Question 2 of Critical Media Evaluation

1. Critical Evaluation
Question 2

2. In our film we were trying to achieve
professional looking short comedic
film. In the most part we did this
successfully. Two things that reflect
this is our Poster and Radio Trailer.
Our Poster emphasizes the comedy
of our film. And also that it is
somewhat farfetched. For instance
one character is stuck in a television
in the poster, this signifies the other
character has control of her, hence
the remote in his hand, but that isn’t
realistic and neither is our film. You
can tell from our poster that our film
is a comedy, and that shows the
success of our poster that it reflects
the film so well.

3.  Our radio trailer follows the same concept. It sets
the scene with the ‘’what if’’ situation. What if you
had a controller that would turn back time? And
then sets the context of a date, with comedic clips
from the film itself. The radio trailer would arguable
reflect what we are trying to achieve better than the
poster. The poster you might have to work out, but
the radio trailer literally tells you that it’s a comedy.

4. The poster and radio trailer are
very successful in selling our
production. The poster looks
sharp; it stands out, and looks
professional and interesting. It
draws attention to our film and
shows it in a good light. If it
was put up against regular film
posters it would not look out of
place.
The radio trailer also sells it
well. It sounds funny and
interesting. If you like the
humour portrayed in the radio
trailer then an audience would
likely to want to watch our film.
So it sells our film quite well, it
doesn’t lie.

5. The original Poster was based on these famous
movie posters before we altered it. But is still
follows the same idea. The two main cast basically
posing together. Here are some examples.
Our original poster followed the same format, but is
now more space efficient.
Our radio trailer is similar to other trailers, for
instance we have clips from the film, and a voice
over that tells you when it is coming out etc.