Magazine Drafts

These are the drafts of my magazine cover which all look fairly similar but have some minor differences: The cover to the left was the first draft. I added a picture from the movie to it and put exclusive cast interview under it to connect the two. The title of the film is the main writing on the magazine cover and I put it on the hand of the character so that it stood out more. The line beneath it tells the reader what the film is and the font is in a fantasy style in keeping with the film genre. Other features are: What else is inside the magazine, to make people want to read it and at the bottom there is a plus main feature of what you can get from the magazine on the centre page. The writing is white to stand out against the black which is made to look like a film strip. The bottom left cover was changed by positioning the picture in the bottom left corner against the black film strip which now has "Exclusive cast interview..." written on it instead. The writing for what is inside the magazine was changed to fit better on her hand but it does not stand out enough. The bottom right magazine cover is the one I got public feedback from. I kept the picture in the same place and made a badge to highlight the "top 10 films as rated by you," I also changed the colours of the text for what is inside the magazine to how I had it originally as it stood out more and now I had the badge it made enough space on the hand for it to all fit.

Magazine cover main layout

This is the start of my magazine cover with the main features added created using InDesign.

• The title: Flic-king is a play on the word flicking which refers to both flicking through pages in the magazine and also, as flims are sometimes refered to as flicks, it shows what the genre of the magazine is (Movie Magazine) and as a king of flicks it implys to the audience that it is a good magazine and maybe even the best magazine for film news.


• The top line: "From the red carpet to your front door" is an extra enforcer to the genre and tells the reader what the magazine may contain.


• The font: The title font is meant to look like a film strip as is fitting with the genre using a font found on dafont.com. The top line is in italics so it looks like its in keeping with the fancy red carpet. The date, price and "Magazine" are all in an easy read font as they do not add to the magazine but are important for it to have.


• Finally, the image: Nothing was done to change the image as I thought it worked fine on its own. Part of the rose was cut off and coppied using Photoshop so it overlapped the title and was hence made part of the magazine. This is done in many other magazines I researched. The image is not a conventional image for a magazine as it does not engage the audience by using a person's face to connect with them using eye contact but I wanted the gun to be the main draw point and the colour red in the clothes to attract attention and interest.

Magazine Cover Start

These are two of the photographs taken to be used as the main image on the magazine front cover. I chose to use the bottom one because the orientation fit a magazine cover without having to crop out parts of it, also because I liked the diagonal formation of the rose and the gun which would look attractive to a potential buyer and give me much space to put additional magazine information such as cover lines and features.

Final Trailer and Feedback

This is the final film trailer. I took the advice from my feedback and got rid of the voiceover which wasn't very easy to understand and replaced it with writing. I then put it on facebook for a final time and the comments were much more possitive. The people who had watched it with the voiceover all said that this version without it is much better and much more interesting as the writing makes you want to find out about the film. They also all said they would want to watch the movie. Here are some of the comments:

Public Feedback From Trailer

I put my trailer on facebook to get a public opinion on it, some of the comments are shown below:

Only a few of the comments said that the narrators voice wasn't understandable but mainly they all agreed that the voices at the end were too quiet. I will take on all the feedback from both showings and edit my trailer accordingly.

My reason for choosing to put it on facebook was because my target audience of 18-25 year olds are mainly the ones to typically use facebook and look at things such as film trailers, its is possible to make a page for the film on there that people can like and visit to find out about the film. The social network site easily allows people to post things and it is really simple to comment on a post that I can gain feedbak for on all my products.

Below is the audience feedback for the final trailer (post above not working and wont let me attach picture to the appropriate post):

Class Feedback and Plan

I showed my trailer to the class and the feedback I got was mainly positive. The comments on what didn't work were that the title of the film in the credits need to be on screen for longer which is simple to change.

They also commented that the plot needs to be better explained and it was only understood after watching the trailer the second time. This could be considered good or bad because it would mean that an audience would be interested enough to watch the trailer again and perhaps the film but it would be better to have the plot understood initially so that there is not a lack of interest in the film because the plot is not clear.

I think one of the factors that makes the plot unclear and also another comment made about the trailer is that the narrater at the beginning does not speak clear enough so it can not be heard what he is saying concerning the plot.

To solve this problem I am going to try two different things and see which one is most effective. I could re-record the narration and maybe even use a different person to try and make it clearer and then through doing that I could also change the scripting so the plot is simply understood. Another option I am going to try is using words on a screen to describe the plot in a direct and easy way. I'm hoping that by doing this it will also help the audience know the genre of the film as they said it looked like an action film rather than a dark fantasy. Without special effects I am relying on the plot to carry the idea of the genre.

The positive comments were about the music and how it fits well with the action of the trailer and the feel of the trailer, also that the imagery was very intriguing and would make an audience want to watch it which is a very good thing as that is the purpose of a teaser trailer.

Trailer With Credits