Almost There:

We are aiming to have everything complete, both print products and trailer done and they will hopefully be up to a standard that we are both proud of, we Will be uploading the trailer again hopefully in the next few days with the changes made to it.When we were asked to make changes to it we were told that it looked to much like a story and that it looked to continuous. This time we have made sure that there is a clear change in events and you can see the change in the boys behaviour and what he has turned into. i am hoping the audience will recognise that the child is the main character and the trailer is focused around him.We have tried to improve the narrative of the trailer by showing the boy and his family on a normal day,coming home from school and watching TV,then there is a few titles to separate out the footage and will maybe hint that it is of the horror genre. Also the music gives the impression that it is happy and normal at the beginning of the trailer as opposed to the end when the music becomes more dramatic and fast paced, which should match the fast pace of clips. Now we are having a few problems rendering the footage as the titles are not being rendered but the rest of the footage is. But now this problem has been solved.
Just need to get the picture edited and put onto the magazine, so that it creates the right horror effect on the audience. The layout of the magazine has improved.
Me and Manny are also going to strat and prepare for our evaluation which we will be starting next week , in the form of a presentation and an interview. We have also created the backstage footage with a commentary which we will probably upload that next week.
We have also decided to carry out some audience feedback for the print products which we will do in the next few days. We did some audience feedback at the start of our project aswell, which we included in our presentation when we were presenting our initial ideas about the genre of the trailer.

Progress of Magazine:

Here is the progress i have been making with the magazine cover, i have just inserted some text on the bottom of the page as there was quite a lot of white space there before, and also a lot of the other magazine covers that i have looked at have something extra advertised across the bottom.

What we have based the magazine cover on:

Here are a few examples of covers that i have been looking at and taking ideas from in order to create our magazine front cover promoting our film "Deranged".
I have specifically been looking at Total film magazines as some of the covers are really appealing to me and Manny, as are those of Empire magazine so it was really a toss up between the two, but we decided to go with total film, they are both quite similar in terms of front covers, but i think Total Film have slightly bolder covers, this is probably due to the font and typography, or the big statement images, that sometimes have more colour than those of empire, making it that bit more appealing, but obviously that depends on the film as well. Both are really good, well established magazines but we had to pick one.

A breakdown of the covers

Titles, Small print  and Bar code
Total Film have a consistent font and style of Title for the magazine which acts as a logo for the print product. The typography is bold and striking and is immediately in the face of the audience who view it, it is not something on the page that would easily be missed. There are generally colour adaptions of the masthead depending on the theme of the major blockbuster film that is on the front cover, but more often than not i have noticed that it is white. On our print product i have attempted to replicate the style of the masthead, but have not completely copied the font for two reasons, one being that i couldn't find or download the actual font for that magazine and the second being that we have slightly adapted the name of the magazine to film today, so there has to be some variation between the two magazines, otherwise we might as well of called it total film.

On the total film magazine the date and website is in really small font just above the masthead to the right of the page, this is quite effective as it is small enough so that it doesn't draw peoples attention away from the main image or text, but the amount of copies indicates how well established this magazine is and possibly how popular it is as it shows that it has been running quite a long time. Putting the website address on it also increases the promotion of the magazine. They are also more likely to go to the website as the small text is the last thing that they will have seen on the cover probably, and if they are already attracted to the content then they can they could find more information on the website increasing the likeliness of someone going on the website. On our magazine cover i have done the same, but i have realised that i haven't put a website on yet, but i think i will as well as the cost as i have also missed this off. The cost indicates how good the quality of the magazine is. 

The position of the bar code varies as you can see from the images above as on the shutter island issue and the Harry Potter issue it is positioned at the bottom but in the Star Trek and Alice in wonderland issue it is placed at the side. I decided to place it at the side as it is more out of the way of the main image and text of the magazine. The audience don't really focus on this component of the magazine, it is just there for purchasing purposes, but adds to professional look of it.

Tag lines, Headings and Text
On  most of the above images of the magazines i can't see any tag line for the magazine, but on the harry potter one there is a circle of stars with the tag line "world's best movie reviews" in ours i have included one but i have just put it in small text just underneath the masthead. As on a previous draft of the magazine i put a circle shape on, attempting to make it look like a sticker but i felt it looked better the way it is now, could do with being made slightly bigger to make it more noticeable. I have made the tag line " The UK's favourite film magazine" this is making it a national magazine as opposed to international, i think this is more suitable as Empire and Total film i think are international and making it national puts the magazine in a different niche.

