#5 Promoting My 30-Second Story — Preliminary

 

    I made my poster so that it fades black at the top and bottom, giving it that horrific, scary, dark feeling. Those dots on the side, I really only added them so that it would look nice, but it also represents a sort of glitch-- as in when the call sounds grainy and barely understandable. If you'd look closely, there are eyes all over the poster, representing the stalking part of my 30-second video. Me and my teammates used this specific screenshot in the video since it was the best one to accurately represent the story's plotline

    I used this specific font because--I'm not going to lie--I searched up "horror fonts on Canva" and this one was the best one in my opinion; Victoria is the one who came up with the title "Marked Absent". The tagline says "only you and you alone" because this is one of the lyrics in the song that plays throughout the video. It also makes perfect sense; a stalker would 100% say something like that to the person they're obsessing over. The cursive also, in my opinion, really contrasts the blocky text on the top.

    The mise-en-scène in my video is echoed in the poster through the dark fading at the top and bottom, giving a horrific touch. The video is also echoed in my poster because the picture in it is quite literally a screenshot of my video. This practice will help with my Cambridge project because it will act as more practice with things like tracking shots and recording parts that you cannot get in a still picture but can in a moving one.