Comparing conventions
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This document compares the author's movie teaser poster and magazine cover to professional examples, analyzing how well conventions were followed. For the teaser poster, conventions like centering the main image and including information below are followed, though a non-black background was used. Both posters include taglines and production company logos in conventional areas. For the magazine cover, conventions like using a central mid-shot image and masthead placement in the top left are followed, though the masthead design and sell lines could better match industry standards. Overall, the author's designs generally adhere to conventions but also take some non-conventional approaches.
Comparing conventions
- 3. Teaser Poster- The images on both are clearly presented in the middle of the pages, making them the focus of attention on both. This shows my poster is following the correct conventions. Both poster provide information underneath the main image, showing I have followed conventions of form. The professional teaser poster has chosen to give the name of the film, whereas I have decided to keep that information a secret, and have simply put coming soon instead. Neither of the posters include a blocking bill in this area of the poster because they are teasers- shows again that I have followed the correct conventions. They also both use bold and eye- catching fonts, and capital letters to attract the audience. I have used less conventional lighting for my poster as I felt it would look better with the main image to include a white background. The professional poster has stuck to the use of a more conventional black background, following those horror conventions. This shows where I have gone against conventions used on a real poster. Both posters have included a tagline in order to draw attention from the audience, but they have been placed in different conventional areas. From my research on this genre, I know it is conventional to place a tagline both at the top, and the bottom of the poster, rather then say on the side! This is giving us an example off two posters using both conventional spaces. This also shows that I have used a conventional font and colour and mine resembles the professional poster. Both posters include logos of the companies that produced them, in the obvious conventional place, showing I have follows the correct conventional layout.
- 4. Magazine Cover- Both magazine covers use conventional mid-shots as the main image, and they have both been placed in the centre of the magazine. They both use a direct mode of address as the people on the magazine are looking directly at us, this will engage with the audience well. Also, both images under-lap the masthead; showing I have followed conventions. Also the placing on the masthead on my magazine cover could be more conventional by being spread out across the magazine. But it does actually follow the conventions too, by being in the top left hand corner. I could of again followed conventions more closely by using a red for the masthead. I have used a variation of colours which is conventional as it is used on the professional magazine cover. The placement of the sell lines in my magazine follow similar conventions to the professional one, as both feature sell lines on the right and the left sides on the magazine, in similar places. The time of avderiting these sell lines do resemble each other as they are both talking about the film’s within the chosen genre, but I feel I could have followed conventions more my advertising my own film in the sill lines, like Empire has done with Harry potter, instead I did this using the anchorage text. They both use similar fonts and colours to make the poster stand out and look eye-catching. I have used conventional advertisement as shown here by the similarities between the magazine covers. I have placed the barcode in the conventional area of the bottom right-hand corner on the page. Although I have also included price and issue number here also, which has not been done on the professional magazine cover.