Final magazine cover

Here is my final magazine cover, I have finally completed my film magazine as I have kept changing it due the fact that I have not been happy with how it has turned out. I have not found the process challenging but have found it frustrating as i haven't been happy with certain parts of the magazine feeling that they did not fit in. You can see how my magazine has changed by looking at previous draft versions of it on my blog. I have tried to follow all the major conventions of film magazines, the main ones are; Masthead, photo, headline, coverlines, banner, barcode, website, pricing and pugs. I am very happy with how the magazine has turned out and feel that it has a professional appearance.     

Final Final Final Trailer

This is my final trailer after weeks of adjusting, editing and adding to my first draft, I have tried to make it as best as I can, I feel that this is a very good and professional film trailer, I have done or have helped with the production of all of the things in this trailer and have tried to use as many horror film conventions as possible and in some parts have gone against the usual conventions as I feel it is better suited the way I have done it 

Improvements made

Improvements made:

Updated Evaluation:

• Question 1: Updating final ancillary texts and adding my trailer  
• Question 2: Linking my trailer to the conventions of a horror film
• Question 3: further improvements and getting rid of the word 'peoples' 
• Question 4: Editing text so it does not overlap on Scribd 

Blog posts:

• Looking over my work and adding paragraphs/sentences to some blog posts explaining them and why I have put them up. Mainly added to my Final products.
• various typos 

Draft Final trailer

Evaluation Question 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Q4

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback? (not complete-need help with this one)

Throughout this year when creating my film trailer and ancillary tasks, audience feedback has been a very important part in developing my products, it has played a very important role as my target audiences opinions on my products are the main thing I look at and take into consideration when designing and creating them. This is because my audience tells me what they would like to see and I try to achieve these things tailoring my products to what my target audience wants to see.

When creating my trailer I created a drafted an original version that showed the basic outline of what my trailer would look like and also outlined a basic plot. I then showed this draft to my target audience who gave me advice and their preferences on how to improve it.

From the feedback that I gained from this draft, I discovered that changing some of the things that my audience told me to change actually benefited my trailer a lot, having these opinions on my trailer made me realize that certain features on my trailer were not as good as I thought and that other peoples ideas and improvements hugely changed the outcome of my trailer for the better.

As a class in school we went through each other’s trailers, all the students in my class were 17-18 years old, which is within my target audience. They gave me further improvements on my trailer that I could make, an example of one of these improvements is that my trailers inter-titles had a different and unusual font compared to my actors names that had a different font as well, they did not like this so as a result I changed them and have since asked my audience what they think the new inter-titles look like, the majority of the class preferred the newer inter-titles compared to the old ones. This is very pleasing as it means my audience likes my trailer much more than they originally did, meaning if showed to a much larger audience then the majority would like it and would hopefully like to go see the film, which is obviously the main aim of a trailer; to go and get people to see it.

As for my ancillary texts, I printed out copies also asked students within my target group what they thought of them, I also showed students my products on my computer screen. They all had opinions of their own over my products, but over all picked up on the same points which were: Different use of colours, different use of fonts, different positioning of the image and the general layout of the products. When talking to people about my magazine a recurring feature that kept coming up in my audience’s comments was how my magazines masthead didn't suit the magazine and how it didn't flow well with the visual syntax of the page, In response to this I have now changed it to a more appropriate font that not only goes well with the rest of the page but also fits in to the style of a film magazine masthead instead of looking like an out of place piece of text.