Teacher’s feedback:

• Move image up (so not too much of her feet

• Put a hole in the image (of Flora, rather than having her ripped)

• Move the text in terms of credits. • She like the text (font) and thus not

too worried about the position (and thus my position).

• The text however is better (font) when it’s straight (more readable)

• Here are the first stages in which I was trying out the different effects on our horror poster, in terms of providing the illusion of Flora being ripped in half (to our audience). •In the same was I had began adding in credits using text template in ‘Photoshop’. However after using this style of text I found it was not effective as it did not look like the style of fonts which are used in real media product which are apparent on horror posters (in the case of the credits).

These were the feedback I was given after showing my teacher the stage I was at, when creating our horror poster. •I took these feedback on board when I later applied these changes.

Credits• Production company: Lionsgate• Directors: Priscilla Amponsah and Chloe May • Music by: Jessel Black• Written by: Priscilla Amponsah, Chloe May and Afreen Shaid • Costumes designed by: Priscilla Amponsah and Chloe May • Edited by: Chole May and Priscilla Amponsah • Produced by: Priscilla Amponsah • Director of photography: Priscilla Amponsah • Production designed by: Priscilla Amponsah and Chloe May • Website:www.insidethemindofachild.com• Executive producer: Chloe May • Filmed by: Chloe May • Facebook.com/Insanity• LANGUAGE, SEXUAL REFERENCES, AND STRONG VIOLENCE• 15 Strong verbal references to sex• November 20th

• Lionsgate presents ‘Insanity’• Some material may be inappropriate for children under 15. view discretion is advised

•These are the elements which our credits consist of, I had to look at real media examples e.g. ‘childish Games’, ‘Hide and Seek’, in order to have a sense of to include in our credits. •As you can see here, these are the different roles in which we each contributed as a team, hence why some names appear more often than others.

• Here is the first edit I created using font available in ‘Photoshop’.

• It’s evident that such style of font is not effective due to it not adding nor reinforcing the horror genre- the text was far too plain.

• As you can see here I had to manually add in each of the different elements and effects in order to make it more readable e.g. by adding a shadow on the various text I wanted to stand out.

This was whereby I was manipulating the text in order for it to be more readable within the box in which I created.

Originally we used this structure and layout, however it was only conventional on some American Horror posters as we are British directors we need to take into

consideration the conventions of British Horror posters.

When using text on Photoshop it was extremely

limited in terms of fonts which suited the style font often featured on Horror posters, but also it was difficult to align text.

- Here is the crack before we edited it. From feedback it was evident that the crack didn’t work well, which then led to us using a PhotoShop

brush instead.

- In result of previously having a font which wasn’t conventionally portrayed on posters, as well as being difficult to align we decided to use “SF Movie” font over “Universal Accreditation” as it gives the audience a sense of familiarity and didn’t appear squashed like “Universal Accreditation”.

- Here is the crack that I created using a

Photoshop free trial at home, as the

school’s software didn’t allow brush

downloads.

- Using Photoshop at home to create this crack meant that we were able to portray

the crack more realistically, as

previously Priscilla created a crack using

lines but from feedback it was

evident it wasn’t believable enough.

- Here is how the crack looked after I finished using the crack brush. I had to create a new layer for the

crack as well add “bevel and emboss”, to give the illusion that

Flora has actually cracked to further enforce her insanity which is a key theme we want to convey

to our audience.

- We agreed as a group that we want our audience to see straight away from seeing our poster a link between our title “Insanity” and

the crack. So that they understand Flora is not like other girls and they

want to find out what made her insane. (This is the sense of enigma in terms of revealing

something to keep them guessing we portray throughout our trailer

and magazine)

- Once imported into Photoshop Priscilla then used the magic

wand tool to select the white areas around the crack and

delete it so that there is just a crack alone.

- Priscilla then used the adjustment tool in order to change the brightness and

contrast of the whole image, as it looked lighter after we added the crack. We wanted it to be darker so that the element of evil taking

over Flora is enforced. (Which links to the idea we wanted to portray A fight between good

and bad in terms of Flora’s personality)

- While editing after school the computer

would often crash due to a lot of users on the

server. This was problematic for our

progress when editing the poster, as whilst

saving it would crash so all the work Priscilla

added would be redone.

- Despite this fall back we constantly kept on trying until it saved successfully.

- This is how the poster looked after we added

the crack. As you can see this also includes credits

which we planned to include in a box, due to certain Horror posters

following this convention. However it didn’t look professional and conflicted with the

main element of our poster the crack so we decided not to use this

layout.

- As previously explained we decided to follow the conventional film poster

text used on Horror posters, as well as use no box as we

realised contemporary posters don’t use the box

for credits.

- This picture highlights where Priscilla began to add “SF

Movie font” from “Dafont”. After creating the elements which is needed for credits (whilst observing other film

posters like Orphan), Priscilla began to manually rearrange

the text so that it was aligned. It was difficult to

read when grouped together so we decided to add “drop

shadow”, “inner shadow and stroke from clicking

“blending options” which enabled her to change the colour of the shadow from

black to red.

- The picture below is Priscilla rearranging the credits.

- These are some of the different elements we as a group decided to include within the poster, e.g. the website of “www.insidethemindofachild.com”.,

which follows the convention of websites being portrayed on Horror posters in terms of the credits.

- We then decided to make “Insanity” red to reinforce the element of blood and symbol of red which is an important aspect of our narrative. Priscilla

done this using the “painbucket tool” changing each letter to red instead of previously black.

- The film will be released on Children’s day which is the 20th November.- Lastly Priscilla rearranged the various texts within the credits, asking me and

our fellow peers for feedback to see if it was readable.

• This is the final version of our poster, which includes the final format of the credits. We agreed that the title Insanity at the bottom should be larger, as a way of reinforcing our films name so that our audience become aware of our brand.