Research and Planning: Magazine Layout

This film magazine is Empire. As you can see the layout of this magazine appears quite clustered and definitely takes advantage of all the space given from the cover. The strip across the cover of the magazine is something I won't be using myself, however I do like the technique as it causes the information being said to stand to attention. As a result of the size of the fonts and the positioning of the font, we are aware that the main subject of this issue of the magazine is going to be Harry Potter, I will take this into consideration and try and position my subject in a place where it will attract the most attention.

Once again this magazine, being Empire, fully takes advantage of the space on offer. The medium close up covers the majority of the cover, and almost completely covers the middle of the masthead. Again with the font and positioning of the font we are fully aware that the main subject is going to be Trainspotting. On either side of the picture there is a cover line, the cover lines on this cover don't really attract that much attention as the writing under the title is quite small and a skinny font, meaning it doesn't stand out as much as the rest. However this could be purposely done, as it isn't the information underneath that needs to attract the attention instead it is the main cover line. This shall be taken into consideration when it comes to the progress of my magazine.

This magazine takes a different approach than the previous two, as this is Total Film and so therefore has a completely different layout. Instead of having the medium close up sent to the front of the masthead, they have instead sent it to the back and had the featured content cover the picture. We are again made aware of the main subject through the colour and font of the 'Star Trek' and so it is this which attracts our attention. The colour on this magazine works really well together and sticks to the 3 colour rule, things I will be able to take from this magazine will include the positioning of the cover lines and the colour scheme.

This magazine is completely different to the rest of the magazines, it doesn't fill the space on offer and leaves a lot of space untouched. They have chosen to position all of the cover lines on the left hand side of the cover and push the medium long shot slightly to the right of the cover, the main subject of the cover also isn't that big and won't really attract as much attention as the masthead of the magazine will do. Overall I think this is my least favourable magazine layout of all 4.  

Research and Planning: Film Magazine to date

This is the beginning of my film magazine, as you can see I have stuck to the 3 colour rule that I had previously decided on, which was red black and white. I have made the masthead stand out fully in red on the black background, I also stuck with the font which I decided on, being American Captain, I also stuck with the font I Still Know for 'The Retribution' film title. So far I have interpreted one coverline; the additions positioned at the bottom of the cover, the positioning statement, which I positioned underneath the masthead to make it fully aware that it actually is a positioning statement. Next I plan to add a picture of the main character at a medium close up at the centre of the page, it shall also overlap the masthead slightly as I have noticed this is what is commonly done with many other film magazines. The other coverlines will be positioned to the right and left of the picture and will be in a font I think is most suitable and fitting to the rest of the magazine. Overall I want the look of this magazine to be quite an organised look yet make it appear more informal to attract a wider audience market.

Research and Planning: Potential Taglines for our Film Trailer

The idea behind this collection of film taglines is that the title of 'Retribution' ultimately represents the aspect of revenge. In our trailer the possessed girl is taking revenge on her group of friends as a result of them making her an outcast and neglecting her from their social group. Therefore to keep the tagline in touch with the title we have tried to interpret the word revenge or something that closely relates, our favorable tagline at the moment is 'no sweeter revenge' this is because, it seems quite sinister and emphasizes the strange and eerie aspect of the horror genre. The least favorable tagline is 'nothing sweeter' this is because it doesn't really have the full impact that the others have due to it being short and not giving that much away. It also isn't very clear that the tagline is the horror genre, this could mean anything, it could easily be the tagline for a child's film not a horror.

Research and Planning: Existing Film Magazine

Empire 

This magazine was first issued in 1989 and since then it has been issued every month at a price of £3.99. The typical things which you may find inside an Empire magazine are reviews, the nominees of the rewards which they host (named the Empire awards, voted by readers), film news, previews etc. A unique selling point of this magazine is that it sometimes features a classic scene, basically being a transcript from a film that will be easily recognised due to its popularity. 

Sight & Sound

This film magazine is independent and is produced by the British Film Institute. It was first published in 1932 and since then it has been published every month. As a result of it being independent magazine it features much more the Arthouse type of film as oppose to the conglomerate films which feature in Empire. Typical things to find inside of the Sight & Sound magazine would include reviews, upcoming films, film news etc. The unique selling point of this magazine is that every ten years, Sight & Sound ask film professionals to vote on their favourite films of all time. They will then publish their findings and results in a special issue of the magazine.

Total Film

This magazine was first issued in 1997 and since then has been issued every 4 weeks, at the price of £3.99. The things which could be found in each issue of this magazine the audience is offered full range interviews, photo shoots, film previews and interviews with actors and directors. This magazine is seen to be in the shadow of Empire and has been the second biggest selling film magazine in Britain for many years. The unique selling point of this film is that it has a parody page ,which mocks a recent release.

Research and Planning: Organisation of Filming through technology

These are some of the messages between myself and my group, arranging which dates we plan to film the trailer. Also discussing the mise en scene of the trailer, and what is going to be needed in order to film.

Research and Planning: I Show U, Me Working

This is just a quick I Show U video sampling some of the work which is done on the computers. I begin with uploading my prezi and show you how I would do that, throughout the video there are some mistakes made during the garage band, meaning there are small faults which are shortly sorting out, so then I could continue on doing my work. I also showed how I have done a short sound clip on garage and how I have chosen instruments and sounds which benefit my genre most.

Research & Planning: Sound Practice on Garage Band

This is just a short sound clip which I have just created as a form of practice for my score for my film I am making. I added sounds which I thought would sound quite scary therefore I added, orchestral strings, grand piano and big electric lead. Together I tried to make the sound create some suspense, which I think this sound did by being slow paced ad not too jumpy.

Research & Planning: Cover Lines for Film Magazine

Within this Prezi, I presented five possible cover line stories which could potentially appear on the front cover of my film magazine, each of these alongside the main subject of the magazine, which is my film 'The Retribution'. I may choose to alter some of these cover lines depending on whether I think the story is suiting to the final result of the film magazine, and whether it looks reasonable to the genre of the magazine. 

Research and Planning: Plan for the Week

• Cover lines for film magazine
• I Show U
• Practice on garage band
• More Social Network research
• Film Magazine layout examples
• Begin Film Magazine 
• Decide on Film Tagline

Research & Planning: Trailer improvements

After completing our mock trailer with the footage we recorded, we looked over our trailer and gathered feedback from the audience. From this research we have found that the improvements needed to be made mostly include presenting the narrative of the trailer in a much better way. We have thought that we could do this by maybe adding some additional clips, or titles and a voice over to explain what is happening throughout the trailer. Other improvements we plan to make, include filming the rest and deleting the animatic storyboard from the first draft of the trailer. We also plan to add some more sound, and making it match clearly to the trailer. We finally plan to add some more editing transitions as at the moment we don't really have that many included.

Research & Planning: Feedback from trailer.

After showing our rough copy of our trailer to the rest of our group, we gathered information in regards to what the audience thought the narrative was, what they thought the strong parts of the trailer was and any improvements that they could possibly suggest to make our trailer better. The feedback is overall very important to our group, as we want to interpret all the feedback we have been given, therefore making the experience of the trailer much more effective on the audience.

Research & Planning: Updated full trailer

Research and Planning: Trailer to date

We are yet to film the beginning of the trailer, where the students of the trailer are moving into the student home, with this they will have excessive mise en scene of luggage and other stereotypical equipment which is related to students. Other scenes yet to record are the news report and the ending of the murders, the sound also needs to be added to these scenes.