Teaser Billboard and Theatrical Posters

These were the first posters created for "hidden productions" , These are teaser posters that just give the audience a hint of whats to come. These were created on Indesign and Photoshop using layers of image and texts.Using images of the caravan for the main focus of the posters gives the audiences a idea of the location and setting of the film. This tells them it will be in a woodland/abandoned area. The idea of the teaser is not to give the whole film away and to keep the audience intrigued in the run up to the films release. We believe the billboard and theatrical teasers have done this really effectively and have defiantly made it look like a horror film which will be worth watching.


Billboard teaser poster

theatrical teaser poster

Magazine and Subscribers Edition Cover Designs

Here is the magazine cover , this was create using potoshop. To create this magaizne cover we started with cutting around one of the best images from  the magazine shoot. There were many to choose from but we wanted one that fited into the horror theme and as you can see in this image she is looking over her shoulder as if someone is whatching her which is typical the the slasher horrors. Below you can see the images from the shoot we had to choose from.

 After looking at the all the images we chose the one on the bottom left. So using layers on Photoshop we cut it out and placed we on a black background the added a bold title in the hidden colors red,white and black. Next we added the behind the scene caravan location images and Cover lines  for the cover-lines I made them the same font as the billing bars on the posters as it was a really nice clear font to read and using them on both combines  them all together. then i added the "hidden title" in a bold red to stand out and included and white glow just like the hidden title in the trailer. Next I added the "50 page pull out" sticker then the bar code , for these I stuck to the same font themes and colors  To Finnish off I added the small details like the tag line and web address and the plus sign to make it just like empire the film magazine .




The other magazine copy is a subscribers edition , these normally include less information then normal covers which I have done to ours. I have used a close up image and darken the eye using the burn and highlight tool on Photoshop, I then layered the title empire and hidden tiles using the same ones as on the previous poster to keep the continuity. I then copy and pasted the cover lines just adjusting the positions of the text to suite the new cover. lastly i added the sticker, plus sign and bar-code to make it look like an authentic cover.

Once showing our classes they loved all the posters and were really impressed with our outcomes we also changed all the spellings that were incorrect and took the classes advise and left centered all the cover lines on the 2 covers , you can see the results below.

Corrected Final Copy of Magazine Cover

Corrected Final Copy of Subscribers Edition

Theatrical Poster

This is the theatrical poster for our film "Hidden" again created by using lots of layers on Photoshop  this poster is the main one so it needed to be really eye catching ,effective and strong. This poster is there to tell the audience some of the story ,give you ideas about the plot and vital information about the film. We tried our best to make this poster the most complex with the right sort of image and including the right information. To start we darkened the eye by using the burn and highlighter tool to make it more horror like , then we added the image in the eye which is infact this image from the trailer.

This is a very j horror type of thing to do and its similar to "The Grudge" and "The eye" posters . After this we layered the caravan which is one of the shots from our location shoot, then in Photoshop we used the "darken" blending tool to give it this effect as it matches the dark color of the eye and tells the audience where the trailer is set . Next we layered in the the billing form we created , the casts names along the top also in the same text as the billing form to make it connect, the "Hidden" film title which is also the same font but we made it taller and spaced it out more. Then added the sub heading which is our film slogan which is featured on other of our texts.  Lastly we added the sun and film 4 star ratings which we created by using the star shape paint brush ,these ratings are on many film posters so it made ours more professional and also gives the audience a hint that other people think its a great watch and may persuade the viewer.

After showing the class the theatrical poster they were really impressed and thought they were really effective and horror like, they couldn't suggest anything to change but pointed out some missed spelling mistakes, these were then corrected and the final correct copy can be seen below.


Corrected Final Copy of Theatrical Poster

Billboard Poster

This is our billboard poster, again created using Photoshop. To create this we have used layering image and text, to start we darkened the eyes and drained the color of the image to make it more horror like, then we added the image you can see below which is a shoot from the trailer into the mail images eye,

I then gently used the rubber and burn tool to make it look more effective , we think this its worked really well it looks spooky and has quite an impact. Next we added the title which is the same font as the billing form , then the cast list alone the top of the poster and then inserted the billing form, to finish i added the star raitingds which can be seen on the other posters also. we are really proud of this poster and believe it is just like a horror/slasher poster.

Once showing this to the class for feedback they couldn't see anything to make it better apart from correcting the few odd spelling mistakes which we have corrected and the results cant be seen bellow,

Corrected Final Copy of Billboard Poster

Lesson- Monday 25th March 2013

In todays lesson we have been working on Evaluation Question 1. Here are some screenshots of what we have done so far.

Trailer- Final Cut

Here is the final cut of our trailer.

logos

Once deciding which sort of style logo we want to create we used Photoshop to create a variety of logos to then decide which ones best, as ours was set in a forest we used tress on many of the logos to fit in with the location of our horror trailer. we made many different logos using two of the 3  colors related to "hidden productions"  and the same font as we used in the billing form for the posters. After creating we decided which one was best, below you can see all  the different logos.

This is the logo we choose to use.