Evaluation

Media Evaluation from John Wood

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Movie Trailer - The Intruder

This is the final version of our film trailer, after going through difficulties like having to change our location where to shoot our trailer, and re-write the story, we have come to an end and we have completed our trailer. Our trailer has been uploaded onto Youtube, the link is shown below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5E1bD_pRY

Final Film Poster

This is my final film poster, after going through all types of feedback, I have used both positive and negative comments which has helped me to produce my final outcome which I can say that I am extremely happy with.

 

Final Magazine Cover

This is the final version of my magazine cover. It has taken some time to finish, but after using all types of feedback to make slight changes to my magazine cover, I have finished and I am happy with the end product.

Changes to movie poster

 

 

This is my first version of my film poster, to gain feedback for it I used the 'padlet' website where i can post this for free and recieve comments on it. I recieved all positive comments and felt that i did not need much of a change to my poster. I changed the 'home sweet home' tagline to make it slightly bolder to catch the viewers eye more as i feel this is really affective. I have also created my own billing block, as you can see when looking closely this is not a billing block for my film so i have created my own and put it on my poster, all using photoshop. Also on the original billing block i put 'coming soon' in it and I have changed that and I have used a typical convention of a film poster by putting the realse date underneath the tagline. I have also added 'inspired by true events' so when people see my poster which they dont have a clue about, when they see that they will become much more interested as they already know its a horror film, it might scare them and make them want to watch the film to find out what it has been inspired by.

As shown below is my final poster.

 

Changes to magazine

 



Just like on my film poster, I used the website padlet and uploaded my film magazine to a wallwisher were people are able to post comments around my magazine cover on what they think of it, giving it any positive comments but also comments for improvements. When looking over my magazine thoroughly I decided that I needed to make changes to the following things:
Magazine name- make it stand out more
Change the films cuts or move them somewhere else on the page
Too many different colours or red, need to stick to one colour
'the intruder' text is the same on my poster- need to make it different
Issue number & price etc. are not bold enough to see.

In order to make these changes correctly, I found some 'scream' magazine covers and looked at them to see what I could use from them to put on my magazine to make it more realsitic.  


I first of all used this Scream magazine issue. I first noticed how bold the magazine title was so I then did this to my magazine cover. I gave the text a white glow to it stood out even more and made it looks much better. I have also tried to set it out similar to this magazine. I have put my image underneath the mast head and slightly to the right of the page.

I then looked at these 3 Scream magazine covers, I picked these 3 to look at because they used the movie cuts along the left hand side of the magazine, this was good news for me because i knew i could still use the films cuts on my magazine but would have to move them. When I moved the film cuts it did not look very good so I decided to re-make them completely and make them very similar to the cuts on these 3 magazines. I have also changed the 'intruder' text on my magazine to make that stand out more also, i feel as though this has worked very well.

I also liked the idea of having a 'PLUS!' part at the bottom of my magazine as I have noticed most magazines have these as they inform the buyer what is going to be inside the magazine. I have looked at the following magazines in this post to help me to decide what to write so that it looks more realistic.

After making all of the changes to my magazine shown below is my final product.

Billing Block

 

At first I did not use my own billingblock as I was usure how to create a professional one, due to this I find one online and used that. After doing research I have discovered how to create my very own billing block and make it look extremely professional. This is my billing block for my my magazine cover which I created using the photoshop software (shown above). I had to download the correct text for this process, so i had to first of all search online via google search engine to find the correct text then find a website where i was legally able to download this font. The website I used was http://billing-block.com/ which was a simple and easy process, it let me download the text for free and let me create my own personal billing block.

The reason I wanted to use a billingblock for my poster is because it make it look much more professional, for example, like in the strangers poster shown below. It follows the codes and conventions of a film poster.

 

Intrepid Pictures Logo

When looking through different production companys it has been difficult when trying to decide what production company we all wanted to use in our film trailer. Each production company has many reasons to why we should use their logo, but also reasons to not (all shown in previous blog post) we all come to a decision that we are going to use the below logo in our trailer which is 'Intrepid Pictures'. They had different versions of their production logo, for example blue, red etc. but we have decided to go with the red as it links to our genre more, i.e connotations of blood which we all thought works much better than the colour blue. Also this colour is a very similar colour to the text headings throughout our trailer.

Potential Production Companies

For my media trailer, myself and my group will be creating our own production company, as already blogged about we came to a decision that our production company name is going to be called 'loftlight productions', we are yet to create our logo for this etc. We have also been looking at other production companies to add in our trailer.

 

Intrepid pictures was the first production company that myself and my group looked at due it it first of all commonly used for horror films. The next reason being was because this production company is also the the production company of 'the strangers' film. This is important to us as we are making our trailer similar to the strangers film and would make sense to use the same production company. 

Once again this production company also is used commonly for films in the horror genre. Some of Ghost House more recent production work includes "The Possession", "Drag me to Hell" and the remake of "The Evil Dead".

Screen Gems is an American film production company. Screen Gems have produced and distributed many Horror films, even though they have produced many horror films, most of them are remakes, for example the most up to date trailer I can think of is "Carrie". My movie trailer is not a remake so I am not sure whether this production company would be best for me.

