Poster and Magazine Cover Flat Plan Rationals

We have decided to make the background of the poster a greyish black colour, thus creating the feel of mystery and danger. This combined with a shadowy figure amongst the shrouded background, will add too give a small amount about the film - showing that there is a antagonist and that they are of a ghost type - but not giving too much away by not showing the age of the ghost or the intentions. It was either that we would have the ghost itself in the background, or we would have an image of the family a few years before the film is set, with part of it ripped out, as seen to the right. I prefer the first option as i believe it will create a distance between the protagonist and antagonist, with one being in focus and the other not, but my partner Shaun disagrees, we will have to decide which is better in the coming days. We are going to have the protagonist on the left hand side of page, this way the viewer attaches themselves to her, with her being on the left hand side of the image. We decided to use "Indifference" for a title, as the meaning of Indifference is uncaring, which would link with a plot point in the story, as seen in Idea Generation. Also, it links with the sell line of "Sometimes its better of not knowing". We are trying to make this poster a lot like "The Woman In Black" poster, this way we have a professional template in order to work of.

We have decided to call our magazine Animus. We had originally decided to call it Chaos, however, after realising that the name Chaos has already been taken, so we changed it to Animus. The definition for Animus, is a strong dislike, or hostile attitude, which really works for our genre, with it being a horror magazine. It is also a synonym for spirit, with our film being about hauntings. The magazine will mainly focus in the Horror, Psychological Thriller and Thriller films, and other elements of the Horror genre. We have decided to use either a blood red colour or a black colour for the masthead. We have agreed to make the background a blue or dark grey colour, again keeping to the mystery theme, but also making the mast head stand out. We will also have a silhouette of the antagonist in the background in order to create mystery and danger, with the protagonist facing the camera, and the silhoute behind her, we get an omniscience feeling, commonly seen in films, where we know the enemy is there, but the characters do not, making us feel on the edge of our seats, a magazine being able to do this will be a great advantage to us. The main selling like will either be a white or even a light grey, to make it stand out from the selling lines. However the capitals of I, P and S maybe in bold front or black colour to make them stand out. Me and Shaun, both looked at the third Animus on the list (as seen left below) and the fourth "Indifference" on the list. We were hoping to add these to the magazine and poster design in the near future.