audience feedback (1)

Evaluation Question 3

4 - HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

Trailer (changed idents)

MAGAZINE COVER Draft

Modifications of my Film Poster based on the feedback given

POINTS IMPROVES ON BASED ON THE FEEDBACK

• The titling and typography used is too basic and needs to stand out more. As you can see, I have changed my type on my poster for the names, tagline and the film ratings. I have done this to reflect the tone of the poster I used 'the Candy font on Serif Draw Plus. This type is less basic and less harsh like the others and is a bit more feminine to not only attract a female audience but to depict that the film is for a young audience and I feel that this type is playful almost, and is right for my Drama genre. 

• This is a rough edit as I have not finished entirely as there is space to fill but I removed the credits from the head and left it to be central and an iconic image of the trailer. I have made the poster a bit smaller to leave some white space to give the credits it's own space. To do this I re-sized the image and the layers to fit in to a smaller A5 type prototype of the A4 poster film and manually refined all the sizes of the poster and type, even the silhouette, which holds the most attention as it is black against my pastel background and through the manual use of the opacity tool I made the image more transparent to suggest that the character is fading away.

• Too much unused space present in the Poster and I need to work on my positioning.  I have reduced the waste of space by increasing the size of the film title and the names above it. Furthermore, I have also re-positioned the "COMING SOON" text to position in in a more conventional and central location within the poster. Additionally, the credits have been slightly enlarged to cover the body of the poster shown rather than just blank space. To reduce the presence of blank space further, I placed a slogan which has been deliberately positioned to resemble typical film posters and I further associated the slogan with the theme of the poster of being a drama and highlighting that there will be a downfall. " Just when you thought you were on cloud 9" 

Magazine Poster Drafts

Before creating my magazine covers I looked at different Like the poster I created this image in Serif Draw Plus and stuck to conventional magazine cover features such as a large masthead, cover lines and even a barcode. I noticed that famous magazine covers such as total film and empire mostly use RED as their main magazine cover scheme. 

After being used to software such as Adobe Photoshop, I was quite happy for the effort I had made while using Serif Draw Plus I became happy with the result, I ended up sticking with this program to make my magazine front cover. I started by creating a document in A4 and used the whole of the page to design a successful magazine. Notice I had change the colour scheme to blue white and black to adhere to the link b between my trailer and other ancillary text. For the photograph I used a filter in SerifPhotoPlus which added an aging effect to promote the idea of desolation and sadness which is a central theme in my drama genre film. 

For my photograph, I wanted my character to look drained and broken, which present a central theme of sadness across my 3 texts. I made her look intently into the camera so that readers would automatically feel a sense of sympathy for her as she looks bare and  emotional. 

Magazine Post

Before I created my magazine I drew out a rough and quick plan  on publisher  of what I would like it to look like. I did this with my film post  and made storyboards for my film trailer. On the plan, which can be seen below, I positioned the magazine and taglines, main images  in conventional places to try and get the best results on my film magazine. I also added conventional things that would appear such as exclusive content etc.

Trailer 2016