Evaluation 3- what have you learnt form your audience feedback?

what have you learnt form your audience feedback?

Film Trailer Feedback:

Feedback given by Teachers and peers:

WWW:

• Good editing 
• Cross cutting, at the beginning with the flashbacks to Rosewood's childhood
• Split screen, guests waking up from being drugged 

EBI:

• Include more quick shots (1sec)
• Add more dialogue towards the end
• More sound effects 
• More camera movement 
• Add more emphasise to dinner scene
• More flashbacks of the good moments 
• Alter the 'who are you?' moment 
• Film the drugging of the drink

Our film being targeted to a an audience of young adults, that being 15+, therefore gaining advice and feedback from our peers in the lesson was extremely helpful. it allowed us to be able to understand how to really gain the attention of those we are trying to reach, understanding what they want to see form the trailer. 

Change 1:

Right from the beginning of our planning process we wanted to defy the stereotypical thriller film with someone going missing or a murder taking place, we wanted to make it unexpected, non- conventional by challenging that and making the whole plot centre around Christmas and make Scarlett Rosewood a female antagonist an evil version of Santa Clause plotting her revenge on her childhood friends.  We tried to present Santa as in a panning shot to present her true identity, however, the shot was too long, and not as smooth as we would have liked it to be, so we changed it by revealing little parts of Santa, for example we shot a close up of Santa's hand wrapping around the door, and her feet walking past the camera, we felt it built up the tension, until the long hand held camera shot when the guest is running down the hall and turning around to see Santa coming after her.  This then helped to make the shots a lot faster like was mentioned in our audience feedback, therefore making it seem more like a real film trailer.

Change 2:

We also recorded  some more voice overs to give our trailer more dimension to it ,  it also helped to tell the story of the plot better, and help the audience make a first impression of each character better. These included just  more heavy breathing  to accentuate the panic that the guests are feeling in the trailer, and make the audience feel as uncomfortable as they're. We also recorded the guests discussing among each other, there hesitations about going to the dinner,  to create that sense of dramatic irony among the audience and the characters in the trailer.  It also helps to pick up the pace of the trailer, make everything come together and run more smoothly. 

Change 3:

we wanted to make the ending shot with me waking up and taking in a sharp breath more dramatic, so we tried increasing the audio volume, and slowing the footage for that section of the sequence down, so that that in hale would match the same terror that you can see in my eyes.  I think that helped to create that dramatic ending to the we were aiming for, which worked well when it came to the non diegtic music playing again for when the inter title says coming out Christmas 2018

Change 4:

on our first draft our idea was to create a dinner with Scarlett heading the meal and then zooming into her face to make it obvious it was her who was the antagonist in the trailer, however we had cut the footage when the camera started to move, therefore making the zoom in look cheap, and unrealistic. For our second draft and final draft we learnt to make the footage into a still image first then start to zoom into the footage before the camera starts moving, which created a smoother transition into the zoom in, therefore making it look more professional, and more aesthetically pleasing to watch. 

Change 5:

Our second draft included only one inter title "Are you on the naughty list?"  with no ratings from any other company, that had watched the film, this therefore took away from the features of trailer, we were slightly edging towards a film opening. Therefore for our final draft we added more inter-tiles, which therefore helped to increase the speed of the trailer, with more short shots, as well as give it that trailer like feel to it. e had already used non-continuity editing, which is stereotypical convention of a film trailer, but we wanted to make sure it had included the most conventions of a trailer as possible to make it seem more realistic. 

Film Poster Feedback:

I received feedback form my teachers and peers when it came to my film poster, allowing me to make a more realistic portrayal of a film poster as possible.

Change 1:

First off My main imagine for my film poster was too bright for a psychological thriller film. So i used the brightness and contrast settings along with using a gradient to make the background around the door darker. I then used the brightening tool around the door to really highlight the wrapping paper and make the red ribbon pop.This therefore made the theme running throughout the whole of the trailer, and idea of the film,  prominent, that being Christmas.

