Film poster final product

Question 4 my part answered on the teaser trailer

Evaluation 3 What have you learnt from your audience feedback? (teaser trailer)

How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

Furthermore with the costume in all 3 media products, the protagonist is wearing the crucifix chain which helps the 3 media products link together. In addition the crucifix represents religion and religion is part of the binary opposition which is science vs religion and because the binary opposition is easily recognizable, the chain will help the audience recognize the film from just chain because they are all in the three media products, and it's represents religion which is part of the binary opposition.

The teaser trailer's scenes were dark which creates a link between the magazine and film poster because the magazine front cover and the film poster has a dark background due to the use of the color black and dark grey which creates a link due to the use of the colours.

Furthermore making the font the same as well as using the same costume for all three media products and the same dark colors in all three media products makes sense because of the fact that a cultural capital in psychological thriller will know that psychological thriller movies in their media products use the same font such as Red Dragon. Red Dragon used the same font in both their trailer and the poster which also influenced my group and I do this for our media products. It also helps the audience understand that these media products are linked together and part of the promotional film packaging. If we didn't then it wouldn't make our promotional film packaging look professional due to the different fonts being used and having no sort of linkage between the media products which is why it's essential to use the font and other features to link all the media products so the audience can know that they are all part of the promotional film packaging.

The costume was the same in all three media products which creates a link between the media products and showing the audience that they are part of the same promotional film packaging. In addition it would make sense to make the model have the same costume in all three media products because people could just use the costume to identify the film. 

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

Question4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research & planning and evaluation stages?

Question 3: What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

Poster

We showed a draft of our poster to a focus group raging of 10-12, 17+yrs. There were a mixture of psychological thriller fanatics and those who were more for the mainstream content such as super hero action film, which we believed will give us the best feedback as to what conventions will appeal more to a fanatic audience and what could those who are more about the flashy suits can comment on how our dark themed poster can reach out and attract them.

The feedback we received were about how we can change the font of the masthead. An interesting topic someone suggested was the photo used, we told everyone it was a place holder and they said it was a good photo. They liked the use of the crucifix being highlighted which was a prop we never meant to even bring in and said we should get a more interesting pose for our protagonist to draw them in more. We took on this feedback and applied it towards our new draft. 

As you can see we applied some effects to make it more interesting for our audience such as adding the main focus of our project the tattoo. Also from the feedback we got there were comments of our model having a glow outline which was contrasting the dark background, I made changes and is now fixed.

Trailer

We went out to our target audience to get feedback on what their opinion are on the film. We also did this for the poster which proved to be helpful for us in our development and continued to help it in our trailer. As said from the feedback we re-recorded some scenes that were really bad such as the bathroom scene and some of the torture scenes.

 As you can see here on the left is the previous shots from the trailer and the new ones we took are on the right which are at a better quality and the focus is not too off. You can also see the brightness is better for viewing as well. 

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

My magazine Development Draft#1

This is only a draft of the independent magazine I am producing. This was my contribution towards the group and to show other ideas how to utilise an independent magazine.
In this draft I need to fix my bar code and change a few sell-lines. The main problem I have here is my text being hard to read from the background meaning I may have to change the photo, crop it or as seen to other independent magazines I will blur the background which could male reading easier.

Film poster feedback

4) 4) How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research & planning and evaluation stages?

Film poster draft

3) What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

2) How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

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

Complete Magazine

Final Poster Notes

After looking at more psychological thriller posters as I felt that I was shifting away from our genre I realised that most posters seem to have there masthead placed in the middle and When I try that our poster seems bland at the top area. I'll place the slogan there, however it would just look weird and misplaced. This is why I created a puppeteer at the top to create something more interesting and to fill in the blank face. The hands were a separate image and I had to find a suit that I can lower the opacity to fit in the background and create mystery to whose controlling the strings. This gave me an easy option to place the slogan beneath the masthead and gave it a red colour to draw more attention.
The star names are better to read and I like the use of the white and red.

Final Poster

FINAL Teaser Trailer

Draft #3