FINAL FILM MAGAZINE

Above is my final magazine, I think this is definately ALOT better than my other one, I took aspects of my other one into this design of what I liked and changed other parts to improve it. The colours fit in really well, and are similar to the colours of the picture behind and also enhance the colours in the picture, especially the yellows which bring out the face. Also the browns in the text boxes bring out the the colours even more, which makes this a successful magazine as the colours compliment each each and continue the thriller theme as it sets an errie tone and makes the colours more bold throughout the magazine cover including the puff's.There is also a range of colours throughout the front cover, including the sandy ground texture behind the woman. The barcode is in the bottom right hand corner and is equally sized and positioned. I have also made a logo at the bottom right hand corner to show advertising and an aspect of my other magazine. Also in the bottom left hand corner is a '+' to show what else is going on and represent a 'plus' sign. I really love my final front cover for my film magazine as the puff's are well structured and laid out, also the alternate text in yellow boldens the white font aswell. I have added more italics in the text to make them stand out more and to vary the text more. The colour of the picture in the background has worked really well and looks really good photoshopped especially with the claw in the background as it makes you question what it is or if it is just her going insane. The masthead with the black strip behind it represents division in the way in which she is cut off the world as she is not accepted socially. This issue itself has alot of content and has alot of 'Exclusive' and interviews as i tried to use the typical vocabulary a magazine would use to entice people to reading and buying the magazine. The price is located above the barcode as a normal film magzine would be. I think this is definately my favourite out of all the magazine covers I've done, I'm very proud of it as it really does look like a film magazine and is a good advertisement for my trailer and the poster.

Adaptations to Final Film Magazine

Final Film Magazine Cover

Looking at all the film magazine covers together in terms of the boldest cover I think is the third one is the one that catches the eye the best as the bold colours and the effect on the face look the best out of the four however it doesn't have many of the film magazine conventions. The two on the top aren't very interesting look at but have a conventional layout. So out of the four magazines Personally I think that it is obvious that the fourth magazine design is the best I'm going to make a few improvements first.




FINAL FILM MAGAZINE

This is my final film magazine front cover, I'm really happy with this as it follows the typical conventions and challenges them too. Also I have been able to develop my skills from my music magazine last year, by recognising what a typical magazine layout is using puffs and mastheads. It has made me develop my skills by being able to do a different style of magazine which I have found quite difficult to do as film magazine have quite a 'random' layout where as music magazines are quite structured. My magazine is an adaptation of my fourth plan, I think it is a good representation of what a film magazine should look like it is appealing it also challenges the stereotypical conventions. The masthead is in the shape of a one as the magazine is called 'Studio 1' to resemble the masthead as I tried just a normal masthead and it looked quite basic, however I think this looked unusual but intrugueing. I have a range of different fonts; 'chiller','calibri' and 'britanic bold' and some are italic or in bold to make them stand out more. The blue and white colour scheme is continuous throughout my magazine as the blue is very bold as the colours are quite dark and soft colours but the contrast of the bright blue makes it stand out and more appealing I think. However my film magazine could be alot better, and it isn't very complexed in fact its quite basic, I'm going to re-do this as I think it could be alot better especially as the masthead isn't really a masthead, it looks more like a logo. Therefore I am doing to re do it. 

Evaluation

Evaluation

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

My media product develops the conventions by having a non-diegetic sting throughout the trailer, which is synchronous to the trailer makes it easier to be recognised of the genre of the film and how just by the watching and listening to the trailer you instantly know the genre and that it has an eerrie vibe in it and that something is going to happen. I have challenged the conventions of the trailer as I think my trailer doesn't have short cut edited clips it has quite a few long clips I think the longest extract it about twenty two seconds however there are a range of camera angles and shots with different compositions. I really wanted to have a range of edits aswell in my trailer, most were just cut, however there was crossfade, cross blur and, fade black, fade white and cross zoom. My final trailer I think turned out really well, however I did go back to look at my questionnaire feedback to see what my target audience said which was very helpful. I also think I have challenged the conventions also as the protagonist connects with the audience, by interacting. She does this by looking directly at the camera, by doing this she is showing the audience her emotions and feelings directly and the audience is instantly shown her emotions that are veing expressed. I did this to not only challenge the conventions but so that her character is clear and portrayed correctly and there are no hidden connotations just like the print screen below on the left.  I also used narrative and audience theories to create structure to my trailer and to have a narrative but also to entice my audience to keep intrigued in my story line and my trailer overall.

