The document discusses the filmmaker's process for creating a teaser trailer, film poster, and magazine cover that reflect conventions of real media products in those genres. Research was conducted on existing examples to determine appropriate camera shots, text placements, fonts, and layouts. For the teaser trailer, close-ups were used to emphasize characters' facial expressions. Font sizes and placements were considered for text elements. The poster uses character names, credits, and an image from the teaser trailer to create consistency across products. The magazine cover similarly incorporates design elements from researched examples.

2. The camera shots and camera angels also played an important role of
reflecting forms and conventions of real media products. From the
information and ideas I gathered from the analysis and research of teaser
trailers with the same genre as my product, I found that Thriller/Action
films use a variety of camera shots and angles in order to emphasise the
genre in the most suitable way. According to my research, the use of
medium shots and close-ups were the main camera shots and angles
used with teaser trailers that have the same genres of my product. In
relations to the two teaser trailers I analysed, I found that both used
close-ups when trying to stress the facial expressions of characters,
especially the main characters. For example in the ‘Seven’ teaser trailer I
analysed the first shot of the clip was a medium close-up of Brad Pitt
which therefore underlined the fact that he was one of the main
characters alongside with highlighting his facial expression. I used this
method of emphasise of facial expressions with my own teaser trailer
when introducing the characters to the audience and used the same shot
at 1:20 which was one of the main scenes that I believe engaged the
audience and reflected the genre and the roles of the characters. It
creates tension and mystery towards the narrative. The emphasis of
facial expressions of the characters via camera shots and angles enabled
the audience to reflect and react upon the emotional state of each
character.

5. I used text transitions such as ‘The quest for a fantastic thriller has
intensified’, ‘Michael Turner’, ‘Aylin Bastas’ and ‘Coming Soon’ within my own
teaser trailer. I especially analysed the way ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ used
text transitions and concentrated more on the name of the character rather
than other texts like the ‘Seven’ teaser trailer. I purposely didn’t want to use
a lot of texts so that I don’t distract the audience, I wanted to engage the
audience with the action rather than the text. However I think the use of text
helped to explain parts of the narrative. I chose to do my text in white
lettering using a range of font sizes with each text. I particularly chose to do
the title of my teaser trailer as the most highlighted text in order to portray
the importance of this feature. During my editing process, I used fades to
maintain the effect of continuity similarly in the two teaser trailers I have
analysed. This was another way of how I related my product to real media
conventions.

8. For my poster, I again followed the forms and conventions of real media
products in order to reflect a professional outcome. To begin with I
established both the characters names ‘Aylin Bastas’ and ‘Michael Turner’
on the bottom right hand corner of the page to make the audienfce aware
of the two main characters. I used the font Stencil Regular at 50pt for ‘AYLIN
BASTAS’ and Stencil Regular at 60pt in order to emphasise that Michael
Turner is the significant character.

9. When looking at the three posters I have analysed, the credits from the
posters ‘Reserviour Dogs’ and ‘Terminator 3’ are placed on the bottom of the
page in a very small font unlike the ‘Black Swan’ poster which is still placed in
the bottom of the page but is clear for the consumers to read. On my own
poster I reflected on how the posters ‘Reserviour Dogs’ and ‘Terminator 3’
placed the credits; which is placed on the bottom of the page using a very
small font which enabled it to be the most unattractive feature in the layout
overall.
I reflected this method with my own product in order to abide the importance
of echoing real media conventions. Similarly to the ‘Black Swan’ poster, I made
the font of the credits on my product a bigger font compared to the
‘Reserviour Dogs’ and ‘Terminator 3’ posters as I wanted my poster to reflect
to all three posters I analysed. I used the font Charlemagne bold at 21pt for
AYLIN BASTAS, BILAL SALLI, MEHMET BASTAS and MICHAEL TURNER which
were all the significant names of the producer, the directors and the
characters. I used the font Big Caslon medium at 24pt for the word
PRODUCTION and 18pt for the rest of the words. I chose to use various fonts
and font sizes with my credits in order to portray the importance of each
word. Hollywood credits are used in many film posters in order to advertise
production companies, directors, writers and other essential roles.

10. Credits from my poster product
Credits from the ‘Terminator 3’ poster
Credits from the ‘Black Swan’ poster
Credits from ‘Reserviour Dogs’ poster

11. I decided to make the colour of my title white in a bigger size than all the
texts on the page. I placed it on a black background to make it the focus
point for the audience. I also placed an age rating icon on the bottom right
hand corner underneath the characters name, the purpose of this is to
make the audience aware of the preferred audience for my product.

12. The picture for my poster is a shot from my teaser trailer; I chose to do it
this way as I wanted all my products to have a link between them, all
reflecting each other. I chose the image to be a shot reflecting the climax
point in my teaser trailer in order to make the poster more interesting as I
chose not to make the poster detailed similarly to the ‘Terminator 3’
poster I analysed. Whilst editing on Photoshop, I took great care in
keeping the image exactly the same as it is in the teaser trailer and
therefore didn’t apply any type of effect on the image. Alternatively, my
finished film poster product being a screen shot from my teaser trailer
brings across a strong image that completely reflects this.

13. Alongside with all my other products, my magazine front cover also uses
forms and conventions of real media products as I based my research on
professional mainstream film magazines and acknowledged their used to
produce print products. I closely analysed three magazine front covers
from Sight and Sound, Empire and Total Film. I used Total Film as an
example to recreate my magazine front cover using near professional
standards.

14. Firstly I decided to use the same font ‘Eagle Bold’ for the main cover line
of my magazine cover being ‘Total Film’. I also used a similar size and font
to the Total Film layout in order to make my product more professional.
However in the ‘Inception’ magzine front cover, the ‘Total Film’ is placed
behind the main image of Leonardo DiCaprio, I decided to make the main
cover line one of the focus points on the page rather than the image, this
was to promote the producton company to the consumers. Similarly to the
professional product, I added a website for those who don’t want a
printed copy. Alternatively, the magazine print industry may benefit from
this and expand consumerism of their product.

15. In order to continue the link with all my products I used another screen
shot from my teaser trailer as my magazine front cover. It is a medium
shot of the character ‘Aylin Bastas’. This is once again to engage all
consumers and mainly to promote the film. The image uses conventions of
a Thriller as the overall appearance seems very mysterious and one of the
reasons for this is because the characters face is not visible. The tag lines,
cover lines, and the overall layout helped me to adhere to conventions of
a real magazine front cover.

16. Main cover line
Tag lines and
cover lines
Web page
Two main
characters
names
Main image
Icons
Title of the film Used for
advertising
purposes
Barcode and price