On the above covers, on each there is a main cover line that is either of the Feature film on the cover,or in the case of the Alice in wonderland one it is "massive preview special" It is the biggest text therefore is the first thing that the audience notice. As shown above there is variety of different positions for it , when it placed more towards the left side of the page it stands out because it surrounded by smaller text which emphasises its importance making it appear more dominant. It also has an impact when it is placed at the bottom of the page as it is separated from the other text which better when there are other films named at the sides of the page as it makes it seem as if this film in a league of its own and also because its the main feature film. I have placed it at the bottom of the page on our magazine cover because i have other film titles at the side. On my previous draft i had the main cover line being the actor's name, but on this draft i decided to change it to the actual title of the film as i put the title of the film to the left of the page but thought that it wasn't bold enough when it was there, it just seemed to blend in with the other text so i moved it.
A common convention of a film magazine is the small text down the sides of the page , on some of the magazines there are short headings that stand out in some way, sometimes with a box around them that has a contrasting colour to the text. They don't derive attention away from the cover line or the image but are placed beside the image so that the audience still notice them as they might think that they are captions to do with the image. some of the smaller text beneath the headings have actors/actresses names mentioned or films that attract their attention. I put Channing Tatum in ours as he is an identifiable actor who many girls are attracted, and has been in numerous blockbuster hits too, so this makes it more appealing.

Banner
On quite a lot of total film magazines there is a banner at the top of the page above the masthead, this normally indicates what extra stuff is in the magazine, such as posters, feature articles. On ours i have put "10 movies being made right now" this is encouraging the audience to look at this article because its about recent upcoming films, which also projects to the audience that this is a modern magazine which in keeping with the times and surprising the audience by giving them information about future films. I think i need to darken the red colour of the banner though as the lighter red doesn't portray the horror theme that the magazine cover will be based around because of the feature film. The red needs to represent blood and be a bit brighter to stand out more.

Image
The image on the covers above are all of the character in the film, usually the main character, they are dressed up and have the relevant plots. This makes the page look more like a film magazine as the image relates to the cover line well. If the cover line were the actors name then maybe the actor wouldn't be in character as the article is not going to be about the film that they have been. It is going to be more focused the their life. This is another reason why i changed the cover line, i think when the actors are in character then the magazine is more appealing. It looks more professional as the image links with the titles well. As from the covers above the image is usually either a close up of the actor/actress or a full length picture (mid shot/longshot). This is the type of image me and Manny want to get as we got one earlier but it didn't look right as it was of the main character covering his face, although it portrayed fear quite well it didn't show his face properly, and therefore wasn't really suitable for the front of a magazine, as it would be difficult to relate that character to the poster and the audience wouldn't be able to recognise it was the same person as in the poster.

Magazine cover

Today i have come in and have again focused on print products as they are still not complete, i have been working on the magazine cover, but i have still not got a suitable image for it and have therefore just been playing around with the layout, because i was still not completely happy with the other draft  i did. So here is what i have been doing, i think it looks more like a magazine, than before. I know i need to add a background, but i need to know what the picture is to do this i think. I am going to download the trial of photoshop at home so i continue with this.

Progress:

Here it is again with further stuff added, like text and the date :

Other Poster Draft

Here is the old poster to compare it to:

Half term stuff

Today Me and Manny have come into school to work on our media work, I am trying to get the print products sorted while Manny has been doing the trailer but we have both been giving each other advice of what we think of each others work. Manny has discovered that she needs to convert the footage, but i have looked at the footage and i am happy with what has been shot. I have been working a lot on the poster and have created i new one as i think i needed to do some more work to it, i have still used the same image but this time it dosent look as blurry as it is smaller, i would like some advice on how to improve it, or how it looks and if it look good. I know that i still need to blur some of the edges of image and add some more text and the production logo which i going to do now. This is what ive been working on. I still cant do much else with the magazine as we still dont have an image, Manny says she will be able to get it this week some time so that will help. Here is the poster:

Print Products so far:

Progress:

Today is the end of term deadline that we were supposed to have all our print products and Trailer finished but we have been given extra time to do it after half term. Yesterday we discussed our trailer with sir and found out that we could improve our trailer a lot more as some of it doesn't look like a trailer.
Over this weekend Manny is going to shoot some more footage for the trailer and next week we are going to come in on Tuesday to get some of the editing done. We have decided we are going to include an opening few shots to show that the boy has had a normal life previously and to show contrast between the start and the end of the trailer where it becomes much more dark. It also creates more of a storyline that the audience can follow and understand. As this was an issue with the trailer, the plot was not clearly presented and a clearer image needs to be created for the viewer.
Yesterday we came up with a plan for the scenes and looked at other trailers to compare ours with, this helped with our understanding of what a horror trailer is supposed to look like. We realised that we needed more footage and we needed to cut some of our footage down as the part where the character is in the woods is too long.  Manny created some storyboards last night from the plan that we made yesterday and is going to shoot tomorrow as this is when the actor is available.