T10-Audience Feedback 2-Film Poster

Audience Feedback

After completing audience feedback for our poster, the most popular poster out the four was option 1...

What I think of my poster:

Personally I am extremely happy with my final draft of the poster and happy with the choice the audience liked the most. I feel like from the colours used and the background used that the audience straight away will be able to tell that the genre is action as we have used colours such as black, red, white and grey which are all key colours to action.

I also feel like from the orginal image which I have used for my poster I have added a lot to make it look more like a film poster as this is what we started with...

Questions for Audience: 

1. Do you feel like there should be more information on the poster?

2. Would you change the background to colour or keep it the same as black and white?

3. Do you think the font of the text suits the genre action?

4. Do you think the colours used for the text suit the poster?

5. Overall do you find the poster appealing?

T10-Audience Feedback-Film Poster

Audience Feedback 

As I created different drafts for my poster I now want to get some feedback from other media students, people around our college and friends and family to see which draft they like the most. To do this in a fair way I have put on my three drafts of the poster on to A4 and created a tally to see which is the most preferred draft...

As you can see I have spaced all the drafts so it is clear to the audience and will be getting 30 people to choose, from here we will then discuss the results as a group. 

Audience feedback from others especially other media students is very important as in the media industry it is is all about pleasing the audience and attracting the audience as they are the ones who absorb media, so feedback will allow us to make sure that get our product perfect and to see what audiences want.

Creative Journey 7

Creative Journey 

We have now finished our poster for our movie "Consequences" at a good standard we are all happy with as a group. It took quite a few drafts to get complete but overall we are very happy with our final piece. 

We are now in process of coming up to finishing our second part of print products, our review page this is also looking very good and matches our poster in terms of the colour and style. We are also very close to finishing our movie too, as we are in final stages of editing.

T10-Print Product Poster Journey

Print Product

I have now finished creating our poster for our print product but along the journey of creating it I changed a few things each time to make sure that i got it right. Here are the three copies of the poster...

Above is the first draft of our poster, as you can see it does have information on but we felt like there wasn't enough and titles needed moving around to make the poster look more neat and professional. We also felt like the star ratings needed to be more big and stand out so audiences see straight away that the film is 5* and don't have to look for it.

Above was the second draft to our poster. After doing some further research into posters we felt like the poster needed a border so we added a black border. I also made the stars a little more bolder and bigger for them to stand out a little more. 

I also added  underneath the title a date for the film release and a title saying "In cinemas" as again after doing research this suited a poster well and gave the audience more information.

I also added a 15 rated symbol as after doing research into existing products a 15 is good rating for my film so I added in the symbol to again tell the audience what the rating of the movie will be.

Finally, this is our last draft for our poster. As you can see a lot hasn't changed compared to the draft above and the first draft apart from the border around the edge which is now white and a lot more slim. After comparing the black and white border I felt like it made a very big difference as the black border looked too heavy and took over the poster compared to the white border which is a lot more sleek and tidy looking. 

Overall I am really happy with my final draft and feel like it fits in with my movie and the genre action well. I am also very happy after doing a survey on my poster choice that the final draft was the most popular with a wide range of different ages.

November feedback

Some excellent reflection on the creative process including photographs of locations and drafts of print productions. You analysis of target audience shows an understanding of the task and discusses lifestyle in addition to more traditional methods of classification. Planning is clear although schedules and risk assessments could be more detailed. A script and a storyboard evidence planning.

I am intrigued as to the progress of the edit which I hope to see next week

I now need to see a first cut of the film and you need to gain audience feedback.  I have seen evidence of editing in your creative journey but we need to stage-post the edit to evaluate how you can improve.  Your input to the team is clear but the lack of attendance of others is hampering my ability to offer feedback to the group. I need you all here next week.

Creative Journey 6

Creative Journey-Print Product Update 

We are now currently in process of creating our print product as we are coming up to finishing our short movie. We have spoken as a group putting together our ideas and have come to a conclusion on what we would like our print product to look like. 

I have created a base of which you can see on previous blog posts of what we want our print product to look like but on Monday we will be using the green screen at sixth form to put our main character Kieran on the front of the cover to give it more of a personal touch.

After we have used the green screen we should be in final stages of creating our print product and then will be going on to creating our review page. 

Print Product- Draft 2

Print Product Poster Draft 2

Above is my second draft of my print product, as you can see I have used one of the pictures that I took when visiting Birmingham but have edited them and put together the poster using Fireworks. 

I have added titles and names to the poster and the got the idea for the titles from the new James Bond film "Spectre" as this is where I got the idea from, I choose the idea from "Spectre" as it is an action movie its self and the font goes well with our poster. 

After this we should be in the final stage of our poster and coming up to finishing. 

Print Product Research

Print Product Research

As I am now  planning and drafting out our print product I have been thinking of different ideas for it. The idea I have chosen and have decided to use a city urban background for the film poster, as we wanted to use Birmingham setting for our city background as said on my last blog post I visited Birmingham yesterday to take pictures of the backstreets in Birmingham to use for our poster. 

I used an iPhone 5C to take pictures of London and I used my iPhone 5C as the camera is very good at taking high quality pictures, especially outdoors. By the pictures I took audiences will be able to tell straight away that the setting for the film is going to be urban and poor looking.

By taking my own picture for the poster it makes the poster for our film more personal, also regarding target audience as we have used a Birmingham setting on our poster this could open up or provide an interest to an international audience such as American people as American people are known to be fascinated by England and especially London so by them seeing a British City on the film poster could potentially attract them to watch the movie. 

As you can see by the images of my self taking the pictures for our poster the location has stereotypical Birmingham back street conventions such as an old buildings, rooftops and cold damp weather.

Previously to using the idea of a Birmingham background I thought of using the idea of an old abandoned building near our sixth form which we could of visited and taken pictures of to use for our poster.

This is what the building looked like...

As you can see by the images the building is abandoned and has conventions of action so it would of been a good location to take pictures of for our print product. After having a think and comparing the two locations we decided to choose the London as we thought the idea of city suited our storyline more and had more conventions of an action movie compared to an abandoned building.

Print Products-Film Poster Ideas

Film Poster Idea

As we are now on our way to finishing filming and have started editing we are now designing and drafting out film posters and review articles for our movie. As our film is an action and a convention of an action movie is a city we are using a city background for our poster and going to use a green screen to add our main character to the background. 

As we want a city background, I will be travelling to Birmingham this week to take pictures of Birmingham(Backstreet's)  from different angles to use for my poster.

I will also be visiting Birmingham with my other actor who stars in my movie "Stevie" to get pictures of both me and Stevie as we each play a role(Antagonist and Protagonist).