Press pack proposal/response

For Advertising my thriller I intend to create a DVD cover sleeve and an imaginary interview in a magazine with myself. Dreams do come true. But before I do either of these things I will need to do a little bit of research, so I'm off to look at a few magazine websites and DVD covers, and I'll report what I find momentarily.

Here is an Interview with Christian Bale on The Dark Knight rises. http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1529

And here's another from Gary Oldman from the same film. He seems like a real nice guy. http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1527

These were both from Empire, this next one is from Total Film

This is Andrew Garfield on The Amazing Spider-Man

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/andrew-garfield-on-the-amazing-spider-man-interview

Here's a couple pictures of magazine interviews from TotalFilm and Empire

Here's an Image from a TotalFilm magazine Interview With Richard E Grant (Left)

And an Empire magazine's Interview with Christian Bale (Below)

Now after some intense reading of interviews, I'm supposed to show you some DVD covers I've found. Well here you go, some inspiration to my work I suppose.

Inception DVD sleeve. I think it works well, the cover has all the main characters holding guns and looking cool with a city bending over them, then on the back it has a series of screen shots from the film neatly placed around the blurb.

Iron man DVD sleeve. Personally I think this one works better than the Inception Cover, the front cover is cleverly put together with all the characters standing next to the iron man suit with a little explosion and a couple of jets flying after iron man. A bit of action with a few dramatic looks. The back of the sleeve is a dramatic pose from Robert Downey Jr. with the half finished suit behind him, next to him is the blurb and underneath them both are roughly six pictures all lined up. Its good.

The Dark Knight. This is good, better than inception, but not as well laid out as iron man. Dramatic pose from batman in front a building with a burning bat symbol on it, which is cool, but that's one thing with films that annoy me, when they show things that don't happen. so I don't know, its kind of false advertising, what if you bought it looking forward to a scene where the joker blows a bat symbol out of a building to get the bats attention? Anyway, the backs good, picture of batman holding a batarang next to the blurb, underneath that there's 3 or 4 screen shots from film, under that a picture of the joker looking menacing, it all works fabulously.

Looking at all these have got me pumped to make my own, so I'm off to do that, see you in a bit.

*10 minuets later

OK so the software I'm meant to be using isn't working for me, so now instead of making a DVD sleeve I'm going to make a poster. Here's some posters to show the research I did.



This is the teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises, a very clever poster not showing much, but still telling you its about Batman, with the buildings falling apart it gives you the sense that there's going to be a lot of action scenes.

This is the teaser poster for Quantum of solace, this poster actually Says 007, that makes it obvious its a James Bond film, Bond famously uses a pistol, so showing his shadow holding a rifle could mean that there's going to be a lot more action than there usually is in a bond film.