Film Magazine Cover
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‘Empire’ magazine is a British film magazine published every month by Bauer Consumer Media.
The denotation of this magazine is that there is a red demon looking man, who the audience already knows it’s Ron Pearl the star of Hellboy, with what looks like horns that have been cut off on his head with his hand over his fist looking directly at the camera with his teeth slightly showing. There’s a huge masthead behind his head in red on fire. The main coverline is placed in the middle at the bottom on his chest with smaller coverlines at the top and bottom of it. There’s a bar code on the bottom left and a puff on the right. There are also mini coverlines on the left of the cover. There is the date and the price of the magazine issue between the curve of the ‘M’ of the masthead and the website of the magazine at the bottom of the ‘E’.
With the large masthead in capital letters at the back which takes up quite a large amount of space at the top of the cover, this shows that it’s a important aspect of the magazine. Having ‘EMPIRE’ on fire really catches out the readers eyes and it connects to the main coverline because of ‘Hell’. The colour red also connotes hell, hotness and danger, also anger and this connects to the main image of HellBoy and his NVC as he doesn’t look very happy, also with his fist in his hand. As ‘Empire’ is a highly popular magazine, HellBoy’s head covering the ‘P’ and some of the ‘I’ shouldn’t be a problem as the audience would know what magazine this is. The ‘E’ is quite recognisable for the magazine for the left third.
Everything on this cover including the masthead and the coverlines are written in san serif font, this gives off a modern effect and feel especially it’s a film magazine.
The main coverline says ‘HellBoy 2’ with the ‘first look’ on top in black and gold bold writing to show the reader that ‘HellBoy2’ will be that months magazines main focus. The date of this issue is March 2008 and HellBoy 2 was released in July 2008. This can grab the attention of HellBoy fans as they get a peep of the first look of HellBoy 2 and build exitement before its released four months after. Its font colour is white to make it stand out more from the colour scheme which all goes very well together within the ‘HellBoy’ theme, dark and dangerous looking.
The date and price placed between the ‘M’ of the masthead makes it unique to the magazine and goes against the conventions of magazines covers because most magazines, the date and price is placed where the barcode is but the barcode goes along with the conventions of where it’s placed.
The website of the magazine is written small about size 11 with red font parallel with the ‘E’ to go along with the colour scheme.
The main image is an asymmetrical mid shot of HellBoy looking directly at the camera to make as if he’s look straight at the reader for a closer effect to them. His expression, teeth showing and his hands placed into a fist shows connotes that he’s ready to fight or challenging someone to fight or it can look like he’s showing respect to someone or something. It can also reflect his personality as a rough man in the film. I would say they used high-key lighting here as I can see the light reflecting of his face and right arm so the reader can see clearly. The only prop used in this image is the bracelet HellBoy is wearing and at the end has a cross, it shows that he’s religious and this is very contradictable because he’s a ‘HellBoy’ and down hell is where the devil is and Jesus is in heaven.
The puff of the magazine cover would catch the eye of the reader as they emphasize on the ‘40’ and ‘SEX’ with a round gold block on the back.
The other coverlines which mentions ‘Natalie Portman’, ‘Scarlett Johansson’ which shows that the magazine focuses not only on film but film stars as well and high class film stars. This will help encourage readers to buy the magazine more.
Overall this magazine does go in the conventions of magazine covers in some ways.
The denotation of this magazine is that there is a red demon looking man, who the audience already knows it’s Ron Pearl the star of Hellboy, with what looks like horns that have been cut off on his head with his hand over his fist looking directly at the camera with his teeth slightly showing. There’s a huge masthead behind his head in red on fire. The main coverline is placed in the middle at the bottom on his chest with smaller coverlines at the top and bottom of it. There’s a bar code on the bottom left and a puff on the right. There are also mini coverlines on the left of the cover. There is the date and the price of the magazine issue between the curve of the ‘M’ of the masthead and the website of the magazine at the bottom of the ‘E’.
With the large masthead in capital letters at the back which takes up quite a large amount of space at the top of the cover, this shows that it’s a important aspect of the magazine. Having ‘EMPIRE’ on fire really catches out the readers eyes and it connects to the main coverline because of ‘Hell’. The colour red also connotes hell, hotness and danger, also anger and this connects to the main image of HellBoy and his NVC as he doesn’t look very happy, also with his fist in his hand. As ‘Empire’ is a highly popular magazine, HellBoy’s head covering the ‘P’ and some of the ‘I’ shouldn’t be a problem as the audience would know what magazine this is. The ‘E’ is quite recognisable for the magazine for the left third.
