BH - Poster design stage 1

BH - Poster Design STAGE 1

Thinking ahead to target audience and marketing, I've spent afew hours desiging and creating posters of diffrent design, exploring the use of fonts to create a relevant poster, I wanted something simplistic that really gave a clear message to the audience, something that would attract viewers, so to start with I played around with some fonts in Microsoft Paint, downloading them from http://www.dafont.com/

So heres what I came up with at first:

• However I thought that the 'Torment' font looked too horror esq and maybe too gothic for a psychological thriller. So I worked again on the fonts, searching and in the end I chose to use the font I used for the 'Dreamscape' for the 'Torment' aswell, a serif font gives the implication of horror quite strongly as a title font.

• So with my fonts sorted and decided upon I scoured google with something I could use as a place-holder image, something I could use just to check how it looked in reality on diffrent backgrounds.

heres my first attempt:

• It's simple and the knife gives a slight hint at the plot, the text is easy to read with a nice clear white background, however my initial thoughts where it seemed horror esq, however initial feedback given via Facebook seemed to be posative, aside from the fact it appears the knife is lodged in bread. Here is some initial feedback...from the poster the genre was correctly guessed.

• So for my next attempt I decided to try something more complex and psychological in focus rather than physical.

So using some art from the band TOOL I  produced this:

• However I was unhappy with the level of detail in this image so I got hold of a higher resolution version, once again to test how it might look, checking diffrent image types to see how we might compare and emulate them in the final finished poster.

My next attempt:

• I did like the image, but I felt that it was too dark and it lacked the appear and 'look at me' nature of the initial blood splatter and knife poster so I managed to make one final attempt on the poster design.

 Here it is:

I personally liked this poster design however initial feedback from the target audience on it was slightly less warm:

CO - Vodcast feedback

Our first vodcast was tried and tested on different people to gather a few different reactions. Here were some of them

• The spot could have been better, as there isn't much space, influencing the shot. Also, we filmed it in a fairly public place, meaning a few people entered the vicinity during our shooting, causing a disruption
• The audio could have been louder, because at some points, the speaker is too quiet as we were quite far away from the camera
• We could have focussed more, and we get distracted a few times
• However, there were some very interesting points made concerning our influences and inspirations
• This informative dialogue was relevant to our production

Feedback from Facebook.

ALL - Vodcast 1

CC - First vodcast shot

We have just finished shooting our first vodcast in which we discuss our influences in filming such as American Psycho, Donnie Darko and The Shining. We talked about the themes in the films and why we have taken influence from the films. We plan to upload the footage tomorrow. I also wore a hat as well that made me look like a christmas theif.

CC, CO - Music Additions

As a group we have decided that we want to add in music to our rough cut and our first vodcast.

For our vodcast we have added the song Djent Satisfaction by Monarchist, we used this music because there are no vocals so it provides some adequate background music while we talk about our influences.

For our roughcut we have been brainstorming the following songs as we think they are suitable for a psychological thriller

• Ripe with Decay by Nine Inch Nails
• Rammstein by Rammstein
• Driver Down by Trent Reznor
• Samsara by Parkway Drive
• Djent Satisfaction by Monarchist
• Jetpacks was Yes! by Periphery

CC - Idents complete

The two idents for our  group have now been completed, Experimental Studios and Weathered productions.

For the Weathered productions ident we chose to have a fog background and a serif font. For the audio we chose a heavy rain soundtrack and for the last second or so a loud thunder clap, we chose to do this because it related the name of the production company.

For Experimental studios we used a very metal audio like clanging and bashing, we chose this to simulate a frequent audio in psychological thrillers when the main character is descending into madness. In the background we also had sharp sci fi themed background.

CO - Filming updates

We plan to film additional material at Ben's house on Sunday 6th February. These scenes will include valuable connections between the scenes in the rough cut, making them more clearer as to what they mean. The filming will take place at dusk, so we have a bit of natural light to use, but we can also wait for the darkness to arrive so we can film outside.