Magazine And Poster Photoshoot.

Sophie Richardson

During one of our media lessons where our main female protagonist (Lauren Smith) was free we took her to the studio to take some shots, to see if we could get any good ideas. We were heading out to film directly after the lesson so we didn't have a great deal of time. We each took it in turn to take shots just using the white back drop then we had an idea. We went and got some of the red facepaint and fake blood and the three of us there at the point put it all over our hands then onto the backdrop. We all did it so that there was a variety of different handprints in different shapes and styles. we then positioned out model in front of them to take some shots. We got some of her using her weapon and as she is supposed to come across as feisty and confident, we got a shot of her doing her lipstick in the reflection of a knife. We though that this would portray how strong and independent she is and how she would come across. Unfortunately as we only had one of our actors available for shooting at this point we won't be using any of the shots. We took inspiration from them though, as the white backdrop was so big, there was no way we could of kept it for later shots.  

One lunchtime we got our main two characters and took them to the studio to take the shots for our print products. We looked at a number of different posters and discussed what shots would be taken, how they would taken and where. We used a black backdrop in the studio, we got a good variety of shots, some won't be useable but will be good for our evaluations. We got shots from high-angle, low-angles, close ups, medium shots. We got them to pose in different ways our female actor (Lauren Smith)does modelling already so she was very helpful and knew how to pose well from what we said aswell as working well with our other actor.From this shoot we got both images for our magazine and our poster.

Hazard and Risk Assessments

When completing these products, we knew that there would be certain factors which could slightly or majorly prevent us from completing the work. Listed below are a few of these factors:

Becoming ill
Hardware of Software not working
Time not managed well or at all
College is closed
Not being able to get into college
Not getting actors or locations sorted
Having a bad day
Files are deleted
Extreme weather conditions
Problems at home
No Planning
No software at home

Poster Rough Cut

Sophie Richardson

This was a rough cut our film poster and after some feedback from teachers and peers we chose not to use. I thought it didn't look like an actual film poster, it wasn't coming together and looking professional. So we compared it to the  Shaun of The Dead poster to get inspiration and to compare it with  a professional text.In the shaun of the dead poster it looks like a poster then surrounded by zombies. Looking at our poster you couldn't see anything to do with zombies in it. We then had the idea to put zombie hands around the outside of the poster, I had some of the fake blood i used in the trailer, then i went and put it on my hands and took photos of it. I then burned the pictures of hands on Photoshop, changed the brightness and contrast levels on them. When i was about to drop the photos on the poster, i realised that the image wasn't right. We looked through our images, and one of the images we wanted to use the height difference between the two people was very noticeable and would cause problems when coming to print. So we cut lauren out on one of the posters and moved it up and changed the positioning, then merged it in photoshop so the image became one. We needed to have the document to a size A4  and because the changes we had to make the image wasn't this side, so i used the gradient tool to add a dark gradient over the bottom of the poster.
This was the original image.

Photoshoot Images

This is the image we were originally going to use for the magazine cover, but when trying to put sell lines and the mast head of the magazine we found it didn't look professional and we were finding it difficult to put the selllines without ruining the image, so we decided not to use it.  

This is another shot that we both really liked. I liked the poses of the characters, the composition of the shot. It looked like a professional shot and after we took it and put it on the iMac we realised how good it looked, unfortunately it wasn't suitable for a print product, but was a good shot non the less.

This was another type of shot we tried, trying to make it seem like a love/hate relationship, however the shot also wasn't suitable for print products, but we felt we had to experiment. 

This is one of images Tom took of my hands when i covered them in blood which we then used on our poster. 

This is a photo from the shoot we did just with Lauren, we didn't like the image so we decided not to use it, but wanted to take a variation of images to see what would match the best.

This is one of the images we took  when we covered our hands in fake blood and put them all over the white back drop. These were good  images to experiment with, but we still found that they weren't very suitable  for either print products.  

Sound update

We have made a simple soundtrack on garageband using a variation of different bass sounds and drum beats,  we again looked at Shaun of the Dead, using a similar beat. We realised that the conventional film trailer from this genre didn't allow its music to fully overpower the visuals but was used more as intensifier to increase the amusement. Also, we saw that the music didn't continuously repeat throughout the trailer and changed the mood when the scenes in the trailer either got happy or sad. Therefore, our soundtrack compromises of a varied style of music which coincides with what you see on screen very well.

Rough Cut - No Soundtrack