Change 2:

The title of the film wasn't too prominent, that was because of the fact that  as it was next to the billing block the bottom of the poster was too busy and looked all crammed int, not very professional. as i had found from my research that most film posters are simple and plain, this is what i wanted to reciprocate in my own film poster. In the end i decided to move my title to the top of the film poster, this helped to make it more prominent, as there wasn't as much going on also i found that its rather stereotypical to have the title at the top of the film poster.

Change 3: 

I wasn't going to add a rating with starts on my film poster at fist because when doing my research it didn't seem it was very stereotypical to include it, and therefore unnecessary., however, it was suggested that  I should as my film won't be well known and neither will the production company, it gives the audience to go off of. I was told it might be a good idea to make it short and snappy, so that it won't tale too much away from the main image and therefore give a little snippet of information to the audience without revealing too much, keeping the attention of the audience hooked.

Final Film Poster

Magazine Front Cover Feedback:

I received a lot of feedback on my magazine poster, some more major then others. One of the biggest ones was could i see that magazine front cover being in a shop when you walk in and wanting to pick it up?

Positive Feedback:

• I like the main image
• I like the font of the masthead 

Negative Feedback:

• Change the arrangement of the cover lines
•  Change the spacing between the words on the top, to make them more equal distance apart
•  Change the text above the masthead to be more Christmas themed

Change 1:

I changed the cover lines so that they were all the same distance apart, and the text size was the same. I also made sure that they were all the same length, and they didn't stick out too much i used the ruler to do this to make sure everything was in line, making it look more neat and professional.
I made sure that every word  for one of the cover lines was in the same text box instead of separate ones his made it easier to control the size of the font and distance between them.



Change 2:

The sky line was something on the magazine, that took me a while to create. I tried adding a shape of a rectangle behind the words, to make them work ans they were not visible because of the gradient i had on the background of the magazine cover. That didn't really work it made the poster look "tacky" and not professional. I then tried to put am outer glow on the text of a purple so that it wouldn't be too visible on the black but it would be enough to make the text stand out and be read able. No matter how much i tried to change the vibrancy of the purple it didn't look professional enough. I then decided to get rid of the purple outer glow, a
nd make the text white so that it would stand out on the black. However, i had the problem that the text looked like it was just floating on the cover, which again didn't look realistic either. Finally i chose to go back to the rectangle shape again this time white and change my font to colour to black. this resolved the issue that it looked misplaced and wasn't visible.

Then i had to change the distance between the words on the skyline, as they were equally proportioned gaps, this again lead to it looking unprofessional. Originally every word has there own text box however, like my cover lines i made it all one text box and then just used the space tool to equal out the space between each word, therefore making it more aesthetically pleasing to look at and make it more realistic.

Change 3:

The text above the Mast head was originally " A mind Blowing Issue" this was used to try and entice the audience into wanting to watch read the magazine. However, it was suggested that it has no relation to my actual film. Therefore it was suggested that i could make it more christmassy with a pun, which resulted in it =being replaced with "Cool Yule Issue" this is a direct link to the Christmas themed holiday that the film is linked to. This fit better with the cover, as all the cover lines fit the theme so it looked a little out of place, this therefore led to it seeming more professional, as everything was linked down to the main plot and film of  our film "Naughty List" that being Christmas.