 Above in the print screens of my trailer I also had contrast of light and dark throughout the trailer, constantly back and forth to resemble the graduality of her insanity and the darkness is resembling the insanity and being metaphorically in a bad place. Towards the end there are less camera shots/scenes filmed in the light to show that she is unaware and that the darkness is overtaking her ( in other words her insanity). I used this symbolism of the light to make my trailer more effective and make there have a metaphorical meaning of insanity. Also the whiteness of the wall implies that her life is plain/boring which could also lead to part of her insanity. I have used the setting to give the trailer more meaning which is commonly used in trailers, as one of my analysis's does this; Abraham Lincoln vampire hutnter uses its background to build tension and create a eerie ambience, this has enabled me to use this in my trailer.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
I think that my ancillary tasks really do compliment my trailer well in the way that they are a good representation of my trailer and the picture I used was taken around the time I was filming so the poster and the magazine are showing a preview of what the film is about and is what I wanted to achieve. My ancillary tasks look better than I thought they would and I am very proud of them as the represent the film genre really well of thriller and border Horror I think as there is an errie tone. Also my ancillary tasks look professional and are to a good standard. They also challenge the conventions and represent the typical conventions too. My film magazine challenges the typical conventions by having a picture from the actual trailer from the front cover, as sometimes they have a plain picture of just the main actress/actor, however some have a representation of the film. My film magazine has a colour scheme that represents the genre of the film with the dark colours;browns, oranges, yellows and black to create an eerie feel. My poster is quite bold and my photograph I photoshopped looks really effective and creates the mystery of something following her and a shadow, also bringing back the idea of dark and light again as a theme in my trailer symbolising  her insanity. My theories helped me to have more knowledge about structuring my trailer and also how the other trailers I analysed maintain the same theories as this.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I think that my audience feedback has really helped me to make quick decisions by their feedback helping me. As the feedback they gave me was really useful of suggestions for my trailer and what they wanted to in it and some of the typical conventions. This gave me a rough brief of something I needed to follow which would make my overall trailer what my audience wanted. If I did this all again I would have used more audience feedback, however in my head I knew the style of what I wanted but their answers from the questionnaire helped me have a clearer idea and what my audience wanted. Especially in my final design of my film magazine as peoples feedback helped bring to my attention that my magazine didnt follow the typical conventions and in particular the masthead did not stand out. I then changed my layout and looking back without their feedback I would not have been able to develop my magazine cover and make it look as good as what it does now.

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I used different types of technological convergence such as; Apple Mac, precision editor, sound enhancer, photoshop, microsoft word, internet for some research, IMovie, Publisher
I used all these technologies to help improve the standard of my work and make them more technonlogical. My poster I used publisher and used photoshop to edit my poster picture and make a hand into it  and have darker eyes. I think that this created an errie tone and looks like the thriller genre, it really has made it look so good especially as it looks professional and really effective. It helped my magazine front cover as I was able to reuse my poster picture by using different fonts and with exciting colours that would contrast the picture and stand out. With my trailer I was able to use a variety of different technology to make it professional and quick paced also precist, it took a long time to edit and get it right but I think it is really successful and intrigueing. By looking into narrative theories it allowed me to have structure and include successful content in my trailer by following the narratives by using the traits of the theories.

Final Film Trailer

My film trailer 'Insanity' I think is better than what I expected it to be as I edited it really well, I kept looking back at my questionnaire to make sure I was making a trailer that appealed to my target audience. I think that my trailer has good variety of camera shots, edits and compositions I experimented with different angles and movements. I think the best thing about my trailer is the non diegetic synchronous music behind the trailer the whole time and the only parts you can hear is the dialogue from when the girl and the consultant are speaking, at the end I enhanced the sound onto a special setting that made her voice echo, I think this added to the erriness of the trailer. There are are quick paced edits towards the end to resemble the build up of the trailer.

There is continuity throughout the trailer as the consultant scene is cut in to reveal more of the story as it goes on, I really like the way this is shown as the more you watch it the more it grips you and interests you. Also to show her insanity of how she is happy at the start and gradually goes down hill. The speed of some of the shots have been fastened up to create an impact and that when she remembers it that it happened so quickly and how quickly she is becoming insane. I edited the shots of when she is about to jump to look like a dream as it seems she is unaware of her surroundings and is purely focused on that. I used mostly dark areas and dark clothes to symbolise the unhappiness and the thriller genre that makes it more intense that something is building up. The start of the trailer starts with the ending to create a mystery to make the audience question what is going to happen. I used alot of edits so the trailer flowed better and to show a flashback scene. Alot of my shots I slowed down to create more of an impact; the shot of her and her boyfriend is when she is happy, I slowed the shot down to represent the length of happiness they shared together. I also ranged in the compositions; the high angle shots showed the lowness and insuperiorority of her situation and how it is out of her control. Also to show that the person following her is always watching her. When the actress look directly into the camera it shows how she is reaching out and the struggle of the insanity. The scene of the phone  

My Final Poster

My Final Poster

When thinking about my final poster I wanted to make it original, and photoshop it into  soemthing better with more creativity. I wanted my poster to be quite dark but with an eerry feel to it a kind of mystery to it to make people think and to be intregued. To do this used photoshop using the 'smudge tool' and to make her look more gaunt as if she hasn't slept and the feel of being mentally unstable. I took pictures when I was filming to make it more continuous and for my project to have continuity throughout it and also to set the scene in the location.

 


Here I zoomed in on the picture and used the smudge tool using mostlythe black to spread more around the eyes. I also mixed the beigey colour into the black so it looked more natural and looked more like make-up instead of photoshop as only a thin layer of black was used around the eyes. I really wanted to make her face look airbrushed and to have a glow to it, however because of the lighting was a yellow colour it made this easier to make her skin radiant.

Below are three pictures I photoshopped and the three I'm considering for my final poster.

THE PROCESS...

Above is my final poster, I think it has worked really well as the image I photoshopped looks really effective as it created the mystery of what the film is about. I also think that it is intrigueing the way that the title of the film is 'Insanity' it makes you think what is making her go insane. I think it is good for the audience to interpret it the way the want as it is them who will want to watch the film. The dark colours set the tone of the eerie thriller genre, also I love that on he phone she is holding there is a picture of her face it's quite strange but it makes you question things and is in a way a rhetorical question; why is her face on the phone? who took it?. I think my poster also follows the typical conventions of a film poster. As the four lines at the bottom are normally at the bottom of the film poster, also the logo I made of the 'Pink Flamingo Studios' is a typical convention. Also the 'From the director of unknown' text shows contuinuity. Also the film critic comments on the side, to show