Everything on this cover including the masthead and the coverlines are written in san serif font, this gives off a modern effect and feel especially it’s a film magazine.
The main coverline says ‘HellBoy 2’ with the ‘first look’ on top in black and gold bold writing to show the reader that ‘HellBoy2’ will be that months magazines main focus. The date of this issue is March 2008 and HellBoy 2 was released in July 2008. This can grab the attention of HellBoy fans as they get a peep of the first look of HellBoy 2 and build exitement before its released four months after. Its font colour is white to make it stand out more from the colour scheme which all goes very well together within the ‘HellBoy’ theme, dark and dangerous looking.
The date and price placed between the ‘M’ of the masthead makes it unique to the magazine and goes against the conventions of magazines covers because most magazines, the date and price is placed where the barcode is but the barcode goes along with the conventions of where it’s placed.
The website of the magazine is written small about size 11 with red font parallel with the ‘E’ to go along with the colour scheme.
The main image is an asymmetrical mid shot of HellBoy looking directly at the camera to make as if he’s look straight at the reader for a closer effect to them. His expression, teeth showing and his hands placed into a fist shows connotes that he’s ready to fight or challenging someone to fight or it can look like he’s showing respect to someone or something. It can also reflect his personality as a rough man in the film. I would say they used high-key lighting here as I can see the light reflecting of his face and right arm so the reader can see clearly. The only prop used in this image is the bracelet HellBoy is wearing and at the end has a cross, it shows that he’s religious and this is very contradictable because he’s a ‘HellBoy’ and down hell is where the devil is and Jesus is in heaven.
The puff of the magazine cover would catch the eye of the reader as they emphasize on the ‘40’ and ‘SEX’ with a round gold block on the back.
The other coverlines which mentions ‘Natalie Portman’, ‘Scarlett Johansson’ which shows that the magazine focuses not only on film but film stars as well and high class film stars. This will help encourage readers to buy the magazine more.
Overall this magazine does go in the conventions of magazine covers in some ways.
Film Poster
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Film posters are posters that advertise any type on films on billboards, cinemas, on the internet, at bus stops, sides of buses and also magazines to persuade audience to go watch it but it must be eye catching in order for persuasion to occur.
One Missed Call Final is the third episode of a popular film franchise originally from Japan which was released in 2006 that have even been remade by the Americans in 2008. The main actress and actor of this final is Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki and Jang Geun Suk which is from S.Korea.
The denotation of this film poster is that there are two actresses in the middle of the poster who are on the phone, there’s a photo frame, more characters at the bottom with credits over and the main title near the bottom half of the poster, I also a corridor with two more characters in the background and Japanese red and black writing on top.
The main colours used in this poster is dark and gloomy with red and white text, this connotes horror and fear. The red represents death and blood which links to the film having someone trying to commit suicide and people dying.
The white font of the main title on the poster in Japanese is kind of distorted to give of the radio waves signal effect as the film is about killing people over the phone. The credits at the bottom are also written in white so it can stand out from the red background, with the website of the film is placed all the way at the bottom so fans could go and visit and find out about the film. On top of the main title, I assume that’s the anchorage because usually in the conventions of movie posters, most of the time the anchorage is on top of the title.
The main prop used in this film is the actresses on the phone which is the major prop in the film also taken with close up shots of them so audiences can see who they are and the NVC of them. They both look shocked and worried which gives of an anxious feeling to the audience which entices them into watching the film to find out what’s going to happen and why their expressions are like that. Another prop used in this poster is a photo frame that looks like a class photo is situated on top of the right actress.
There are many characters shown in this poster apart from the main two in the middle of the poster, there are gloomy ones that slightly shows their face with the red effect which can connote that they might die or in danger somehow. If looking closely, there’s a blurred red bloody image on top which looks like a face a ghost and in the background, the setting looks like a corridor of a building with two people who’s a girl and next to her looks like a boy. They made that area dark also to connote they’re up to something mysterious. The two main characters are quite in focus where the other characters are softer.
I would say high-key-lighting is used for the middle section of the poster to give the audience hints that they’ll be the main cast where the top section have a dimmer light, more to low-key.
Overall the poster gives off a mysterious mood due to the colour scheme and the way all the images are laid out. This film poster does follow the conventions of other posters for horror film and I believe it persuades audiences very well to want to watch the film and doesn’t give too much off.
One Missed Call Final is the third episode of a popular film franchise originally from Japan which was released in 2006 that have even been remade by the Americans in 2008. The main actress and actor of this final is Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki and Jang Geun Suk which is from S.Korea.
