2. Tainted Evaluation
The Poster:
Here is our first draft of our film poster, however we made many changes to it
based on our audience feedback. Our audience like the main photo, however
as the character wasn’t looking directly into the camera, it didn't exactly meet
the standard conventions of a film poster. We also made some spelling
mistakes, which our audience picked up on, this was quick and easy to fix.
The audience also felt the layout didn’t look very professional, for example
the position of the title, ‘Tainted’.
3. Tainted Evaluation
Here is our final film poster, as you can see it is very different to our first draft. The main
change we made was the background image, we decided to change it to this image, as it is
much more creative and reflects the narrative of the film; a school girl becoming tainted. We
also superimposed an image of houses at the bottom, to reflect the city/urban vibe of the
film. We changed the positioning of the title, as in the middle it is more eye catching and it
also reflects how titles were placed in film posters we looked at. We added in some more
conventions of posters, such as the logos of the film creators, web address, social media
links such as twitter and facebook and the blurb telling the audience who starred and
created the film.
4. Tainted Evaluation
The Trailer:
Our first draft of the trailer had 2 pieces of music, however our audience commented that
this was not like most trailers. This meant we had to find one song that suited the whole of
our trailer, as the narrative slightly shifts in our trailer. For this we re-watched film trailers
that were the same genre as ours to find a better suited piece of music. This greatly
improved our trailer, as it made it flow better, rather than seeming like two separate trailers.
It also came up in our research that we need a title displaying the age rating of our film, as
it contained bad language and scenes of a sexual nature. We didn’t have this in our first
draft, however added on into our final.
There was some scenes that we cut from our first draft, as we felt they didn’t suit the
trailer and our audience seemed to think they was a bit pointless. By cutting these, our
trailer felt more gritty and suited to our genre, of urban drama.
5. Tainted Evaluation
The Magazine:
This is our first draft of our magazine, our
audience felt that the layout wasn't quite right as
it didn’t follow conventions of magazine. For
example the left alignment didn’t follow the
conventions, as it was slightly out of place.
They also felt the text was to ‘left heavy’, so there
was too much space on the right hand side.
They liked our central image, however felt the
magazine didn’t make it clear was our unique
selling point was, as it didn’t clearly state that it
was from the creators of ‘Kidulthood’.
6. Tainted Evaluation
This is our final draft of the
magazine, we slightly changed the
position of the image, to meet the
rule of thirds. This makes the front
cover stand out more, especially if it
was in a stand at a shop.
We also added more conventions of
film magazines, such as a sticker
showing what was in this edition of
the magazine and interviews with
other film related subjects.
We slightly changed the colour
scheme, to move away from it just
being black and white.
We also changed the position of the
title of the film, and added the
unique selling point of our film.
The magazine follows the codes and
conventions of having a barcode,
date and price, web address and
strong masthead.
