Evaluation Q1 - In What Ways Does Your Media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A2 Media evaluation Q1

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A2 Media evalutaion Q4

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Final Magazine Cover

This is our final magazine cover. As you can see it looks quite a lot different to the plan we had made a couple of weeks back. For starters, we now have a white background instead of black. This is because the images we took were of a brighter background and we though it wouldn't look that great if we cut out the people to put on a black background, so kept it as the white. We have managed to keep the 'Empire' logo which is very effective as it fits perfectly into the cover. The main colours we used were black, white and red as they are very effective on the cover of a magazine. They are easy to read colours and the red also fits in with the horror theme we gave to the magazine.

We made sure we included the necessary items such as dates, prices and barcodes. This is to make it a more realistic product. We included the main article about 'The Unknown' which is promoting our film, but instead of having the main image as the actors, we decided to do it of the crew behind the camera, therefore the people in the image are holding filming equipment that would be used in the actual filming.

I am really happy with how the magazine cover has turned out, at first I was a bit worried that without the black background it wouldn't fit very well, but in actual fact I think it works perfectly.

Images for Magazine Cover

Here are the images we took as possible images for our magazine cover. We took photos from various angles, including front on, from below and up above. We did this to see which would work better and give us a variety to choose from. I think they all work quite well as images but we need to take into consideration mastheads that will be put over the images, as we don't want the main photo to be covered over too much. We tried all of the ablove images on the template of our magazine cover and found that the last image worked the best so this is the one we are going to use.

Magazine cover

Today we started our magazine cover. We don't yet have an image we can use because the ones we do have are too similar to our poster image so we have decided to put in all of the headlines etc and then add in the image later on. Above is the first draft of our magazine cover, without image. I think the colours work really well together and match the horror theme of the magazine.

Final Poster!

Here is the final edit of our poster for our movie.

We have added in the reviews from movie magazines and critics to show what others thought of the movie and to advertise it well. We have also added a viral website to the bottom of the poster as marketing for the movie. It is a website where fans can post what they think is out there and upload images and videos etc.

I think the poster has a clear theme with our movie trailer because we have used an image that promotes a scary film and have used similar colouring with a black and white image and have used the same font for the title and other text. This shows how they have a running theme.

Feedback results

After looking at the feedback sheets that we got given back from the class we can put together results graphs to present the findings and see what percentage liked or didn't like our trailer etc.

Here are the results:

As you can see, the majority of the feedback is positive and 100% said they liked it and they could tell what genre the movie was which is very important as most of our research went into looking at existing examples of horror films to get it just right. I am really happy with the results, and if we were to make the trailer again, we would definitely take the comments on board because the audience was actually who we were targeting the film at anyway.