AUDIENCE INTERVIEWS AND FEEDBACK ON MAGAZINE FRONT COVER

This is the link to the audience interviews and feedback for our magazine front cover.

In this we asked different people questions about the magazine such as 'Do you know what this is?' and from this we could see if we suitably got the conventions of the magazine correct, from an outside perspective.

Doing this really helped us realise what we did good about the magazine, and also what we could of improved on. 
 

FILM STORYBOARD

• As you know, every film is not just created on the spot. Each film has a set of guidelines and steps which are thought through separately and placed into the best order. As a group we devised a story board which would allow us to follow a structure of ideas that conjured up our film trailer. 
• A lot of storyboards are illustrated through drawings or created through the use of similar imagery to the images used in the film/trailer. Our story board has been created through the use of still images taken from our actual trailer because it has a realistic effect and makes our storyboard relevant to our trailer. 
• Once we shot all our necessary footage, I then created still images of all the shots we thought were best and intended to use and put them in sequence order. By doing this we could then follow a storyboard guideline in the editing room and it gave us a clear head start. Below is several images of our storyboard:

WHAT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...

Although the blogging isn't finished, the teaser trailer is! We have now edited and produced our 'SNATCHED' movie teaser trailer. Be prepared to hold onto your seats as you watch our gangster/thriller teaser trailer! linking together the genres of gangster, thriller and social realism we have created the one of its kind teaser trailer:

SNATCHED MAGAZINE FRONT COVER ANALYSIS

After creating the magazine film cover, i have analysed the main aspects to give you a brief description of what was included and why it was included. Hopefully through my descriptions you can understand why everything was used and how the aspects work to attract all types of film lovers who have an interest in today's movie news:

OUR FILM MAGAZINE FRONT COVER AND CREATION PROCESS

Our magazine front cover has now been created and i have attached the creation stages below just to give you an insight into how the cover was created. Each step adds a different aspect and effect to the overall image which helps create a detailed design of what a film magazine front cover should like like in order to attract the correct target audience:

STAGE 1:

 1. Raw photo


















STAGE 2:

2. Adjusted colours, brightness and contrast to make the photo darker and the light stand out more















STAGE 3:

3. Added bar code
















STAGE 4:

4. The name of the magazine added – Font Arial Heavy, font size 1000px















STAGE 5:


5. The title moved behind an object (head), using the selecting tool to create an extra layer of the main object (Michael) and moving the ‘FILM’ layer behind the main objects layer.















STAGE 6:

6. Website, issue and price added – Font Impact Condensed, font size 75px
















STAGE 7:

7.  Sell line in a circle, use of different fonts, and colours to make the name of the film stand out. Shadow dropped on ‘Redemption’ and the circle















STAGE 8:



 8.  Titles added and shadows dropped to make it look professional, the colours are matching the main films colours
















STAGE 9:

9.  Main title added, font is bigger (more catchy), no shadow dropped to make it different from the rest of the titles.
















STAGE 10:


10. An Oscar trophy added next to main title – relates to main title

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

MUSIC FOR SOUNDTRACK

Researching online has allowed us to stumble across several websites with free music sountracks. After using the 'garageband' application on the iMac, we decided that this application wasn't siutable for us, we then came across www.freemusicplay.com . This website provided us without a variety of soundtracks that we took an interest in. After playing the soundtracks against our trailer, we picked the one we thought most suitable.

The following link will take you to the webpage which will allow you to preview our music soundtrack: http://freeplaymusic.com/search/keyword_search.php

This sound track had been created to build tension; although the whole beat has a 'racey' vibe, it starts mellow and gradually increases in volume and speed. The gradual increase suits our trailer because our trailer also increases in speed and tension. As our trailer progresses, the transisitions become shorter and the clips become quicker and snappier to create a similar 'racey' effect just like the music. The music will help emphasise the tension in our trailer and will work to create that hear-racing affect for the audience as the scenes become more action filled.

Here is the iMovie application which we use to edit our film. The green section is the our soundtrack which we have applied over 3/4s of our trailer; we have not paplied it from the very beginning because it does not suit our mellow start. The sound waves included in the green section allow us to adjsut our volume of the music, this came in handy because some of the clips include diegetic sound that we wish to hear in the trailer; for example, when Johnny is on the phone we want to hear what he is saying, therefore we turn the music lower and make his voice louder.

This is the iTunes library that we strored all the interesting soundtracks on, this way we could simply flick through tracks and play them against different parts of our trailer to see if they work correctly to create the correct mixture of image and sound to interest our audience and make most effective.