When doing this coursework I was always aware that I had to make all 3 of my tasks work together in a holistic manner. So in essence my teaser trailer, and both ancillary tasks had to link together into a collective whole. After completing my work I feel that I have accomplished this goal very well. To the point where If I presented my work to my intended target audience they would find it easy to identify that all 3 pieces of my work are connected and are all part of the same product.
Firstly, one of the key things needed to make everything connect was choosing an appropriate colour scheme that could work with all of my tasks. I decided to use red, black, and white. The importance of these colours is that in particular red is synonymous with blood and therefore the horror genre. And also used black because when I used super imposes in my trailer a black background added a haunting atmosphere. These colours also worked with my teaser poster and magazine front cover. I used a black background in both because I did research and discovered that most horror trailers used this, and for my front cover it helped to keep everything muted, but at the same time very intimidating. In addition to this for my magazine front cover I planned carefully which places I would use each colour. I wanted red at the top and at the very bottom. So that the black and red would combine and strike the audience. I then wanted little bits of white, for important information like what celebrities would be included and information on articles. As without the white, i thought that the red and black would almost to be overbearing. For my teaser poster I also planned the layout thoroughly. The things that I covered from the magazine front cover was the red colour for my font. I also tried to make the fonts quite similar so that I looked like it belonged among the same promotional package.
I also added conventions in all 3 tasks in order to enable them to connect. One of the best examples of this was the fact that in my magazine front cover was a advertisement for my teaser poster which was on the bottom left. I got the idea from this by researching existing magazines like empire. Moreover the layout of the teaser poster and magazine front cover mirror each other. For example at the bottom of the posters there the font sizes of the text are similar. Once more the pictures I used are also reflective of each other. When I was planning this out I made sure that I took a variety of different pictures for example long shots and medium shots. But I thought the close up shots worked best, and so I made sure I used them in both ancillary tasks.
In terms of my film trailer and its mise en scene contained lots of flicker shots which blurred and distorted the image, in particular of the films main villain, the creeper. So therefore for my teaset poster I had to try and find a clever way to reflect this. So I chose to a graphite effect onto the poster, so that when applied the audience could barely see the fact of the villain, but at the same time after seeing the trailer, they would identify the fact that they were all from the same product, and thus were all working holistically. In all 3 tasks our villain also wore the same item of clothing, although it was difficult to see this in the teaser poster, but in the magazine front clever, it was easy to identify.
In conclusion I feel that I have achieved my adjective in making my tasks work in unison and that they are all holistic. However there are numerous places in which if I did the task again I could improve on. I do feel that the connection between the magazine front cover and the teaser poster could be improved slightly. For example I could of added a bit more effects onto the front cover to match the graphite effect I applied on the teaser poster. However it could of potentially of been to distracting so I probably made the right decision not to do so. Another thing I could of improved on was possible adding more characters into the actual trailer, maybe 1 or to more. This is because I made reference to them in my teaser poster, and so potentially my target audience would of been surprised to see so little characters in the trailer when in the poster there’s around 5 characters I made reference to.
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