FINISHED - Teaser Trailer

The finished teaser trailer - Created by Angus Bentham.
The Video was first finished and uploaded on December 12th 2012 - This is the second cut with a more successful voice-over, uploaded on February 1st 2013.

Note the attention to detail in the trailers ending - the subtle, electronic 'bleeping' sound, with each cut between cast, crew and relase date. Also at the bottom of the frame in this section, there is a band which offers some tehnical information on the film. There is a simplified logo marking for 'Twentieth Century Fox' and 'Midnight Pictures' as well as the implication that 'Dolby Digital' halp[ed with the effects. Lastly, it states that this film is not yet rated, and there is a copy-right text paragraph which is taken straight from the 'Prometheus' trailer, with some minor adjustments.

Final Note - REQUIEM

FINISHED POSTER (And Secondary Posters)

PRIMARY POSTER (FINISHED):

Above, is the final poster design for Requiem. This image went through a dozen different stages to get to where it is now, from the original guide-lines, through colour correction and finally up to the overlaying of the text. I have experimented using elements from the other posters to allow me to reach this final design. It presents the tagline "It is the Autumn of Mankind" in blue, spaced out lettering, the featuring of the company logos at the bottom, and the theatrical release date. To add icing to the cake, I even gave the poster some extra aesthetic value, with the silver linings beneath the logos and around the release date, and finally, with the addition of the most popular social networking websites used by modern Teen audiences; Facebook, Twitter and YouTube - each have their website addressed above. The attention to detail was essential in making this poster look AS OFFICIAL AS POSSIBLE.

See Previous Post to look through poster production stages: http://t1086.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/poster-composition-planning.html


SECONDARY POSTER (1):
Quickly edited together, this was the first poster I created. A screenshot of the final shot in the trailer, with text edited over. I had to use Photoshop to bring out the "Q" more vividly. Here, I thought of grasped the tagline, and then simply stated that the film would come out in 2013.

SECONDARY POSTER (2):
Again, this is material from the Magazine photo-shoot. Quite often the image on the front of a magazine is also used in posters - along with many other designs. This one interests me because it is so simple. But again I didn't put any effort into creating this as a separate item entirely to the magazine, and the attention to detail LACKS in this one, compared to the final design.

FINAL POSTER - Digital Art (development)

CREATING ORIGINAL POSTER:

I selected the fourth composition because of its focus on the 'shards' - they are up to this point the most mysterious thing about 'Requiem' - the trailer can't show much about them because of their being limited effects at my disposal. I considered attempting to use colour keying to overlay an image like this into a scene using green-screen, but eventually decided it wouldn't look professional enough.

SELECTED COMPOSITION:

I have decided to use my 'Bamboo' brand Graphics Tablet to create this poster for 'Requiem'. By simply doing a photograph I would not be able to explore the subject of the film to its full potential. However, creating Artwork gives me a new degree of creative Freedom - I have control of what I can create and do not depend on money or other people. I've set my-self this task to create the poster as a piece of concept art, not as a photograph. I have already used a photograph for the cover of the magazine.

Here I marked in the perspective lines which I could use as a guide when blocking in colour for the next stage. I'm leaving out the shards for now, because they would interfere with the landscape at this point. 

Here I have begun blocking in colour using photo-plus. I have not watched many tutorials on creating concept art but I have seen some and they always advise that colour blocking should come before adding any detail.

So here I have started adding in some lightning effects - where I imagine the shadows would be, specifically at the base of the hill on the left and around the mountains. 

At this stage I have decided to start drawing in the 'shards'. They are splinters of an alien craft which was scatted across the earth - leading to a massive, sudden loss of human life. Also, I have added in clouds.

Using colour correction and glow effects I have managed to make the scene have this warm dusk lighting. It makes the scene feel a lot more calming - which is in strong contrast with these sharp, immovable, monolithic shards.

This final stage shows the finished scene - I will most likely do some minor tampering with the image to improve it as I turn it into a poster. The last thing I added was the sun-beam effect. I copied the image as a new layer and reduced its transparency to around 50%, then used maximum 'zoom blur', with a focal point on the sun.

THE FINAL POSTER WILL BE MADE USING THIS IMAGE BUT WILL ALSO HAVE THE TITLE, TAGLINE, CAST/CREW NAMES, LOGOS AND RELEASE DATE INCLUDED - My next post will show the final Product.

COMPOSITION designs for Requiem's Poster

I am aiming to create the final poster using my Graphics Tablet - my Art abilities should be able to create a concept piece which is very close to being photo-realistic, depending on the composition. I have planned a few alternate posters which I could create.

