Post Production

Magazine Cover 

For our trailer we need to create a magazine cover. We had to create two and I decided because our trailer is for an action thriller I felt Empire magazine would be perfect. I was inspired by two magazine covers. 

To start off we had to take a picture of our main lead and we took several after filming our trailer as we wanted him to be wearing the same clothes as he was. After looking through them we decided on this one of his back to us and the gun behind him. 

To perfect the image and give a more edgy look i decided to edit it on Pic Monkey. Firstly I had to crop the image so you only have the white wall in the background. I next used two tools HDR and Focal Zoom because when edited I played around with other tools but I felt these two were perfect for the image. Here is the final edit:

An Empire cover is complicated and one thing I noticed is that they don't have a plain background on their cover so I had to find an image online and I found a grey background that was the perfect match for the magazine.
I next attached the Empire masthead and placed it behind the protagonist as this is typical of Empire to do so.

I wanted to get the top part of the cover done so what I did was add the strapline on top of the masthead and the price of the magazine in between the 'M' because after looking at different examples this was the correct place to insert it. 

As an empire Strapline keeps changing depending on the cover we decided as a group to keep it as 'The Ultimate Thriller Special' because it fits with our film and the cover. 

As I was looking at the Tom Cruise cover I decided on placing a banner and the title in the middle. The problem was on deciding whether the color should be red or black and as we hadn't decided on a font we left it to decide on later. 

After deciding on a font we changed it. What was left was adding a main cover line, cover lines and a pug. The pug idea came from the Tom Cruise cover but what we changed was the name of the film which we changed to one from another A2 group in our class. The cover lines were simple and easy to add.

The poster we decided on was a still I found from our trailer and I felt it was powerful enough for our poster. At first it was a normal image so what I changed was add more contrast. 

To create the poster I added in the title, cast names and tagline. What felt wrong was the font which was yet to be decided. 

As a group we finally decided on a font. To make the poster look more realistic we thought on adding reviews at the bottom because we took a look at some thriller poster and reviews from Empire and The Sun which are highly appreciated. We also added in the release teaser date and Twitter hash tag as social media has a huge part in a film campaign. 

Now this was the poster we decided on using as our main poster but what people pointed out was that the poster looked too bright for a thriller poster. On Photoshop I selected the sky and changed the color to grey which fit with our film as a whole. 

Editing 

The first job was to finalise the shots we are going to use. After this we had to use our shot list to order the scenes because in a trailer the every shot won’t be in the same order as the film. We realised after that our trailer on the screen was not coming out as the original size it was filmed so we had to start again from scratch.

Today we added titles to our trailer because in a typical teaser trailer you would include titles that include the producers, actors, director and film title. We added the producers, what to expect and the film title.

Lastly we decided on the soundtrack because we had a number of songs to pick from. When we included the soundtrack the trailer came to life and was perfected. The problem was that the titles font we included didn’t match the film so after we decided on what font the title is we used the same font on the titles.