A2 Media Studies: Research and Planning

Friday, 2 March 2012

Film Poster Research

I've finished designing my magazine front cover and now I've got to design a film poster for my trailer. I've done some research and have looked at some film posters to see if they can help in how doing them and what elements I will have to add to my film poster.

Film Poster
A film poster is a piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or in any vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. They advertise the film and the actors and actresses.
They are usually found around the streets, on billboards, bus stops, underground, buses, etc.

Example of Film Posters

As you can see these are film posters from recent films, they usually include a main picture with the main actor or someone important from the film and then the film title covering the picture at the bottom, they sometimes add a tagline around the film poster usually at the top or underneath the film title. They always add the release date, and some information about the companies involved in the making of the film.
For my film poster I will be adding a main picture of Kate Burden, one of the main characters from the trailer, it'll be dark and scary linking to the genre of horror, I will add the film title at the bottom with the date and naming the actors and actresses involved in the film, a tagline at the top making the poster more eye catching and I will be editing the picture to make it look more scary and more professional looking.

Monday, 5 December 2011

Film Magazines

Part of our media coursework is not only creating a film trailer but also designing a front cover magazine for our trailer. I've been doing some research with different film magazine companies. This helps as it gives me an idea of how I can create my film magazine.

Empire
Empire is a British film magazine published by Bauer Consumer Media, edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap; their first issue was in July 1989, meaning the magazine has been around Britain for a long time now. It's the biggest selling film magazine in Britain with a circulation of 194,016 per year. Empire organises the Empire Awards which is sponsored by Sony Ericsson and Jameson.

Front Covers

Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound is a film magazine that publishes every month by the BFI (British Film Institute). It was first published in 1932. The magazine is edited by Nick James, inculding film reviews, releases each month, art house releases, the magazine also features a full cast and crew credit list for each reviewed film.

Front Covers

The front covers from these two different magazine companies will help me to design my own film magazine, for my upcoming horror trailer. It gives me ideas in how to place the title, subheading and the writing all around the front cover, it also gives me an idea of how the picture can look and how the writing and picture blend well together by the techniques used.
Last year I created my own music magazine, so I've got a rough idea on how to create my new film magazine, however, film magazines are slightly different than music magazines, so these front covers are a good example on how I can design my film front cover magazine.