The document provides details about drafts created for a magazine front cover and poster at the beginning of a project. It includes images of two initial drafts - a magazine front cover draft and a poster draft. The front cover draft is described as having changed throughout the entire project.

1. Drafts of magazine front cover and
poster
2 drafts which were my
first ideas at the
beginning of the
project, the front cover
had changed throughout
the entire project.
Front cover draft Poster draft

2. Magazine front cover
• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
.
My magazine Official Empire magazine
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3. • The empire magazine uses a blue glow with digital tiles in the background which symbolise
a 3D digital world from 80’s pop culture. where as mine is blood red and looks similar to
the flesh being ripped apart from a body in the bottom corners and blood pouring down
the page.
• Sticking to its horror genre, adding an eerie lighting effect above the title as if it were a
spotlight in the middle of a cloudy street as I used a cloud effect to create more of an
atmosphere that having it pitch black. The use of “Taivia, The Greek God of Film.” the word
“Film” in Greek language is “Taivia” and adding “Greek God” into the tagline as Greek Gods
are believed to be powerful and feared, I also chose it as a parody of the title “Empire”.
• The use of white font in the title of the film makes it stand out from existing text on the
cover where as the white font is stencil to make it look military related. Compared to the
Empire magazine, Tron Legacy is in the colour of blue and white as it.
• The yellow cross symbolises a plug as it is acknowledging that there are is more
information in the magazine about different topics, similar to that of the Empire magazine
cover which also uses a cross.

4. Comparison to existing posters
My poster Dawn of the Dead
(1978) poster
28 Days Later poster

5. • The font used on mine and existing posters is bold and easily stands out from the rest of
the poster as the other colours are faded into the background to make the images used
seem blended in with one another, such as the use of the sunrise on the Dawn of the Dead
being a zombie head, 28 Days Later having infected eyes, I was influenced by using a CD to
reflect that of a zombie, flesh wounds and different shade originally used for the eyes.
• As for the hand, I was influenced by the Left 4 Dead cover art as it uses a zombie
hand, making it easy to distinguish as a horror. Similar to the hand used, I thought it would
be more effective having a CD with a reflection, using adobe Photoshop, I took ideas from
the two existing posters and the Left 4 Dead cover to create something new.
• The use of a tagline to summarise a subplot as Dawn of the Dead
uses ”when there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth”
and 28 Days Later using “Your days are numbered”. I used “Dying is stage
one. reanimation is stage two” as it shows the course of zombification,
I used the same font used for the title as it resembles the military,
believing that the zombie outbreak is a military experiment.

6. Main product and ancillary task
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary
texts?
My front cover My poster

7. • As my main task was to create a movie teaser trailer, that was my main objective throughout the course
of our project, having plenty of ideas for my magazine and front cover from the start, I changed the plot
drastically, the zombie horror genre stuck as it was the easiest to do.
• The combination of my teaser trailer and my magazine cover/poster is very effective, as I have used the
same basic formula that existing products, Dawn of the Dead uses the zombie as the sunrise, the zombie
is also featured in the film, where as mine, the teaser trailer features me fighting a zombie at the very
end and the very same zombie is shown on both the poster and magazine cover
• I keep a consistent house style throughout all three tasks which distinguishes them from other projects
and they can easily be linked together with the same font used on each task, using the Stencil font as the
title.
• The images that we took on set that show that there are a range of scenes used, although, the magazine
cover is clouded to create a much more haunting setting instead of a carpark which isn’t the least scary.
• There are a range of characters throughout the teaser trailer, magazine cover and poster, this shows that
there is more than one plot, subplots from each survivor and zombies as in the teaser, there are
dialogue that states “three ordinary students with no skillset retake Britain” showing that they come
from similar backgrounds but shown from their appearance, you can tell they have different backstories.
• Seen in all the tasks, the characters used are young adolescence, this can distinguish the target audience
as teenagers and above. Most horror films that include zombies are that of a 18+ rating, where as the
actors are younger and less gore or harsh language can be used in my teaser trailer

8. • What have you learned from your audience feedback?
We asked 10 people about our teaser trailer, magazine cover and poster, the feedback was very
useful.
1.Was the teaser trailer enjoyable and teasing to watch?
9 out of 10 people enjoyed the teaser trailer, 1 person did not. This could be as they have
different taste from the other 9.
2.Is there a clear genre represented within the teaser trailer?
Everyone understood the genre of that it was a action horror, which was helpful as I was
sceptical that people would not acknowledge the zombie in the final scene and take more
interest in the beginning news room scene and map scene.
3.Was the dialogue clearly heard?
Most of the answers we got were that the dialogue was very clear, although on scene had quite
fast dialogue and people were confused that the word “Town” was “Time”
4.Did the audio match appropriately to the video?
The answers we got were that the audio matched the teaser appropriately, in the action scene
the music faded in and was at an action pace.
5.Please can you suggest any areas of improvement?
People said they were confused with the green screen as they don’t understand why it was
green and thought it was an error, some had difficulty reading the titles as they weren’t on the
screen for long, a wider range of sound effects could have been used throughout but as there
aren’t that many, it’s quite abnormal.

9. • How did you use media technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation stages?
• I read and watched existing movie trailers via Youtube .com and short fan made stories via
Reddit.com as research for the plot of the teaser trailer, I was heavily influenced by Dawn
of the Dead(1978) as the survivors are on the run from the undead and use a shopping mall
as a base.
• Throughout the planning, I drew many storyboards and rewrote a few plot synopsis’ as the
ideas I had were a mixture between thrillers and horrors, I was influenced by 28 days later
as near the end of the film, a character goes on a rampage and kills some military
personnel, which influenced one of my plot synopsis.
• I had some experience with Photoshop beforehand so it was easy to create the basic
effects used in both the magazine cover and poster, the use of blood splatter in the poster
with a glow plus noise added to make it look like infected blood.
• I used the website Bubbl.us to explain genre research, the codes and conventions of
different genres of films. I also used PowerPoint to create my magazine analysis and the
website Sideshare .net to embed the powerpoint onto my Blog. Microsoft Word played a
big part in the analysis of trailers and production schedule as I use of tables for the
different scenes.