20th March Lesson Blog

Creating JPEGs to end trailer

Previous research of trailers showed that a reoccurring convention was to show the movie name and other information such as

release dates at the end of the trailer, the text often has a personalised font regarding the movie, for example Spiderman or Harry Potter. Because of this we had to create our own images at

the end using Photoshop, as iMovie was unable to create this within it’s own software.

Firstly, the film title had to be created. To enforce synergy across our products, the same text and font size were used as seen in the poster and magazine. This was simple to produce as a the title’s layer was taken form our poster then placed on a black background.

The second image that had to be made showed release dates and also producers information. The group had previously set up a twitter account for JCDProductions, we decided to use this at the end of our trailer as we had seen other trailers advertise social media sites as different platforms media.

After finalising the two images they were easy to transfer to the end of our trailer.