A2 Media Portfolio

This poster is a character poster which gives the audience an insight into the main character of the film and allows the audience to create or build a rapport with her. This is evident, as the character on the poster takes up most of the page, making her the centre of attraction and emphasizing on her importance. Although, the colour scheme of the poster does not completely conform to the conventions of a psychological thriller, the crack on her face reinforces psychological disorientation which reinforces the psychological thriller genre, as well as the black background. As well as this, the left side of her face is darker than the right side which presents the darker side of her character. This therefore creates suspense and acts as an enigma code, as the audience are unaware if she is the villain or the hero in this film, according to Propps Character theory. This is because although her face is quite pale and brighter compared to the background, the audience are unsure if she is ...

Film Magazine Front cover - Planning Sheet Main image : What is the main image going to be? What type of shot composition/angle etc? The main image is going to be a close up of one of the characters from my trailer and will have a dark background (blue, grey or black). This therefore conforms to the conventions of traditional psychological thriller films which attracts and markets it to a specific target audience. Name of magazine: What are the connotations of the title? The first option for the name of my film magazine is “Zoom” which is a camera shot used in film production. I have decided to call it this because it represents a change in size, which will reinforce the increasing popularity of psychological thrillers which is what my magazine will mainly feature. My second option is “Reflexions” which is a unique spelling for “reflections.” I have made this my second option because reflections are one of the repertoire of elements of a psychological thriller w...

Above are some of the pictures that I took from the pre photoshoot that I had for my film poster, hence why some of the images are not as good as I would want them to be for my actual photoshoot and to use for my film poster. I did this because I was unsure if I would be able to execute my ideas onto photoshop and whether my idea was good enough to get me a good grade. As, for my film poster my main idea was to have an eye with a school in it and hands coming out of the eye which I knew would be hard to execute on photoshop, especially because I didn't know how to go about it.