Magazine Layout

Film Magazine Title Ideas

Here are some ideas for the title of my film magazine cover.

Blockbuster- A blockbuster refers to a movie which has huge financial success, generally £100 million or over in North America. It would be suitable for the title of a film magazine because it would suggest it is reporting on the biggest successful films showing or coming up at the time of the issue. On the other hand it may also suggest that the magazine won't review smaller films which would make its content very limited.

LCA- An abbreviation standing for 'Lights Camera Action' which relates obviously to what directors may say during filming. It seems a suitable title for the magazine because it is short and memorable. It also is said at the start of filming a scene which can relate to the title being at the start of a magazine which could represent each issue of the magazine being a new scene of a 'movie'

Uncut- Used when describing a version of a movie that has all of the original footage in it. This would be a suitable title for a magazine because the 'uncut footage' could be represented by the reviews and opinions expressed within the magazine which aren't always expressed in the reviews of the movie.However, this title doesn't look as interesting or powerful as the other ones and may seem a bit bland.

Rewind- A title which could represent people going back into the film to review it. This title may prove limiting and/or misleading because film magazines always voice opinions on upcoming films which wouldn't be shown in the 'Rewind' title.

Reel- A word for a strip of film. Suitable for a film magazine because reviews and people exploring films only explore small elements of what they know or key points to films. On the other hand, Reel is also the name of a cinema company which might mean it isn't suitable to use it.

Conventions of a Film Magazine

 The cover of this empire magazine follows the general conventions you would find on a film magazine. It also follows a fairly common design shared by all issues of Empire magazine.
 The masthead of the magazine is the largest text on the cover and is in bright red writing making it the first thing a reader sees and allows a common reading of the magazine to instantly notice the magazine on a shelf and pick it up. It is also in the common font and one of the same recurring colours used by Empire magazine on all its issues again so people are familiar with what it looks like and also making all issues of Empire magazine look uniform in appearance.
 The main image of the magazine shows a famous actor and relates to the biggest story on the cover of the magazine. It attracts immediate fans of the actor or the character he is portraying if someone seeing the magazine would recognize the character. By using a well known actor the magazine can also attract one off buyers who wouldn't commonly buy the magazine but are interested in the actor or the film he is going to be in.
 The colour of the text is interchanged for every other story between being black and white. These colours contrast each other well and by using them in an alternating pattern the magazine looks more interesting than if a single colour had been used.

Conventions of a Film Poster

Alternate Shooting location ideas

 Due to the difficulty with turning a room into a convincing office for my film trailer I have decided to look for alternate locations for my scenes that will create a more believable whilst still being suitable for my trailer.
 I think that at least one of the two office scenes can be moved to a different location for example the one with Northcott and Malory talking could easily be changed to one of their homes or some sort of bar etc. Similarly the one in which Northcott confronts Sylvester could be changed to outside, somewhere discreet where nobody would see him confronting him.

Ideas for new locations
Confrontation location: This could be changed to behind a building with an industrious, plain feel that could represent the back of the office in which the detectives work. It could also be in some sort of tenfoot or back alley in which Northcott has convinced Sylvester to meet him.

Northcott and Malory talking: This scene could be one of the pairs house, a scene with them walking down a street discussing the case, or a cafe set up. The latter of these would require a lot of mise-en-scene to be successful, the walking one would be easiest and still remain effective.
A different idea for this scene could be in a car before they say leave for or from work. The car could be stationary and would be easy to shoot and make look effective.

Overall these scenes move away from the college environment which is proving difficult to film in.

Shooting session 05/12/12

During this shooting session we used two different shooting locations. One was a classroom down the oak corridor in which we used the computer and the door as the mise-en-scene to give the shots we got the feel that we were in an office. When filming I was trying to get the feeling of a believable office environment by being careful what was in the background of shots. Obviously because the shooting was done in a classroom it isn't entirely believable and in the future I will likely need to re-shoot and put more thought into the mise-en-scene of the environment I film in.

The second shooting location we used was in the media office which, though we didn't finish the shooting session though what we did made me come to the conclusion that the media office is a little to small for shooting in. Though it looks believable the cast have very little space to move around, especially with three of them being in the scene. Also being small means that the camera angles I can use are limited as either I can't get in a position for the shot or the tripod is to big to be put where it needs to be.

Sound effects research

For the film trailer as well as a music soundtrack I need sound effects which in some cases would be difficult to re-create. To solve this I will use sound effects websites and choose the most suitable sounds I can find.

The sounds I need are:
A heartbeat sound effect during the phone call scene
A phone hang up sound.
A phone ringing. (While it would be fairly easy to get a phone sound in real life, the sound effect happens off screen and a louder effect would be easier to achieve if it was taken from a sound website)
The sound of a bat or other blunt object hitting someones face or another surface will do.

Phone sound
http://www.soundjay.com/phone-sounds-1.html
Phone sound 4 on this website is good for what I need which is a stereotypical phone.

Heartbeat Sound
http://www.soundjay.com/heartbeat-sound-effect.html
The same website also has some heartbeat sounds though I may look for some different ones as non of these are all that dramatic.

Shooting Schedule 2

Due to cameras being booked I have had to shoot later than I had hoped

Office scene 
Date:Wednesday 5thy December
Lunch time and Last period
Cast required:
Alex Woodard
Josh Yorgensson
Jack Branton
Location:
Media office
DONE

First Outdoor Scene
Date: Saturday 15th December and Sunday if necessary
Cast Required:

Alex Woodard
Josh Yorgensson
Jack Branton
Adam Toomes
Yosef Sugarman

Also on Wednesday if I have time I would like to re-shoot the previous indoor scene hopefully in better condition and better camera work.