Final Magazine Front cover

Final Edition of our psychological thriller - Naughty List

Naughty List Final

Evaluation Task 4 - How Did You Use New Media Technologies in the Construction, Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages

How Did You Use New Media Technologies in the Construction, Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages

Digital camera:

We used a digital camera to take our footage for our film trailer ‘Naughty List’ as well as using it to take the photos for the film poster and magazine front cover. We borrowed out the camera from the school allowing us to have a long lasting access to the camera, therefore we were not completely restricted in the time frame that we had to film everything in and take the photos for.  When starting to film my partner Erin Surkitt had experience with how to use this type of camera and taught me how focus on what was in shot and how to zoom in and out of the frame. The digital camera allowed us to take more realistic photos’ in good quality that would be easy to see on a film poster and magazine front cover that made it seem as realistic as possible. The camera wasn’t too heavy and with the neck strap and carrier case, it was very mobile and which was needed considering we were filming in a variety of locations and had to bring the camera along with us. The neck strap came in particular help in the shot where one of the guests were running down the hall as Father Christmas was behind her and coming to get her. In this shot we used a handheld camera shot and did it in a canted angle. The sheer practicality of the camera being mobile helped us to be able to perform this task without too many difficulties, this
therefore resulting in us having a smooth shot that seemed realistic of a victim running away from danger.  We were also allowed to borrow a tripod from school this helping to make sure the shots in our film trailer as well as the other two components in a straight and non-shaky way.  Especially in shots in our trailer such as the high angle of me waking up at the end of the trailer which needs to be steady and clear, this was made possible because of the tripod that we were using.

 Blogger:

As I was able to access this website, and my blog from many different devices such as my phone, my home computer and the school computer, it meant that the blogging site was extremely particle in use. It also enabled to me to access my past research on psychological thrillers, this helping, me to be able use them when doing the planning for my film trailer ‘Naughty List’ and link it all back to be previous research. It also helped me when designing my film poster and magazine front cover as it helped to look back on the examples of the film posters that I analysed in m research section to know the key conventions to include on them, and make them seem as realistic as possible.  

Premier pro:

Premier pro allowed me and my partner to edit not only our film trailer, but also our costume and decisions video, as well as our changes and decisions vlogs. By creating separate bins for audio, video, intertitles etc. our footage for our trailer was easily accessible.  I have had a fair amount of experience with premier pro in the past with my AS work and also from taking Media in GCSE. However, we did need to research how to do things we have never done before, for example when it came to scaling and positioning our four guests waking up scenes to create a split screen of shots, as this is something neither me or my partner had past experience with doing, but we wanted to include into our trailer for dramatic effect. We found easy to import footage onto our sequence as well as audio tracks we had. It was also easy to delete footage or audio tracks that were not happy with or didn’t want to use from our sequence. This enabled to help make the editing process as smooth as possible, without too much hassle. Once the footage was rendered it was easy to play through our sequence and see what we had so far, and therefore see what we needed to improve, what else we needed to add in and what we didn’t like, or we didn’t work well together.

The software allowed us to layer audio tracks with the footage we had shot with ease, and allowed us to cut the audio to the length we wanted, and rearrange or delete audio form footage that was not needed. It helped us to use transitions such as dissolve or fade to black when it came to our actual footage, to blend all the shots together smoothly, making the trailer look as professional and realistic as possible.  

We could also easily include intertitle by adding a title into our sequence, for instance in our trailer our intertitle was “are you on the naughty list?” this allowed us to address our audience who would be watching the trailer, and therefore grab their attention.

As from past experience with using premier pro on our AS teen angst production, you could only use it on one computer in the whole school, therefore me and my partner transferred the sequence onto a memory stick and therefore edited on my partners laptop for our film trailer, this therefore gave us more freedom, and made the software more mobile. Therefore meaning we could easily meet when we were both free no matter what day or time and edit the film trailer instead of being confined to school hours.  

Photoshop:

Photoshop was a crucial piece of software that I had to use as it is how I made my film poster and magazine front cover. Again, like premier pro I had experience with using Photoshop when doing my AS research on recreating a film poster and creating a film magazine front cover for our teen angst film. I also used in in m GCSE media. It enabled me to create a gradient on my film magazine front cover by using the gradient tool, with the colour of black, therefore darkening the background which was stereotypical of the thriller genre.

For my film poster I used the brightening tool when trying to make the wrapped door pop out to the audience, to really bring across the Christmas theme of the trailer. I also was careful to keep the rest of the background of the poster to remain dark by experimenting with the contrast and brightness settings of the main image. This therefore making it seem like a dangerous and ultimately dark movie, which is what you would expect from a psychological thriller film.

I had to use the section tool on my magazine front cover to cut out around the head of Father Christmas, and then make a copy of as a different layer. This then enabled me to layer it over the masthead, which is stereotypically seen on a film magazine.

Photoshop provided me with a wide range of San serif and serif fonts, but for synergy reasons I stuck with Time news roman that was used in our film trailer for our title of our film “Naughty List” on both the film poster and magazine front cover. I used blending options to make the title pop, with a black drop shadow, however, I was careful to make sure I kept the distance down really low, this helped to make sure the text was actually on the poster rather than making it seem like it had been stuck on, again helping to make it seem more professional.

YouTube:

We used YouTube when it came to publishing our first draft of our film trailer, so were able to put it onto our blogs on blogger. We also used it to publish our costume video and our vlogs, so again we could link it on our blogs. It also helped us to get the audio we wanted for our trailer, such as the creepy doll music, as well as the elevator music that is used in our vlogs. It also came in handy when I ha
d to conduct my research on film trailers in thriller genre. As this was the platform that I watched them all on and did my research form, to help with the development of our production. This is also the platform where we received help on premier pro when it came to the scaling and positioning the split screen in our trailer.

Facebook Messenger:

Facebook messenger helped me and my partner to keep in contact with everyone who was acting in our film trailer. This is the platform we used when it came to communicating among each other. It was easy to accessible and, with the fact it was able to give us notifications we were able to answer any of the questions the actors had. I also allowed us to work around everyone’s schedule, and create a plan about when we were going to start filming, what time etc.

 Power point:

I used power point when creating our mood board in our planning for the target audience and USP of our film trailer. I have used this software on multiple occasions and so were very familiar with its told and functions, therefore importing photos to create a mood board and arrows to analyse it was rather simple however a rather creative way to demonstrate that part of our planning. 

Evaluation 1 - in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions from real media products?

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

                                                       

Frame 1: Our Title Naughty List
My first frame of choice is our films title, we chose naughty list because of its direct to the theme of Christmas that runs through our film, and links to the plot. Also the word "naughty" connotes the danger the guests are going to find themselves in. A lot of the time in psychological thrillers the antagonist will have a dark past that can help the audience to relate to them or at least understand why they might act out the way that they do. This is what we wanted here, Scarllet Rosewood is our main antagonists who dresses as Santa and play mind games and traps her dinner guests that were her childhood friends in rooms. The popular saying that parents will always say to their children is if your not good you'll end up on the naughty list, this is the dread and the fear we wanted to instil here in our title. We encouraged to make this our title from watching other scary Christmas movies such as 'Krampus'.

Our title does follow the stereotypical type of thriller title, being short and snappy with only two words, we chose to make it short because from research into other thriller trailers such as 'Psycho', 'The Gift' and again 'Krampus' we believed it made the title easy to remember, also added with the fact that its a frequently used phrase when in relation to adults  telling off their children. It almost acts as a warning to the audience. Especially with the "Naughty List" being red, which we found is a common theme with the thriller genre, it really emphasises the danger the guests are getting themselves into, and how angry Scarlett really is with them.

Choosing the font for our title was really important as it would be used as synergy throughout all three of my pieces. We chose a serif font of  'Times New Roman' this is because we wanted it to look sophisticated, having in mind that we would need to use the same font for our film poster and magazine front poster, we wanted it be a font type that would look professional on all of them. However, the font does help to create the seriousness of the film, if the font was in stereotypical chiller font, it would look too overdone and it would take away from the jeopardy of the film, making it look like a spoof of a thriller film.