FIRST COMPOSITION:

This first design is possibly my favourite. I think the canted frame with the dramatic background and silhouetted figures running AT you, out of the picture looks really Exciting. However - it may be a bit too revealing, I'd use this for a Theatrical Poster. The main reason I'll reject this is that this composition would take a lot longer to create and be much more difficult.

SECOND COMPOSITION:

This composition, similarly to the first seems like a really good option - it is dramatic and revealing. But again it might be too difficult to create - I don't want to push my-self beyond my abilities. The main thing I would criticise about this is it seems too controlled - the 'shards' are facing in different directions. However, this does create a nice 'Frame within a Frame' setup. I'll consider this option but will most likely reject it.

THIRD COMPOSITION:

This third poster composition was designed to be more surreal - dreamlike. A line of characters walk across a vast expanse of still water, their reflections not distorted greatly, except by the ripples coming from the figure at the front. In the sky, more shards are falling out the sky and the 'Q' is glowing on the moon - for Aesthetic Value. I'll reject this one because I want mainly to focus on what these 'Shards' are - speaking with people about the plot, they seem most curious with them. These objects which are at the centre of the plot.

FOURTH COMPOSITION:

This Fourth composition is my final - taken from a different angle it is being presented in a 'landscape' format, rather than 'portrait'. I think this one is really interested, although not as dramatic and exciting as the first. This shows a glimpse into the devastated world or requiem, just after the 'shards' have collided. I chose a country scene to show some juxtaposition with the theme - Apocalypse usually makes people imagine a city being destroyed or a desolated wasteland covered in skeletons. Instead, I like how this shows a tranquil landscape at dusk - but devoid of human life. Scattered across this warm landscape are some jagged, horrible obstructions, which stab into the scenery violently, adding an uneasy but entertaining feature to the scene.

Poster - SOURCES

I would describe the poster as:
-SIMPLE
-BOLD
-VIBRANT

The list of cast and crew names at the bottom of the poster is something I will have to use in my own poster. I take note of the release date featured on the poster 'JUNE 29'.

I would describe this poster as:
-ENIGMATIC
-EERIE
-SURREAL

I like the minimalised use of colour to create a more eerie atmosphere. The spaced out lettering in this also inspired the style in which the title 'REQUIEM' is featured.

 I would describe this poster as:
-SIMPLE
-MYSTERIOUS
-DARK

The darkness shrouds the character featured on the poster in darkness. This uses minimal lighting similarly to the photographs I took for the magazine cover. I could re-use that photo for another poster I make.

I would describe this poster as:
-VIBRANT
-REVEALING
-EPIC

It tells us a lot about the film, very visually epic, fantasical and alien. It presents the title with the directors name being used as a brand to promote the film. I have been working on some concept art which I can use as a poster which resembles this design.

FINISHED - Magazine Cover

Here is the final Magazine Cover Design; FILM ECHO MAGAZINE featuring an exclusive first-look at 'Angus Bentham's REQUIEM'.
 

MAGAZINE EVALUATION

 

COLOUR SCHEME: 

PREDOMINANTLY BLACK

SECONDARY BLUE

FOR ATTENTION USES RED

 

FONT:

CORBEL (Spaced out lettering in places)

 

It was important to try and make this magazine cover look as proffessional as possible. I used other Film Magazine Covers from 'Empire' and 'Total Film' as inspiration. These provided a guideline on the layout and showed what kind of content is usually advertised on these Magazines. It needed to display varying content with bold lettering offering insight into the magazines actual content. The key selling words being 'NEW', 'ULTIMATE' and 'EXCLUSIVE'.

 

There was also a lot of technical detail which I needed to pay attention to. Such as the barcode, the labeling of the Magazine Issue (223) and the pricing, both in pounds (£)

and US Dollars ($).

The magazine features an statement offereing 'New Pics' on the films 'Dead Prince, 'Icarus XIII', Dragon of the North and 'Metropolis'.

 

Metropolis is a classic Sci-Fi film from 1926, Directed by Fritz Lang. Theis magazine suggests there is a remake going ahead - so I created a simple poster-like image which I was consiering assind go the Magazine Cover - but eventually rejected this idea because it would over-complicate the thing.

Seen here is a poster of the original 'Metropolis Film. Just for fun I created a New poster which is seen below. For a change of style it moved away from the Art-Deco aesthetic and more towards a Dubai Related look - modern architecture. Also the lettering is simplified and spaced out - in a modern style.

HERE IS THE 'METROPOLIS' Poster I started Creating. This content was Rejected from the final Magazine Cover...