The denotation of this film poster is that there are two actresses in the middle of the poster who are on the phone, there’s a photo frame, more characters at the bottom with credits over and the main title near the bottom half of the poster, I also a corridor with two more characters in the background and Japanese red and black writing on top.
The main colours used in this poster is dark and gloomy with red and white text, this connotes horror and fear. The red represents death and blood which links to the film having someone trying to commit suicide and people dying.
The white font of the main title on the poster in Japanese is kind of distorted to give of the radio waves signal effect as the film is about killing people over the phone. The credits at the bottom are also written in white so it can stand out from the red background, with the website of the film is placed all the way at the bottom so fans could go and visit and find out about the film. On top of the main title, I assume that’s the anchorage because usually in the conventions of movie posters, most of the time the anchorage is on top of the title.
The main prop used in this film is the actresses on the phone which is the major prop in the film also taken with close up shots of them so audiences can see who they are and the NVC of them. They both look shocked and worried which gives of an anxious feeling to the audience which entices them into watching the film to find out what’s going to happen and why their expressions are like that. Another prop used in this poster is a photo frame that looks like a class photo is situated on top of the right actress.
There are many characters shown in this poster apart from the main two in the middle of the poster, there are gloomy ones that slightly shows their face with the red effect which can connote that they might die or in danger somehow. If looking closely, there’s a blurred red bloody image on top which looks like a face a ghost and in the background, the setting looks like a corridor of a building with two people who’s a girl and next to her looks like a boy. They made that area dark also to connote they’re up to something mysterious. The two main characters are quite in focus where the other characters are softer.
I would say high-key-lighting is used for the middle section of the poster to give the audience hints that they’ll be the main cast where the top section have a dimmer light, more to low-key.
Overall the poster gives off a mysterious mood due to the colour scheme and the way all the images are laid out. This film poster does follow the conventions of other posters for horror film and I believe it persuades audiences very well to want to watch the film and doesn’t give too much off.
Film Teaser Trailer
- The Film Title: One Missed Call
- Year Of Release: June 22nd 2006
- Director: Manabu Asou
- Producer: Kazuo Kuroi
- Production/Finance company: Kadokawa Pictures, Toho,Nippon Herald Films
- Actors/Actresses: Maki Horikita Meisa Kuroki Jang Geun-Suk
- Films Origins: Franchise/ Television Serious
- Sypnosis: In this final episode of the hugely successful "One Missed Call" franchise, the timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending a disturbing photo with the message: 'If you transmit this cursed photo to someone else, your life will be spared.' The students rush to pass the photo on to save their own lives, sparking a deadly fight for survival using cell phones.
One Missed Call Final is the third and final film of the franchise to come out in Japan but this time it has a famous S.Korean actor Jang Geun Suk to be the male lead and was filmed in S.Korea even though it’s a Japanese film.
How the film location is shown when there was a scene where there was a high-angle shot of the sign saying ‘School Field Trip in Korea’ so this gives the viewers a straight up site of where it’s filmed.
Since the characters are shown as students in this film, there main costume will be school uniforms and the major prop which makes the audience recognise it’s ‘One Missed Call’ is the phone which is shown quite a lot throughout the trailer.
This teaser trailer is 1.46 long so it doesn’t give it off too many details and leaves off a cliff-hanger for the audience to be entice to watch it and find out more about it although it’s quite long.
The trailer starts off with the film’s production company so the audience would know who the film is from for about 5 seconds, during the first cut, there’s a bit of a sting. Then it quickly cuts to a caption in Japanese in bright red already giving off a horror theme of the film and connoting danger, here non- diagetic sounds of a cheerful tune starts to play which goes against the horror teaser conventions and the captions starts to disappear and a distort tv looking screen comes on with a quick eerie sound and then extreme close up shot of a chicken and a voiceover of a girl comes on, this is how the narrative is shown in the trailer. This doesn’t really scare the audience at first until it cuts to the shot of the phone saying something about death. At this point it should make the audience been pulled in to see what happens next. Throughout the whole trailer there were mainly close-ups/ extreme close-ups with quick cuts as an editing technique used which is similar in many horror trailers.
Throughout this trailer there are lots of captions in Japanese between each scene to feed the audience a bit of the story of what will happen in the film but not trying to give away the complete story. As cutting to the shots of the phone, it seems like to be a flash between them maybe connoting a flash back or maybe seeing the future, this will cause confusion to the audience. At some point the caption written in white font just gives off information on the date, time and peoples names connoting they might be the victim where as the caption written in red tells us little information on the film.
