Feedback For Drafts.
My peers evaluated my drafts for my magazine, and this is a summery of their comments:
Genre: Indie
Audience: The audience that my peers guessed were ranged from teenagers to mid twenties, which is what I was aiming for .
Success: Matched the mark scheme very well, the use of wire as prop, fonts and shaddows, large background dps, good colour scheme.
Improvements: Experiment with different angle pics.
Average Level: Mid 4
Friday, 26 February 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Contents page with the use of pictures
A suggestion was made that perhaps my contents page should include more pictures, so I decided to test this out this idea, and add some pictures to the page.
I'm not sure If like the use of pictures, because from the star I said I wanted my magazine to look as simple, and the use of colourful clashing pictures, in my opinion, makes the contents page look a bit too full, even though I only used three pictures. I like how the pictures are angled though, because this makes them look qwerky, and fun.
I also made the background slightly lighter, because I thought that this matched the double page spread a lot more. This is one idea I will defiantly use, however the pictures are perhaps a no go.
Double Spread draft - Modification
I decided to change the size of some of the words in the article. I picked out words I think the audience are most likely want to hear about, So love, romance, music, secret ect. I like this idea, because they act as keywords, so that the reader can look at these words, before reading the article, and know what install for them. I also think it helps break up the text, and layout, making it look a lot more pleasing to the eye.
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Case Study Notes
Bridget jones
Target audience – Woman 18 to 35. Romantic comedy fans. Single woman looking for “mr right”
Vertical intergration
Specific examples
Green Zone
Effective tagline
Budget: $100,000,000, Been refered to as a flop
target audience: 15+, action fans, war fans
Dailymail says= ‘preachy political trailer disguised as a warm film’
Production practices: intent to adapt a book to film
Technologies: twitter facebook, 3D + digital screenings – Cuts down piracy = encrypted codes
Greenzone make use of technology, where as Avatar(James Cameron) had to wait 13 years until technology bettered.
Comparison: greenzone = bus billboard & avatar = big 60inch billboards in NY, and London ect.
Dead mans shoes – working class man
Green zome – 4 quadron and matt damon attract women
Big budget = more prints.
The soloist
Based on true story
Budget for this movie was $60 million
117 mins long 12A/ cat E (british company with American culture)
Main cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey JR, and catherin keener
Writeen by Susannah grant and steve lopez
Directed by Joe Write - pride and prejudice and atonement)
Places the movie was filmed in LA and Ohio.
Marketing: Marketed internet, billboards, and commercials
Used homeless people as extras
Many people believed the advertising was misleading.
Filmed in 5 mm print, Distributed through DSN sites
Release date held back due to another movie being more popular.
Film festivals, the soloist was going to open 2009, but it was classed as a flop before it had even hit the cinemas.
Working Title with Universal – conglomerate
This is England
Used DSN which tripled its size
Used prefabricated sets – cheaper, and more realistic
£90,000 grant from the national lottery
Green zone
Drama
115 mins long
UK release date: 12/3/2010
Directed by Paul Greengrass – borne of premacy
Country US/UK
Universal Pictures
Earnt $14,309,295 in 3,003 theatres
Compared to shutter island, green zone did twice as well in the UK.
As march 2010, green zone grossed $31,218,390 in the US and $60,019,390 world wide
Similar to casino royal, which both use ATL advertising
Uses internet a lot to target internet peeps.
In exam use terminology
Video games for xbox, PS3, Wii ect, before a film comes out
Synergy – advertising with in games
Sky pop ups
4OD – online streaming – Pop up adverts
Bluetooth in cinemas
Myspace – keywords on profile
Facebook – fanpages/groups
Love film – free DVDs ,blanket emails
iPhones – downloadable apps – adverts have to click on the get rid of
apple mac – front row trailers
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Looking at Fonts
These are my three fonts I decided to use throughout my magazine, I decided to only use three because that way, it wouldn't look tacky and would look a lot more professional. I downloaded these fonts to my photoshop on my mac from http://www.dafont.com.
Double page spread draft
DOUBLE PAGE SPEAD
I like the look of my double page spread, because I like how the image is sperate from the article. I had some trouble positioning my writing in box layers, because I couldn't find where to put them, without it looking too crouded, but I think that I managed to find an alternative without blocking the photo, or making it look too busy. I think the column idea is a great success, because it makes the page look organised and tidy, and the writing is still readable. From my original mock up idea, I changed the position of Jeremy Stone, and made the background longer on photoshop, with the use of spot healing tool, and then the burn tool. I'm not sure if I like the title of the page though, because I dont think that it stands out as much as it could, so I'm considering revising my desicion, and making the font more visable. Overall though I like this design, and I think that the final design will look something very much like this.