A2 Media Studies Blog

Brief; i will be producing a film trailer, as well as a front cover to a film magazine and a film poster of my film.

Monday, 15 November 2010

Evaluation Question One.

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



Evaluation Question Two.

How effective is the combination of your main task and ancillary tasks?

Evaluation Question Three.



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Evaluation Question Four.

Friday, 12 November 2010

Final Products.

Final Magazine Front Cover.


Final Film Poster.


Final Cut Of Trailer.

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Cut two of trailer.


This is the second rough cut of my trailer. I still haven't added any sound into it but I have added some more shots to vary my locations a bit more, as before it looked like everything was shit in one place. I've added in my film logos and titles. I think it makes it look more professional and realistic. I asked my target audience what they thought about it and they still said they didn't really get the narrative. But when I include my voice over I think it wil lal becme clear and it will tell teh narrative in a binary oppostion. Also the music that my friends band have created will set the mood of the genre and I think it will all coem together.

Friday, 5 November 2010

Progress with Magazine front cover.


I wasn't too sure about which one looked more effective. The one in black and white or the the one in colour? I looked at this magazine cover from the magazine 'FILM'.

I like the colour scheme which is used here, even though it's not for the same genre of film I am using. So this may be a problem if I would want to use this colour scheme. My genre is Romantic Comedies and they are normally bright, including whites, pinks, pastel colours etc. This cover makes me feel like the picture is entising you to read it. It comes across serious and brutal.

Here is more of a genre near mine. The colours are bright and vibrant. There is more writing and headlines involved in this magazine as the target audience is for females. Females tend to like to read more of 'gossip' magazines than men so they include interesting headlines. The background is more uplifting and i get a more pleasant feeling when i look at it. Im not sure wether to leave the background white or include a colour.



I uploaded these two pictures onto facebook to get some audience feedback, as i wasn't sure which one looked better, the dominant picture in black or white or in colour? So my target audience can decide which one will be suitable.



Here is another cut of my film magazine front cover. I'm not sure how to organise my taglines and headlines at the right hand side of the page. On some Film magazine front covers they don't feature much text. For example...

Even though this has a lot of text as a background it doesn't have any taglines around it, featuring different films, celebrities etc. I really like this idea and I think it gives off a really catchy effect. All these film magazine covers seem to have a background of some sort, so this is a problem which I am going to have to achieve to make my magazine look professional. I don't want my magazine to look boring, I want it to look unique and creative. I'm going to achieve this by representing my main character by choosing the right colours to go with my genre of film and as he is framed on the left hand side of the page it gives him power and it creates a dominant image.



I have chosen this cover as Robert Pattison is featured in the same genre of film I chosen. Also this cover has used the same colour code as I would like to use on mine. Robert is framed on the left hand side compared to mine which is framed on the right. These two magazine covers are very different in style but also quite simular as they are both unique in their own way. I like how this text is over lapping one on other.