                                                                         

Frame 2: Story line/plot:

Our plot challenges most thriller movies of the genre, it's not very common for a film to be about Christmas. This is why we chose to do it about Christmas, we wanted to steer away from the stereotypical conventions of the thriller genre, like a investigation because someones gone missing a murder, a stalker etc. like i found in my research in 'The gift' its about a stalker who keeps leaving presents near the door, that later leads to a terrible experience with one of the victims in the house. 'Psycho' is about a murderer who kills a women when she is the shower, 'The butterfly effect' was about the death of the main protagonists wife and then the events he experiences with his own mentality later on. We wanted to approach the thriller genre with the conventions such as mind games, drugging, revenge etc, but put a twist on a loved holiday, that for many people equates to happiness and family. 

Here in this frame Scarlett is sitting at front of the table and staring straight into the camera, whilst all her guests are eating the food and drink that she drugged to make them all fall asleep. I chose this shot for the explaining the plot because this is the moment when everything is gonna change, you have the non-diegtic music playing in the background "Santas coming to town" everyone is talking and laughing, but soon their life's are gonna change forever. 

We also challenged the stereotype of the main antagonist being male, by making the antagonist in our film, female. This is because they wanted to empathises that women can just be as evil as men, and challenge the stereotype that women are frail, innocent and always the victim and in this case make the main character in the film female. This we were hoping would attract a more female audience to the film, as stereotypical males are more likely to watch a thriller film. similarly we challenged the stereotype of the male being the most able and the savour in the film, by making a male actor a victim of Scarlett's. We wanted to include this because male violence and abuse does happen in society but is overlooked when in comparison to female abuse and violence, therefore we wanted to highlight that societal issue in out film, that not many other thriller films do from my research into the genre.

                                           

Frame 3: Setting:

In our film we used a variety of settings for instance in our school graphic corridor, our schools music practice rooms, my house and Erin's House. 

We made the rooms dark and tried to find small spaces so that it made it seem more claustrophobic for the audience to watch this is what we believed to be rather stereotypical of the psychological thriller genre, when discussing the genre we came to the decision that it would be stereotypical of the genre if the characters were to be trapped in dark small rooms, as it would add to the tension and adrenaline the audience would feel when watching the trailer. 

Using our own houses to film a lot of the footage, added to the frightening feeling the audience will feel, as the home is something that everyone should feel safe in, however, the idea that you shouldn't trust the ones you thought you knew the most, and that danger comes from within. This therefore adds to the psychological aspect of the film, as when you have finished watching the trailer the audience will feel uncomfortable in their own home, turning their comforts 

around on them, just like our whole plot with the Christmas theme does. 

                                                                    Frame 4: Costume:

For frame 4 I chose the Santa costume for the costume explanation. Again we challenged the stereotypical plot line with a twist on Christmas, and turning the beloved father Christmas into a satanic murderer.

We wanted the Santa costume to be as realistic as possible so that it would make it more creepy, and so were sure to buy a costume with a mascot head on as that is the aspect of the costume we thought would be the most freaky. The red of the costume also connotes the danger that is to come for the guests in the film.

We decided on dressing the girl guests in dresses with the main guests in a white dresses to connote her innocence and purity, contrasting to Scarlett with a black dress, to symbolise her corrupt nature, and the evil plan she has created. This is stereotypical of  of the thriller genre as females are often seen as weak in comparison to men, and more vulnerable, as demonstrated in 'Psycho' as its a girl victim in the shower that gets murdered, along with in 'The Gift'  with the wife becoming the victim to the antagonist too, therefore we chose to use them conventions and demonstrate them in our choice of costume. 

                                                                     

Frame 5: Camera and Editing:

From doing research into the conventions of a trailer, by looking at London to Brighton, i found that the editing was very fast paced, the shots were short and impact.  we found that there was a lot of close ups used in the genre, because it allowed you to either see the terror on the victims face, the sadness etc. Therefore, that's what me an my partner chose to do in our psychological thriller, we tried to take a ,ot of short shot, with a range of camera shots such as long shots when the guests were trapped in rooms, a close up of me waking up here. We also used a handheld camera when I was running down the corridor, with a canted angle, creating the disorientation and panic that the guests was feeling as Santa was running after her. 

