Website principles

When learning about website designs, we found out that there are 5 basic principles to creating a good website:
- Functionality

• Speed
• Legality
• Access

- Design

• Typography- range, styles
• Aesthetics
• Artistry
• User-friendliness
• Clarity/ layering

- Content

• Purpose
• Fan base
• Information process
• Attention to detail
• Verbal expression

- Originality

• Animation
• Destictivness
• Quality of predictive research (design, user preferences, content)

- Overall Effecitveness

• Where the strengths are

Website draft



This is our first draft of our web design. We wanted our site to look unique and original. Our favourite design, which we think could work well, is using links around the image of the coffin. The image will look isolated and will satisfy the conventions of our horror genre. The coffin image also has a clear link with our teaser trailer narrative. However, this is just a basic idea, so to take it further we need to experiment on actual websites to create the best layout.

Filming Day 2

Today, we went to some woods to film "chase" scenes. It was a lovely sunny day and although we weren't there for many, many hours, we still got all our footage and hopefully won't have to re-film.

Here are some pictures:

Consulting the ACTION PLAN!

Jenny in the distance, preparing to stumble down.

Getting acquainted with the tree she was about to hide behind.

Jenny's lonely, abandoned belongings (while we filmed her)

Digging at lunch.

Going to another part of the woods to film more.

Jenny about to be dragged down the hill.

Thank you Jenny, for laying in leaves and repeatedly running down hills!

Potential poster photos

Here are some rough potential photographs for our poster, if we decide on the Blair Witch Project style of treetops: 

Abyss poster idea

Poster designs in more detail

We discussed our poster designs in more detail, paying particular attention to layout. The bottom two designs were examples of more conventional layouts, and although these satisfied the genre we thought they were not particularly unique. We therefore tried to expand our creativity in our other designs.  

Our favourite design is the top left hand sketch. It is the most relevant to our plot, whilst remaining intriguing to the viewer. We also thought a lot more about where the viewer's eye line would naturally fall. Our next step will be to take high quality photos of our actress so we can develop our ideas further.

Buried poster 2 deconstruction

Buried poster 1 deconstruction

There wasn't a great deal to say because of its simplicity- which is why it's a good poster (because it doesn't overload you with information).

Tag line research (from other media blogs)



Progeny's tag line is 'Hush little baby, don't sat a word'. This is an effective tag line because there is a child featured in the poster as the main image. Because of the way the child is positioned and dressed, she looks sinister which puts an edge on the simple nursery rhyme line and gives it a scarier feel. The line is also relevant to the film because it is the main song in the trailer, so the poster and trailer are clearly linked.





Insurgence's tag line is 'sometimes it's better to be left in the dark'. It is a good tag line because it reveals the film has a literally dark narrative, which can also be seen from the night vision style image. However, it is quite long so not particularly catchy .





Seventh Heaven's tag line is 'the hangover you'll never get over'. This is a good tag line because it is clearly related to and implies the narrative of the film being focused on alcohol. However, it is also quite long- tag lines should be short and catchy.  





This is a sketch for the Thick Skin poster. Although not the final product, it has been decided that the tag line will be a quote from the teaser trailer. This is a good idea because it directly links to the film and people will rememeber the line when they watch the film so are likely to repeat it, promoting the film. This would not work for our poster, however, because we have little dialogue and it is all 'help!' and 'get me out!' so wouldn't work very well.



Location scouting: the woods

Location photos

 The following are pictures of trees to hide behind (labelled 'Tree'), banks to be pulled down (labelled 'Bank'), paths to run along (labelled 'Path') and potential poster backgrounds (labelled 'Poster'). 

Poster

Tree



Tree



Tree



Tree and path



Path



Poster



Poster

Poster



Field

 



Bank



Poster

Tree

Path



Path





Poster or path



Tree



Pan's Labryinth website

http://www.panslabyrinth.com/

This is the website for the movie Pan's Labryinth.



Alice in Wonderland

Batman magazine covers- Empire and Film

The Others

Blair Witch Project Poster