Wednesday, 9 November 2011

What makes posters scary? Posters like this that reveal hideous creators or zombies. Blood, gore and dirt are the key to adding extra fright and horror into horror pictures. Also their facial expressions. The eyes that are not a normal colour have been changed to a colour that looks like flesh. The mouth contain blood dripping down from it. Also the hands, she's grabbing the ground and looks to have a tight grip. I think this is appealing especially with the gun being pointed to her head. I like this picture too as it contains a lot of detail.

Horror photograpgy

This picture is an example of horror photography. What makes this bit of photography horror? The girls pose, her fingernails are incredibly long, sort of like what vampires would have. Her eyes are like the eyes of a blind person, just grey. Her mouth has a brace on it that looks like it's causing her to bleed. My opinion is that this is a good piece of horror photography that's why i chose to upload it. The girl in the picture looks monstrous and like a vampire.

Monday, 7 November 2011

Font

This font, you may know where this was used. Well if you watched the series 'Buffy the vampire slayer' then you may know that this font is used on the conver. I like this font because i've seen it on a cover before. The stretched letters like F symbolise blood.

Font

This font is an example of a horror font, or a scary font. This font i think is ideal for the cover of a scary film but also a film that contains aliens. That's my first impression.

Halloween

This poster is a perfect idea of a scary poster. This poster is for advertisment of the film Halloween. The theme of the poster is orange just like the theme of halloween. It looks like fire but a template of a mans face, in the background and within the fire i think contains potential victims. To spice up the poster, they have included, which i believe the mass murder, but he's holding a head and a knife. I doubt it's his own head. I think the poster has target audience over 18's as i've assumed this film contains violent scenes. I think this poster is very appealing simple because of the black and orange theme. It stands out, also the poster doesn't give much away, like final destination. I like the poster, i haven't watched the film but i'm tempted to.

Final destination

I don't quite know the purpose of the film final destination, whether it's a horror film or not, but it contains some gruesome scenes. Final destinations film and poster cover doesn't exactly portray a scary film, but the poster i feel gives too much away. It shows the title and a sub heading 'You can't cheat death, no accidents, no coincidences, no escapes. I feel it would look better if it just had a title.
The cover features five characters. I'm struggling tpo engage with the cover. The characters faces are motionless, they are showing no emotions for saying they are about to die.
My opinion is that it's a very poor poster, it's dull and not very appealing. It gives too much away in the title, but very little on the cover. The cover doesn't live up to the title or sub headings.

Typography

Typography is performed by typsetters, compositors, typographers, graphic designers, art directors, comic book artists, graffiti artists and clerical workers.

Typography is the design and use of typefaces as a means of visual communication from calligraphy to the ever-developing use of digital type.

Typography is sometimes seen as encompassing many separate fields from the type designer who creates letterforms to the graphic designer who selects typefaces and arranges them on the page.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Evaluation.

Evaluation.
I decided to create a logo based on sport and a sport show. The specific sport I decided to base my logo on was football. I chose football because it’s simply my favourite sport and in theory, my knowledge of the game is of a high standard. My show would feature all the goals form the English leagues such as The Barclays premier league, N power championship and the N power league 1 and 2. My show will be around three hours long.
I have always had a simple target audience, as I know football can be watched and liked by all ages and both genders.
My logo isn’t very versatile and I don’t think my logo would work black and white. I don’t think this because, I feel my logo would look old fashioned and it would appeal to others.
I have used the colour blue because personally it’s my favourite colour. I know the colour blue is more masculine but, it’s a football programme. I tried other colours such as red but I preferred the blue. I didn’t know what blue to use as light blue was a contender with my colour decision, but I decided to go with dark blue in the end as it looked better. The A in my logo is white. The theme in my logo goes in the order of blue, white and blue, this is because I tried other colours to go with blue but I felt that red, yellow, orange and green didn’t work, so I decided to stick with white.
With my logo I have included a web address just to make it more professional and serious.
Finally I’ll reveal what the name of my logo is.
My show title is called ‘WAG’, this is short for what a goal, which is why I’ve narrowed it down to wag. I love the title of the show, and it’s by far the best idea that I came up with. It’s a catchy name but it’s also out there to fool people or teenage girls. I’m saying teenage girls because a ‘wag’ is known to be a footballers wife and they are often described by the press and tabloids as a ‘wag’. I’m putting myself in their shoes for a short moment, they may see the title of my show and think that my show is about footballers wives or celebrities, only to find out that it’s not., and that my show is a football programme.
I’m happy with my design, idea, logo and final piece. As I’m ecstatic with my logo and effort I’m not ruling out improvement. With every bit of work there will always be somewhere that needs improvement. At this current moment of time I may not notice that, and it may take a week or two-but I’m not ruling it out.
WAG
                                                                     What a goal!