Question 1 Evaluation

Evaluation Plan

 

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Evaluation questions

EVALUATION

• Provide one presentation of your evaluation.
• There are 4 questions to answer - discuss all aspects of your production.
• Use various forms of media.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (teaser trailers, posters, magazines)
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Poster analysis

In my last post, you can see the changes I have made to my poster in order to make it look more professional. I looked on Google images at pictures of offical movie posters in order to get more of an idea of exactly how they should look.

I've already researched into horror movie posters, like the Saw posters so I wasn't looking specifically to focus just on horror posters to create my own. I realised that, other than the central picture, the actual layout of movie posters were all the same so I looked at these two posters for ideas.
Like the Beauty and the Beast poster, I put the names of the actors of my film at the top so that they stood out against the background, making the audience notice/recognise their names immediately.

 

Like the Pain&Gain poster, I decided to follow their layout of the screenplay and director information (seen below). I put the parts that I felt were important in bold font - like the name of the film, the names of Lois and me and the film company name.

I also liked that this poster put the month of the release date in bold capitals, in a bright font so the audience knew immediately when they would be able to see the film. I did the same on my poster, putting the font in red to stand out on the black and white of my poster.

 

Poster

I wanted the death symbol which is on the hand on my poster to be in red so that it stood out against the black and white of the entire background. I searched on Google for tutorials to show me how to just get one part of the image to be in colour but they were really difficult to understand. It was proving time consuming to try and change this tiny detail of my poster, so I decided to just leave it as it was because I knew it was unrealistic to try to make that change.

Second Poster

Making changes to the poster

After my teacher looked at my poster, she advised me on how I could change it to make it look more effective and to make the genre more prominent. In order to do this, I changed the placing of the actors names to the top of the poster as opposed to at the bottom as I felt that the top of the poster was more likely to be looked at than the bottom.

 

The most obvious change I have made is making the poster black and white, highlighting the red of the fonts. I decided to do this because red is the colour most associated with horror and by making this the protrusive feature on the poster, the audience are more aware of the genre created. The black and white allows a sense of mystery to what the film is about.