Production Process – Graphics

Production Process – Graphics

When we were given this assignment I knew I wanted to do romance but something a little different from the previous year, so I decided to create a vampire film, I watch a lot of romance and have seen a lot of vampire romance films so I thought ill stick with what I know. After I had made the decision I researched films and TV like The Twilight Saga and The Vampire Diaries, I made a choice for these as I love them both and know a lot about them so I researched into the story line to come up with my own and studied the poster and DVD sleeve, which game the idea of dark and mysterious settings.

           My storyline was inspired by Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, I find both storylines interesting and both very different as The Vampire Diaries is a series so there was lots to take from. From previous lessons in the past 2 years in film studies I learnt that when creating a story within a genre you have to stick to the rules of that genre and give the audience what they want to see, for example a basic romance story will start with the meet then kiss, argue and a happy ending compared to a typical horror story which starts with a group of teenagers camping out and one friend will wonder of get killed and in the end it ends up being one of the friends who is the murderer.

         I first started planning the storyline to help me produce the final poster and make it easier. When coming up with the storyline I found myself incorporating other storylines into my own so I made a spider diagram to help me stay on track with my own storyline and once I had done that I was happy with my finished story.

          I had finished my poster before we were given the next task on the assignment so that gave me time to improve the poster and add little touches to make it perfect. I added the smoke and darker blood to the improved version I also changed the position of the pictured and title to see which worked best.

    For my magazine I had a look at a few magazines that explore fashion gossip and music, I researched into the layout and what I should look like and what’s appropriate. I liked the idea of a plain background so any writing was easy to read. I did a few re-makes of my magazine to see which would look better. I enjoyed making the magazine the most, as it was a lot of fun to do the photo-shoot and see it all come together in the end.

     From this assignment I found my imagination skills aren’t the best but improving, my Photoshop skills are improving also.