Magazine Draft

Here is a draft of my magazine cover. I analysed it by showing arrows of where i will place certain elements and explained why. I decided to use the magazine 'Empire' because it is a well known film magazine so audiences are familiar with. 

The Plot/Cast

The cast of my trailer are: 

Sunny Patel  (Main Male)









                
Riya Shah (Main Female)












Karisma Patel (Main Female Sister)

The Plot:

There is a male (Sunny Patel) who is having a lovely relationship (Riya Shah). She has a sister (Karisma Patel) whom the male also falls for. Confusion takes place the male character has to make decisions quickly before a crack is formed between all three of them forever  This love triangle gets out of hand, relationships get damaged, bonds between them are betrayed and trust issues occur. Who will he choose? Will both sisters recover? How does the story end?

I decided to use this story line because i chose the genre of romance. The worst thing that could happen is a male getting in between two sisters, so i chose it because it brings up emotions that people have never felt and gone through. It brings this idea of trust being damaged because of love and it shows the audience of how family should always come first but how the power of love can deceive that. This story line is very powerful and intriguing  it brings the audience to want to know more and how their relationships between one another can ever go back to normal again.

Story Board Planning

Audience Feedback

I got a lot of audience feedback from my peers which helped me know what i had to change to improve all three of my media products. I got a variety of feedback giving me an idea of how i could make my products better to represent that the genre was romance. I had one to one conversations with peers after they had viewed all three of my products and i also got three stars and a wish so that i know the positive and negative points. 

I changed a few elements to make it better and then showed people again and got a better response this time. This showed me that majority of audiences were satisfied with my products and notice straight away what the genre is.

I put my trailer, promotional poster and magazine cover on different social networking sites like: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube where i got responses from different audiences so i could get a deeper knowledge of what people thought of it. This gave me a wide range of audiences to get feedback and opinions from. 

Feedback For Trailer

Pooja: 

+ Good use of natural lighting, it goes well with the romantic genre

+ Good scene layout, the use of todorovs theory is in check

+ Voice over is effective

- Needs more scenes to show the audience more

Karisma: 

+ Voice over shows the story line more

+ Text throughout guides the audience

+ Over the shoulder shot

- More dialogue from characters

Sunil: 

+ Good structure of the trailer

+ Locations used brings out the genre

+ Body language 

- Level the volume of soundtrack and dialogue

Kwesi:

+ Very good shots/scenes

+ Soundtrack

+ Good form of dialogue 

- Volume 

Natasha: 

+ Nice text structure

+ Transactions 

+ Shots 

- More scenes needed

Arabella: 

+ Good camera angles 

+ Transactions

+ Soundtrack 

- More text would make it better

Feedback for Promotional Poster Draft

Pooja:

+ Colours used

+ Layout of image

+ Structure 

- Background colour

Karisma:

+ Image taken

+ Rating

+ Professional look

- Colour of background

Sunil:

+ Font Used

+ Shot of main image 

+ Title and release date

- Need a full shot of the image

Kwesi:

+ Colours used

+ Layout of poster

+ Font of title

- Background colour

Natasha: 

+ Main image is taken well

+ Actors names at the top of the poster

+ Colours used

- Structure of the poster

Arabella: 

+ Actors names on the poster at the top

+ Colours of the poster

+ none

- Background colour

Feedback for Magazine Cover Draft

Pooja:

+ Using a popular mag like Empire

+ Colour scheme 

+ Image used 

- Better font 

Karisma:

+ Structure of magazine 

+ Encouraging text

+ Masthead

- Mixtures of colours

Sunil:

+ Main image

+ Colours used for magazine 

+ Title of magazine 

- Add more colour

Kwesi: 

+ Main image shot 

+ Where the title is placed

+ Extra information on the side

- Structure of the magazine layout

Natasha:

+ Colours used

+ Name of the magazine shown

+ None

- Not enough information

Arabella:

+ Shot of main image 

+ Colour scheme to show romance genre

+ Information on the sides 

- Background

Questionnaire Research: Promotional Poster

I created this questionnaire to find out what my target audience expected to see in my promotional poster. I created 20 and gave them out for people to fill out. I then created pie charts with all the results i gained back. This then told me what they demanded to see on my promotional poster and gave me an idea on how to design and produce it for it to have an outcome of perfection.