We tried to use a lot of low key lighting when it came to the shots, of the guests trapped in the rooms, even when the guests are eating the meal its rather dark with the only source of light coming from the fairy lights lining the walls. This is rather stereotypical of the genre, for example in 'karampus' a lot of the film is set in the middles of the night and the houses lights are set down to low, which normally would create that cosy, loving atmosphere but, here it allows the fear of the dark and the unknown that follows it to play on the audiences brain, which is something we wanted to play upon. Homing in whats stereotypical everyone fears and using them against them.

Our trailer is non-psychological order which again is a convention of trailers, this therefore not telling all the story but giving the audience snippets of the best parts to entice them more to watch it, this therefore makes the trailer seem more realistic and professional. 

                                                                                         

Frame 6: Introducing Characters:

In our trailer, we had 5 characters introduced, which I feel is stereotypical of a trailer,  you want to draw the audience i with a lot of  action going on and by having a lot of characters allowed us to do this. We tried to make non-confusing from having a lot of characters as 4 of the 5 characters are all guests so don't have too different story lines. 

We chose to properly introduce each guest with a split screen of each of them waking up in the rooms they have been put in by Scarlett, all panicking and disorientated, this therefore helps to set the basis of our plot, and allows the whole story of the trailer to progress. We chose to introduce the main antagonist, Scarlett at the very beginning of our trailer in a mid shot as she is looking outside the window, waiting for all the guests to arrive, and them we chose to have a flash back of her as a child and tell her past, this allowed us to not only introduce Scarllet but give an insight into her past, and some reasoning behind her actions. 

The fact that we introduced our antagonist right of the beginning of the trailer, does in somewhat challenge the stereotype of the villain being revealed at the end or reaming some what of a mystery throughout the trailer seen in 'The Gift' and 'psycho', however we did include this and that were our enigma code comes in, as the the character who actually plays all the tricks on the guests and traps them in the rooms is Santa, but being in the costume the audience can't work out that its really Scarlet, this therefore does use the convention of the mystery antagonist but develops it by showing the audience who Santa is right at the beginning, and therefore the real mystery is solved right in front of them.

 Frame 7 : Inter titles:

 I chose to make Frame 7 about our inter tiles in the film. This is stereotypical convention of most thriller trailers, used to draw the audience into the plat of the film, by main them part of it. This is what we did here with using the word "you" we created a direct mode of address to our audience, getting them involved in the film too.

''Krampus' Trailer Inter title

   we chose to keep our inter tiles short and snappy for as you can see in this frame, so that it wouldn't be too much for the audience to read and allowed the shot to be fast paced with the rest of the trailer, so it doesn't disturb the  adrenaline kick the trailer creates.  When looking at the trailer of psychological thrillers they also all kept their inter tiles short and snappy ans didn't leave them on the screen for too long for example in 'krampus' when they use an inter tile saying "EVERYONE LOVES THE HOLIDAYS".

We also chose to keep the inter tiles in the same font as our title of our film in times new roman, which is simple and clear to read, making it easier to make the shot fast but allowing the audience to be able to read it well enough too. This is something we also took from 'Krampus' as they also have clear sans serif font when it comes to the inter tiles and its also very fast and snappy. It also keeps the Christmas theme with the font being white ans there being falling snow in  the black sky. We wanted to take the idea of using white font to connote the innocence as well as keep the Christmas theme, but we Incorporated the red as it connotes the danger that is about to come for the guests and keeps our scheme present throughout the whole of the trailer.

