Youtube comment

I went back onto our youtube page to see if our trailer has had anymore comments or views.
There was one more comment added which gave positive feedback, although it did lack detail of what they actually thought of the trailer, by saying it was good this makes us happy as we know that our hard work in making the trailer has paid off and is effective.
The video also has had 61 views which is good as the only way we have let people know about our trailer, other than what we have shown to our class is through twitter.

Showing our trailer

last lesson we had our trailer shown on the big screen in front of our class. We produced a feedback sheet for the audience to say what they thought of our trailer. The questions we asked were:
1.From watching this trailer can you see what genre it is?
2.Did you like it?
3.What would you change about it?
4.Would you see it at the cinema?
5.What did you remember from the trailer?What stood out?
6.Did you understand the plot?

By asking these types of questions we get an overall idea of what was good, what was bad and if our trailer  would be a success.

Advertising poster

Here we used CBS outdoor website to create a advertisement to advertise our trailer. this is to see how it would look if it was out there on the streets to see if it would be eye capturing and if it will give the effect off that we want, which it to capture the audience and make them want to see this trailer.

Trailer poster

This is our first draft for our poster. It contains the title of our film, The Unknown. The main tagline, Whats out there, And at the bottom of the poster it states that its coming soon, this is to grab peoples attention as they would now keep looking out for more posters which have a release date. the main image is really eye capturing and clearly states that the film is a horror. we still have to make small changes to our poster, such as we have to neaten up the image, add credits, put the release date and we could add some reviews or ratings. 

Plan for poster

Here is a quick plan of how our poster is going to be set out, it follows conventions of other movie posters which means it should be quite effective when we have our final result.
we have stated the movie title at the top of the poster, followed by our main image, which will take up the entire background. At the bottom of the poster is the date the movie will be released along with  the writers and producers names.

next we will create a draft version of our poster using images we have took and see if it works well using this layout.

Photos

Kate has took some photos of herself for us to use when designing our poster and magazine cover. she has uploaded them onto her blog so we can all gain access to them. the photos are close ups of her face and they are really effective, there is also some variation between each photo meaning we have a good choice to chose from. These are two examples of the pictures she took.

magazine research

 Today i started looking at how magazines have advertised certain films. this is because we will be designing our own magazine front cover. we will be looking at the codes and conventions of the magazines and apply them to ours.

This magazine cover is from Empire magazine promoting Terminator salvation movie. The use of the main image is good on this as this is what we decided on how we want ours to be with only half a face showing on the front cover. The eye contact from the actor, Christian Bale works well as it really captures the readers attention. the use of the shadow over one side of his face lets also know that theres a dark side to the film.The use of dark colours such as the black and red give the film a real action blood and violence feel, this relates to Terminator so we will have to make sure our use of colours relate to our film. also having advertisements and taglines also help with making the front cover appeal to an audience, and these are all things that we will include on our front cover.

This is another of Empires magazine covers, this time promoting, The Dark Knight. even thought this is not a horror film the layout of the magazine cover would make the reader think this is a scary twisted film. the use of just The Jokers face on the black background makes it stand out. the eye contact is also good as it is connecting with the audience, looking into his eyes is intense but captivating. this would be a good feature for us to use. sticking to a main color scheme also works well as here they have used green and black. For our magazine to look real we will have to follow these conventions.