Inspirational Masks, Idea For Final Piece

The reason that I have put this on my blog is because I find these masks inspirational as they will help me, aid me in finding what sort of mask people find scary and what people like to see in horror trailer.

In this short video we see a lot of popular masks though out the film industry, in my film trailer I would like to have a mask in there as it will hide the identity. I will be going on the internet and searching for a mask, not any mask though I will be searching around the internet until I feel like I find something that has not been used before, and something that will still scare the audience when they watch the trailer, because in the long run that is the whole aim of the horror industry.

Possible Movie Trailers to Reconstruct

                                                              Lesbian Vampire Killers

                                                                          Psycho

Lesbian Vampire Killers was the first horror trailer that I thought of when I was told that I had to reconstruct a film trailer that already exists. The reason that this was the first film that came into my head was becasue of the simplicity of the film, it had really bad reviews as it was a film not taken seriously, so I feel like that is something that I can achieve. In relation to this, this is why I have also chosen Physco, not for the bad reviews and what people thought of the film, more the date of the film and what was available at that time, so this is why I feel like I can try and recreate what is in this film trailer.

Inspirational Posters

 These above are posters from the movie staring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman called The Strangers. The reason that these are inspirations to my posters is the fact they are hidden identity, that the main characters are oblivious to what is surrounding them. The bottom poster of this film is clever as they are inspired by the earlier days of film posters. The fact that you can see the creases in the poster and the colour scheme. In addition to this people thought at that time that these films were more realistic than people do these days. As the film was distributed in 2008, comparing too The Purge: Anarchy which came out this year (2014).Where they have placed the tagline, I will try and follow that convention as I think it looks professional, not only that but it is easily visible for the audiences as it is eye line level and the correct font size.

 These two poster again above are also inspirations because of the hidden identity, these posters are similar in that sense, although they have totally different colour schemes, I think both of them work well in different ways. I will bare this in mind when I am creating my promotion package poster. The reason I find the hidden identity theme because I believe in the theory that you find what you can't explain more terrifying rather when you see it for example.
The certain points that I find really interesting and exciting from the horror posters is mainly the color scheme and the general layout of the images, this is something that I want to replicate in my horror poster. The elements of these posters that I do not like and that I will not be replicting are the amount of the characters that are represented on the poster, what I would do is something like the last photo on the page, the close up of the antagonist in The Purge.

Written proposal of my Product

In my A2 coursework for media, I am creating a promotion package, from this, this will include three tasks. There is one task that is compulsory, and this is creating a trailer, the trailer that we have to create is one that is already out. What we have to do is replicate that trailer in the best way we can do so. This is the reason that I have chosen horror as my coursework genre, because it would be increadbly hard to replicate for example films like Star Wars and Transformers. The other two tasks we have to do we had a choice in what task to do. The choice was between:
A website homepage for the film
A film magazine front cover, featuring the film
A poster for the film
I have chosen the poster for the film, as I think that I could do this to the best of my ability, and with the best of my ability I feel like I will be able to reach a good grade to bump my final grade up.
The image below is a screenshot of something I would like to aspire too.
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AS Coursework Reflection

Within my first year at college I was asked to create certain parts of a magazine for my coursework. I was asked to create a front cover, a contents page and a double page spread. So as you can guess this above is my final pieces of that coursework. I got a E grade in my coursework, so I was not only disappointed with the grade, but how my final products finished. I found photoshop really difficult to use and adapt to last year and this is proven in the pictures above. So since this year the coursework is more broad and open, I had the option of not doing a magazine, thus using photoshop, so I am now doing a trailer instead. What I will do this year compare to last year is spend more time on the coursework, and more time on the final product and make sure my final trailer is edited well so this will give me a higher grade going into the exam therefore giving me a better chance of passing Media Studies. Although I will be using photoshop this year to create my film poster, so my aim this year is to drastically improve on my work from last year, I will do this by spending more time on photoshop, in class time and my own time.