Film Review Deconstructions

I have deconstucted a few different magazine film reviews so that I can understand which conventions I need to use in my own review.

Full Rough Cut

This is the full length rough cut of my film. Since completing this version I have found a number of areas that I can improve as I showed it to my class. The main feedback was that the middle section in the forest went on for far too long without anything happening which made it really uninteresting. I am going to take out a lot of the shots that I used in this sequence to keep the film moving quickly. I also still need to add all of the music and sound effects to the forest sequence which will increase the tension and will make it generally more gripping. Apart from this there are just a few shots which need trimming slightly to get the best effect possible.



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Poster Image Comparison

Here you can see the comparison of the original image that I took in daylight to the edited version that I used in my film poster. I started out by going around the outline of the mask with a black brush, so that you wouldn’t be able to see any of the background or the hood. I then used the clone stamp tool so that you couldn’t see any skin between the edge of the mask and his eyes. This took quite a lot of time to make it look convincing and was definitely the hardest part of the process. I then added a few adjustment layers. The first one was Hue/Saturation which I used to reduce to saturation a little which basically reduced the brightness of the colours. Next I added a red photo filter which gave the whole face a slightly red tint. The final adjustment layer that I added was Exposure. Within this effect I increased both the offset and gamma until I was happy with how dark the face looked.

Second draft of Film Poster

This is the second draft of my film poster. I think it the images might be a little too dark and there could be more text at the bottom of the poster however apart from this I dont think much will change between this version and the final one.



Horror Poster Wordle

I created a wordle using some of the most common codes and conventions that are found in horror movie posters.