Evaluation presentation

Finished trailer

Magazine cover

Title fonts

After finishing the photo for my magazine cover, I had to chose a title, this including choosing a suitable name and font.

I chose to make a fairly arty magazine name, with a title that showed it concentrated on the genre my film is, but at the same time I didn't want to simply call it 'Film Noir' or 'Neo Noir' but I wanted to keep the word Noir involved. So, I based my title off one of the magazine covers I analysed ("retro cinema") and decided to call it Cinema Noir.

After deciding this, I moved onto choosing a font. I wanted it to mirror that of old fashioned fonts that would have used around the time when Film Noir first appeared.

In the end I chose the below three fonts.



After doing a small survey of what was the preferred font, there was a draw between first and third fonts above. Because of this, I went with the font I preferred which is the third, as I felt it looked less commercial and more arty.

Magazine cover photo

This is my photo for the magazine cover
I broke the convention of looking at the reader, and stuck with my theme in the film by making it black and white

Film Magazine Cover Photo Plan

For my magazine cover, I decided to have it for a more substream film magazine, since the market seems dominated by mainstream only-reporting-on-blockbusters magazines like Total Film and Empire. Since I chose to make a more indie, neo noir film, I felt these weren't the right way to promote my product, as it wouldn't reach my target audience.

I chose to base my main photo on this photo of the band S.C.U.M. (below)

I liked this image and chose it as my inspiration because it shows posession, which is part of the idea of the my film, that the antagonist kills to possess the girls beauty so no one else can have it, but the hand leaves enough of the face uncovered to still show her beauty.

However, I want the eyes to be the focus point of the photo, as in my film poster, so for my version I moved the hand to cover the girl's mouth.

Below is a mock up I drew of the photo I want to take as my main cover photo.

As this was a fairly quick drawing, I haven't included the man's body behind the girl's head and because I can't draw hands so well, it looks as though the hand is just in front of her, when in reality I want to have it holding her face (and possibly lower.)

Besides that, I have chosen to have a different girl in the trailer, as she looks like a more stereotypical film noir actress and I thought her black hair would look more striking when the photo is put in black&white.

Extra shots wanted for film.

After showing my (admittedly incomplete) teaser trailer to a group of students from my class, I have come to the conclusion that I need to link the murderer to the girls.

I plan to do this by including a shot of a wall of photos, zoomed in the two featured the trailer and then zooming out to show a whole wall of photos, as though he has collected these and is slowly taking them.

This adds a stalker element to the movie, deepening the plotline and making it, hopefully, more interesting to the viewer.

I also decided I needed a better location shot for the second murder scene, as the one supplied was blurred and too quick to properly establish the Camden location.

Apart from this, the students who watched the trailer said that with the final shots added, it made sense and made them want to watch it.

So all is good :D