The Deprived Official Trailer (2015)

The Deprived Official Trailer (2015)

 

 

Film Magazine FINAL Draft

Film Magazine FINAL Draft

 

 

Above is the FINAL draft of my film magazine "Lense". The adjusments from the last draft consist of the elimination of the transparent effect of the picture. This gives Kearse more colour. The grey gradient has been defined to match the image and to benefit the sell-lines that were otherwise a little hard to read over the black/grey nature of the gradient.

 

Overall, I am happy with the final draft as I believe it shares many common codes and conventions with real film magazines such as "Empire". I infact to my influence from one particular issue of the UK's well-known film magazine (as seen below).  I feel the look and the connotations of the Masthead give off strong imagery linked to the movies/cinema which help to immediately establish this magazine as a movie/film magazine. The Splash uses the same font as on my trailer and poster helping to establish it's connection to the film's brand and to help widen it.

 

I feel the header and bottom bars help to bring a sense of A listers to the magazine increasing it's reputation as a leading film magazine. The various sell lines help to promote the inner workings of the magazine, again with some pretty big names to help the magazine seem bigger. The Splash "SPILLS HIS DEPRIVED SECRETS" I believe brings a sense of intimacy from Kearse to every individual reader which I believe will help attract more readers in thinking Kearse is talking directly to them.

 

I feel the magazine heralds all the normal codes and conventions in refering to a Pug, Splash, Barcode, Image, Header/Footer bar etc. And to have each one of these features makes me believe that I have made a normal, conventional cover.

Film Magazine Draft Three

Film Magazine Draft Three

 

 To thr left is my updated version of my film magazine. I believe I have succeeded in trying to limitise the space take up by the sell lines which gives me more space to experiment with. I have also imported the image I believe most benefits the Splash and attitude my magazine would want. I do however need to edit the photo on Adobe Photoshop. I would want to eliminate the transperant nature of the photo and hopefully the border too to ensure the photo fits and blends in with the cover as much as possible. I do however feel I am very close to concluding the editing of the magazine as I feel I am close to making the final product.

Objective for next draft:

• - Refine image
• - Ensure the border is eliminated



Film Magazine Draft Two

Film Magazine Draft Two

 

To the left is my second draft of my film magazine "LENSE". The main adjustments are the sell-lines. At the moment the cover the whole space on the left hand side. I however feel this wont be the case in the third draft as I want to make them consise so I can have more space for the main image I plan to add later. In discussion of a main image I believe it would be of Will Kearse possibly whispering to the camera in some way, this hopefully will give off a sense of secrecy and intimacy from Kearse to the reader. I have also put a border on the wording after the Splash to show the wording through the darkness, hopefully giving off the imagery of the world of violence rising to take over the world.  I plan, in my next draft to have some form of image, probably not edited, but to just see how it would fit. I do want, as explored above to adjust the sell lines on the left hand side and to hopefully ensure they dont take up too much space.

Poster FINAL Draft

 Above is my FINAL draft of the poster for my fictional film "The Deprived". For me the last adjusments were really benefical. Firstly, the second tagline "JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING" for me can hopefully emphasis that The Deprived is of the post-apocalyptic genre. I believe it has strong connotations with the Bible making it quite widespread in terms of it's connections. I feel the spreading of the Billing Block gave me the ability to show more of the project's main character Adam. This for me was essiential as the audience need to know of him before going to see the film, to hopefully gain a sense of sympathy or intrigument for his harrowing position in the poster. The critical comments for me were to mimick a dying mans last thoughts, as if they were scribed into a wall before his last breath. I feel having well-known film magazines giving their approval would entice more people to go and watch the film. The red, blood stained title according to one peer"gives off a sense of the post-apocalyptic. The final edited image is supposed to rally support and sympathy for Adam in his weak, horrific and terrifying position, which hopefully will drag them to go and see the film in the cinema.

Poster Draft Two

On the second draft of my poster I have been able to add a nice image witha edited sky which I hopefully will give off a sense of the project being post-apocalyptic. I have added a visible billing block, but I believe I would need to stretch it out to the ends of the poster. I have also added a Twitter reference to which I believe can help the audience feel more connected with the brand of The Deprived. I have also emphasised that the brand has a website and this will hopefully make the on-looker be able to connect and associate it'self with the brand. I hope to maybe adjust the bold, big release date at the top of the poster because one piece of feedback stated it is maybe "out of place?". This I feel will mean I would adjust it so it is a another tagline which will hopefully emphasis the film's genre as post-apocalyptic.

Poster Draft One

 

Here is my first draft of my film poster. It lacks any image or any variation of colour. These were the main adjustments for my second draft. I also plan to involve a Billing Block to my second draft. I believe this is essiential as my early audience feedback has told me that the poster "needs a billing block". The image is also a must, and I plan to have a photo taking up the whole poster with possible critical comments.

Evaluation Question Four

Evaluation Question Three

What Have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question Two

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

The Deprived | Trailer V.03

The Deprived | Trailer V.03

 

 

 

The following video shows the third draft of my trailer The Deprived...

 

Please refer to my previous drafts for the main differences and improvements

 



"Lense" | Main Source of Influence

"Lense" | Main Source of Influence

To the left is my main source of influence for my magazine "Lense". Here is the April 2015 edition of the UK's leading film magazine "Empire". Its layout and colour scheme majorly influenced my choices in the drafting stages of my magazine.

Firstly the big, expanded Masthead which covers the width of the page dominates the upper parts of the cover. Its big contrasting colour differs from the image, yet it helps to segment the page with the red in the footer and subsidiary text.

The bold Main Image takes up approximately 4/5 of the page which brings the on-lookers eyes to the image, which is it's job to be the most eye catching feature of the page and to promote the boldest feature in the magazine.

The limited subsidiary texts do enough to promote the inner and less aware features by simply saying "Game of Thrones" the magazine brings in more readers due to it's immense viewership and fanbase. With promised features on topics such as "Ultron" the magazine hits again to a very, very large fan base in the Marvel world adding to the potential readership for this issue.

The three main colours used in the simple colour scheme do well to differenate the different promoted features on the cover adding to a concrete structure, making the cover successfully layed out. The transparent text in the Splash suggests the film will have a mysterious underlying to it and the background suggests a war with flying debris and smoke adding a mixed grey backtone. This film does successful bring more readers and it successfully promotes it's big feature to the on-lookers .

To conclude this issue of Empire successfully promotes the film Terminator Genisys aswell enticing on-lookers who have just seen the issue on the shelves. It's stylish and dangerous looking nature is also attract on the eye with a basic, yet nice to look at, colour scheme. It does it's job well, as a successful promotional tool for the film industry.

Evaluation Question 1 | Film Magazine

In what ways do your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 

The following Prezi answers Evaluation Question 1 in relation to my Magazine Cover...

 

 

 



 

Evaluation Question 1 | Poster

In what ways do your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The following Prezi answers Evaluation Question 1 in relation to my poster

The Deprived | Focus Group Feedback

The Deprived | Focus Group Feedback

 

 

This blog contains the feedback of the focus group of whom gave up their time to watch my group's film trailer and help us improve our product. Below is the written questionnaire feedback from the focus group and following it is the complete video which helped to document the process.

 

i - Written Questionnaire Feedback

 

 

ii - The Video Feedback

 

 Expect analysis in Evaluation Question 3