Priceless Trailer: Draft 1 Ammendments

This is a slightly improved version of the first draft of my trailer. As suggested by my target audience, those who commented on it on YouTube, suggested I add a bit more footage as they felt they wanted to see more of it. Another audience members suggested I made the volume of the music tracks I chose the same throughout as they thought it wasn't consistent and because I also felt that it wasn't the same, this is the first thing I fixed. I also removed a couple of parts of some clips as they didn't really help or change the narrative in any way. As a whole, I think it is better with these changes, although they are small. I will also be waiting for some feedback from my teacher and will be making some changes in order to try and make my trailer as realistic as possible. 

Trailer Draft 1: Audience Feedback

As previously mentioned, I shared the first draft of my trailer on YouTube in order to receive some feedback. I shared this in a Facebook group chat and asked people to give me both pros and cons as I wanted to get different views and opinions on how I could improve my trailer. So far these are the only comments I received however, I did ask more people so I should have more feedback coming so I can try and improve as much as I can. 

Priceless Trailer: First Draft

This is the first draft for my trailer Priceless. I tried including as much footage as well as inter-titles in order to deliver my films narrative across to my targeted audience in an effective way. I feel like the footage I have filmed generally flows well and I am hoping the story line is in fact delivered to my audience members in the way I hoped. I have shared it on YouTube and I am waiting on some feedback, negatives and positives to see how people think I could improve my trailer in order to make it more appealing.  

Magazine Amendments: FINAL MAGAZINE

This is the final magazine front cover for Priceless, similarly to my poster, I spent a lot of time creating it to make sure that everything was as close to perfect as possible so I wouldn't have to keep making a lot of changes. After I posted this on Instagram, most of the feed back I received was positive which I was very happy about. Along with positive feed back I also received a couple suggestions for amendments. These included comments saying to try and create synergy between the poster and front cover, so I therefore, used the "KG why you gotta be so mean" front that I used both in my trailer and poster to write Priceless in and also added the tagline that I had included on my poster which makes the two products link in nicely as well as giving more detail into the film to the audience members. Another suggestion I got was to try and make the photograph slightly brighter as although the contrast seemed to work nicely, it was slightly too dark so fixed this by decreasing the contrast and increasing the brightness in Photoshop. 

Although I only changed a couple of things, I do think this feedback helped my cover look better. Overall, I am really happy with my end result as I think the colours, layout as well as the font links in nicely and I got a lot of feed back saying it looks like a professional one. 

Magazine Audience Feedback

As previously mentioned on my blog, I posted my magazine front cover on both Instagram and Twitter to get some feedback from those following my accounts. The Instagram account I created as I mentioned before, appeared to be most effective as more of my films followers were interacting and giving their opinions than those on Twitter, however, I still managed to get some useful feed back from Twitter as well. 

I created this collage to show the feedback I got from posting my magazine front cover on Instagram. When I posted the cover, similarly to my poster, I did so asking for both pros and cons in order to see what they thought worked well and what I could improve on. I'm glad I created these accounts as the comments I received were very helpful and allowed me to see what they would like to see on a front cover as audience members to then want to buy it. 

I am planning on reading through them all again and picking out some things I could improve on which would actually look good if I were to do so as I really want them to be as appealing to my audience members as possible, however, in comparison to my poster feedback, it looks like I haven't received a lot of comments that suggest amendments. 

First draft: Final magazine front cover for Priceless

This is my final front cover for the feature of my film on Sight & Sound. To create this, I used Photoshop and tried keeping the generic conventions of Sight & Sound magazine in order to make it look like a professional one.

 I tried keeping a similar colour scheme throughout my magazine in order to make it eye catching and appealing to those viewing. The photograph I chose, in my opinion is effective as it gives audience members an insight as to what this character is like but also other details about her, e.g financial situation and this accomplished through mise-en-scene as out of the window, along with the character as an audience we get a view of appears to be a High Street which suggests to the audience that this character may live on top of a shop. 

For the text, I chose to keep the same shades of yellow and red as those in the magazines masthead to make it all link nicely, I also used black to further accomplish this.Furthermore, I think that the brighter colour, in comparison to the highly contrasted photograph links nicely together. Overall I'm happy with how this turned out as I put in a lot of effort to create it in order to make it all look effective together and I think because I followed the generic conventions of the magazines layout, it does in fact look like an already released/ professional issue. 

I shared this front cover, just like I did my poster on both social media accounts and I am waiting for some feed back from my audience members that follow these accounts and interact through these platforms. I am waiting to see what they think works well and even what improvements they would like to see to make this cover as effective as possible.   

  

Priceless magazine front cover Progression

I created the collage on the left in order to show the progression of the magazine front cover I created. To make this magazine front cover I gradually added each feature to bring it together nicely and make sure each one was placed in the right position to further apply the generic conventions of a magazine front cover and make it look as professional as possible. 

In the first one, the very first thing I did was add a photograph which includes one of my main protagonists (Athena). I then added the logo/masthead on the left hand side and on the opposite side, I added the same coloured box with the same height but slightly smaller in length. This box includes the BFI logo as they are the publishers of Sight & Sound. Above the logo however, placed are both the issue and volume numbers, next to that is the price in British Pounds (£) of the magazine and above that is the release date of this issue. The very first thing placed in that box is the barcode. All of these are important elements of a magazine front cover because it enables all viewers to know how much the magazine is, which issue it is they are reading etc. 

In the second one, I then started adding blurbs etc to give it more of a magazine front cover feel and give viewers an insight as to what they can expect when reading this magazine. As I added a  circle as a puff in red and above that, wrote their typical "Every New Film Reviewed" tagline and underneath that I placed a blurb which usually is seen along with the puff on each issue this particular layout is used on. This blurb is "The Best Films of 2015", this is effective as it lets viewers know that one of the main articles/features of this particular issue is one which reviews all of the best films, in their opinion (an their writers, links with the little tagline under it) of 2015 and the part underneath which says that their writers chose their highlights of the year suggests that Sight & Sound likes giving its audience members a more personal experience as they could then feel that they are getting information directly from directors, which could possibly be their favourite ones. 

In the third one, I then added a second blurb which directly links to the main photograph, allowing the audience to see that one of the main features of this particular issue is about the release of a new indie film named Priceless. I wrote Priceless in Bold-Italics to make it stand out from the rest of the text featured on my cover. On top of "Priceless", I wrote my name as this is a generic convention which lets audience members know who the director of this film is. Beneath "Priceless", however, I wrote a little tagline made to look as though it is something said by one of the magazine's editor, making it a little bit more appealing to audience members. 
The third, one is also the final part of my magazine progression, also seen on the right. This is my first draft as a final front cover and I am relatively happy with it as I tried to follow particular layouts, especially the January one of Sight & Sound to make it look like a cover which could in fact be released/ created by Sight & Sound.