This document discusses the conventions used in film posters, teaser trailers, and magazine covers that were analyzed and incorporated into the student's media products for their film titled T.O.D. Specifically, it summarizes how elements like the prominent display of the film title, use of compelling imagery, inclusion of reviews, and consistency in color themes were adopted from examples like the Warm Bodies marketing materials. The document also explains how combinations of conventions from different magazine covers were combined into the student's original magazine cover design for their film.

1. Question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
EVALUATION

2. This PowerPoint will show how my media product uses,
develops or challenges forms and conventions of real
media products.

3. CONVENTIONS OF A FILM
POSTER
• Film Title
• Taglines
• Billing Block
• Main Film Image
• Name of Main Cast
• Release Date
• Reviews
• Production Logo + Name
• Quotes From The Film

4. CONVENTIONS OF A TEASER TRAILER
• Normally very short, 30-60 seconds long.
• In this time you are shown a basic outline of what the film is about and shows you the
main characters and the USP of the film.
• The main purpose of a teaser trailer is to make you aware of the new film and give
you a quick insight to what the film is.
• Is is also to make the audience aware of what the film is called and show a short clip
of the film so they get enough information to know what is going on but not enough
to know what will happen next. This is a useful tactic that film distributors use to grab
the audiences attention and make them want to know what is going to happen next.
• Uses a different variety of shots and camera angles and movement.
• Shows the title of the film, main characters, production company and release date
and sometimes social media links. E.G. Facebook/twitter.
• Teaser trailers tend to relate back to the genre that film is.

5. CONVENTIONS OF A MAGAZINE
COVER
• Magazine title
• Film Tagline
• Film Title
• Main Cast Names
• Main Image From Film
• Other Advertisements
• Barcode, Price, what else is in
the magazine, websites.
• Quotes and reviews of film.

6. When looking at other teaser trailers we wanted
some elements to be the same so that our teaser
trailer would be successful and give the same
impression that the teaser trailer for Warm Bodies
did to create tension and create unanswered
questions that the audience would want to know
the answers to. This would then build up a larger
audience to want to go and see the film.
In the Warm Bodies trailer on of the last titles
used in the trailer is the title of the film which is
big and bold and is one of the last things that the
audience sees. I felt that this was a good element
of the teaser trailer as it is the thing that the
audience will remember most abut the trailer and
the audience will remember the film and the title
of the film because of the dark and vibrant colours
and the bold font for the title.
This seems to be successful in the Warm Bodies
trailer so as a group we decided to use this in our
teaser trailer as the last thing the audience would
see so they remember it the most and will want to
see T.O.D. as it is the name of the film that is
constantly in their minds.

8. When looking for some ideas and inspiration for our poster for our teaser trailer for out
film T.O.D. I looked at the poster for the films we looked at for inspiration for our
trailer. When looking the posterfor warm bodies as shown on the previous slide it
shows consistency in the colour theme of red which works well with the genre of a
Zomromcom which is similar to our genre of a zombie horror film. We used the
consistence of the colour themes which work well and make the media products for
the film more memorable for the audience.
We also used reviews of the film from audiences that had previously seen the film in
our poster like in the one for Warm Bodies as this make the audience feel that seeing
the film would be with their while as the people who have already seen the film felt
that is was very good which is shown in the rating stars.
When looking at other film posters it is clear that the main focal point is the picture
taken from the film and the film title. When looking at the poster for warm bodies it
shows the picture taken from the film to be in the center of the poster and the title just
above the picture. This we felt worked well as it is eye catching as is the first thing you
see when you look at the magazine cover and the fact that the picture and the title are
together in the middle of the cover automatically keeps drawing your attention to it
which makes it more memorable to the people seeing poster.

10. When getting inspiration for the magazine cover I looked at many different styles of
magazines. When trying to see which cover would suit the genre of our film which was
zombie horror, I felt that none of them really grabbed my attention in the way in which
we felt would make our teaser trailer successful and make people want to go and see our
film. When looking at the Empire magazine cover I like the fact that the magazine name
‘Empire’ was right at the top in a big bold font which is the first thing you see as it is a eye
level so we used this idea in out magazine cover which is shown on the previous slide.
At the bottom of the magazine cover from the empire cover on the previous slide it shows
pictures taken from four other films in four separate boxes. We felt that this could work
well in our magazine poster as it is used in the other type of magazine covers we looked
at called ‘Fangoria’ the only difference is that the boxes would be on the left hand side
going down instead of across so we used this idea in our magazine cover so we could
include different elements of different magazine covers and then created our own so we
could include certain parts with the ideas taken from other magazine cover styles and
include them in our own to make our even better and more appealing when people are
looking at the poster. This we felt was useful as it would make more people want to go
and see the film if the poster was presented in a way which got people watching the
trailer and gaining our film more recognition so it becomes more successful.