Film magazine feedback

We printed an A3 version of our poster and handed it around the class, each member filled out a post-it note with piece of feedback written on it. The feedback included; Our fonts are effective as they are very large and eye catching. We need to get rid of the white outline around the font; the black background needs to be lightened. The picture of the barcode needs to be a higher resolution, we have too much empty space.

Film Cover Influences and research

The magazine front covers here are taken from the internet and are what we have used to help us compose our second ancillary task. As you notice all the covers feature a leading character at the centre of the page and contains additional information about other films due for release. The magazines also contain effects such as bleeding in between the characters in the picture and the titles. when we create our film poster we ensured that we contained all of these features

In order to research what people liked in magazine front cover I showed these four front covers to a variety of teenage boys and girls (all within our target audience for our production) and asked what they found most appealing about each poster shown.

the majority of people said that they like how the images and title of the magazine overlay (bleeding in), the different locations of texts promoting other film etc (composition of design elements) and finally the different colours of fonts spread around the page.

our group all received similar results in their independent research and therefore we incorporated all of the elements when creating our film poster ancillary task which took the form of a Total Film magazine front cover.

my research concluded that the most favourable composition of a magazine front cover is the as the on pictured above and believed that it would suit the the typical style of a film magazine such as the will produce for our final ancillary task. This is because a picture of the villain is featured with a bleed in effect to the picture of the front cover. My research also demonstrated that the example shown is a typical example of a magazine spread containing a picture from the film in question alongside valuable information such as different features in the magazine, about other recent film releases. in the example above the hobbit is also featured on the front cover of the magazine alongside the real jaws. such information will also be used on our front cover to show relevance to real life magazine front covers as it is very unlikely to see a magazine front cover that only features a single film release.