Fonts

Here are three fonts, one of which i will be using for my poster, i found these font on www.101freefonts.com these particular fonts were found under the tags of old English and Gothic they are called Av Qest, Sf Gothican and Knights Quest. To narrow down my choice i did a poll, this is part of my market research as i wanted to find out which would suit my poster best and what would appeal most to my target audience.
1.Av Qest-60%
2.Sf Gothican-30%
3.Knights Quest-10%

Plan of Poster

This is a rough guide as to what i want my poster to look like and certain things arranged.

Third Drafts of poster-Decision

These set of posters and now my their set which have been improved after looking at the feedback. I will now have to choose oput of the following pictures which i want to use for my poster.

Here are two more spirit edits on these i have made her skin glow more and made the red eye stand out more. I also tried making it black and white with the red eye still in colour. however i am still unsure about this technique.

Feedback On Second drafts

I asked a variety of people of what pictures they liked best they were asked to choose two of the second drafts and 1 of the spirit photos.

Jade:
 I like these two out of the second draft of pictures, The first one looks scary as it looks as though it is in motions and the second i love the faint writing on the floor and walls as it links to the trailer of the girl doing research and writing it down. I then choose this spirit photo because of its simplicity, yet it still manages to look scary.

Holly:
My two favourite pictures out of the second drafts were these two, i choose them because the writing on the first one links well with the trailer as they are the words said by the girl in the trailer, i also love this shot as it looks like a screen cap from the trailer showing the audience what is in store for them. The second one looks a though the character is in motion so makes it quite tense, It also exaggerates the hand that it nearer the camera and really makes it look as though she is being dragged and scratching at the floor which is perfect for a psychological horror. I like this spirit photo because even though you cant see her whole face it still looks scary because of the red eye, and the blacked out background suggesting darkness follows her.

I asked many more people what pictures they preferred but two many to post on here. the two above were my favourite responses. Below are the photos that most people liked:

Second Drafts of my Poster

Here are the second drafts of my poster, i have included more of the photos i took and edited them in similar ways to the first set of draft pictures, i have also looked at new effects and played around with them, some problems did occur with some pictures the main being the photos are already dark and have a dark background so some effects did not agree with that and did not work. but i was able to adjust some settings on some effects. Here they are:

Second Drafts from Paigiee

Audience feeback on first drafts of poster cover

I asked many people about which picture would appeal to them the most and convince them to see the film the majority said Set 1 picture 2 and set 2 picture 3 here are there responses:

 Ella, Catherine, Alice and Sam, all aged 17 on Set 1 Edit 2

• "I love this picture, the effect emphasises shadows and facial features which makes the poster quite scary."
• "I like the colouring of it as well because it really matches the candle light, and focuses on the peoples faces more."
• "I love how it is linked to the trailer, in particular the clip at the end where the spirit is surrounded by candles, so it shows how they both relate to each other."
• ''Another thing i like is that it is actually quite a simple poster, it has one prop and two people with a blackened out background. it makes it look scary and in turn professional''

Jamie-Leigh, Chloe, Lucy and Sophie aged 17: Set 2 edit 3

• "One of the best features of this poster picture  is how it is a picture based on a main clip from the trailer, so it ha a strong link between both promotional items."
• "I also like the effect on this picture, it makes everything darer giving it a more sinister and horror look."
• "The way it goes from light to dark is also quite interesting as her hand is lit up and w eventually the light disintegrates and behind her head is darkness.''
• "the only criticism i would make is to make everything behind her dark, so everything is blackened out and all that is there is her being dragged that way it looks like she is being dragged into the unknown."

Editing

I have started editing and have come across some problems which i have managed to overcome. The first problem being is that one or two clips turned out to be quite dark when i uploaded them to Final cut pro which really affected the quality of the entire trailer, the only way i could solve this was to delete the scene entirely or re shoot so i had to rearrange another day for my talent to re shoot some of the clips. the next problem that occurred was when i went to put a soundtrack on top of it, i had already had the song i wanted, however i could not upload it using the school computers so instead i had to go home use youtube converter however i had to look through 3 or 4 versions of the song as some would not work on the converter, once i found the song and converted it successfully i then put it on my memory stick and then bought it to school where i uploaded it to Final cut pro. The last problem i had was the time, after i had cut down the clips edited them and changed the speed i realised i did not meet the time requirement of 2minutes30seconds and so on the same day i did the re shoot of some clips i asked them if they would not mind doing a few more new clips, to which they agreed.