Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

There must be a strong connection between the main product and ancillary products in order for it to work and be a success. The connection between them must be clear to the audience so that it makes sense and the audience knows that they are all part of the same criteria. For my project I had to produce a teaser trailer and then a film poster and magazine front cover as the ancillary products which all needed to link together.

Before producing my ancillary products to go with my teaser trailer I undertook several pieces of research into existing products that have been produced and how they all linked together. It was important that it was clear to the audience that the three linked and all were recognised as being one big main product. For my magazine front cover I decided to focus on one of the actors, being in the magazine, instead of focusing on the character that the actor was playing. I chose to do this after researching thoroughly into existing products. I realised in this research that it was fairly split as to whether they focused on the actors or the characters and I thought it would be effective to focus upon the actor as this still linked to the film poster and the main product of my teaser trailer.

For my other ancillary product; the film poster, I also wanted to make sure it showed a strong relation to my other products making it seem like a complete package. I used several pictures and snippets of the diary itself to make on big picture for my film poster, relating it back to the idea of my teaser trailer and what my main concept was based around. I also used a strapline, which again linked to the whole narrative of what my teaser trailer was based on. I think this was effective as it was then clear to the audience that the products linked together.

I think overall my three products work effectively together and there is a clear understanding that they link together and all are part of the same product. I think that one way in which I could have made it even clearer that they all were for the same product could be to change the idea that the actor was actually being the character within the photograph on the magazine cover. Having said that I still feel the three products work effectively together and it is still clear to the audience that they all link.

Evaluation question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Teaser Trailer

Magazine Cover

Film Poster

Initial film poster and feedback

This is my intial film poster which I decided to get some audience feedback on to help improve. From getting feedback it will allow me to improve my poster to make sure it is something that is relevant, noticeable and appeals to my audience.

Some of the questions I asked were:

-Is it clear what this film poster is advertising?

-Do you like the overall look of it so far?

-Does it look like a conventional film poster?

-What else would you like to see on the poster?

-What improvements would you suggest?

From doing a survery and getting feedback there were several comments that were repeated which people thought I needed to work on. These were:

-Too much writing at the bottom of the poster

-Picture needs to be more level and rounded of instead of it looking placed randomly

-A strapline and title is needed

-Possibly a complete background colour

From the feedback I have got I now intend to improve my film poster and make it something which is appealing. 

Initial magazine cover and audience feedback

This is my initial magazine front cover which I have produced on InDesign. So far I feel it is going well but I feel that I could improve it further, which I intend to do so, which is why I chose to get some audience feedback my making a survey and getting a collection of people to take part in it.

I asked several questions that would help me to make improvements to my magazine front cover as well as leaving a section where they could suggest their own ideas which was helpful as it gave me more ideas to develop.

Questions I asked were:

-Does my magazine front cover look like a conventional magazine front cover?

-Does the picture work well?

-Would this magazine appeal to you if you saw it in the shops?

-Is it clear what the main story is?

-Do you like the colours used?

-Would you include a background?

-Is there anything you would like to see included which isn't

-Any suggestions, ideas and comments?

From asking these questions it allows me to get enough feedback to improve my magazine front cover to make it something which is more appealing to my audience. From the feedback I noticed that one of the main improvements I need to make is how the picture is placed. A lot of my feedback suggested moving it into the centre more, making it bigger so that the picture fitted the page, instead of being placed more randomly, but so I still keep to the 2/3 rule. Some other comments also suggested that I make it less busy, especially around the picture, making sure that some of the writing didn't get onto the picture, as they felt that the writing should be short, simple and quick to read.