First Magazine Cover Draft

First Magazine Cover Draft

I chose to use a pink background on my magazine cover because I am targeting my magazine cover at young females with our target audience age bracket, further more this is why I chose a pink masthead and a vibrant red to do the title of my film also I tried to create branding across my film poster and magazine cover by using the same font and colour. I followed the conventions of good magazine covers by having a left-hand third with information following the central image and story also I had the masthead at the top. Also in this image we are trying to portray that Saroj is the geek and Kevin is the popular kid through our use of costume and props by having Saroj carrying books and Kevin just standing there in his leather jacket waiting for the world to come to him. Form this in our team meeting we have decided to make Kevin into the geek and Saroj the popular kid. To do this we will change there costum and props. We have decided to do this after looking at the current market and that there is hardly any films showing the boy to be the geek and the girl to be the popular person. Finally I think I need to put more feature into my magazine and make it more attractive to our target audience I will do this by putting more stories in the left-hand third and by putting a few images of different stories which will also feature in my magazine.

First Draft Poster

First Draft Poster



This draft film poster is very basic and it just uses a few conventions of a film poster like a small billing block a date and a big title. I decided to use a plane white background with a symbolic heart which has no defined edges to make the poster look more romantic and dreamlike I also used the same colour and font for the masthead to create branding for our film. I used a similar image to the magazine cover to keep the branded and also to show that Saroj is the geek and Kevin the popular figure. The names of the staring actors are at the top of the page in a different font and colour so they stand out and are noticeable but with out taking over the cover and drawing your eyes to far away from the central image and masthead. Also I need to change the billing block and create my own logos because of copy-write laws.

First Images

We went to our school media suite to take our first images we wanted to go there because we have a green screen and we wanted to cut out the background and replace it with a better one or a solid colour.

When we got to the media suite and started taking our images we quickly learnt that taking and image on a green screen isn’t as easy as it looks. We quickly learnt about white balance as you can see from the photo above Kevin’s jacket is very yellow and so is the green also they were standing to close to the green screen creating shadow on the green screen whit in post production would have been a nightmare to colour replace.

Using our newly learnt skills we took the image above and found that using artificial light then changing the white balance and then playing with the exposure gave us the best image from this shot.

I then imported the image into Photoshop and started manipulating it using the colour replace tool and selecting all the different shades of green a got rid of the background then using the burn brush really finely I went in and put colour back into Kevin’s face.

After cutting out the background on the image I created a new Photoshop session and created the background above a used a big fades brush with a nice pink and free hand drew this heart.

Furthermore I placed the image that I cut out and manipulate earlier into the heart background the I created a title and used the texts effects on the layer to get the fine black border on the lettering the I used another text layer to put the leading characters names at the top of the poster, again a text layer to create the coming soon banner and the effects on that layer again to create the black border. Just a for my first draft I used logos of already established companies to make up my billing block.

Further Story Board

This is our further story board.

This is a further storyboard of our plot. In this it show the basic elements of our trailer and the different shots and locations we are looking to film in. for the first seen we where thinking of using fades to show the passing of time. In this storyboard the trailers doesn’t really have a denouement its just one scene after another we never find out the fate of our couple. The changes which we are going to make from this our very drastic we are now talking about having Kevin as the Geek and Saroj as the popular person, if we do decide to do this then I will have to do another story board and change the plot, I was going to change the plot anyway because every successful Romantic trailer has a cliff-hanger.

4th Meeting

In our team meeting we finalised our trailer plot, also we booked our arts technitions time to and a room in our science block on a morning when our whole groups free and our actors are free. now we are looking to write our transcript and a story board of the scene and shots, we also are having to use seperate ambient sounds from a different class room becasue our camera's only have to XLR inputs on the and we want both actors to have a tie clip mic.

Pictures Of Sources Used In Audience Research

These are the film magazine covers which we used in our audience research

These are the film posters we used for the audience research we did with the 15 years olds

Transcript For First Trailer

(Background noise)

Boy: Oh sorry! I didn't see ya.

Girl: (Picking up the same book) Thanks

Boy: So.. are you new here?

Girl: Ye, I've just started

Boy: Oh right, if you need anything, just give us a shout



We didnt really have a transcript for our first trailer and we told our actors the basic message we were trying to get across and they improvised, we learnt from this and in our future planing for further trailers we have decided we need a definative teranscript.

3rd Team Meeting

In our third team meeting we decided the names of our characters, Kevin Ward Will Play Danny Woods and Saroj Shoker will be playing Kate Devine. we a also decided the plot for our reworked trailer. and we final talked about our film name, at first we were going to call it Love Happens but quick;y found out that there was already a film called that so we are now looking at calling our film 'First Love'

First Story Board

This storyboard was our original storyboard with our initial ideas, this has now changed and we are not going to do the classic book drop in our trailer anymore and we are going to go down a different route. We have a few ideas like having them both at some sort of summer school and him being a completely different person away from school then she turns up in his school which puts a spanners in his works. This storyboard just shows some very basic plot ideas and some shots that we are thinking of using in our trailer.

First Trailer

First Trailer

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Our first trailer is beyond basic we didn’t use any editing techniques our any editing software. We didn’t use any variations of shots or distances which made it uninteresting viewing. There is no dialogue in this trailer just very poor and distracting ambient noise. Overall the standard of this trailer was very poor there is no on screen text, no release date and no billing block.

2nd Meeting

In our second meeting we discussed ideas for our initial draft trailer. We decide we would have two character's walking towards each other, then bumping into each other the boy helping the girl pick her books up, they pick the same book up and lock eyes, after which they have a brief conversation and walk there separate ways.