Question 4

How do you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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The use of digital technology has contributed to the process of creating my media products, which include my film trailer, magazine front page and film poster. Digital technology aided me through the process of planning, research, construction and by Tia D

Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Survey Monkey

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From the feedback I received, I could tell that my trailer had a lot more female responses due to the main character of my film trailer "When Worse Comes To Worse" is a female thereby getting more interests from the female audience. The age group that responded the most were 17 to 21 year olds, which shows that the R rating on the trailer was appropriate for the audience at hand seeing as there were no 16 and below. In addition to this the main cast were around 17-18 which shows that the audience responds to the cast members and characters they portray. Most of the audience liked the trailers as they particularly enjoyed the soundtrack used so the music choice of Tuning Out was effective in representing the mood of my trailer. Since the majority of responses got that the film trailer was the gangster genre, that means I followed the codes and conventions of gangster themes in my trailer. Most people in the response saw the link between my film influence The Godfather which I am pleased by as I tried to imitate some of the scenes and codes from the film. They also agreed the my brand of identity was strong throughout the trailer, magazine and poster as they could tell the link by its presentation including colour schemes and iconic scenes along with the recognition of the main character who is the female lead Gabriele. Majority of the responses agree that my brand of identity and film trailer are unique due to the colour scheme used which was black, white and red and sticking with this code throughout, they also liked how most of the scenes were shot particularly the violent scene. 

Finally continuing with the earlier focus group/interview, I asked people to watch my trailer and explain how they felt about it the video is down below

Audience Feedback using Powtoon

Focus Group/ Interview Part 2

Question 2

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

How effective is the combination of your main media product and ancillary text by Tia D

Question 1

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

My Film Trailer

When Worse Comes To Worse

Survey Link
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WXPJWJQ

My Poster

My Film Poster

My Front Page for Film Magazine

Front Page

Film Magazine Research

Film Magazine Research

Different Film magazines brands

Conventions

Rule of 3
Strapline
Masthead
Main feature
Puff
Cover lines
Barcode
Typography

References

  

Fonts

Blocking for Front Page

Front page from Tatiitat

Working on my Front Page

Poster Research

Posters

Whilst researching on Film Posters I found key components that are used in the posters which are

Taglines- to summarize the feel of the film 

Film Title - usually in bold 

Main Image- usually consisting of the main character of the film

Directors and Producers- so the audience would know who the director is and his/her style

Quotes and ratings - the audience can be influenced into watching the film with good reviews

Dates and extra information- consisting of the website or where to find useful information or trivia for the film

Main actors/ Cast- high profile actors would draw audiences in.

Billing blocks- consisting of the management

Gangster Posters

For reference I decided to look at gangster film posters as it goes with my genre
I viewed the following
  

Road to perdition

I was influenced by the tagline from this poster "Pray For Michael Sullivan" as it is put at the top and the sentence is separated into two lines.

I decided to use this in my film poster as my tagline being "", I put the tagline of mine towards the right hand side on my poster.

Gangster Squad

For Gangster Squad I liked how the main actors starring in the film were placed at the bottom of the main picture, also the main lead actor has his characters name underneath him.
I used this format for mine as Gabriele's actress Maitry who is the main star in my gangster film had the same format.
I also liked the billing blocks and how they were formatted as it is centralized and under the list of the cast so I used a similar approach to mine. However I decided to put the age restriction underneath mine.

American Gangster

In this poster I was influenced by how the main image was blended into the background in a similar sense to film noir, I decided to use this for my trailer as my main image is blended with the black background where the booth is opened and the bottom of my trailer as I had space then to put my billing blocks.

Billing block

I made my own billing block at the end of my poster by using the template below as a resource
The font I choose that was close to the film posters was the SF movie poster which resembles the billing block


I then changed the colour to a grey theme, used the font sizes as 14, 18 and 30 to make it look more realistic.

Fonts Used

Blocking of my film poster

Film poster from Tatiitat



Working on my poster