Film Trailer Text

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shown above are all of the texts used in myself and my groups film trailer. We created the text in this way as we wanted them to look like something out of an other horror trailer. We created them on Adobe Photoshop, we chose this text as we have used this text on our Ancilliary products, so by using this text in the trailer, we thought this was a good idea as it matched everything else we have produced as a group.

Wall Wisher Poster Post

Created with Padlet

Before Uploading my poster onto my blogger, like I have done for my magazine cover, I have decided to upload it onto wallwisher first so that I can read people views on how I may be able to improve it, i will accept all positive and negative feedback because any feedback is good for me, just like my first post.

Wall Wisher Magazine Post

Created with Padlet

Before Uploading my magazine cover onto my blogger, I have decided to upload it onto wallwisher first so that I can read people views on how I may be able to improve it, i will accept all positive and negative feedback because any feedback is good for me.

Mock-Up for Movie Poster

The above image I create is my mock-up of my movie poster, I took inspiration for the layout and pretty much everything else from the movie poster the strangers. Shown below is my inspiration...

Mock- Up Movie Magazine

Music Ideas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCXUOZ-RLUw-Scary Horror Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNk35OJERI --28 Days Later soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR0fl5fgTDg&feature=context-gau --Batman Soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9p9KTJ-mZ0 --John Murphy, the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXF9uHbAd9I --Fever Ray, if i had a heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyD7rknQMJc--Texas chainsaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja0KKoPr9Ik--Friday the 13th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaNoK3gN6M --Saw soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FzaH_c7tI --Grandfather Clock Ticking Sound Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOs3xQYBlM --Horror effect + music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQdUe91cYr8 --Horror Movie Jump/scare sound effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqbJMd6n-U --''Scariest Sound Effect''

When discussing with my colleagues about the choice of music and sound that we all want to have in our movie trailer, it was close to impossible trying to come up with a final agreement on which sound we should have. After searching through horror trailers on Youtube and i picked the trailer music that I think would fit in best with our type of trailer and also found spooky sounds for us to use to give it that more sinister effect.

Name Ideas

When trying to decide what me and my group were going to call our movie trailer, we decided to create spider diagram and list all of the spooky words or names that came into our heads.
When we picked the names were best best decided to pick 3 names that we though would be suited most for our trailer. We then had to do a background check and found the 2 of the names that we chose were already being used for other films. This left us with the name 'The Intruder'. I find this name fits in quite well with our trailer and it also sounds really good to.

Profile of Antagonist

Name: John Wood 
Age:19 
Character: Masked killer 
Appearance: 
Height: 6ft4 inchs
Skin Colour: Tanned
Building: Stocky/Muscular



When our group were trying to create an antagonist for our trailer, we discussed features that we would like our antagonist to have, after our discussion we realised that I was the person to best fit the role as we do not no anybody else who would fit the role better than me. I will be wearing a mask as part of my outfit to hide my identity. We also chose me as i am very hard working and will take things very seriously when filming. We felt that I was good for this role as i am tall and really well built, we all thought this feature was very good as it fits in with other horror films like Jason from Friday the 13th, Leatherface from the Texas chainsaw massacre and Ghostface from scream, We see that all these masked killers are in fact big built and tall. This gives off the impression that our killer will be very powerful as he makes everybody else look smaller than him.

Outfit
Old scruffy dark long sleeve top
Black Pants
Dark colour shoes
Mask
Leather Gloves

How I will market my products

By doing research on other products, such as the 'devil baby attack' I have found out that one of the best methods of gaining publicity is by using viral marketing. For my marketing i will be using social networking sites, this is because most people use social networking site and i will be able to get my products across to them fast and most importantly, free. I will be using the likes of Facebook, and the main one Twitter, with Twitter i will be able to use 'hashtags' for my films title.. for example ''#theintruder'' or, its motto (which is shown on my my magazine cover) ''#homesweethome''. The more this gets trending the more users will see it, it will get viewers wanting to see my film after seeing my poster, reading my magazine, and most paramount, the main product i have product so far, my trailer. This is a great way of people viewing my product, due to the increase in people using iphones, androids etc. people are able to get Twitter and Facebook apps which makes things even easier to view my products.

The ancillary products that I will create will help me to market my film, I will be advertising my film everywhere by putting my poster on billboards all over the country, mostly city cetre's where people will be able to see it most. For example, thousands of people every single day will be able to see my poster, and it will make them want to know more about the film.  therefore it will be spreading my film on a large scale.

The magazine front cover will not be as important as the poster as it does not advertise my film as much, however my magazine will be good for people who like to read about movies etc. so when they see my cover on a magzine, prefereable in a horror magazine, they should want to see my film.
My final marketing product will be my film trailer, this is the main product for marketing. I will market my trailer on social networking sites as mentioned about, like Twitter and Facebook, but also the likes of Youtube as well. Millions of people use Youtube everyday, so the more people that watch my trailer the more of a fuss it will create and it will get me more and more viewers for my trailer, as not only do people just watch it, but they can like it and re-post it themselves which saves me alot of time for promoting my film and other people can do it for me. My film will also bhe placed in cinemas such as 'odeon' it will be played just before other films are being played so people getting ready to see another film are able to see my trailer first.