Screenshot from Livetype.

Inter-titles in Trailer

You don't necessarily need inter titles in teaser trailers but i opted to have them in mine. I think without them, my trailer looks a little lost, it needs the text to tie it all together. I wanted the message to be ambiguous, to leave viewers wondering what it meant and what the film would be like; hopefully making them want to go see it.
I decided to stick to the conventions and have my inter titles talking to viewers; asking them questions. Since my trailer is about feeling stalked and paranoid, i thought i would do it so that viewers are left wondering what they would do in that situation.
I figured out that i would need 4 inter titles to separate the different scenes in my trailer, not including the slide at the beginning advertising the director. I wanted message to basically be; what would viewers do if they were being stalked? but have the last title questioning whether they are or not. After a lot of fiddling around with the wording I settled on having four titles saying:

- When bad things start to happen...
- What do you do...
- When it happens to you?
- Or does it?

I settled on this because it is what i wanted in terms of ambiguity and mystery. It sounds strange when you say it as a sentence but when it is in the trailer, surrounded by the scenes, it seems to make sense.
I now need to decide on how I want to present my message; font, colour, style etc

Film Title

I needed to create a design for my Film Title in my Trailer, this is how i did it:

I used the program 'LiveType' to create this title. It is quite easy to use when you know the basics and it didn't take me long to create a title i liked. It was a simple step by step process to get the result i wanted. You start by typing the words you want in the box at the top then go through each tab and change it section by section.

I used a 'Copperplate' font because i think it has a hard, unforgiving feel to it, it fits the look that i want. I added a shadow onto it with strong opacity so that it is clearly shown but slightly blurry so that it wasn't literally just the name repeated. I set it to under half on the scale bar and about three quarters of the way along the Offset bar. I set the colour to red. i did that because red is a stereotypical colour for scary movies; it makes viewers think of blood and anger and i also think it sets off the bright white in the black background and makes it stand out. I added a slight glow to the text which gives it a more mysterious feel i think and i pushed the letters close together as if they are huddled together. I used the 'Fade Out' effect for my trailer which is simple, but effective i think.

New Film Poster Plan

Updated plan for Poster, Scan/Upload

This is my new plan for my changed image:


I want the credits to be along the bottom of the image with my title to be on the left above the credits. I want 'Coming Soon' to be near the title, above or below it, whichever looks best when I do it. I want my actors names to be stretched along the top of the poster and I want some sort of quote or review somewhere in the middle.

Developing Film Poster

After experimenting with my chosen photo and the layout I had planned, I didn't look as good as i hoped, so with advice, I changed my photo to landscape and I'm going to try it that way. This is the photo cropped into landscape:

Film Poster Editing

Before:


After:


This is how I have edited my photo to start with. I used the 'Spot Healing Brush' and 'Patch Tool' to get rid of any blemishes on my models face. I then added a black and white adjustment layer and changed the level to what I think looked best. After that I added an Exposure adjustment layer to brighten my image and a Curves adjustment layer to add more contrast.

Film Poster Photo

This is the photo I've chosen for my Film Poster:




This is the photo I've chosen for my Magazine Front Cover: