Part B to my media evaluation question 1

1. In what ways do your media
products develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real
life media products for our
Movie Poster and Magazine Cover
By Luke McCarthy

2. Social Network Movie Poster
We liked the text
used for the social
network poster, as
it was the Tahoma
font used for
Facebook, so it fits
in well with the
theme of
cyberbullying , so
therefore we used
this font type, along
with using the same
white colour font.
We also used the
blue parts from
Facebook like this
too.

3. Catfish Poster
From our research we found the
Catfish Poster, which similarly used
both the Tahoma font Witten in white
text , but also we liked the idea of
putting the positives reviews on the
poster to make it look more
professional. And we also liked the
idea of having the characters on the
poster but only showing parts of their
faces, so it doesn’t completely reveal
them and they are still kept as an
unknown making people want to
watch the film.

4. Our Movie Poster
So here is our movie poster and you
can easily see the inspiration and ideas
we have taken from both the Catfish
and Social Network posters. Although
we have tried to do some things slightly
different , such as the layout of the
poster and the way it is divided into
four sections and we also did things
like place the reviews onto it, but they
are positioned differently, we also
decided to list all the people involved
with making the film, to once again to
make it look more professional. But we
also tried differentiate by showing the
eyes of the two main characters rather
than showing half their faces like in the
Catfish poster, so the characters and
the way they look are not completely
revealed.

5. Little White Lies Magazine Covers
Here are a number of
Little White Lies
Magazine covers:
As you can see most Little
White LIES Magazine
covers normally show a
characters faces and the
Little White Lies logo at the
top of the cover. Along with
the characters having some
kind of cartoon effect to
make it look different stand
out.

6. Our Magazine Cover
So here is the magazine cover
we created and decided to use:
We decided to go with Little White Lies for our
magazine as we felt it was both more suit to our
genre and the cover we created, as we looked as
possibly doing an Empire cover but it didn’t work,
as Empire usually showed one character showing
most of them in their environment without any
kind of colour effects and the images were more
realistic. But we used the cartoon type of effect so
that’s more suited to the Little White Lies cover
style, alongside only showing the characters face.
But we tried to make our different by showing faces
of our two main characters, as normally their covers
just show the face of one character, but we wanted
to include both our main characters , so that’s what
we did and it has also helped to make our cover
look more different compared to the other covers
they have previously created.