Monday, 7 January 2013

Evaluation Question 2 - How Effective Is The Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Text?

magazine cover final

POSTER

Evaluation Question 1 - In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

·        I have included an ident at the beginning of my trailer, which is conventional of nearly all trailers because it establishes what studio(s) is associated with the film.

·        My trailer has included an establishing shot of an abandoned park, which has relevance towards the story. These shots are a primary convention of trailers, but I have trued to specifically follow the codes and conventions of thrillers/psychological thrillers and I believe that the setting that I chose follows some of the conventions to convey the mood and tone of the trailer.

·        Colour was a convention which I picked up on quite a lot in existing trailers of the thriller genre because, I found that conventionally, thrillers don’t feature much colour, so I have tried to repeat this by saturating colour from my sots and also using as little variety of colours as possible within my ancillary products.

·        I have used primarily black and red as the min colours associated with the film because I found these to be some of the colours, which were iconic towards the genre.

·        I have tried to follow formats of existing film magazine covers for my own so that it retained the appearance of a professional magazine. I included a few different font styles which is common for magazines as it differentiates various articles which maybe featured on the cover itself.

Sunday, 6 January 2013

Final Trailer

This is the final version of my film trailer. I have made more improvements from the last version, I have now created an ident and put that at the beginning of the railer as this is a common convention of the majority of existing trailers. I have also altered the volume and pitch of the sound in some areas of the trailers, simply because my target audience thought that I needed to emphasise the key points of action more to gain more interest.