E.Question 4

Question 4 from ugurk94

E.Question 3

To be able to gain efficient feedback we asked 4 students both outside of and in college to watch our teaser trailer and look at our poster and magazine, which they then gave us both positive and negative feedback and further gave us the chance to asses our products. We asked four questions to each student

1.how did you feel after watching the trailer?

2.did you receive everything you needed to watch the movie?

3.what could be improved?

4.what was your overall satisfaction?

The audience feedback from question one was very positive, as our desired effect was projected to the audience and we felt that the mysterious character definitely made an impact on our audience and increased their curiosity, which was something that we really planed from the beginning of our research and planning. Moreover, question two was also another positive feedback, which made us realise the importance of texts and font styles on both the poster and trailer and the imaged used on the poster was also mentioned to have effected the audience and the use of the one eye could be interpreted in many ways, which is shown to keep the viewer anxious when watch our teaser trailer.

We felt like question 3 was the most useful and beneficial of them all, as we gained the improvements to be a significant part that allows us to learn and develop our selves in the pre-production and post production process. One important and frequently said improvement was the length of the trailer being short and the trailer not containing enough locations.  When we were editing our footage we also knew that the locations was not enough, as we only used one location to film and the audience feedback proved this and we feel like it was indispensable to ignore. However, as our narrative was set in a hospital during our location scouting we were unable to find a abandoned hospital and our only choice was to use the medical room in our college. The length of our teaser trailer was intended to be short we wanted our trailer to contain diminutive scenes thats effective in leaving the audience with many questions in their minds and we feel like we succeeded in this, as from question one the audience was very inquisitive.

Lastly, from the final question we gained very positive and encouraging feedback in terms of the audience actually willing to go and see the movie. From this we acknowledged the prominence of the title of a movie, the font styles of texts that are used in print media such as posters and magazines. Moreover, the combination of the teaser trailer and poster was also mentioned to be something that we accomplished and the consistency within the teaser trailer and poster was noticeable to the audience and the use of the heart beat was also taken to account for the audiences interest, as from the feedback the sound was a important element that engaged them to our teaser trailer.  The last question we asked four of the students helped us put emphasise on the effectiveness of our teaser trailer and certain features, such as the blood added to make the trailer realistic, which we believe was essential to be as professional and engaging as possible.Overall the feedback was very beneficial for us that allowed us to really understand our work and as a group and we believe that the teaser trailer, poster and magazine were successful in appealing to our audience.

E.Question 2

E.Question 1

Question 1 from ugurk94

Film magazine cover - research

This magazine cover has a background picture showing a close-up shot of the main character from the "Harry Potter" sequals. The name of the magazine "Empire" is partly on the top of the character. The background consists of dark colours. The text contrasts with the background as it uses bright colours (white, yellow). Some of the titles are written in different font sizes such as "MASSIVE PREVIEW SPECIAL!" in order to draw attention to the potential reader. The titles "*BLOODY HELL!" and "Harry comes out fighting" work along with the background picture to show the main subject in this magazine. There is also a picture frame in the bottom-left corner of the page featuring images of actors from different films. There is  a bar at the bottom section of the page containing movie titles featured in this particular magazine issue. The bar is not a part of the background image yet the colours used blend in very well with the original picture. There is also a barcode in the bottom-right section of the page. The general layout of the magazine cover shows that seeing the character's face is prioritised as all of the media texts are laid out around the characters image.

The magazine cover for total film has more or less the same layout as Empire, however its clear they have a house style template magazine cover which already includes the title of the magazine and the barcode. In this particular magazine cover the main characters from the film 'King kong' are clearly placed over the title of magazine which clearly shows whats more important and that they are the main attraction of the magazine. Also the whole colour correction of the magazine is under one real colour scheme, which makes it easy on the eye. They have also included information of the other films that'll be released during that time period, to cater for all audiences as 'King Kong' may not be everyones 'cup of tea'. Also in the bottom left corner their is more features of other films, that show different promotion techniques. One of them is quoting, and another is comparing one movie to those that are already established. For example 'Lock, Stock Meets Goodfellas'. As most already know Goodfellas is a timeless classic.

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Film Magazine Cover Research

Empire magazine is a popular British film magazine, that is published by Bauer Consumer Media.
As part of our research for the film magazine cover, we looked at empire magazine and closely engaged with the magazine's structural layout.
Below are some of the covers that we looked at :

The ' I AM LEGEND' magazine cover is something we hope to correlate with. We particulary like the simple backdrop with the main character at the centre of the page, which is effective in creating mystery, as no action is conveyed so the audience is left wondering what the film is about.
The consistent font style and lettering of the main bold title 'Empire', allows readers to easily identify with the magazine. Furthermore, at the bottom of this magazine, there are photo stills of other films of similar genres. So for readers who might not be particulary fond of the 'I AM LEGEND' film, may find the stills intriguing, which will ultimately attract viewers from all different areas of interest.













It seems like in most of the empire film magazines, the image takes up a vast amount of the magazine cover.The addition of stories being briefly described on the magazine cover exemplifies the interests of film fanatics. We hope to do the same for our film's magazine cover, to transfix a good solid fan base. The neo-colour highlighting is successful in drawing attention to particular film news that may affect future or present films and actors etc.