Welcome to my blog for my A2 Media Studies coursework. With Hayley Pitcher, we have planned and created a 5 minute pyschological thriller entitled 'Mind Trap', which focuses on the life of Lucy, a teenager suffering from schizophrenia. As well as this, we have created two anciliary products; an audio advert that would be fit to broadcast on the radio and a poster to advertise our film to our demographic.

Note: all images in posts can be seen in a full-sized version by clicking on them.

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

15th December 2010

This week, we chose a photo from our most recent shoot and made the poster. We were able to make the poster relatively quickly because we are used to using Adobe Photoshop, as we both used it last year for our coursework and we both use it in our spare time.















(Click the poster to see a full-sized version)

We decided a dark theme would be the most appropriate for the genre of the film, so we used black to add a dark edge to the poster and used white for the text to make it stand out.
the high camera angle worked well for us, as it made the character look vunerable, and the acting of Hayley was excellent, as she looks genuinely scared and looked 'trapped' by the fence by the way she is holding onto it.
We focused on the eye, seeing as it is an occuring theme in this genre of film; 2 of the film posters were looked at emphasised the eye, and the brightness of the eye contrasts against Hayley's pale skin.
Overall, we are pleased with the poster; we think that it reflects the grene well, it gives just right amount of plot away without giving away too much, and it looks professional.