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

                             

Our magazine analysis

This is our final magazine production-  (sadly this is blurry too)! but not on the actual photo shop image.

Our main narrative image displays the two main characters of the film, Jake and Stuart. We chose to centre place them so that they stand out, it shows that they are important and play an important role in the narrative. It also highlights the contrast between the two characters, Jake is dressed in a dark tracksuit, his hood up with a moody expression on his face, a typical representation of the 'youth of today'. In contrast we have Stuart, who is smartly dressed in a shirt, wearing glasses and looks much more mature. As this is not the typical representation of what a youth is classed as, it slightly gives away that he is going to be the less favoured character in the film. This big contrast kind of causes the audience to realise why Stuart might get bullied, he's different from what's expected, he goes against the social norms. The way they are standing initiates some sort of relationship between the two characters, as the audience would not of seen the film yet, they would be unclear what kind of relationship it is, but yet it would be something interesting to discover. The image is large, covering the masthead, lots of magazines tend to do this with their main narrative image which suggests that the image is more important than the masthead, the image is what you should be paying attention to.

In addition to the main narrative image, there is also the film reel. This was actually produced by ourselves, and we inserted movies that we made up too, simply to make sure everything was all our work. Having other films on the front cover of a film magazine is a common feature so we thought we would include it to, the film reel was just a creative idea that we thought we would use to make it look more appealing and professional. It just gives it a nice finish.

The colour scheme of our magazine front cover is basically black, gold and red. The black is quite a prestigious colour, it connotes authority and style, these are qualities we like to think our magazine possesses. The gold just gives it a bit of colour, makes it look more attractive and eye catching, it is also a colour you 

would associate with winning and first place, it slightly represents the idea we have about our film magazine, that it is a first place film magazine. The sky line 'THE REDEMPTION WORLD EXCLUSIVE' is a massive selling point, everybody loves exclusive, new information that has not yet been released, it is a perfect reason for people to want to buy the magazine. Also by including items such as 'FREE REDEMPTION POSTER' it gives your reader that little bit extra, makes them feel 'special' and like they have been treated well, therefore claiming that this magazine is worth its money. Lastly the title of our film 'REDEMPTION' is kept to its white colour scheme, we chose this as white connotes purity and innocence, qualities that Stuart possesses and that Jake is trying to gain through redemption. It is a huge contrast against the black background, this contrast, along with the image contrast, we hope would get the audience thinking about the narrative, getting them thinking about our film.

Distribution of our film

Seeing as our film is only a small British film with unknown actors we thought that the first place it would be showcased is likely to be places such as film festivals and in cinemas such as small broadway ones.

Our film poster analysis

Sadly the writing and smaller images appear blurry in this image, we have tried to prevent this from happening but each time we upload it, it keeps doing it. However on the real image on photoshop it does not do this at all.

Main image: Jake is the main image, dressed all in very dark colours with his hood up and looking away from the camera. As he is dressed in a black hoody and dark grey joggers, these colours have connotations of death, fear, the unknown and black and grey is also known to be the symbol of grief. By portraying emotions in our film poster we immediately linked the poster with the drama side of our genre. The common connotations of grey are pessimism and depression which are two themes that appear in our film. Jake is looking away from the camera as he is ashamed, distraught and is suffering from his brother’s death. This leaves the audience puzzled as to whether he is the protagonist or the antagonist; however it does look more than likely that Jake is some sort of protagonist as he does not have a threatening gaze or any props that suggest he is. Jake does have his fist clenched which is associated with action, a convention of our thriller drama genre. Jake has his hood up in the poster which is Jake’s like trademark as in the trailer when he has his hood up it indicates violence and revenge.

Text: 'Redemption' is placed in the biggest, boldest font which makes the title of the film stand out. The bold font fits well with the thriller genre of our film, the cracked font is quite mysterious, a convention of a thriller genre. At the top we have 'Jamie Widdison' which is the actor's name, this would be a big selling point, especially if the actor is a well known successful actor. We include the tag line 'How far would you go to find redemption?', it is a good convention to use to draw your audience in and to make them ask themselves. Having a rhetorical question also is a good way to link the poster to the narrative, it causes the audience to realise that the film must have something to do with redemption and a quest to find it. We have also used the typical conventions of a poster such as the BBFC 15 and social networking links, this targets our audience quickly and then initiates to them that they can go on facebook/twitter (social network sites that we already know appeal to them) to find out more.

What have you learned from audience feedback?

                            

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

                        

 These videos display our audiences opinions on our trailer, poster and magazine.
We asked a range of questions to a range of different people on their opinions on our film poster for 'Redemption'. We thought this was a great way to find out whether our poster was successful in targeting our specific audience and in letting us know whether they would want to go and see it.


We then asked a range of people what they thought about our magazine cover, questions such as whether it looked professional, whether they would buy it and what the main narrative image suggested.


The recorded response of our target audience watching our trailer.


We then asked our target audience questions based on our trailer, this video tells you what they thought!

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