Rise of Gladiator DVD and poster evaluation

Rise of Gladiator DVD and poster evaluation

Rise of Gladiator final poster

This my final poster for my movie press pack. Despite being very simple I think his poster is quite good. I used the ‘clouds’ feature to create the background as it makes really intense and great backgrounds on Photoshop. The colour combination of light brown and black works very well too, it gives off a sense of history and legend, and since Rise of Gladiator is set during the Roman era, meaning that the colour combo suits the poster even more. The two swords in the middle of the poster is an early version of my company logo, Gladius Productions. The quote “Heroes are made, legends are born” is the main quote for the film. This is because every film has a memorable quote from that film, the original Gladiator film’s quote is “What we do on this life, echoes in eternity” and “”On my signal, unleash hell”.

Rise of Gladiator DVD disc

This is the DVD disc that I created for my movie press pack. I think that this disc could have had a lot more improvement in the background but that aside I think it is an okay disc. Of course I had the title on top of the DVD disc and below that I added the helmet that will be the main logo for the film. I also added the DVD logo and logo of my company, Gladius Productions. I made the background of the disc by using the ‘fill’ and ‘burn’ features on Photoshop. I think I should had used another colour because the colour I used looks very unappealing and unpleasant. The burn feature made the disc better because it makes the disc look old and beat up which is a niche that suits the theme of the film well.

Mock DVD cover

This is my mock DVD cover for my movie press pack. Out of all the designs I have made this is hands down the worst one I have made. Just look at! Lets start with the quality of the cover, there is no quality what so ever. Every image and piece of text has terrible resolution making it terrible to look at. The front of the cover is terrible, its not the silhouette thats the bad piece, its the back piece that is awful. I thought it would be a good idea to add a Roman arch to the cover to make it more historical and appealing to look at, but little did I know that it would make my DVD cover look extremely childish and out of place. I made the background using the ‘clouds’ feature on Photoshop which in all honesty is the only good feature about this cover, it adds a dark, sandy feature which really suits the theme of the film well. The text on the top of the from cover is also barley readable. You can only make out the title of the cover but you cannot even see the text above it.

The spine of the DVD cover is not too bad but still I could had done a lot to improve it. I feel like the movie title is too big and could had been reduced to make it more fitting. I also didn’t add my company logo to the spine but during the time I had not created it yet. I had also forgotten to add the blue 15 logo which I eventually added to my final cover.

The back cover of my DVD cover is just as bad as the front cover. The text is only just readable and the picture of the Colosseum is out of place like the Roman arch on the front cover. I also did not add the copy write terms on the bottom of the cover.

In conclusion this piece of design and Photoshop is an abomination. The text and images are too blurry and hard to make up, images are there that should not even be there and I missed out important features such as the blue 15 logo and the copy write terms.

Final DVD cover

This is my DVD cover for my movie press pack. Compared to my first DVD cover this is a massive improvement. The images are not pixelated and their are no weird Roman arches to be seen. I decided to use the helmet from my mock poster because I thought it could be used as an icon for the movie and it surprisingly works for this DVD cover. I created the background by using the ‘clouds’ feature in Photoshop which created a dark, sandstorm vibe and it works very well. The front cover has the helmet as the centre piece and above that it has the title of the film and the name of the star actor.

On the DVD spine I added a blue 15 logo to the spine of my DVD cover and also the Gladius Productions logo to make the cover look more official and smart.I also added the DVD logo and again the Gladius Productions logo to the front of the cover because it makes the cover look more realistic. The DVD logo on the spine was also moved to to the top of the spine because after doing some research I found out that a majority of DVD covers have the DVD logo on the top of the spine and not the bottom like I previously thought.

The back of the DVD is completely different to the mock DVD cover. The writing is actually readable because I did not pixelate it like I did with the mock up cover and I removed the Special Features box for room for more text about the film. I added a silhouette of a Roman solider because as I am doing a prequel I cannot get real humans to pose for a DVD cover, however I feel like the silhouette adds something good to the cover. I kept the quote “Heroes are made, legends are made” because the original Gladiator film had a good quote about being remembered after death in “What we do in this life, echoes in entirety”. I also added all the copy write  features that are on the bottom of every DVD back cover.

