magazine Baubel's and Pictures

We have decided to create two magazine front covers, with a few differences like the colour of the font, so that when it comes down to the end, we can choose a favourite.


We are doing a Baubel pictures each on the magazine front cover and on friday we are going take the main picture of our magazine to have in the middle.

this is the picture im going to put in one of the baubels im am doing as it is one from a christmas episode from eastenders, to keep in with the theme!

Practice Shots...

we spent some time taking shots of different, quick and small events to give us an idea on different techniques we could use. These practise shots will be quite usefull because now we will be able to edit them together to get an idea on best visual shots such as handheld or on the tri-pod. We shot different angles of wlaking through doors and also one of our parts that we are going to have in our trailer which is the tension building bit at the end when the woman drops the birth cirtificate. WE tried different angles and we will choose the best but we did find that paper would be a problem as it doesnt fall flat so we would have to think of other ideas such as card or doubling up the layers of paper. also we had a bit of trouble following the papper as when it falls it salls quite qickly therefor we found it hard keeping it in the shot at all times.

Quick overview of shots and angles we could use

• Starting off with a black out
OR
• The advert/logo of whatever channel it is going to be shown on.
• We could start off with a through the window shot of the couple looking though the box and maybe somehow add the effect of it snowing to get a feel of the time of year!
• Maybe a close up of a wedding photo they have just picked up showing they are married.
OR
• Have a shot of pictures along the fire place. Go along the mantel to show other pictures of family holidays, etc, the mantel piece will be covered in Christmas tinsel and lights.
• Mid shot of them looking though and her picking up a piece of paper
• Move straight to a close up of her face as she realises what it is!
• Maybe then Move to him with a close up with him saying something like “what is it!”
• Then move in to a long shot (so we can see her full body) with her about to drop the paper. In this shot I’m not to sure yet of the position of the camera I have three options and want to pick the one that will have the most dramatic effect.
They are –
1. Having the women standing face on towards the camera
2. Having the women side on facing her husband and having him in the shot
3. Having rear view of the women facing her husband.


• To add to the mysterious effect the camera will then follow the paper to the ground as it drops.
• Finally finishing with a close up of the paper to she that it is a birth certificate with her husbands name on it

Music and voice over for advert

Music and voice over
• Christmas music, playing throughout the sequence
• Not to sure what song yet but we were thinking of having one which is quite slow or maybe even a Christmas carol
• Voice over examples:
• “Christmas is a time for family, but you never quite know who that might be”
• “Christmas is a time for family, however they might be closer than you think”
• “Christmas is a time of happiness but would you be happy?”
• “Christmas is a time of happiness but that doesn’t mean there wont be surprises”
• The voice over is going to come in quite near to the end maybe around the shot of her looking at the birth certificate before she realises what it is.
OR
• Having the voice over start when he see a picture of the wedding and then have a pause and then finish when it’s the shot of the birth certificate

We don’t have to decide on any of this just yet though as the music and voice is one of the last things to add. And we don’t have to add this until the whole thing has been edited

Magazine

my partner has produced an example of what our idea would look like... this is a present that i have blurred a picture over the top of. we would write a caption across this such as "Love is the best present at christmas" and we could have a slogan towards the top of the magazine saying something along the lines of love at christmas, so that we get an idea of the themes in the soaps.

Magazine ideas

We like the idea of the we love telly magazine, where they have pictures of other soaps in the middle of the ball-balls.

we would like to use this idea but maybe change it by haveing the pictures in different christmas shapes for example christmas presents,having the picture coming out of christmas stockings and different shaped ball-balls

Final Two Magazine Title Headings

These are our final Two designs for the masthead of our TV magazine they are centered around a christmas scene as we said. The main difference between the two is that the font is different colours but now we have got it down to the two we can decide on a definate one later on.