Magazine Research and Planning

To go alongside virally releasing my short film, I will be producing a poster suitable for the film, and a magazine article which reviews the film, written by me as a random journalist. I have analyzed many magazine articles, and those of which I have analyzed, I will highlight on my blog posts in photographic displays. Both of these tools will help mend any situations made by my short film, such as; explaining in detail, all of the characters and their backgrounds, and my proposed ideas that could be explained in more depth. This Informal magazine article video review will be explained in more detail, once I have researched magazine articles in more detail, I will give more of a formal response to the comparative texts. The image below is photographic evidence of the magazine Total Film, laid out on a Sci-fi Action film review, that correlates to my short film.

The double page spread of the image makes it obvious what the magazine is reviewing, as well as the big-font titles in contrast to the white pages. The columns of text with small key phrases highlighted are extremely easy to read, with coursed text leaving huge gaps between wording and paragraphs. All of the release information, certificates, and associations for the actors, directors and distributors are accounted for in its general information sector, directly underneath the tag-line for the review.

Empire & Total Film overview

This is a brief overview of how I analysed information from two different film magazines and their leading film articles based on their front cover's initial advertisement. 

Empire & Total Film magazine overview from Luke Anderson on Vimeo.

Ancillary product 2 Final Poster Design

I have created a teaser poster for my short film "Hardware", which presents a single prop piece (being the goggles worn by the antagonist), and a hand cradling the goggles which is distorted (representing a dystopian resembelence, showing sci-fi).

The actors names and credits are written in bold-black text to contrast to the image's background. The title is in contrast to all of the subjects in the image, and boldly presents the key genre of sci-fi with the distorted colours and shapes within each letter. The text at the bottom shows "21122012" which represents the 21st of December 2012, which was the proposed date of doomsady, which I've input into my teaser poster, and the text along the right makes no sense, because it displays an error, justifying that doomsday was wrong, until the english text mentions "both of them", which implies that there's more than one world.

Ideal Poster Choices

I have taken many photographs that I have decided would be best suited for a teaser poster. I have chosen to design a teaser poster, as I would like to have no specific contents revealed until my audience has seen the film. I will provide small hints into my plot, and I shall display the key genres of action and sci-fi, to convey into my poster. 

I experimented with abstract portraits of one of the props used within my film, as I believe it has an iconic display for the antagonist character, I have photographed only the goggles, with minor technical references. One of these images will be converted into a final theatrical poster.

Looper Poster Analysis

This is an analysis presentation for posters produced for advertising the film LOOPER, for its initial cinema release. 

Construction Final Film Product - HARDWARE

Hardware from Luke Anderson on Vimeo.
This is the final draft for my short film, titled: HARDWARE. The film conveys the action and sci-fi genres as one combination throughout. The film centers around one character, who lives on a more hostile planet, that's parallel to our own. The origin of this film was adapted from the theory of Domesday, and how past portrayals of the worldly apocalypse would play for Earth. But the main character "Johnathan Stanston" has realization of our world and his own, existing together, and being both, accessible, through black holes. The message from this film, is to explain how the apocalypse may have already happened, not necessarily on our planet however, but on one that's extremely familiar.