Once Changes had been made

After looking a the comments that we received from our target audience, we made the changes that were necessary to make the poster appear more authentic, and appeal more to the target audience.

We also realised when looking at the poster that it looked like we had two strap-line's in our poster, and so we only used the more effective strap line that went well with the trailer.

Film Poster Attempt One

This is the first attempt of our Film Poster. My partner and I took a printed copy of our poster and received comments from our target audience, on how we could improve our poster to make it more appealing and get the target audience to want to see the film.

The most common set of comments that we received were: -

• The title of the film needs to be larger maybe coming across the whole width of the page, just to make it more obvious that this is the title of the film.
• There are too many fonts used across the poster and should be limited to 3 fonts and no more.
• The names of the actors should not be scattered around the page it makes it look very unprofessional and should be lined up across the side of the page the opposite side of the face so that they don't cover up the facial features.
• Also the actor names look very basic and non professional, and should have an effect added to them, to help them stand out from the background of the poster.



My partner and I will look more closely at our poster and make the changes that have been addressed to us to make the poster more effective and professional.

Another idea that we tried out

We took close up shots, of half the actresses face to create suspense.  The close up helped us to use effects of horror with the actresses eye, which was effective to the genre.  Going through the process and arranging the poster we realised that the image was too close and the background of the shot was incorrect for the genre of our film trailer. 

Steps through the Magazine front cover production

When producing our front cover we experienced problems with authenticity of the images we had originally taken.  

The features of the front cover works well but the image does not and we have decided to take more images in a different location and props to help make the front cover more authentic.

Once we made these changes we showed the audience the to different front covers to find out which was most popular and would become our final front cover magazine piece.

After showing our audience these two products only 3 or the 12 people preferred the original product and therefore we went ahead with our second choice. There views were that the thought the new cover stood out, and highlighted the genre of the film more effectively, and looked particularly more authentic to the first ideas.

Magazine Front Cover issues

 When thinking about our magazine front cover we had a few ideas for images for the main article that would be appropriate and fit in with the trailer and its genre. These are some of the shots that we tried out. 

 

There was a lack of props that we needed to create the images that we had originally had ideas for, and these are the images that we came away with.  After looking over our ideas and existing front covers we thought that the third image was the most effective one to use.