Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Magazine Cover

This is the video made for my magazine cover. As with the poster, I used annotated screen grabs and images of magazine covers I had looked at. I also used screen grabs of specific areas that I had looked at, all of which demonstrates the points being made within the video.

Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Poster

For this question, I decided to do videos with a voice over showing how my media products either use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products. I have done a video for my poster, magazine cover and trailer. This is the video for my poster, I used annotated print screens and images of posters and particular elements I had looked at to demonstrate the points made. 

Editing....

For the editing I have used iMovie. I have never used  iMovie before, so this was a new skill for me to learn. The only issues I had was with getting the clips uploaded, as it was difficult to do, but I managed in the end. 

I used my story board to help me with the organising of my clips. I used a cross dissolve transition on most of the clips and used quick cuts near the end as most trailers use quit cuts to make it seem like the trailer is speeding up. I also slowed down one of the clips as I liked this effect along with titles; 'What if not everyone was human?'. Additionally, I used a lens flare animation for the introduction of the production company as I liked how professional it looked and it looked like a company animation that you would see on every trailer for films made by that company. I used a sound effect for the 'punch scene' to emphasise the action and draw the audience in. I used a Baskerville font for the titles and kept them white on a black background. 

Fonts...

For my trailer, I have decided to experiment with different font styles. The colour of the text will be white on a black background to match in with my poster and the theme of the film. I think I will use a certain animation as well, to add to the professionalism of my trailer. 

These are just some of the fonts that I have looked at. I like the serif style fonts as they don't look too unprofessional like for example Comic Sans, but aren't too plain. These match in with the fonts on my poster, which then links the trailer and the poster effectively. I like the white on black as it looks clean and professional, and matches in with the genre of thriller/romance/action, similar to that of The Host, with a simple two tone colour scheme.

I really like the titles in the trailer for The Host, they are simple and the colours match my chosen colour scheme. I may just use a gradient on the fonts I use in my trailer, it looks quite effective, as well as the fade in and out and the sync in time with the music. 

I like the titles in this film trailer, but after editing it, I noticed that I liked the white text on the black background. It was similar to the trailers I have seen, but different. I also liked the link between the poster and the trailer through the choice of fonts. I have used the same type of font for both and the same colours for the text as well as the background. These colours also match the genre of the trailer as it's a thriller/action/romance, and the colours black and white contrast each other, it symbolises light and dark and the basis of my trailer is good versus bad, so the colours can represent light versus dark.

Titles....

The titles for my trailer will include the actors names, the title, release date, the slogan, a descriptive sentence summarising the trailer, the production company and the director. I went for these generic titles as I thought they worked well with the shots chosen, and I didn't want to have it all shot based, I wanted some text to balance it out. I shall also have a billing block type title at the end, I chosen to add this as after seeing multiple trailers, most if not all of them include this, as it's crediting the actors and producers. 

For the animations, I have decided to use a lens flare type animation for the introduction of the production company. It will read; 'Three Lions Productions', and will look like this:

I really like this animation as it looks really effective and professional. I shall add an ambient sound in sync with the animation to add to the animation, and to make it seem more professional. Most trailer tend to have their logo at the beginning of their trailer but I have decided to go against this and have my logo at the end of the trailer along with the billing block of information. I think this will look really effective, and the text will be white on black to link in with my poster. Not many trailers do have similarities with the poster, they tend to be more clip based rather than title based. I may change the font however, depending on what I find as I want to keep this style font as the font used for my main titles.

My main titles will have a generic title animation which involves it moving along the bottom of the trailer. It will look like this:

I like this generic animation as most trailers within my chosen genre use this animation and it fits in with the text I'm going to use. Again, the text shall be white on a black background and I shall use this font as it looks similar to the font that I used on my poster for the title. I might try and add a gradient to the text as used in the trailer for The Host, but I might just leave it white. I shall have to test it out.

My main titles are as follows:

Three Lions Productions

From the director of LoanShark

Megan Phipps

Curtis West

A story of love and heartache

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November 2014

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