The music during this teaser is not really frightening to the audience at all but then they also add in phone rings which is a foley sound becuase it had to be recorded by a foley artist then edited into the trailer to excite viewers because as fans know that after the phone rings from the previous films, people tend to die, but then towards the end the music changes and builds suspense for whoever’s watching the trailer and cuts gets quicker and quicker to build up tension. There are also a few screams of girls which go with the conventions of horror trailers to startle the audience. The trailer had the girl’s voice who the viewers might assume is the antagonist of the film on repeat to fright the viewers and make them want to watch the film even more. The trailer ends with a rhetorical question ‘can you forward death to your friend’ leaves a cliff-hanger which most trailers do.
During the trailer the trailer, the shots mainly go back and forth each scene for example when it fades to the girl then to the photo then to another girl then back to the photo, this creates suspense.
How the film location is shown when there was a scene where there was a high-angle shot of the sign saying ‘School Field Trip in Korea’ so this gives the viewers a straight up site of where it’s filmed.
Overall this trailer is being played before the release to give an insight to the audience of what the film is going to be about, it doesn’t tell you exactly everything but mainly what might happen.
- Year Of Release: June 22nd 2006
- Director: Manabu Asou
- Producer: Kazuo Kuroi
- Production/Finance company: Kadokawa Pictures, Toho,Nippon Herald Films
- Actors/Actresses: Maki Horikita Meisa Kuroki Jang Geun-Suk
- Films Origins: Franchise/ Television Serious
- Sypnosis: In this final episode of the hugely successful "One Missed Call" franchise, the timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending a disturbing photo with the message: 'If you transmit this cursed photo to someone else, your life will be spared.' The students rush to pass the photo on to save their own lives, sparking a deadly fight for survival using cell phones.
One Missed Call Final is the third and final film of the franchise to come out in Japan but this time it has a famous S.Korean actor Jang Geun Suk to be the male lead and was filmed in S.Korea even though it’s a Japanese film.
How the film location is shown when there was a scene where there was a high-angle shot of the sign saying ‘School Field Trip in Korea’ so this gives the viewers a straight up site of where it’s filmed.
Since the characters are shown as students in this film, there main costume will be school uniforms and the major prop which makes the audience recognise it’s ‘One Missed Call’ is the phone which is shown quite a lot throughout the trailer.
This teaser trailer is 1.46 long so it doesn’t give it off too many details and leaves off a cliff-hanger for the audience to be entice to watch it and find out more about it although it’s quite long.
The trailer starts off with the film’s production company so the audience would know who the film is from for about 5 seconds, during the first cut, there’s a bit of a sting. Then it quickly cuts to a caption in Japanese in bright red already giving off a horror theme of the film and connoting danger, here non- diagetic sounds of a cheerful tune starts to play which goes against the horror teaser conventions and the captions starts to disappear and a distort tv looking screen comes on with a quick eerie sound and then extreme close up shot of a chicken and a voiceover of a girl comes on, this is how the narrative is shown in the trailer. This doesn’t really scare the audience at first until it cuts to the shot of the phone saying something about death. At this point it should make the audience been pulled in to see what happens next. Throughout the whole trailer there were mainly close-ups/ extreme close-ups with quick cuts as an editing technique used which is similar in many horror trailers.
Throughout this trailer there are lots of captions in Japanese between each scene to feed the audience a bit of the story of what will happen in the film but not trying to give away the complete story. As cutting to the shots of the phone, it seems like to be a flash between them maybe connoting a flash back or maybe seeing the future, this will cause confusion to the audience. At some point the caption written in white font just gives off information on the date, time and peoples names connoting they might be the victim where as the caption written in red tells us little information on the film.
The music during this teaser is not really frightening to the audience at all but then they also add in phone rings which is a foley sound becuase it had to be recorded by a foley artist then edited into the trailer to excite viewers because as fans know that after the phone rings from the previous films, people tend to die, but then towards the end the music changes and builds suspense for whoever’s watching the trailer and cuts gets quicker and quicker to build up tension. There are also a few screams of girls which go with the conventions of horror trailers to startle the audience. The trailer had the girl’s voice who the viewers might assume is the antagonist of the film on repeat to fright the viewers and make them want to watch the film even more. The trailer ends with a rhetorical question ‘can you forward death to your friend’ leaves a cliff-hanger which most trailers do.
During the trailer the trailer, the shots mainly go back and forth each scene for example when it fades to the girl then to the photo then to another girl then back to the photo, this creates suspense.
How the film location is shown when there was a scene where there was a high-angle shot of the sign saying ‘School Field Trip in Korea’ so this gives the viewers a straight up site of where it’s filmed.
Overall this trailer is being played before the release to give an insight to the audience of what the film is going to be about, it doesn’t tell you exactly everything but mainly what might happen.