Evaluation question 1
- 1. In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?
- 2. Trailer.
- 3. We created our final film trailer "Dead End" based on the forms and conventions of existing and professional media products. In the planning stage of creating a trailer we did research into a variety of trailers of different genres then researched further into a chosen genre of horror, this allowing us to analyse in detail the different camera angles, shots sounds and mise en scene that all creates to the typical vibes horror movie's create to provoke audience reaction. So when creating our trailer we knew to be specific and strict on conventions that are typical to the horror genre even if they are used a lot, and seen as clichés. We also made sure our final product was based on existing media products codes and conventions by doing this researching into a variety of trailers allowed us to make sure our trailer looked realistic within the film industry and therefore professional. However by not using a star cast it makes it harder with the audience to either relate or gain the desire to watch the film. Therefore it was further more important to follow the codes and conventions so the audience would want to watch the film when it was released.
- 5. Which Magazine are you most likley to buy? Little White Lies Which Magazine are you most likley to buy? Total Film Empire 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Why is 'Empire' chosen magazine? Visual Appearence Information and Stories Star Front Cover
- 6. Before we choose what magazine to base our ancillary product on we created a short survey to see what magazine is most popular with our target audience (15- 25) this allowed us to see what magazine is well known and then further research into what reasons the chosen magazine was most popular. From our research it allowed us to see what was attracting their audience and how we could use similar techniques to also make our magazine as well known. We asked 25 people so it gave broad opinions however we mostly asked people aged between 15-19. The second results showed that the target audience was most attracted to the poster due to the interesting stories and the stars posed on the front cover. Therefore from this research we decided to choose an Empire structured magazine as we believed it was the most professional and successful.
- 7. Compared..
- 8. To follow similar code and conventions of Empire magazine we researched into many different front covers. They all followed a similar structure with a bold red masthead of the magazine name at the top, along with the image positioned in the centre and also the stories to catch the audiences eye. From our plan we followed similar conventions however substituting the title for our own movie magazine name and also the image used so it fits to our magazine along with the story headings. The bar code date, price and website address is also featured on all empire magazines and therefore we included it within our magazine. finally we chose to keep our colour scheme limited to no more than 5 colours so it doesn't look to overcrowded and unprofessional.
- 9. Poster.
- 11. These were two existing posters that influenced us in creating our final magazine design. We again wanted to follow similar codes and conventions of existing media productions of successful horror magazine films as it would appeal to our target audience much more. These show that a eye catching image is the most important factor to the magazine which is then followed by the title, with a simple structure.
- 13. By researching into existing posters we were able to follow the codes and conventions of the large image and the bold title with the caption. We did have an issue with the image as our actors are not Hollywood stars so it is less likely to be popular however it is still effective as it looks like a typical horror movie magazine which would attract our target audience.