Production of our poster and magazine cover

This week we have taken the photos for our Film Magazine cover and also for our poster. We decided that for the film we would take pictures of our actress both in character and not in character, this will allow us to make a better decision later on about whether our magazine will be advertising the character or the actress. However, I think that it will be better for the magazine text to advertise the actress rather than the character because through research I have found that although there is sometimes a picture of the character on the front cover, the magazines still have an interview with the actress or actor.

    

Overall I think it went quite well as we managed to get a variety of photos which we could use. However, due to the time of year, we were losing light very quickly and my lamp was not always good enough to get the shot that we wanted. For example, when we were taking pictures for our poster, it was the last shoot that we did and it was very dark in my conservatory, the reflectors weren't doing much and we wanted half of her face darker than the other. We tried using the lamp to create light on her face, but it was still too dark for both of the cameras that we were using as we couldn't use the flash as it ruined the effect we wanted. This meant that these pictures are not really sharp, so when it comes to editing them, we may have trouble making these shots big without losing the quality.

    

However, if this really is a big problem, we will probably be able to use some of the other pictures that we have taken. We took pictures of Megan on a black background both in character, and out of character. Also we took her outside onto the street to take pictures of her in character, as if it was a shot out of the film. To make it obvious that she was in character, we had her dress in black to create a dramatic look, and also made her look as if she was crying using onions and Ella also smudged her make up down her face to increase the idea that she was crying. Hopefully we can find the shots we want and we will be editing the pictures on Monday.