Magazine Cover Trial

I did a rough version of my magazine cover to portray my initial idea. I need to develop my idea and make it more appealing and conventional.

Photos for magazine cover

Institution Research

Revolver Entertainment.

Revolver entertainment is and independent film distributor that was founded in 1997 and has headquarters in both London and Los Angeles. Revolver Entertainment have distributed films such as Kidulthood, The basement and shank. These are films that may not be known so well worldwide but they have been successful in the British market.

Adjusted Treatment

Detention.

Aisha is a teacher in a south London based secondary school. One morning on her way to work she was getting followed by a stranger in a grey hooded jacket. She didn’t make much out of it as he had disappeared by the time she got to work. after a long day of teaching and marking coursework she’s on the phone to her boyfriend letting him know she’s going to run late as she has set detention for several students who didn’t do their homework however by the time she puts her phone down she sees a man in a grey hood looking through the window. She runs after him to ask who he is and what he wants to which he runs into the staircase and disappears. As she packs up her stuff to go home she sees the man in the grey hood on the other side of the corridor. She runs and he chases her as she screams for help. Will she escape or will she get taught a life lesson? In detention.

Photoshop Trial.

I took this picture off Google images and opened it up in Adobe Photoshop. I erased all the parts of the picture i did not want so i was only left with the Denzel Washington image. I took a background of a crime scene from Google images and added the Denzel Washington image on top of it to make it look like a film scene.

Questionaire results.

Teaser trailers

127 Hours.

• The teaser trailer opens with production company tittle slates. Well known institutions Pathe and Fox searchlight.





• Wide shot of dessert to show viewers the isolation. Then the music starts and a man on a bike rides out. Whilst he is on riding a bike it cuts to other famous titles directed by “Danny Boyle”. This helps promote and sell the film.





• The trailer cuts from scene to scene of the characters experiences and gives us a bit more of an insight on the characters personal life.



• As the trailer goes on most of the shots are still of the dessert which suggests that this is the main location of the film.

• The trailer leaves the viewer intrigued in the end on whether the character gets saved or not.














The basement

• This is a conventional horror/thriller teaser trailer as it is fast paced and goes through some vital and key scenes of the film. The editing plays a key role as most of the scenes are fast phased as well as the music which builds up tension and leaves the viewer intrigued.

• The non-diegetic sounds of birds and bushes in the beginning give it an uneasy feeling as if some mishaps are bound to happen.

• The blood and injury’s to the characters suggest that there is a killer as well as the characters arguing and hints that one of the four main characters could actually be the killer.

• The teaser trailer hints at the narrative as it shows you that there are 4 characters which are being tormented by something or someone which is quite typical of a horror.

• I could use some of the shots and editing techniques in my own film as I plan to make a thriller/horror. I like the way the music speeds up and builds tension before suddenly coming to a close.

Film Posters