A Loser Like You: FINAL POSTER

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Silva and Antigona

Final Film Review

Antigona Saraci and Silva

DRAFT of A Loser Like You Poster

The Process of making our film review

http://prezi.com/vmbxejpmc_9q/the-making-of-our-film-review/

Questionnaires For My Film Review

I decided to conduct a research in order to see whether my magazine review would be popular with the target audience if it contains more images or writings. The questionnaire will also give a clear insight of what my target audience find attractive and what would make them intreseted in reading my review. So therefore i decided to ask which colours are favoured by the teenage generation as our target audience is 16- 25's. I decided to give out ten questionnaires out to seven students attending Canons high and three staff members who were under the ages of 25's. 

Rough Ideas for Film Reviews

I created two rough ideas of how my film review may look like, using my research as a template i decided that i would use two different techniques; one review containing more images than actual writing as this may help my review represent its genre. Secondly, in contrast i would use a layout which contains more writing and a dominating image in the centre of the spreadsheet.
The rough ideas would allow me to conduct a short questionnaire and give out my questionnaire to a fair amount of participants, this would enable me to find out whether the readers and audience would be more intrested in reading my review if it contained more pictures rather than writing.

Ideas for film poster

http://prezi.com/bamv0desompm/poster-ideas-for-a-loser-like-you/

Codes and Conventions

I have annotated both the short film and feature film poster and seen the difference between them in terms of their codes and conventions. I want to be able to find out why the feature film poster stands out more to the audience than a short film poster.
Analysis poster of The Proposal

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49098717/The-Proposal-Annotation

Codes and Conventions

- Title stands out to the audience
- The names of the actors always stand out and are mainly placed at the top of the poster. Their surnames are also coloured in a diffreent colour, especially if it is an A-list actor.
-The directors names are not always put emphasis on as much as the actors and are usually in a smaller font or not even in the front cover at all.
- The protagonist is always in the centre to attract the audiences attention
-Background usually tends to be white, especially if it is a comedy genre
- Release date of the film is usually at the bottom in bold letters in order to stand out to the audience, so they know when to watch it.
- Feature film posters have a colour scheme where they tend to use only two/three different colours as their theme. Example The Proposal's colour scheme is Red, Black and White only.
Analysis poster of A Short Film About Love

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49098608/Short-Film-Abhout-Love-Annotation 
Codes and conventions

- Due to short films low budget they usually tend to have their poster in just writing or include only a few number of people.
-The films title has is being put more emphasis than the actual protagonist. This is because short films dont tend to have famous, hollywood actors and therefore the acors they cast are not known to the audience and are therefore not important or attention-grabbing.
-They have the name of their website, where the film can be obtained from
- Finally they dont have a release date, unlike a feature film poster.

Furthermore due to the success of the feature film poster, I am going to edit my film poster in that particular style.

Silva

Film posters

These are the two film posters that I will show my target audience when conducting my research.



Feature film poster:

Short film poster:

Questionnaire into Film Posters

These questionnaires are some examples of what the target audience filled in. As a result the feature fil;m poster turned out to be a faviourite because of it's title being bold and eye-catching and it's A-list actors.

Research into Film Posters

To begin with I am going to do my secondary research where I will ask 10 people in canons sixth form within my age group (16-25) and 10 people from Edgware shopping centre also within my age group and show them two posters; one in the style of a short film and the other a feature film poster. I will give them a questionnaire to fill out in order to find out which one they like best. The type of poster they chose will be in the style of my poster, ‘A Looser Like You’.

I chose to conduct my research in Canons High Sixth Form because it includes students who can relate to Nabil’s situation and are the same age as him, therefore this type of audience will be able to understand the storyline better.

I also chose Edgware shopping centre because it includes a variety of different people who are between the ages of 16-25 and this has the advantage of making my results more valid because I have a wide range of people.

Then i will do my primary research where I will see the diffreent codes and conventions of both short film and feature film posters. I want to know why the poster chosen by the audience is more popular than the other. By researching the codes and conventions of the posters i will be able to adopt these ideas into my poster, making it look professional.

Silva