In conclusion I think that is an ok DVD cover, I know I could had done a lot more to make the cover more eye appealing and more professional, but when you are as bad at Photoshop like me, this is very good. I think the background works very well because it gives it a historic theme and the helmet will appeal to fans of the original Gladiator film.

Rise of Gladiator mock poster

This is the first poster I created for my press pack. I think that this poster is absolutely terrible but this is mainly due to my awful design and Photoshop abilities. The first thing that sticks out is the Roman helmet which is very pixelated and unpleasing to look at. The logo is exactly the same, it is just as pixelated as the helmet and just as bad to look at. I made the background by finding a sand texture on Google images and the background kinda works but still it doesn’t take away the badness of this poster.

Gladius Productions business cards

Along with merchandise for my film, I also decided to create business cards about my company Gladius Productions. I think that creating business cards was a good idea because it will help promote my film through business ventures which in turn would help benefit Rise of Gladiator in the advertising and promotional phrase of the film.

Gladius Productions

After some research I finally came up with a name for my production company and that name is Gladus Productions. I chose the name because Gladus is a Latin word for a type of Roman short sword, and since I am making a prequel for Gladiator, I thought the name suit the company very well. The logo for my company was pretty east to come up with. I decided to have to Gladus swords crossing each other with the name of the company alongside each sword. I know I could had done a lot more to it to make it more appealing to look at, but my designing and photoshop abilities are so poor that I decided to keep this logo.

Rise of Gladiator merchandise

I thought it would be a good idea to create some merchandise for my movie press back. The first item of merchandise I created was a plain t shirt with the main logo of the movie (the Roman helmet) and the quote “Legends are born” branded across the shirt, below that quote is my company logo however it is relatively small meaning that people will be more focused on the helmet and the quote. I think the design for this shirt is simple and that is why I like it because the simplicity of the shirt makes it look nice and it gets the message of the shirt out loud. The back of the shirt will be plain because I feel like having images and quotes on the back of a t shirt is pointless and a bit tatty and not the most appealing of things to put on a t shirt.

The second piece of merchandise I created was an iPhone case. I thought this was a good idea for a piece of merchandise because the iPhone is the most popular piece of technology on the planet, meaning that selling an accessory for said phone would be a good business move because it will appeal to many fans of the film. The cad has the same logo from the first piece of merchandise on a white case with a red outline. I chose this colour combination because it is a very appealing colour combination and the red could also signify the blood in the film as the film it is promoting will have blood in it. I also added the logo for “Gladius Productions” at the bottom of the case.

The third piece of merchandise I created for Rise of Gladiator was another t shirt but this one was more aimed at female fans. This is because the shirt has a silhouette of the main character, a young Maximus (who will be played by Channing Tatum) with the logo of the movie just below it. I believe that out of the four pieces of merchandise I created, this is the least creative and least attractive. I say this because the design is something that doesn’t suit a t shirt, the design is out of place and it looks very unattractive. As with all my designs I included the “Gladius Productions” logo near the bottom of the shirt.

My fourth design is a tank top for both men and women. I like this design a lot because the quote on the tank top “Heroes are made, Legends are born” suits the top very well. Again I went with the red/white colour combination because I thought the combination will work well with this style of clothing and I believe it does work well. As always I added the “Gladius Productions” on the top but this time I put in inside the collar of the top and I made it vert faint so that it did not stand out too much.

My last two designs are a Rise of Gladiator keychain and a mug with the films main quote. These two designs are very simple because their only purpose is to be handy day to day items. I think the keychain is great because the black and white works very well for something so small, but there is nothing too special about the mug.

Company logo

This is my final logo for my company. I chose the name Gladius Productions because Gladius is the name for a type of Roman sword, and since I am doing a prequel fro Gladiator I thought the name Gladius Productions will fit the film nicely. The logo itself is very simple, 2 roman swords crossing over, I like this logo because it is very simple and its also very easy to remember.