Evaluation

As a group we decided that we would split the evaluation into two, Lucy and myself focused on answer question two- which is shown in the post below with their presentation they created. However Leona and Alice focused on questions One and Four and created the a voice over over the film and other images which is below.

Audience Feedback

We felt that it would be more beneficial if we all looked at question three "What have you Learnt from your Audience Feedback?" individually as it means that we can argue and discuss what other peoples perspective of our trailer is, the following clip is simply the recording of when an AS English class viewed our trailers.

We were able to get feedback, which gave us an insight of criticism and praise from a different perspective.
Overall, we were praised on our lighting to help set different moods and help create tension.
Our choice of music as it was appropriate for the genre of our trailer and also helped make it recognizable within our work; also as we didn't have any dialogue it helped to spark a sense of fear in the audience. Our choice of setting was picked out to be a positive as they felt that as the locations were recognizable it created a sense of realism.
When looking at the feedback forms, most people had picked up which age group we were aiming our product to and the genre of the film, we feel that this had a positive effect on our attitude towards our products as it clearly showed that we had created the right products with the right conventions for our target audience and genre of film trailer.
By having an outside perspective, from people who are simply watching the trailer, they gave us lots of honest criticisms. There was an idea that the clips didn't necessarily have a connection, therefore it could be fairly confusing to the viewer.
A reoccurring criticism was, that our "drunk" scene in the park didn't seem as realistic, as the people watching felt that it during the day wasn't the time to take part in these activities, they felt that it should have been later for example around 7'0 clock. However their criticism did have a constructive idea to resolve the issue. They said that we should have ether changed the location so that we could use a light to enable the camera to pick up the footage, or we could have changed the contrast of the footage to make it darker so that it seemed less innocent.
Overall I am really pleased with the feedback, as it made me feel our trailer was well worth making, due to people enjoying it and not giving away to much information. I would say that most of our feedback was extremely positive and gave us ideas of how to improve it.

How Effective Is The Combination Of Your Main

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How Effective Is The Combination Of Your Main

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This is mine and Lucy's part of the evlauation. We decided that as a group we would split the evlaution into two so that we both closley looked at all three of our products. Together they answered the question of "How effective is the Combination of Your Mian Products and Ancilary Texts?

Magazine Cover- Final Product

This is our final product of our magazine cover

Positives:

• I like the way that we made the main character the main focus of the poster as it not only gives another insight into our film bus it clearly shows what this magazine issue is about.
• As it is uncommon for Empire magazines to have a unclear background it gives our magazine a sense of individuality- and the colour creates a link between all three of our media products, therefore making it recognisable to our audience.
• It is again uncommon for an Empire magazine to have a black and white photograph on the front cover of their magazine, therefore it helps to add individuality to our film,and will make this issue rememberable.
• We have kept the conventions of a magazine cover, to make ours look realistic and to resemble a real media product.

Negatives:

• As we have a red background it limited the amount of colours in which we could use for the other texts for the inside articles etc. We did try a variety of colours however we felt it made our magazine look tacky, and it gave it a less professional appearance.
• As we didn't tell our main character to wear all black, it meant that we had to put the photo as black and white because otherwise it meant that there was to many colours, and ruined our theme with the continuenty of red.
• Again to do with the text- I feel personally that it is slightly boring as its all the same, however when we trie dit with all different fonts we felt that again it took away from the professional look. Also as the theme of our trailer was a thriller we felt that with diffenret fonts it took away from the seriosuness of this style of film.

Magazine Cover- Production

This is a lsit of the ideas in which the magazine conver should include- like I did for the film poster too.
Continuation of the colour theme, and fonts used.
Main character central focus
Catchy stories/ taglines which will entice the audicne in
A sense of indivuality but by still sitcking withing the normal conventions of a magazine cover.
Lookign close to deatil, to ensure it as professional as possible.- Maybe use a vairety of differnet fonts ot make it more exciting

Magazine Cover- Influence

Now that the film trailer as well as the film poster had been completed, the next part of our practical project was to create a magazine cover for our film.Like the previous to sections, befoe staring our group did thorough research into magazine covers before taking on the challenge of the cover on photoshop.We went onto famous film magazine Empire's website (www.empireonline.com/magazine/covers) to look at examples of film covers and the elements found in them to promote the film.One film poster stood out in particular to us. It was the Dark Night January 2008 issue of Empire magazine:
the cover contains the central image of the villan in this feature film. Cleverly shot from a slightly low angle, giving the character power and imbedding the Batman logo above the 'Empire' title.The background is quite dark with the lighting's central focus on and slightly around the Joker and the bars behind suggest the situation is that The Joker has either disobeyed the law, is in prison or being questioned. This could suggest the dark nature of the film as well as cleverly portraying that Empire will be interviewing the star.We liked the bright colours and playful font used that not only complemented what the actor was wearing in the shot but also the personality of the main character, The Joker.The cover mainly focuses on this feature film. The word 'exclusive' to describe the content enforces this idea as well as having the sub-articles being promoted on only a quarter of the cover on the same side which helped readers to not lose focus on the 'world exclusive' article.

Magazine Cover Initial Ideas

We were influenced by our film poster ideas, when producing a magazine cover. This was due to them both relating in the same way, such as making sure the main character stood out in both. From there we were able to build up a magazine by linking all the magazine points it should have. For example, tag line, price, title,continuation of the colour theme, and fonts usedCatchy stories/ taglines which will entice the audicne in- A sense of indivuality but by still sitcking withing the normal conventions of a magazine cover.- Lookign close to deatil, to ensure it as professional as possible.- Maybe use a vairety of differnet fonts ot make it more exciting.