Evaluation question 1:In what ways does your

Media production use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real Media products?

Media posterHere, in this image to the right, we have the final media poster designed by my group and I seek to talk about how it either used, developed or challenged forms of real, professional Media products – in the upcoming slides.

UsedBlack background, or low-key lighting, to connote evil and make it quite obvious to our audience that this movie is of the ‘horror’ genre.

Title is positioned near the bottom of the poster

Features the logo of the product team that actually made the movie

Website link, for anyone curious about the movie to pursue or research into the film

The use of a tagline, to give just a little bit more of an insight into the movie and the fact it is at the top of the poster – just like the movies in the picture to the right

Movie font, written in Red. Connotation of blood and anger – all conventions of ‘horror’.

DevelopThe image is that of a person, shot at a medium close-up range, whilst the usual convention is too have a long shot

Rather than give an actual firm date for the movies release, our poster just simply says ‘coming soon’

Instead of filling out the credits to the very sides of the poster, we kept them simply in the middle of the poster and to a bare minimum

Only featured one company logo along the bottom. Most posters have multiple logo’s shown.

Title isn’t placed fully in the middle, as the text runs off onto the sides

ChallengeFeatures the victim, as the main image, and not the antagonist.

The person as the main image is indeed black, not what you’d usually see in most films – let alone a horror.

And the antagonist's hand is Black, challenging the stereotype of characters you would normally see in a movie.

The title of the movie is a paradox. This is because it features a self-contradictory statement. With it saying ‘a beautiful’, meaning joy or hope and then saying ‘nightmare’ connotation darkness or evil. So the two words contradict one another, challenging the usual names of movies

Didn’t feature the name of any actors/actresses involved in the movie

Media magazineHere we have the image of our final magazine production. In the next couple of slides I shall talk about what conventions it followed, used and developed for movie magazines

UsedOur magazine followed a popular convention of only having one person as the main image used for the magazine. Along with that, the fact that the movie magazine’s title was shown at the back of the persons (in the image) head and that the movie font itself was in Red also followed popular conventions – due to the fact most famous movie magazines also do this. (see image)

Free give a ways help draw in potential buyers, and we done this by giving away free posters – in the hope that it would draw even more of an audience.

Website link being involved, under the title and the issue number and date the magazine was issued are together

Dark red font used a lot on the poster, gives audience the idea, at a glance, that it is of the horror genre

Price of the product being right next to the barcode

Use of only 3 colours, keeps things to a minimal, doesn’t draw audience attention away and keeps in check with how professional magazines colour their magazine

Continuity of the same 2 fonts being used throughout

DevelopThere is the use of a ‘puff’ but this puff is unorthodox as it isn’t the usual ‘circle’ shape you would see being used for a puff

Rather than an all black background it’s partially blue, challenging the fear associated with the image

Images running over the top of the title, making it not be the main focus

ChallengeAgain, a black person was involved as the image for a horror and the fact that this person is a woman totally challenges what you’re likely to see in movie conventions for magazines

+ symbol being in an usual font, so buyers mightn’t know straight away that it is actually a ‘+’ symbol

Barcode in bottom right of magazine, unlike majority of magazines which have it in the bottom left

Has other movie titles on the magazine, but they’re all written in the same font and thus don’t stand out as being their own product/movie