Film Review Progress 3

As I got the Journalism and updated it, I could now begin adding text to my film review. Here I added text and colour to my Film Review. I have also included the title of the film, a tagline and a PG age to add more conventions and make it more presentable to the reader.

Film Poster Progress 2

Following the design of our layout, James (who is in charge of making the film poster) has now added many of the conventions onto the film poster. He has added the masthead, tagline, date and actor names. There are still a few basic things to do such as the baseline.






































As you can see, he has followed the colour scheme well which is red, black and white - a colour scheme we agreed on from our pitch of the print products as we felt that this dark colour palette would represent the film well. Also, if you look very clearly you can see a picture of our film character - Slender Man on the lense of the camera. This idea was taken from a film poster used in both the pitch and one of my case studies - Rear Window.

Film Poster Progress 1

As James is making the Film Poster, I have not been able to provide as much up-to-date progress pictures however he has starting making the poster. Using one of the pictures from our photoshoot, James has added the image onto Adobe Photoshop and set it as the background. He has already saturated the image so it would match our monochrome colour scheme. Also, by choosing a picture of the actor with a camera it shows we have thought about iconography throughout the pieces as a picture of the photographer holding the camera is also used in my film review - this represents the importance of the camera in our film.

Changes to the Journalism

I have added changes to the Journalism Romana had produced for me as I felt it was too long to fit into the film review. So in order to fix this, I have shortened some parts, removed parts I felt were unnecessary and also double checked to correct any grammar mistakes which I found.

Journalism for Film Review

In order to progress in my Film Review, I needed Journalism which was an important part of it.
Romana was in charge of the Journalism and sent me this piece to include into my Film Review.

Film Review - Progress 2

Lately in my Film Review I have been thinking about the different conventions and implementing them into my own Film Review. Using inspiration from the film review case studies, I have began to include conventions such as the masthead, star rating, page numbers, subscriptions, issue date and other branding to make my film review look more authentic.

Film Review - Progress 1

Today, I began to add images to my Film Review. To do this, I have to add the images I wanted to use and import them into Adobe Indesign. I used one image from my photography and two still images from the film. It was not as easy as it seemed however as I had to resize the pictures without making it look stretched - especially the main image. To do this, I cropped it a bit which did help. 

For the still images, I wanted to include a Gutter like in the First Case Study I done - Hummingbird. To do this I created a white box and layered it under the still image.

Film Poster Layout

This is the layout we plan to use to make the film poster. It lays out the conventions and placement of everything on the film poster we will make which allows us to have an idea of what it would look like. James will be making the film poster.

Film Review Layout

As I am in charge of doing the Film Review, I have laid out how I want my film review to look in Indesign.
I have mainly used the rectangle tool and this would allow me to add images and measured out my columns using the margin.

I have also labeled each section to remind myself what I will be including in that section.

Print Product Group Pitch

What the audience liked:

• The layout of the rough film poster I had created and placed onto the prezi.
• The colour scheme, in general the audience that it did compliment each other well and suited the genre of horror.

Action Points:

• Do a studio photoshoot as a location shoot would be too difficult to edit.
• As we are doing a studio photoshoot, we should create a photography call sheet.
• Take into account that conventions such as the masthead should be bigger within the film poster.
• Design the layout of film review and film poster.
• For the film poster, use font 1 (the first font we displayed on the 'fonts we could use' page)

Implementation:

• I will create the photography call sheet.
• The whole group will go to the photoshoot to set up lighting and take different camera shots.
• I will be creating the film review so I need to do the layout of that whilst James needs to do the layout of the film poster.

How useful was this feedback:

• This feedback was useful because we were able to ask the audience about the fonts they liked best. This allowed us to plan ahead when making the film poster.
• We got confirmation from the audience that our colour scheme was good so we will be using them in both print products which would allow us to have a clear colour scheme we have stuck throughout our film and print products.

Pitch for Magazine Poster & Review