Out of these 7 Ideas I asked 10 different people which title they liked the best. Next to the name of the magazine is the number of votes they got. There was no real planning as to which people I asked.
Overall, the most popular choice was option 2, "Acting Up" which will now be the name of my film magazine.
Red is a colour that represents danger, as well as blood, fire and war. The colour red normally influences people to make drastic decisions. Also, Red is a very emotionally intense color. In advertising, red is often used to evoke erotic feelings (red lips, red nails, red-light districts, etc). Red is widely used to indicate danger (high voltage signs, traffic lights). 
Black is a mysterious colour associated with fear and the unknown (black holes). Black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious color (black tie, black Mercedes). 
Blue is the colour of the sky and sea. Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness. Blue is used to suggest precision when promoting high-tech products. Blue is also a very masculine colour.
Green is the colour of nature. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money. Green has great healing power. Green suggests stability and endurance.
Purple is associated with royalty, wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic. As purple is an attractive colour, it would be a good colour to appeal to a younger audience.
Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. As a citrus colour, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of Autumn and harvest.
White means safety, purity, and cleanliness. White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry, white depicts faith and purity. 
Yellow is the colour of sunshine. Yellow is often associated with food. In heraldry, yellow indicates honor and loyalty. Yellow is used to evoke pleasant, cheerful feelings. 
This font would relate with the "slasher" feel of my film, as it is a film about a murderer, but the two crosses in the "o"s give it to much of an urban and graffiti feel, which doesn't relate with my film trailer.
This font fits perfectly with what I am trying to get out of my film trailer. The font seemingly looks like blood splatters which relates greatly with my trailer.
This font is also good. The font suggests creepiness and fear, but to some degree also suggests fantasy, which doesn't have any aspect in my film at all.
This font would be considered to Gothic for the theme of my film trailer, so I will not use this one.
This font looks like it is camouflaged, which when related to the setting of my trailer, would fit perfectly.
This font doesn't really relate to my film trailer at all, apart from the fact that it looks like it has been scratched suggesting desperation.
This font has to much of a futuristic feel to it, so this font will not be used.
Overall, I have decided to use font two on this list, and will be placed in my actual trailer and on both my film poster and film magazine front cover.
This is the frontcover of the popular film magazine Empire featuring the antagonist The Joker from the 2008 film The Dark Knight. We know that this is a popular film magazine due to the fact that the image is overlapping with the title of the magazine, showing that the magazine is so well known that the full title of the magazine isn't even needed. The main headline is written as if the letters have been cut out of a newspaper or magazine, which relates with The Joker as that is how he sends messages in the film. Furthermore, the caption which says "He's a cold blooded, mass murdering clown!" The magazine relates will the clown idea by using bright colours such as green and purple, which contrasts with the black background, despite darkness being a convention of the film.
This is a poster for the horror film 28 Days Later, which is about an virus epidemic which sweeps through England. The poster indicated that the film is about a virus due to the virus sign behind the title of the film. This symbol is known worldwide, which is a clear indication of the films contents. The background of the poster is purely red, and since red is the colour of blood and danger, it helps show to the audience that the film is going to contain graphic scenes. Furthermore, the background of the image shows Big Ben, which is an icon of the city of London, suggesting that one of the film's locations is London. Also, in the image it shows a lone man walking, suggesting the isolation that the man must be feeling throughout the film. Furthermore, the image looks scratched, which suggests a graphite like look. This shows that the film's mood isn't going to be a good mood. The title of the film is written in white font, which contrasts with the film, as the colour white represents godliness and peace, something which the film does not portray. Furthermore, the films slogan "The Days Are Numbered" relates back to the name of the film, and suggests that the end of the world is near.
The severed leg is one of the things that indicates the start of the action in my film.
The axe will be used as a weapon against the antagonist. The axe will be used once stuck in a tree to show where the characters gained the axe from. The axe will be used again as one of the female protagonists run and attack the antagonist.
The branches and leaves will be used to add mystery to the film trailer. For example to cover the severed leg.
This is my anamatic created from pictures which a drew on my storyboard. The anamtic has given my A vague idea of what my finished product will look like. Furthermore, while doing my anamatic I also cut up the song I was going to use in my film trailer, "Slip To The Void" by Alter Bridge. The anamatic has also given my an idea of what my trailer will look and sound like when i have the correct sound with it.
Overall the anamatic has really helped me put together my video as before I did the anamatic I had no idea of what order my shots would go in.
Eight Legged Freaks is a comedy horror film, so i expect to see aspects of both horror films and comedy films. The first scene in the trailer pictures a normal lifestyle, which is a convention of most horror films. We then see a woman walking down into a cellar with a torch, which suggests to the audience that something bad is going to happen, as cellars are a convention of horror films. We then get the first view of the antagonists when the a giant spider comes out and kills a dog. A dog got killed people seem to feel more emotion for a defenceless animal than a person. This sets the character for the spiders as the antagonists. Furthermore, there is a voice over which suggests to the audience that only one person actually knows what is causing all these killings, indicating to the audience that he is possibly the main protagonist. In between the Emus getting killed the is flash effects to indicate to the audience that it is happening really fast. When the spider reviles its self in the caravan there is a police car in the background, this suggests that the police can't even stop the spiders, emphasising the power.
