Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Here I have re-posted the video we took of our audience interviews:

After reviewing the comments made in this video, and from the feedback we received on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, I made a video to discuss what I have learnt from our audience feedback.

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Film Poster:

Film Review:

Film Trailer:

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

Film Review

This is my take on a Total Film review. I tried my best to re-create elements from both the magazine (eg. 'talking point', overall layout) and website (eg. social media bar, advertisement) and merged them together. Although I did copy the social media bar, advertisement and 'most popular' table from totalfilm.com, the rest of the page has all been created by me using the program Paint.net. I feel it is effective as it looks fairly professional, is laid out clearly into sections, and links with real film reviews on the market.
(Right: the basic plan for the layout of my review)

Film Poster

Here is my final film poster I made using Paint.net. I stayed fairly in line with my second draft poster, only got rid of the factory background, added my own original pictures of the cast, and inserted other necessary poster conventions eg. snippet from a film review, star rating, website address etc.
I like the overall look of the poster: I feel the steam underneath the film title and in the background creates a mysterious look, and I like the way the red, blue and grey colours on each of the characters stand out and are visually pleasing.
I also made some examples of how we could possibly advertise out film - in bus stops and on the walls of the tube - as these are areas where lots of people, including our target audience of young people, visit every day.
This, along with our film trailer, gives us an insight into how our film's advertising would look, and we know that, according to our audience survey, these elements draw audiences to a film the most.

Second Poster Draft

After my initial attempt at designing the layout of my film poster, I decided to try again to make it seem more professional and realistic to other real film posters.

Firstly, I inserted the film title (from the previous draft) and overlapped two transparent images of smoke I found online.

I then found some suitable images online to use as our film's characters until we photograph our own ones. I then positioned them according to how I wanted my poster to look, with the protagonist in the centre and the villain and the femme fatale either side of him.

 I then cut out this section of my background image and moved it in between the protagonist and the femme fatale, as it looked similar to the table we used in our film which the gang keep their money box on.

I then inserted the background image of a factory I found online, as it is one of the settings are film takes place in. I chose to include this setting in my poster as it demonstrates the dark atmosphere of our film, and so audiences will be able to gain an understanding of what our film contains from the poster alone.

Then I pasted an image of a red money box similar to the one we use in our film, and placed it on top of the box in the background. To make it seem more realistic, I gave it a 'Glow' effect as it gave it the effect of having a shadow.

 I then added the typical elements of a film poster: actor's names, credits, extract from a film review and a 'coming soon' image.

After this, I felt the background image needed to be more striking, and so adjusted the 'hue', 'saturation' and 'lightness' to make the setting seem darker and also to bring forth the red colour in the beam on the ceiling, as it would then match the vibrant colour of the money box.

Then, I wanted to make the femme fatale stand out more against the dark background and so I added the 'Glow' effect to the image of her. This made her seem a bit more seductive and gave her an almost angelic-like appearance, which is fitting for the nature of her character.

Finally, I added a few more images of smoke, and adjusted the properties of each layer to blend each new image in with the rest. I found that the 'colour burn' effect was particularly effective, as it made individual images darker, which made the overall poster seem a bit more balanced and intricate.