Q2 How effective the combination of your main and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Q1 - In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Practice Shot

Final Magazine

Comment

This is the final version of our magazine. We produced this magazine on a program called Pages. This magazine is done in a serious form which is similar to 'Sight & Sound.' In our review we concentrate on giving our readers an analysis of our movie - we give special attention to the serious themes of immigration but we also mention the romantic and comedy elements present in Adam's Apples. We included a box which contains an interview with one of the directors of our movie - this seemed like a good idea as it gives the audience an inside look into the background of the movie. Additionally there is a box which lists all the movies that are similar to Adam's Apples and which the audience might enjoy watching. The layout that we adopted is quite simple and the page is not clogged up which makes the page easy to take it in. The red colour scheme keeps in line with the romantic themes in our film. The pictures show iconic images from the film which the reader should remember after watching our film. A final touch is given by the background image of the White eagle which is the coat of arms of Poland.

Film Poster

This is our final film poster; we done edited this all on Photoshop CS4. First of we had to take a picture of our main character and upload it to the computer. We used the lasso tool to cut around the image and take away the background so we were only left with main character. This was very long to do, however it was worth doing and we done it very well. The apple image we used was an image that we got from the Internet, we again used the lasso tool to cut round it which was much easier this time as the background was white. To give the apples a rain effect I had to make multiple copies which was very long as new layers had to made every time and when I wanted to find a specific apple to move, it was difficult because there was so many. The text was very easy to do, as Photoshop uses similar tools to other programmes, although it was simple the text looked very professional. 

Magazine Draft 2

Comment

We decided that in terms of writing we would rather follow the style of 'Sight & Sound' than magazines such as 'Total Film' and 'Empire'.  The layout of this draft has more things on it then the previous one and we believe this is the right path to follow as it leads to our magazine possessing more quality content.

Magazine Draft 1

Comment

This is our initial design layout of our magazine. When we made our draft we made sure that we had all the key parts of a magazine review included; Section Title, Pictures, Headline, Strapline, Subheading, Intro, Breakout Paragraph, Byline, Columns, Call to Action and Graphics. We will try to write in a way that engages a viewer that doesn't necessarily have to be a movie buff - thus we will not use technical language that would be incomprehensible to a normal reader.