Ellie Graham A2 Media Stratford College

I went round and got people to watch our trailer and gave them questions to look at and consider whilst watching the trailer. Once they had finished watching the trailer I got a voice recording of them giving me responses on their thoughts of the film. They responded to what they thought was good about the film and any improvements needed. I also gave a few of them one of the questionnaires to answer based on the trailer. I also gave out questionnaires for people to answer about our film poster and magazine cover.

For my film poster I found that the majority of males and females aged 17 rated it at a 7, showing that they thought the film poster was well created. As they all answered yes to the question 'Is the film poster eye-catching?', this also tells me that the poster had good features and would work well enough to sell our film if it catches the attention of our target audience.
Many of them responded yes to the question 'Does it make you want to go see the film?' which is positive feedback as it shows that the genre has been portrayed well and the film has been presented well to the target audience making the film successful.
suggestions for improvements were to make the film title stand out more, which i can agree with as the tagline stands out more than the title. Another suggestion was to change the position of the tagline as some felt the positioning of that was quite random and out of place. A way of solving this was possibly to add in another character to fill in the gap in the center of the poster.

In the interviews, the positive feedback i got showed that the poster drew you in and represented the genre well. The positioning of the two muggers in the back and the main character in front gave the audience ideas of how the characters were represented in this film which is what we aimed to achieve. Also they said that they use of a gun and cotumes were a good representation of the genre.

I found similar responses for the magazine cover as it got rated most at an 8, but more rated it at a 9 than for the film poster.

Overall I got positive feedback throughout where all voted yes for the questions ‘Is the magazine cover eye-catching?’ and ‘Does it draw you in to read the article based on ‘Skrilla!’?’ There weren’t many improvements suggested except possibly having a different background for the masthead.

The interviews also gave positive feedback, telling me that it suited the genre well and it looked like a professional magazine as it was conventional and had enough information on their to draw readers into reading the magazine. Some said that the gun being pointed towards the camera made it stand out more and look more effective. Having it as the focus point drew them in and want to read the articles.

The feedback for the film trailer was very positive, as it got a rating of 8 and most of the responses to the questions were 'yes'. Improvements suggested were to include less of the storyline, which I could agree with as it gave a bit too much of the story away seeing as its supposed to be a teaser trailer. People also said that it represented the genre well and it was clear to see what type of characters were in the film.

We came up with different ideas for our final product, so Grace and I both did a first try of the magazine cover. We used Photoshop to make them both. The fonts were from dafont.com, and also ones provided on the software. I like how we used an arrow in the magazine title as it gives it something different to remember, even though it is something small and simple. We decided to use this mid shot of our main character pointing the gun to the camera as it shows the dominance of our character, and represents the genre of the film well. Having these mock-ups gives us good construction of what we can and can’t use for the final product and shows us areas of improvement. For example more articles and text need be shown on the cover, and the placement of the title of our film needs to be considered more carefully. Hopefully these will help us to produce even better final products.