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Mind Map by kit-kat-98, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kit-kat-98
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Analysis of
Existing
Students Work
- Magazine
- It shows similar
conventions to already
existing media products
- In their Initial ideas they outlined the
importance of stocking to the typical
conventions of Empire so audience can
understand the conventions.
- One way the wanted the audience to
understand the conventions of the magazine
was by including similar conventions to a
popular film magazine called 'Empire'. They
portrayed the typical conventions shown in
Empire magazine such as the photo being
placed over the title, the colour scheme used
throughout the magazine, the content and the
form of the image. The strapline used is also
to the Empire magazine and others, the font
style and positioning is similar and the
barcode is placed at the bottom right corner
which is typical for Empire
- This clearly is within the
horror/thriller genre
,which is shown through
the use of conventions for
example : the colouring of
red and black, also the
character performance ,
the taglines, the font ,
language used.
- What we believe didn’t
work as well was that
although the picture
matched the convention ,
it wasn’t a good quality of
photo – especially
compared to other
conventions.
- The layout is quite crowded
as they only used different
shapes and size of typography
once. Which to overcome they
could remove the film title
“Blink” in order to allow more
space. They could then add
different methods of text
layout to make the poster
more appealing to the
audience.
- The layout is quite crowded
as they only used different
shapes and size of typography
once. Which to overcome they
could remove the film title
“Blink” in order to allow more
space. They could then add
different methods of text
layout to make the poster
more appealing to the
audience.
- The plugs at the side aren’t
easy to read or stands out too
much near the photo because
of the white background it is
placed on in order to be seen.
- It shows similar
conventions to already
existing media products
- Poster
- The students were once again
inspired by other already
existing posters. Their main
aim of this poster was to show
minimal graphics and
information about the film, but
still make the poster eye
catching. They did do this
through the dominating image
of the eye, which is very
interesting and intriguing
because it matches the title
and taglines.
- However, I do feel that the image within the
eye isn’t exactly minimal, but it still works
to show the conventions.
- Especially as they had
inspiration from the ‘Harry
Potter and the half-blood prince’
which shows a reflection of a
character in the main
protagonist (Harry’s) glasses.
This in all, is a different way to
portray information without
giving too much of the narrative
away. Also, by having it to be
minimal, the eye and image
creates an eerie feel and tension
for the audience.
- The students were once again
inspired by other already
existing posters. Their main
aim of this poster was to show
minimal graphics and
information about the film, but
still make the poster eye
catching. They did do this
through the dominating image
of the eye, which is very
interesting and intriguing
because it matches the title
and taglines.
- I also feel that the titles work very
well. The positioning is different, yet
still dominates after the image and is
still easily read. The bold, sans serif
typography stands out and demands
to be read by the audience after they
have seen the image. This then leads
them to reading the tagline “Run
from prying eyes”, which matches
the image. Again, making the
audience want to find out about the
narrative.
- However, we do not feel that the blood or tears coming from the eye is effective. Mainly for the reason there
isn’t any known meaning behind it and it then therefore seem unnecessary. More so for the reason it is
clearly edited on as the graphics do not match the original picture. However, it could be foreshadowing
something for the whole film. Although they wanted to not make this looked edited on by drawing the image
themselves, we feel they still didn’t do this effective enough to not make it look edited. They picture still
would have worked without it.
- http://clairehannahcindyandsteph.blogspot.co.uk/
- Trailer
- We feel the trailer is more
like a short film, due to how
much it gives away about
the start, middle and
ending.
- The narrative they did give
was unclear. From research
into others, we know that
titles can help to establish
an unclear narrative. Yet
they didn't include titles
except the main film title.
- We also learnt from research that
developing a relationship with the
main characters, whether the
protagonist or antagonist, is
important for audiences to want to
watch the film.
- We felt the conventions used were very
effective in order to portray a typical
thriller and build tension - both of
which work efficiently to build audience
interest.
- For example, the
soundtrack and
lighting worked well to
create an eerie feel to
the whole production.
- For example, the
soundtrack and
lighting worked well to
create an eerie feel to
the whole production.
- We feel the trailer is more
like a short film, due to how
much it gives away about
the start, middle and
ending.
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