jake seeing dani with olly and getting jealous
13		Black screen saying ‘everything changes’
14, 15, 16	House	Dani deciding she in love with olly, she breaks up with jake.
17, 18, 19, 20	March road	Jake gets in his car and kills olly by running him over.
21, 22, 23	House	Dani crying and being a wreck
24		Black screen saying ‘you have the hardest decisions to make’
25, 26, 27	house	Jake confessing to dani
28, 29	house	Dani holding knife/gun
30		Black screen saying ‘yes or no?’
31, 32, 33 , 34	roads	Dani going to jakes house
35, 36, 37	House	Dani killing jake
38, 39		Film title shown with main actors names
40		Release date

focus group!

    

Which of these posters do you prefer and why?
Would you go see the film from the poster?
What attracts you to it?    
Whats the best feature on it?     
Whats the worst thing about it?        
How would you change it to make it better?
I asked 8 people and the majority of them preferred poster number 2, they said they preferred it because the red in the second poster stands out alot more than in the first poster. they said that the red was an important part because its called red riding hood so it needed to be standing out.
everybody said that they would go see the film from seeing the poster, they said this is because it looks quite scary and that its a modern take on the old fairytale.
People said that the best feature was the editing and the composition of the poster. They said that it makes the girl look vunerable and that its quite scary looking.
The worst part about the poster is that there is no actor names, so people dont know whos going to be in the film, most of the people i asked would prefer to see a film which has actors that they know of. 
The way for it to be improved is by having the actors names on the poster and having another character on it too.   
  
                                                    
Which of these magazine covers do you prefer and why?
Would you read the magazine from seeing the front cover?
What attracts you to it?
Whats the best feature?
Whats the worst feature?
What would you change to make it better?
I asked the same 8 people i asked for the poster. The most of them said that they prefer magazine cover number 2, they said they liked it more because there is 3 people on the cover, rather than just the one which is on the other. 
Most of the people said that they wouldnt read the magazine from seeing the front cover, they said this because it looks bland and boring, the colours arent very bold and there isnt much information on it.
The only thing that attracted people to the magazine is that it has justin timberlake on the front cover, he is a well known singer and he has just started to act properly. 
The worst part of the magazine is that it has a plain white background and there isnt much colour on it. 
To make the magazine better people said to have more colour and to have more writing on the page. 

target audience results!

The results for my target audience for the trailer are as follows...

- The age range has been mainly between 17 and 19 years but it was closely followed by 14 - 16 years. 

- The gender that was most common were females.

- People tend to watch drama films every 2 weeks.

- The favourite sub genre was romance tragedy/ action 

- The length of trailer preferred was 1 - 2 minutes.

- People prefer to see not very much text throughout the trailer.

- The text they want to see is the film name, main actors and release date.

- They would rather have a female lead.

- They want music played underneath the voices.

- They type of sound wanted is dramatic sounds.

The results for my target audience for the magazine cover and film poster...

- The best feature on the film poster is the actors.

- Main preference of colours for the poster are darker colours like greys.

- They would like to see 2 main characters on the poster.

- People dont want the magazine to match the film poster.

- On the magazine cover people want to see actors, a masthead and a cover line  

- Colours wanted on the magazine are red, black and yellow. 

- People prefer more text to images on the front cover too.

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