EVALUATION VIDEOS, FILM, POSTER AND REVIEW PAGE.

The evaluation videos for my media products:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3cHaKQuAwo
How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAvrE2MQPs

In what ways does your short film use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neyok7TglCM

How did you use media technologies in the construction, research and planning stages?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgS0MM46Akw

What have you learned from audience feedback?


Film review page.

Film poster.



 Film: Spaghetti Western

 

REVIEW PAGE - Photos

What photos shall I use for my review page feature..hmmmm. This is my shortlist after running through my film a couple of times:

I like this over the shoulder shot, but I think maybe it looks a bit...dismal...the beautiful Italian countryside looks depressing  instead of intriguing and might give wrong impressions about my film.

I like this shot: it makes the film look professional with the authentic clothes and landscape. 

Nice shot - I like how the landscape stretches off into the distance like that.

Blue sky gives slightly more 'Western' connotations...that's why I picked this one. Face maybe not got enough sun on it though.

I think I'll use this one, as I like its symmetry. I think its intriguing as well - who is Maria and how/why is she dead?

It will go well with this one I think...authentic clothes on show, and so is the authentic background. Thats almost the unique selling point of my film - that it is an authentic student film.

REVIEW PAGE - Writing the Film Review

What do I want to talk about? What are my unique selling points?

Its resemblance of Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.

Location: stunning location, endless with a sense of it being in the middle of nowhere, stretching into distance. Gives a symbolic sense of importance to the events.

Costumes: Overall, convincing. Even before the cowboy characters cool and calm acting, we get a sense of him being cool and calm.

Music: Tense but exciting. The stings of bells, guitar strings and scrapes are true to the style of Ennio Morricone.

These four main talking points are my unique selling points, and things that will most likely intrigue my target audience.

REVIEW PAGE - Further Existing products

LITTLE WHITE LIES
Price: £3.95
Release: Bi Monthly
Industry Info: Church of London design/Publishing company
Audience: Independent, Design Conscious, Specialist.
Range of Film Coverage: Non-mainstream films, art/foreign films that the editors are interested in. A window into films that arn't advertised like mainstream/high budget/Hollywood films.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Director, cast stars, release date. Urge you to watch the films that the majority probably won't. Focuses on: 'Anticipation', 'Enjoyment', 'In Retrospect'. Values stills from films for their artistic visuals. Linear lay out, functional font. Page split into: 1/2 picture, 1/2 text. Functional layout.

SHORT LIST
Price: Free
Release: Weekly
Industry Info: Free, funded by advertising.
Audience: Casual, commuters, male.
Range of Film Coverage: Promo Connected.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content:

TIME OUT
Price: £2.99
Release: Weekly
Industry Info: Commercial, general interest listings, magazine.
Audience: Casual.
Range of Film Coverage: All mainstream films out each week, from a range of countries. Only films showing in London.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Not high production value, but aiming to advertise as many films as possible. Give information on where to view each film, all funders and cast/directors. Lots of reviews on the same page, often without a picture. Gives a rating out of 5 for each film.

REVIEW PAGE - Existing products

Ultimately, our film will be screened at our school. So the film review page would best be suited to the sixth form school magazine 'Sixth Sense'. However I think it would be good to look at other existing magazines, if briefly, to get a better sense of layout and production values.

EMPIRE
Price: £3.99
Release: Monthly
Industry Info: Very commercial, a big business magazine, a very mainstream publication.
Audience: People interested in popular, mainstream films shown in cinemas such as Odeon, Vue. Film enthusiasts, people with a general film interest.
Range of Film Coverage: All countries, new films and occasionally old films, but mostly feature length mainstream films, often Hollywood films.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Link to webpage, often just 1 picture. Gives all industry information, and information about similar films. Font reflects the mainstream - block and bland, so can cover all genres. Font reflects the name, official and standing out. Pictures mostly stills from films. Always give a rating in stars out of 5, verdict and a release date. Sometimes trivial facts.

SIGHT AND SOUND
Price: £3.95
Release: Monthly
Industry Info: Funded by the British Film Institute.
Audience: All British who enjoy less mainstream films.
Range of Film Coverage: Mainly independent and art films, foreign films, old films. 
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Quite a linear, simplistic design. Value stills from films and pictures that look interesting, artful and stylistic, as opposed to representing a film with a generic still. Plain, similar font to Empire. Very functional, serious, about the content, which is quite sophisticated.

Sixth Sense
Price: Free
Release: Annual, in the spring/summer.
Industry Info: Student magazine, for Camden School for Girls.
Audience: Students and possible families.
Range of Film Coverage: Films that the writers personally recommend, not very objective.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Georgia font - bland, official and functional. Film poster and 2 stills on the review page.

POSTER - Final Feedback

The final feedback.
Jagged outline or blurred outline on sun?
Here is the final feedback from my teacher for the final draft. She personally liked the blurred sun style choice, but, as she noted, it was her personal preference, and so I kept the jagged sun, as I felt it sort of tied in more with the overall style.

However there were some things I couldn't keep the same: standard industry size of the certification box is about 50% smaller than what I currently had it as. So that had to change.

Finally, she suggested scaling down the 'Empire' review at the top of the page, although, after testing this idea, I felt it slightly ruined the symmetry of the poster, so I changed it back.

And here it is!

POSTER - Second Draft