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Magazine and Poster – Trailer Title Critical Analysis Elise Daniels

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Page 1: Experimenting With Titels and Critical Analysis

Magazine and Poster –Trailer Title Critical Analysis

Elise Daniels

Page 2: Experimenting With Titels and Critical Analysis

This is an example of my first attempt to create a suitable title for my poster and magazine, using Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. I experimented with the colours red and black as I believe these are the main colours that represent the horror genre. I want to convey the genre of my trailer within my movie title.Firstly I used a Copper Plate Gothic Bold Font. I found this font to be suitable to my genre and title. Although I new I needed to edit it further, as it looked boring and not very appealing. I then edited the text, adding black shadows to make the text more bold and stand out. I then added inner shadows and outer strokes to also make the text more exciting and give it a more 3d effect. Other styles I experimented with were the bevel and emboss. This added different textures to the text, adding a crack effect separating the red and black colours.Overall I believe this texts will stand out well on magazines and posters, although the text size will need to be a lot bigger that 72. To improve this example of a title, I may decrease the size of the drop shadow, so the text is more confined but still stands out well.

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This is another example of a text I experimented with. Again I decided to only use the colours red and black. I used the font Bell Gothic Std, Bold in a size of 100pt. I started of with only using black within the lettering.I decided to add drop shadows with a 100% opacity and a 30 % spread. This gave the effect of the text standing off the page and making it more creative. By simply adding drop shadows the title looked more appealing to my horror/thriller genre.I also added an outer glow but decided to use a red colour with a 70% opacity so it wasn’t as bold but just added a hint of colour instead of keeping all the text black.Overall I think this text matches the horror genre. The text is clear and stands out well with the use of colours and shadows. Although I'm not sure I would use the red colour on my final attempt. This is based on the all black text being far more simpler. With my text being more simpler, this will make it more effective.

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This is an example of the text previous although I decided to edit it and remove the red colour and keep the text more basic. I decided to keep the same font and same text size. When editing the text all I decided to add was a drop shadow with a 67% opacity, 3px distance, 33% spread and 3px size. This allowed my text to have a slight shadow and in a simple way look more bolder and stand out effectively. Overall I believe this looks far more effective than adding any colour. For my final attempt I would use this simpler example, rather than using text with colour. The text looks far more clearer and eye catching for the audience who is interested.

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During the creation of this text i decided to focus more on the colours and what works well. I used a birch std font and used a black font colour. I found the text boring and knew it needed colour. Therefore I added out glows, inner glows and drop shadows of black and red. Something new I experimented with was the noise level. Increasing the noise level added more of a fuzzy effect over my inner glow. This created a unique effect and allowed my text to become more gothic. This is important in showing the genre of my trailer. This text would work well on a black background, allowing the red to stand out due to the contrast of colours.

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When creating this text I decided to space the lettering and use the Gloucester MT Extra Condensed font. I found the text appealing to use within my poster and magazine, although I needed to make my text more interesting.Therefore due to this I added drop shadows to create a greater boldness, allowing it to stand out further. I then decided to add bevel and emboss which added a variety of texture and contour. I added inner bevel with a 184% depth. I then added a gradient overlay to add variety into my text colour. Instead of my text just being plain black, this allowed my title to become more appropriate and interesting.Overall I believe this text would be clear on a red background, and would effectively stand out. This will be something that is eye catching for the audience, allowing them to want to watch the trailer and gain greater knowledge about what ‘Paranoia’ is about.

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During the creation of this text I decided to experiment with both red and black but in a different way. The colours of my text give a more paranormal, out of the ordinary theme. I also added a range of drop shadows to make my text more bolder, therefore so it will stand out on posters and magazines. I also added darker outlines to the red text so it isn't all one colour, therefore standing out.Spacing each of the individual letters out also makes the text a lot longer, therefore catching the attention of the audience and enabling people to want to watch the trailer. People will be more likely to want to find out more about the trailer.

Overall I think this text is well suited to the genre and storyline to my trailer, and I believe it will work well on posters, the trailer and magazine. The text looks interesting, stands out well and conveys the horror genre.

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To decided which text I preferred to use, I used my target audience. As my target audience will be the audience who will be watching the trailer and will be most interested, I found it

important to find out their opinions. Due to this I created a small question consisting of tick boxes to choose their preferred title and one simple question asking why they chose this

text and what they like about it. This will allow to gain greater insight into what text is most preferred to my 15-40 target audience. This then means I will be using the correct

text for my horror/thriller genre and the text will be appealing to my audience.

Within the next slide there is an example of a questionnaire I have put together to gain my feedback.

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Choose one text you find most appealing and suited to the horror/thriller trailer. Tick the box -

Please state why you chose this text and what you liked about it –

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