Poster Ideas/Designs

Our next task was to sketch our own designs for our Posters and Websites we will be creating ourselves.

Firstly I collected various existing horror background images from the internet, i added different fonts to my preferred choice and played around with the colours and positioning of the text to help me with ideas for my Poster i will be taking photos for and creating myself.









I drew some of my designed layouts for posters, below are 3 layouts I have designed for my poster

On the first poster idea, i spoke about why i placed each section where it was, what it was there and how it would be effective towards the audience.







Lastly i looked a certain colour schemes which previous horror genre posters use. Researching this will help me when deciding with my design of my own poster.

Site Map

After analysing my websites, I drew a site map of each website. A site map is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. Drawing a site map will help me understand the typical navigation used when I create my website for my own film.
Here is an example of a typical existing site map



I looked at the site map for the website for 'Sorority Row' and made my own site map of the site.


I also looked at the website for 'Friday 13th', I chose this as this was a slightly different site map to 'Sorority Row' website.

Summary Of Analysis

After analysing, I summarised my findings from analysing trailers, posters and websites of a chosen genre.

Trailers:
5 typical conventions used in trailers for horror films:
- Close up camera shots to create realism of actions
- Extreme/Long shots to set scenery and help create genre
- Dark, dull, shadowing lighting
- Unnatural camera angles - birds eye view etc.
- Main colours used: black, red for blood and gore, grey, white, brown, orange, blue

Posters:
- Dull backgrounds (usually black) with large bold bright coloured writing, to catch audiences attention straight away
- Information telling audience date when film is out in cinemas
- Use of imagery from the film, for example the house and the girl on 'the last house on the left'
- Use of dark dull colouring, bright lettering that stands out against background.
- Characters names mentioned on posters near bottom or in corners

Websites:
- Additional information such as: galleries, history, plot etc.
- Links to pages/websites such as facebook and twitter, where users can share the website to a wider audience
- Logo/name of insitution producing film mentioned/placed on website
- Use of dark dull colouring and bright lettering to stand out.
- Link to trailer/trailer placed in website

Analysing Websites

Our next task was to analyse websites of our choice of films. I chose to analyse the websites for Friday the 13th, Saw 3D and Paranormal Activity.

Analysing Film Posters

For our next task we were asked to analyse posters for films. I chose to analyse the genre of horror as again, it links to my film idea.
Below I have analysed the posters for the films: Saw 3D, Last House on the Left and Case 39.