Feedback from Target Audience

In order to gain a strong response from our target audience we decided to distribute our products on social networking sites such as Youtube & Facebook, this was in order to get a wide variety of opinions, also these websites associate with a number of people within the age range we intend to sale our product to, thus making these opinions significant. The majority of the comments I recieved was exccentric, many had denoted that our trailer reflected the genre with justice, as it contained many thriller conventions due to its many intensive scenes creating tension and thrill within the person. Many had stated that the composition and concept of the trailer created suspense urging them to want to watch it, and alot had said that the music was a definate emphasism on the mood and reflected the genre well. However we did recieve critism aswell, many had made reference to the continous repetition with the trailer, especially of the torture scene and the main protagonist frequent running scenes in London, thus making the trailer somewhat confusing and unprofessional. Others had commented that the acting was not so great and needed improving on, I personally believe that if there was more dialog intertwined in various parts of the trailer it would have been easier to state the roles of each character clearly, we had definately recieved this as a major critisim, they believed that more dialog was essiential in exemplyfing each characters role, initally we had intended to add more dialog in the trailer, however we had complications with doing this on the Mac's,as the dialog did not show up clearly or direct. Some stated that the portrayal of the storyline was to complex, thus making it more complicated to understand the plot. These crisism are important as we can consider them next time.

Final Movie Trailer

Here is the final film trailer that me and my group has produced.

It is a Thriller based trailer named Reprisal.

In my personal opinion the trailer was not what I expected it to be, I imagined it to be different but this was due to the vastness of my imagination however I do believe it is a successful piece considering the time limit we had aswell as the actors and equitment we were provided with. I enjoyed the productive and creative side in filming and making the products, it allowed me to gain knowledge in being able to interact with complex equitment, aswell as being able to allow my imagination to take over.

As a group I believe we communicated well, and respected one anothers ideas, we took note of what each one of us wanted out of this trailer, working accordingly, we at times had disagreements but this was useful as these disagreements helped us become a stronger group. Everyones idea was significant in the making of 'Reprisal', and within this trailer is a piece of everyones opinion and imagination.

Final Magazine Front Cover

Here is our finished magazine font cover.

Development of Magazine

Here are the different stages of the making process for the magazine front cover, which was produced by me and Nick. Considering that our last year project was to make a magazine front cover we as we had already known how to use photoshop, thus allowing us to recogonise the tools we needed to create the magazine. We had researched into other magazines, aswell as the skills and knowledge we had gained from the previous year, to ensure our magazine looked professional, and carried the characteristics of other magazines. However we wanted to give our magazine a USP, and due to Nick taking the photos, he had taken some of Stephanie in an eerie blue lighting effect, which worked well as a USP.

Final Poster.

Here is our final poster, we have added a lot more functions to it such as the release date, which is in the colour red, it can be noted that it is the only colour red used on the poster as it symbolises its significance, due to the fact that it notifies the audience when to look out for the movie. We have also changed the font of the magazine poster to make it look more striking and unique, which i believe it conveys well. The font also relates well to our genre of Thriller as it has an edgy look. Me and Nick have also edited in a review score from FilmFlex magazine, which has some relevances to our synergistic link, as it helps make it appealing to our audience. We rated it with 4 stars, as it makes it look realistic. Through all our experimentation and creativity, we decided that this was the poster that interpetted the mood and genre well enough to attract our target audiences attention.

Editing Process

In this first shot we are aqauinted with the main two characters Mia (Stephanie) and Brett (Eugene), we decided to have a medium shot of Brett purposing to Mia, this was to show the viewer that they are in a relationship. As it is convential for a Thriller trailer in a subtle happy mood, showing their normal life, we decided to

We decided to insert a caption in white contrasting against a black background, this makes it stand out and look significant, the font itself is very simple however it is effective, the captions reads a question, 'What would you do if...' the 'if' creates suspense, tension and questions the reader involving them in the trailer.

After the suspensive question, we have a shot of our villian Dean (Nick), the viewer can immediately regconise him as being the villian, his facial expression and body language emphasize on this, as he depicts a look of authority and control, his grey hoody and the seriousness portrayed in his face makes him a stereotypical badboy gangster. Additionally the lighting is very dark and blunt, which helps create pathetic falacy, as the background and lighting helps reflect the mood of this character aswell as his dark character.

Development on Final Poster During Lesson.

Although we had all liked the final poster below, Alex had suggested that we change the film title font, as it is not unique nor different from any other New Times Roman font, as it has similar characteristics, thus disrubting the rest of the posters qualities, making it had to stand out amoung the rest of our competitions. We honestly did like the font and believed it did compliment the rest of the poster to some extent, howeve it was not unique, therefore we endavoured to find a font that was different and reflected more of a thriller genre. Alex had recommended a website called dafont.com which contained a variety of individual fonts that would assist to anyones creative needs. Considering that there was a selection to choose from, there was many that caught our attention, Nick and Alex had liked a font, so I said lets test it on our poster and see whether it fits in, I did like it but nt much, however myself and Shanyse had arouse the point that it reflected a more horror look, it reminded me of the font used in 'Blade' therefore we decided on not using it. At this point Hollie had also stated that she preferred the font we had used at the start, yet the rest of our group was determined to find a different font, which led us to start our search again. Through much research Alex had finally found a very interesting font that related to our genre very much. So we decided to try it, after he had put it on our poster, we had all agreed that it we liked it, we all got up and decided to stand from afar
to see what kind f a image it conveyed, it was very eye catching and was easily recognisable.