Media evaluation question 1

1. Evaluation question 1:
In what ways does your
Media production use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions
of real Media products?

2. Media poster
Here, in this image to the right, we have
the final media poster designed by my
group and I seek to talk about how it
either used, developed or challenged
forms of real, professional Media
products – in the upcoming slides.

3. Used
Black background, or low-key lighting, to
connote evil and make it quite obvious to our
audience that this movie is of the ‘horror’
genre.
Title is positioned near the bottom of
the poster
The use of a tagline, to give just a little bit
more of an insight into the movie and the fact
it is at the top of the poster – just like the
movies in the picture to the right
Movie font, written in Red. Connotation of
blood and anger – all conventions of ‘horror’.
Features the logo of the product team that
actually made the movie
Website link, for anyone curious about the
movie to pursue or research into the film

4. Develop
The image is that of a person, shot
at a medium close-up range, whilst
the usual convention is too have a
long shot
Title isn’t placed fully in the middle, as
the text runs off onto the sides
Instead of filling out the credits to
the very sides of the poster, we
kept them simply in the middle of
the poster and to a bare minimum
Only featured one company logo along
the bottom. Most posters have multiple
logo’s shown.
Rather than give an actual firm
date for the movies release, our
poster just simply says ‘coming
soon’

5. Challenge
Features the victim, as the main image,
and not the antagonist.
The person as the main image is indeed black,
not what you’d usually see in most films – let
alone a horror.
And the antagonist's hand is Black, challenging
the stereotype of characters you would normally
see in a movie.
The title of the movie is a paradox. This is
because it features a self-contradictory
statement. With it saying ‘a beautiful’, meaning
joy or hope and then saying ‘nightmare’
connotation darkness or evil. So the two words
contradict one another, challenging the usual
names of movies
Didn’t feature the name of any
actors/actresses involved in the movie

6. Media magazine
Here we have the image of
our final magazine
production. In the next
couple of slides I shall talk
about what conventions it
followed, used and
developed for movie
magazines

7. Used
Our magazine followed a popular convention of only having one person as the main
image used for the magazine. Along with that, the fact that the movie magazine’s title
was shown at the back of the persons (in the image) head and that the movie font
itself was in Red also followed popular conventions – due to the fact most famous
movie magazines also do this. (see image)
Free give a ways help draw in potential buyers, and we
done this by giving away free posters – in the hope that Price of the product being
it would draw even more of an audience. right next to the barcode
Website link being involved, under the Use of only 3 colours, keeps things to a
title and the issue number and date the minimal, doesn’t draw audience attention
magazine was issued are together away and keeps in check with how
Dark red font used a professional magazines colour their
lot on the poster, gives magazine
audience the idea, at a
glance, that it is of the Continuity of the same 2 fonts being
horror genre used throughout

8. Develop
There is the use of a ‘puff’
but this puff is unorthodox
as it isn’t the usual ‘circle’
shape you would see being
used for a puff
Images running over the top of
the title, making it not be the
main focus
Rather than an all black background
it’s partially blue, challenging the
fear associated with the image

9. Challenge
Again, a black person was involved as
the image for a horror and the fact
that this person is a woman totally
challenges what you’re likely to see in
movie conventions for magazines
+ symbol being in an usual font, so
buyers mightn’t know straight away
that it is actually a ‘+’ symbol
Has other movie titles on the magazine, but
they’re all written in the same font and thus
don’t stand out as being their own
product/movie
Barcode in bottom right of
magazine, unlike majority
of magazines which have it
in the bottom left