N E W A N D F I N A L W E B S I T E D E S I G N

This is my new and final website design which I will now make into a website using Dreamweaver and also embed my trailer into.

WEBSITE URL: http://www.stmaryleboneschool.com/studentsite/Media%20A2/Jessie/index.html

I have followed the feedback I received and have made a new website design which not only follows the feedback I got but also now relates to my new poster design too. The white box is where the trailer will be inserted and there are going to be links to the official Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pages of Cirque. 

I think this website design is a lot more effective than my first draft design which was much too bright and cheerful. I think that having the black background is a lot more scary and typical of a horror genre website. I have also tried to keep the website related to my poster by including the same imagery and graphics and also the billing box, ratings and title. 

W E B S I T E F E E D B A C K

I received this feedback, after moderation, for my website:

• Same as poster – experiment with a dark background to make the genre more explicit.
• Play around with a billing box (beneath the trailer) and incorporate Ts & Cs.
• I’m not sure about the font for ‘the circus is coming to town’. I don’t think the simplicity quite works – consider blurring the text, and playing with colour.
  
  
  Since I have already updated and completely changed my poster in order to work on the feedback I got for it, I will now have to both follow this feedback and also make a new website design that is based upon my new website design, which is a lot more scary, with the inclusion of much darker colours.  
  
  
  Since my new poster is mainly black in colour, my new website will also be black to relate to the poster and therefore should hopefully therefore allow me to make sure that my new website follows this feedback I have just been given. 

W E B S I T E D R A F T

This is the first draft that I made of my website, still with my first draft poster in mind when I made it. I made this quite quickly and therefore I am really not pleased with it but hopefully when I receive feedback for it I can input changes and improve it, or even make a new one if I decide to change my poster too. I also wasn't able to use very good fonts as I made it on the school computer and couldn't download new fonts, so I want to change these at some point.

N E W U P D A T E D F I N A L P O S T E R

After taking in the feedback I got for my poster, I decided that I didn't really like my original final poster and agreed with the feedback that it is too fun and innocent looking and doesn't really scream out horror to the viewer. I also took on board the idea that my poster should have a darker colour palette to make it seem scarier and decided the make the background of this new poster black. I have also included a strap line 'roll up, roll up' to this poster, which was another recommendation I received in my feedback. I have used the same review quotes and the hexagonal shaped stars, as well as the same billing box. I have also maintained a similar colour scheme of yellow, blue and red in this new and updated poster. The involvement of the lines on the image of the clown face also hints at the fact that the film is a slightly art-house horror in that it is unique and creative. There is also still as aspect of simplicity and blank space, which I wanted to remain as I like the look of a more simplistic poster, which also relates to the art-house genre.

P O S T E R F E E D B A C K

I have recently gotten feedback for my poster following its moderation and, although positive feedback, I will now have to implement the recommended changes in order to improve it further.

'It follows the conventions and is stylish and well designed' however the recommendations are:

• at first glance, it is too jolly: until you look closely, the poster is not clearly an advert for a horror film. Even an art-house film would need to follow some generic conventions to draw in passersby.
  
  
  • To remedy this, we suggest that you play with a darker colour palette. You might find that using a grey or black background, rather than a white one, is all you need to make it clear what genre you are working in.
    
    
• Include your strap line (present on the website) on your poster.
• ‘Coming soon’ at the top in the centre would balance out the poster and be in keeping with poster conventions.'

F I R S T D R A F T P O S T E R

This is the final first draft poster I have created using InDesign in time for my first set of feedback. I wanted to keep the design simplistic as I really liked the designs of some of the more simplistic existing horror posters, with a lot of use of white space and imagery within text. I think I also have achieved a good sense of colour scheme, using the eye dropper tool in InDesign.

P O S T E R S W I T H S I M I L A R C O N V E N T I O N S

I have found these movie posters, two of which are for horrors, that have similar conventions to my final poster design:

I really like how in this poster, for 'The Last Exorcism', has quite a lot of white space which I think is really effective and is why my poster has a lot of white space. I think it also evokes questions from the viewer and intrigue into what the film will be like. I also really like the black and white style. 

This poster also has a similar style the one above, with white space and one central image which is really eye catching and again, evokes questions to the viewer. I really like the simple text that is spaced out, similar to the title on my poster where the letters are well spaced out from each other. 

This particular poster reminded me of my poster in that an image is combined into the text, and I think this is really effective as it ensures the poster achieves quite a simplistic look, as if only with text and one simple image, but in fact has multiple image because there is an image within the text. The image is hinting at a main character, which mine also does. I think this effect looks really cool.