Magazine Front Cover First Draft

This is the first draft of my magazine cover. I will experimented with a gradient, similar to my poster, although needing to adjust it in order for it to appear professional. I also need to refine the colour scheme so that it complements the outfit I had the actress wear for the photoshoot but still causes it to stand out. I  had Nicole wear this as it is similar to the outfits she has during the trailer and therefore develops continuity. Moreover, Nicole has a happy expression on her face, which will appeal to my target audience as they will find her to be a charming character. Again, the primary manipulation of this photograph is the use of lasso tool to cut Nicole out of the original background and onto the artificial one. This allowed me to integrate the title of the magazine and the photograph. When I improve this I will insert text to introduce the actress and subject of the interview with her, including a large masthead at the middle-bottom of the page.

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Today I conducted the shoot for my magazine front cover with my main actress Nicole, making sure that in all the photographs she was smiling or had a happy expression on her face. I also directed Nicole so that she had one arm in the air, for when I am manipulating the front cover and need the photograph to take up enough room in comparison to text.

Audience Feedback on Trailer

  I have uploaded the first draft of my trailer to YouTube in order to obtain feedback. Improvements I have been given are to increase the volume of the diegetic sound, which I can easily and quickly do in iMovie; giving the production companies less screen time in order to add some more scenes without the trailer dragging; possibly change the colour of the intertitles to make them more interesting. I am going to pursue all of these ideas as I feel that they will all make my trailer more engaging. My trailer was also commended, however, for the music flowing well; the storyline being clear due to the voiceover; the genre being obvious, the latter of which was one of my main goals during production. I have also gathered to export my trailer from iMovie in higher quality as on YouTube some of the darker scenes appeared grainy.

Trailer First Draft

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Today I used iMovie to put together the first draft of my trailer. The most challenging part was inserting the voiceover, which I concluded to do by using the audio only tool. I then had to experiment with the volume in order to get a balance between the diegetic and non diegetic sound, as I encountered the problem of the characters' dialogue being drowned out by the music. As I have two music transitions in my trailer I had to make sure the volume decreased towards the end of one piece, the next increasing, so that it would flow well but also change the mood for the audience. I then added intertitles, which were relatively easy as there are already presets on iMovie that I could use, I decided upon a minimalist fade in and fade out transition as my film trailer is socially realistic, therefore has no need for special effects. I may change the colour of the text, but will keep the black background so that it is not too over the top.