Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Question 1:

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Silent Cries Movie Trailer

After creating my last trailer, I wasn't happy with the outcome. I couldn't put it together to create what I imagined it to look like. I feel like MoviePlus doesn't have enough available to give the trailer the right effect that it needs to really stand out and catch the audiences attention.

Fortunately, I had the help of a friend who said I could use his software to try and create something better. He knows all the different techniques and skills within video editing and taught me how to create the perfect trailer to fit what I had originally planned.

Audience feedback
"The music was very effective and made the whole trailer come across as quite powerful and eerie. The sound effect placed at the beginning and end really helped me to understand the genre of the trailer."
"Great use of connotation - making the red tie stand out as a sign of danger and highlighting the red blood to symbolise death."
"The use of lighting really set the scene of the trailer. It allowed us to understand the genre of your film as well as it adds a dark and mysterious effect to the plot and the main character involved."
"It's good that you have made the wall scenes landscape because the portrait footage gave over an unprofessional look so having it all landscape now is a lot better."

Luckily, I wasn't given any improvements as they said it was the best version yet and that I don't need to change anything; it portrays its purpose and gives over exactly what it needs to towards the audience.

Second Draft of Trailer

Audience feedback:

"woods picture is a lot better than the other background image"

"graveyard scene is really good; helps set the mood of the trailer"

Improvements:

Slow everything down slightly, it all seems rushed and too fast.

Add more close up footage to really get an insight into the characters facial expressions.

Instead of using a woods picture, actually film the woods to have more of an eerie effect.

Make the portrait scenes landscape.

The text speed and transitions are all different and slightly confusing. Make them all one font and keep it to one transition so it all fits together better.

First Draft of Trailer

Audience feedback:

"Music is very effective; really portrays the genre of the film"

"Some of the camera shots are really good. It's really clear what each shot is trying to show"

Improvements:

The one portrait scene on the wall needs to be re-filmed so it's landscape like the rest of the trailer. Otherwise it looks out of place and unprofessional

take away some of the text slides; there are too many of them and not enough actual footage.

change the text slide background, doesn't go with the theme of the trailer

Slow down the medicine scene to make it more dramatic

Make the wall scene in time with the music to make it more effective

Final Magazine Design

My Magazine Analysis

Magazine Analysis 2

Magazine designs

When I first started this magazine design, I just wanted to play around with a few ideas. However, I think the outcome has made a great first design. There are probably areas that I need to improve or parts that I've missed out which I will find out once I gain some feedback. On the other hand, I'm proud of how this design has turned out. 

I made a few changes to my magazine cover to make it more realistic and catchy for the audience. I moved the slogan 'BEST SELLING MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR!!' so it was below the magazine title. This is so the title is the right at the top, making it the first piece of the magazine. When I was looking more into my research for magazine covers, I noticed the use of circles to draw focus to the main article of the magazine. Because of this, I added a circle shape just below the title and slogan to draw the audiences attention to this specific section. This lets them know that the information within the circle could be very important. In the circle I put 'Exclusive interview from the cast of...' and outside the circle but still connected states SILENT CRIES. This states the main article of the magazine and makes it stand out.

Peer feedback: Make SILENT CRIES bigger so its completely clear to the audience what the main article is

Add a social media link, such as twitter to make it look more modern and realistic

This is the next design that I created with all the changes from the feedback that I received. Overall, I believe the presentation of the new magazine cover is a lot better that the previous version; it definitely looks more realistic and has started to look professional.
The last piece of feedback that I got was to put 'Exclusive' from the circle on a separate line above the other text so the circle is slightly more filled out.

This was the last draft that i created before finalising it completely. I feel like the only issue is that there is a bit of a gap above EXTRA so I think I should make the text underneath a bit smaller and move it down slightly so I can add another strapline and text above it so it doesn't look empty.

Feedback I got from my teacher was to include the SILENT CRIES or elements of it from the trailer so they are linked together better.

Conventions Of A Magazine Cover

Magazines

All magazines consist of a bold title at the top of the page which states the company that the magazine belongs to. On some of the covers, above the title is a small caption to catch the attention of the audience. the caption consists of one sentence stating what to look forward to within the magazine. This helps the audience decide whether they want to continue reading the magazine. the main focus of the magazines is the pictures directly in the center of the magazine. The pictures cover the whole page with the text surrounding it. On some of the magazines, the picture is in front of the title so it is covered up slightly. This could suggest that the illustrator is using the picture as the main the attention grabber of the poster. by seeing the picture, the audience know straight away what is included in the magazine and, depending if they like the movie being advertised, they could want to buy it and read what news has been written about that particular movie. At the bottom of the page is a bar code because a magazine is a type of merchandise that can be brought by the audience.