Research - Questionnaire for Trailer and Poster so far

First Final Draft

Development of Poster

By changing my font and placing of my title on the poster, the title stands out more to the audience and is more conventional to the genre of the film. The main characters are shown in the poster using direct mode of address. 

Planning - More Title Fonts

I am going to use the top font for my title instead of the previous title because I did no think that it was going to stand out enough for the title of the poster. These fonts also look better with the genre of the film that I am creating. 

Planning - Poster Development

I chose an image of the girl that died from my selection of photos that I took. I cut round the image of the girl with the magnetic lasso tool, to get rid of the background in the image. Once completed I made the image smaller so that it could fit into the size of the eye. After that I made the opacity of the image from 100% to 30%, to make it look like the girl is looking for her friend who that has died. I thought that this would be an effective way to present the poster, as it shows that there are two main characters in the film, but doesn't reveal any of the plot to the audience. 

Planning - Process of Poster Making

This is what my poster looks like so far. I have added the title 'Friends Forever' to the poster, in a font which looks like it has scratched onto the poster. I have chosen to use this font because this is what a stereotypical horror poster font looks like. 

Planning / Research - Fonts for title

Here are the two fonts that I am going to choose for my title. I have chosen them because they are quite basic looking, but could be quite effective as the title, this is because they look like a stereotypical font which could be used on a poster of a horror film. 

Planning - Narration over the trailer

Here are a few of the potential sounds that I am going to be using over my narration. I have chosen to use the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle twinkle little star', as I thought that it could be easily related to my story line. I have decided to change 'what you are' to 'where you are', because in the story line one of the young girls is dying and the girl who is still alive is wondering where her friend has gone. I am still going to get some more recordings of the young girl singing the nursery rhyme. 

Planning - Beginning of Poster

I have chosen this picture to be the main image of the poster. I have done this because it shows little emotion of the girl which could be seen as the girl being upset. I got the inspiration from the poster of 'The Woman in Black' that I analysed. The image is using direct mode of address which will engage with the audience. I have also changed the image from being a colour into black and white so that it fits in the stereotypical genre of the horror films with the black and white colour scheme. The image does not give away any of the plot of the film, just that it is to do with a young girl who looks upset about something. Therefore this poster is going to be a 'character poster', as it just contains the main protagonist. 

Here is a screen shot of Photoshop, the programme which I have done this. I have used half of the face of the girl, which brings an element of surprise to the film, and gets the audience thinking why I have not included the whole face on the poster. 

Planning / Research - Further narration development

I will be using one of the young girls to do the narration over the top of my trailer, as I feel that it would create a scarier approach to the film. I have looked at a few nursery rhymes and have decided that I am going to use ideas from'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and 'Ring a Ring o' Roses'  with it slightly edited to relate to my trailer. 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are,

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

How I wonder what you are" 

I could imagine the girl who is still alive saying this about her friend who has died, wondering where she has gone and as she is so young her parents have told her that she is in heaven in the sky. 

Ring a Ring o' Roses'

"Ring a ring o' roses

A pocket full of posies 

A-tishoo, a-tishoo

We all fall down"

Again this could be related to the death of the young girl with the majority of the poem related to them playing together and then last line 'we all fall down' could relate to her dying. 

Planning / Research - Lesson - 3rd December

I have decided that for my narration I am going to write a poem. I will using other friends poems off the internet and using nursery rhymes for inspiration and give me ideas of what to use in the poem. 

Planning - Potential Photos for Film Poster and Magazine Cover

Research - Hide and Seek - Poster Textual Analysis

TEASER POSTER - Contains basic information but does not reveal any of the plot to the audience and introduces one of the characters to the audience.