The document discusses the creation of a short film cover and magazine review spread. The creator analyzed 6 case studies of professional covers and magazines to understand conventions like typical layouts, common elements, and design techniques. For the short film poster, conventions were adopted like large title text, character images, and a simple color scheme. The poster cuts up the character images to hint at the film's action/thriller genre. For the magazine review, conventions included title, cast, images summarizing the film, and separating text and images on the page. Both the poster and review incorporated key elements while adapting the style to fit the film's theme.

1. When creating both our short film cover and magazine review page (double
spread) I looked at a total 6 different case studies to understand how a
professional cover and magazine should look and adopt some of the
conventions that might work well for our short film.

2. The three case studies are some how related to our short film whether if that is the storyline, the a similarities in
characters or similar genre. Analysing the three posters I had gathered that all three had there title name in fonts
that was larger than the rest of the text, however posters often don’t use much text and when they do its found at
the bottom in very small text. What they try to sell is the characters in the movie, the first thing you find is the
images of the main characters that the movie is biased on. All movie posters work around 2-4 colour scheme that
reflect the movie or characters best. The fonts that are used for the title stands out from the rest of the text, its like
the brand of the movie for example ‘Iron Man’ font is only used for the title making it stand out and memorable.
The poster includes details such the cast, and the date the movie would be releasing. Also like all professional
posters they use focal point for their layout, this is to make the poster look well presented and applies to
audiences better that a layout of images positioned at random.

3. This is our final design for the movie poster. As you
can see we used the basic media convections
found in movie posters. We had adopted the
typical layout design, where the small text are
included at the bottom of the poster in small text.
We have important elements that are found in all
conventional movie posters such as a title, date,
images, extra text and cast names. However we
edited the images by cutting the image up but
the image of the characters still appears. The
cutting up effect gives the poster an unsteady
feel, and the genre of the movie is portrayed
through the edits as the cut ups hints that the film
is action/thriller based. We used the simple colour
scheme of red, black and white. The simple
colour text gives the effect of seriousness. The font
for the title used is smaller than usual but still
appears and stands out. the movie posters
images are only of two main characters, the boss
does not appear in the front cover, this is
because the we did not want to give away too
much from out movie.

4. Looking at the third media conventions I had
analysed that all movie reviews have an
image of the movie, this allows the audience
to get feel of what the movie may be about,
the layout is usually columns of text including
title, cast members, sometimes ratings. The
design could often vary based on the film and
the magazine it self, all of them have a
different style. Images that are found on the
review page are often shots from the movie an
action scene that best sums up the movie.

5. Our film review consents of many media
conventions such as the use of images,
text, ratings etc. the use of language
used in our media product reflects or
correlates well with the theme that the
movie itself goes for. The images used
are the most effective ones, they sum
up the film leave the audience to find
out what is about to happen to the two
characters. The font for the text used is
different to the case studies I analysed,
the text may seem playful, but it fits the
storyline. We have added reviews of the
movie and included information on the
movie but with out giving away too
much. The layout of the magazine is
conventional, as text and images are
separated from each other for example
of each page there is something else
making the page look more exciting
then having text on both sides. We have
also included the basic magazine
features like title and page numbers so it
may look completed.

6. Our film review consents of many media
conventions such as the use of images,
text, ratings etc. the use of language
used in our media product reflects or
correlates well with the theme that the
movie itself goes for. The images used
are the most effective ones, they sum
up the film leave the audience to find
out what is about to happen to the two
characters. The font for the text used is
different to the case studies I analysed,
the text may seem playful, but it fits the
storyline. We have added reviews of the
movie and included information on the
movie but with out giving away too
much. The layout of the magazine is
conventional, as text and images are
separated from each other for example
of each page there is something else
making the page look more exciting
then having text on both sides. We have
also included the basic magazine
features like title and page numbers so it
may look completed.