Now the first spider is reveled, the camera then cuts to a medium shot on a hole in a wall and then several giant spiders come out. This indicates to the audience that there are going to be more than 1 spider terrorising the characters in the film. We then see the spiders in several normal, every day places indicating to the audience that the spiders can be anywhere. We also see a point of view shot which seems like the audience is seeing the view of one of the spiders. Furthermore, to add humor to the trailer, an inter textual link referring to "Spiderman" is used. Also, we see a clip of a male getting spun up in web which has been sped up. Web is an icon of spiders, furthermore, since the clip has had the speed increased it adds to more tension and fear to the trailer, as it makes it seem the "Spider Apocalypse" is happening fast.
Once again, the spiders show their place above the authority when a giant spider jumps on top of a typical police car, showing to the audience that they are more powerful than the authority. Also, more humor is added when the policeman shoots the spider and it's blood dribbles down his face. This would also disgust the audience keeping the tone of the film still serious. The first of the captions appear, and they are in a green glowing font. Green is usually associated with "mutants" which is very suitable since the main theme of the film is giant mutant spiders.
Furthermore, the audience sees a scene of 3 teenagers dressed in typical teenage attire talking and laughing. This suggests to the audience that everything could be seemingly okay. This is disturbed by one of the teenagers getting jumped on by a spider. This would cause the audience to jump, which is an icon of the horror film genre. The film is then described as "the biggest, nastiest, mutant spider movie of all time." Describing the film as this would invite the audience to go see the film and to put their opinion forward. Also, Montage editing is used as a scene transaction showing lots of different pictures of spiders, further suggesting that the spider's are fast. The name of the film comes up on screen in large, red, bold font. The colour red is an indication of danger, as well as the bold font emphasising that point. Next, we see a giant spider webbing up 2 people which loud rock music in the background, the spider then gets shot and the music stops. This indicates to the audience that the threat issued by the spider has now gone.
Ideas that I have took from this film trailer is to use a point of view shot to represent the antagonist. As well as using a form of montage editing to help quicken the pace of the trailer.
Disruption of the norm is the thing that shakes up the film, for example this could be an alien landing on earth, or a serial killer escaping the police. The male and female relationship sub-plot adds more than just senseless violence to the horror film. It gives the audience a reason to get attached to the characters due to the emotional attatchment between the two characters.
The first thing I notice about this trailer is that all the main protagonists in the trailer are dressed normal. This represents that before the disequilibrium happens, everything was reasonably normal and easily related to real life. Furthermore, the ambient music also creates a sence of norm and calmness, soon to be broken. Also, one of the girls in the car are wearing a cowboy hat, and the movie is set in the south of the USA, and cowboy hats are a national icon of states such as Texas. There are several other icons of southern USA such as the dusty roads and the mini-van that the cast are driving in.
As the antagonists are introduced, a girl sees a figure run. Typically the strong male character calls out the figure in an act of heroism, which is one of the conventions of a horror film. Also, the music change from nice clam, abstract music swiftly changes into tense string music, suggesting to the audience that there is is something wrong. Furthermore, every so often the camera cuts back to a girl claiming "We're all gonna die" which helps indicate to the audience that the characters know something is wrong and that they fear it. In addition, throughout the trailer it shows scenes of the characters in distressing situations, then an old fashion camera flash happens. This makes it seem like the characters are a memory suggesting that in the film they will see their demise.
The font used to introduce the writer also fits the era where the film is set, as it looks like the font has been typed on a typewriter. Also, as the writers name is on the screen, it cuts to a black screen and we hear a your female scream "somebody help me." This helps add mystery to the trailer as the audience doesn't know what the girl wants help from, due to the black screen. After the scream we hear foot steps as well as chains, which is one of the only hints in the trailer as to who the antagonist actually is. Suddenly it cuts to a shot of a girl screaming with the sound of a chainsaw, which confirms to the audience that the film is a horror and will contain plenty of blood and gore. As well as the string music picking up to further add a tense feel to the trailer. Also, a high angle shot coming out of a cellar is used, and a man shuts on cellar door on the camera. This would've been used as a first person shot to suggest that the man was locking someone, or something, into the cellar.
A further hint as to who the killer is reveled as there is a long shot showing the killer walking towards the camera while in a shroud of shadows. This helps add further mystery to the film trailer. Furthermore, as the trailer progresses the lighting on the set seems to be getting darker and darker suggesting the tone of the film is also getting darker and darker. One more hint as to who the killer is is used when we see a high angle shot of the killer closing a sliding door. The high angle shot suggests the the killer is more powerful that the rest of the protagonists. The trailer then suddenly cuts to black, still with the ambient string music in the background and the name of the film appears in a shadow dropping font. The shadow dropping suggests that in the movie shadows could play a key roll.
Some ideas i could take from this trailer is to use the shadows plenty to add a sence of unknown, as this will add one key convention of horror movies to my trailer, as well as adding much more dramatic effect. Also, this trailer has influenced me to give the beggining of my trailer a sence of norm, and not just dive right into the action.
