Our finished trailer PSYCHEDELIC

Back up plan for our magazine poster

If our idea fails for the woodcut print or it turns out shocking then we have a backup plan to do a poster for Empire magazine including all of our main characters lying down in the leaves (similar to this skins image on the right). This idea may be harder to organise as we have found difficulty in gathering all of our actors together at the same time due to their commitments. We think that this would look effective for this kind of cover. We would have to use a bright bold colour title and writing on top of our image to make it stand out as there would be a lot going on in the background of the cover. 

Empire magazine covers are a lot more busy compared to Little White Lies which is more an Art house style. Empire has other aspects of the magazine printed onto the front which shows the reader what else is to come within the magazine. It may also sometimes include other films on the cover but we would have to be careful what we put on due to copyright issues.

Film Magazine inspiration

After looking at a selection of different film magazines such as Empire, Total film and the specialist genre film magazines we decided that Little White Lies was the most appropriate for our film. After looking through their previous magazine covers we decided the one below was our favourite and then got the idea of doing something similar using our main character Ellen. 

We then found this video on Little White Lies website which shows the process of them making their cover. They used a wood cut print using a laser cutter to create the scratched effect. As I do art and have previously worked using a laser cutter we had the idea of taking a portrait image of Ellen and editing it in Photoshop to then transfer to a woodcut print. This could then be printed and scanned in to create an artistic magazine cover appropriate for Little White Lies. 

Psychedelic Film Poster

Here is our finished film poster

Poster ideas

Poster inspirations

As our film trailer was inspired by some of Project X, it makes sense to look at the poster created for that film. Below is the poster, which is quite plain and simple but yet effective and catches attention of people around the same age as our target audience. We could use aspects of this poster in ours. I particularly like the caption across the middle of the page, so maybe we could do something similar.

Skins

We have used the tv series 'Skins' as quite a lot of inspiration as it includes some very similar story lines and themes that we have portrayed in our trailer. Although it is not a film, Channel 4 have produced some posters to promote the programme, and we found some of these images quite inspirational as they capture the image of young adults and the themes of drugs. An image like this...

... could be quite interesting to use but with our characters looking dead lying on the floor of the forest we filmed the majority of our footage in. This was one of our ideas on our mind map but we have quite a few to choose from.

Regrets

Unfortunately, we haven't been able to film the main idea of the powder paint fight which we were inspired by a music video of Example's. This was due to lack of time and we were not able to source the materials to do it with. Also, the weather hasn't been too great these past few weeks and therefore it wouldn't of worked as well, and trying to gather all of our actors together on one day to film it would have been a difficulty. However, we do have quite a few really good affects which show the actors enjoying themselves in other ways, so we are not too sad about it missing from our trailer.