    

    

    

    

    

    

Questionnaire Research: Magazine Cover







Promotional Poster: The Last Song - Analysing

I analysed the promotional poster of 'The Last Song' as it is a under the romance genre category. i used CFILL to make sure i could cover all the points of the poster. I did this for research so that i could use the same techniques and conventions for my poster. 

The colour on the ‘Last Song’ promotional poster is very natural and warm. This signifies the warmth of their love and romance throughout the film. It shows the audience how close their relationship is and how pure it is. It consists of the colours: Yellow and orange these represent happiness and it is luminous like sunlight. The sun is a warm shade of yellow which is placed in between both characters to create a sincere atmosphere. The orange connotes high energy and how much they put into their relationship to show their love. The title of the film is in the colour white to show purity and innocence of them falling for each other. The colours let the audience know straight away that the genre of the film is a romance, they are all natural colours used which are generally used in a romantic film promotional poster. These colours are stereo typically used for a romance movie to give the audience that affectionate feeling.

The font used on the promotion poster for the ‘Last Song’ is very bold and looks like a statement to show the audience. Each letter is in capital letters to make it stand out more. They are quite close to each other to show the closeness of the two characters. The first word of the title which is ‘the’ is show smaller than the rest of the title to create a build-up. It has a line under the first word, ‘the’ to represent the word ‘last’ in a clever way. The font for the title is the biggest on the promotional poster because this is what the audience want and need to know before they go see the film. It is a necessity for the poster. The date is in a smaller sized font to let the audience know exactly when the movie is coming out. The actors are in a smaller font so that the audience can see who is in it. This could persuade them to watch the movie if they like and recognize the actors in it. The writer is in even smaller font so that the audience can see who wrote the film. This lets them know how good the film would be without watching it as the audience would know other films the writer has written. This gives them an idea of what the film would be like.

The image on the promotional poster is of the two characters looking into each other’s eyes. Eye contact shows a lot of emotion and feelings. They both have big smiles on their faces which shows how happy they make each other and how they cannot be without one another. It shows the stereotype of the girl being shorter than the guy and the guy having his hand on the side of her face. This shows the connection they have and how they are comfortable around each other. It shows that the movie’s genre is a romance and gives the audience a teaser of their relationship. The image is faded onto a background of a sunset on a beach. This gives the audience an idea of where the film will be set and what kind of environment they fall in love in.

The language used on the promotional poster is plain and simple but yet effective. It doesn't give a lot away. Promotion posters usually have a caption under the title with a face or an enigma question making the audience have an idea of what the story line is about. This promotional poster doesn't give any detail away apart from the title, cast and writer. It makes the audience research on trailer s and reviews about the film before watching it to see what the film is rated and to see if it’s their kind of film.The layout of the promotional poster is all set correctly so that the image, main title and other font is split within the page. It gives the audience time to look at one thing at a time instead of them both squashed in together. The picture is the biggest on the magazine as it gives the characters away straight away and people want to know the cast straight away. It gives the genre out straight away, letting the audience know it is a romance film. The background consists of neutral colours so contrast with the main image, they both settle well on the page.  

The layout of the promotional poster is all set correctly so that the image, main title and other font is split within the page. It gives the audience time to look at one thing at a time instead of them both squashed in together. The picture is the biggest on the magazine as it gives the characters away straight away and people want to know the cast straight away. It gives the genre out straight away, letting the audience know it is a romance film. The background consists of neutral colours so contrast with the main image, they both settle well on the page.