                                                                                   

Frame 8: Film Poster:

I chose to have the main image the main antagonists which i found was very stereotypical when researching film posters,  pulling the audience attention the centre of the poster instead of it being to busy with too many images and being unclear of the plot and message  I was trying to put across.

I used synergy and kept the sans serif font 'Times new Roman' so that that they could identify the film easier. It also made it very clear and readable, allowing anyone reading it. 

I was careful to keep the review from the times short and too the point, as  it would be too much to read if it was longer and make the audience bored.  My trailer fits the convention of a film poster with the star rating that follows the rating, however when doing my research into film posters such as 'red lights' or 'secret window' the poster was very plain and simple with the anchoring main image of the main character, and the billing block , a tag line and famous actors names however it didn't include reviews from other companies who had watched the film or a star rating. However, I thought these conventions would be essential to include in my film poster as our film was an independent low budget film, and doesn't come from a well known production company and so the audience would rely on critics opinion of the film before paying to watch it.

I tried to follow the convention of having the actors names on the top of film poster, just like they have in the  'Secret Window', however, usually they include a famous actor/ actress to entice audience into watching it basically using star power, to get people to watch the film, However, again as our film was a low budget independent film, the actors we use were not famous or well known, so i chose to simply include the main characters in the film. 

From my research into  the film poster ' red lights' The tag line makes a direct address with the audience with the word "your" this is what I wanted to do with my film poster and there used synergy and took a line from our non-diegetic music of our film trailer "you better watch out " and the "you" also created that created a direct address with the audience. This therefore again like our inter titles in our film trailer grabs the audiences attention and bring them into the narrative of the film.  I was also careful in keeping it short and to the point like they did in 'Red Lights' and in a clear and readable font 

                                                             

Frame 9: Magazine Front Cover:
Again like my film poster i used an anchoring image of the main antagonist in our film Santa.
This is what i found to a stereotypical convention of  a magazine front cover when looking at the film posters of  'Inception' and 'Beauty and the Beast' The main characters of those films are the anchoring imagine.

Again using synergy i used the Time new roman font for the name of our film "naughty list" again making it clear and easy to read for any demographic.








I followed the stereotypical masthead design when it came to my magazine front cover. For example with the 'inception' magazine front cover the Total film masthead is large covers most of the top of the cover, and is bold and clear. This is what i tried to copy when it came to my magazine front cover. I tried to link the masthead with film and so chose motion as in motion picture, which I think is a direct link and its simply just film for a film magazine. I also followed the stereotypical convention of including the date of the issue and the web address of the magazine underneath the masthead, so that the audience can get more information on the film and search up past issues if needs be.  I also chose to have Santa's head covering the masthead slightly but not enough that it isn't obvious what the magazine is called, as it is a new unknown magazine. However, i felt by following this convention like they have done in the 'Inception' magazine front cover it made my magazine front cover seem more realistic and professional.

 I used the stereotypical convention of  a puff like they did here in the 'Beauty and the Beats' magazine front cover. I chose to make mine in a circle similar  and chose to make the word "bonus" in white bold font and in all cap, they they have done with "GREATEST PSYCHO'" in the Beauty and the Beats film magazine front cover this therefore draw the audiences attention to buying my  magazine as they will want to know what that bonus material is.

I also chose use the stereotypical convention of the cover lines in  my film poster, therefore again like the puff catching my audiences attention into opening and buying the magazine. I also took the layout design form the Beauty and the beast magazine front cover, when it came to the cover lines. I have kept them on the sides of my front cover just like they done here, giving scoop on other films such as "Raptus".  I also took from idea on the 'beauty and  beast' cover as they have the "55" bold and larger then the text that follows it, this i thought looked rather interesting and was one of the first things that grabbed my attention when looking at the magazine, it added dimension to the cover, this is what i tried to recreate in my magazine front cover with the "10" and the ""5" I think it works well on attracting the reader attention on what is included in the magazine/

Film Poster- Alice Nutter

Magazine Front Cover - Naughty List