Ancillary Tasks

My Film Review

My final poster

Designing my own Magazine Review

Upon looking at a number of different magazine film reviews and deconstructing them, I have started to design my own. I have decided to do this in Adobe Photoshop as this is the program I feel most comfortable using. Below is a basic outline of what my review might look like, I have just chosen a random photo of the main actress, Steph, and haven't decided which shot to use yet. I have done an outline of the basic layout, I have yet to add the actual review into the shot as I am writing that in Word then transferring it over when I have decided upon the final layout. I am also going to add another photo but of the Barbie doll herself, I have yet to decide whether it will be a photo of her as the stereotypical Barbie or as she is at the end of the film as I do not want to give too much of the plot away in the images.

I have however, added some key facts about my short film in the top left such as the running time and who's starring in the film.
I started to play around with some other photos that I could add to the interview without giving too much of the plot away, I also started to add some of the actual review into the layout as well to see how much text I'd actually need to fill up the double page spread. I thought about adding the photo of Ken proposing to a pregnant Barbie. This does not give the twist ending of the plot away but it does show a interesting turn in events.

After messing around in Photoshop for a while trying to decide upon my layout for my review without writing all of it I then change it completely following actually writing my review. I wrote so much that I decided that I would in fact only have one image, one of Steph looking confused holding the two dolls. This is the final design that I decided upon.

As you can see I decided upon having a pink colour scheme to match the one of the film, with the original title and font across with the top. 

Final Poster Idea

I have designed several different film posters for my short film, I have felt none of them have really worked. The one I liked the best was the mug shot poster, but then it doesn't really apply to my film as Barbie never gets arrested. I then had the idea of have a photo of Real Life Barbie passed out on a park bench with a bottle of Jack Daniels in her hand and having that as my film poster. But due to time constraints and the fact my Real Life Barbie has a full time job I have not been able to take this photo. I then had a further idea of a crime scene photo as my poster, just the outline of a body in chalk on the ground where Barbie died of a drug overdose. This then adds to the title of the film as it adds to the conspiracy around the fact that this story was untold... until now. 

Poster Planning

This is a rough draft of my poster. It's supposed to look like she is having her mug shot taken the strung out version of Barbie post Ken cheating.

I also thought about doing a poster of half a Barbie Doll face and half Steph's face. 

                                          

                                         

But the more I played around with this idea the more I decided against it, I didn't think it would look as authentic.