Evaluation: Question 1

In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 


TRAILER

For this evaluation question I created iMovie clips and uploaded them via YouTube to show more clearly the comparisons and differences between my trailer Yours, Always and three other trailers. 

• This is the first trailer I will be evaluating in terms of comparisons and differences with my trailer. This is the trailer for the film The Lucky One.

• This clip I made shows how The Lucky One and Yours, Always share the same theme of main characters falling in love, this shows a conventional theme of a romance genre.

• In this clip I have shown how I have developed The Lucky One and Yours, Always certain links they have in their storylines, creating more meaning in the character's relationships. However The Lucky One's link is a picture of the girl as he feels she saved his life in the war, yet in Yours, Always the necklace James gives to Serena gives him inspiration to go after her. 

• This clip shows how I have challenged certain aspects of The Lucky One's trailer in Yours, Always as the storyline is different in terms of the family issues and war scenes in The Lucky One, and in Yours, Always the dad of Serena doesn't allow her and James to be together, this is a very traditional romance storyline where as The Lucky One is more contemporary.

• This is the trailer for the film Love and Other Drugs. I will be analysing this with the similarities and differences between both this trailer and Yours, Always.

• In this clip I made on iMovie I have show the scenes in which my trailer use, develop and challenge different element from the trailer Love and Other Drugs.
• Both trailers have a contemporary setting in built up and city areas, we found this would be more suitable for our trailer's setting as this is our own environment meaning more access to city areas is available. When the male character goes after the girl in his car in Love and Other drugs, we see scenes of her looking out of the window at him, and in our trailer we also have elements of these scenes, also clips of the James in his car going after Serena.
• In the scenes where the male goes after the female in Love and Other Drugs, she is on a bus when she sees him, however in our trailer we developed these scenes as Serena is in her house when she sees him outside. 
• The way we challenged our trailer against Love and Other Drugs is the way our trailer is very conventional in terms of a classical romance genre storyline, yet Love and Other Drugs is contemporary in terms of their unconventional storyline.

• This is the trailer for the film The Notebook. I will analyse this in comparison to my trailer Yours, Always and discuss where I have used, developed and challenged certain things.

• This clip I made will shown the three elements of use, develop and challenge in the comparisons of the trailer for the film The Notebook.
• The similarities between both trailers are the use of the montage of clips showing the two main character relationship blossom and also the age of the characters are very similar.
• My trailer has developed the scenes of the girls parent not agreeing with her being with the boy as we have shown just the father warning off James from seeing Serena, we leave the audience in suspense as we see James going after Serena at the end of the trailer leaving them wondering what will her father say.
• My trailer challenged the aspect of the setting of The Notebook, as in that trailer a more scenic and rural environment is shown, with lakes and the country being the main element of this trailer. However as we are unable to access this type of setting we stuck to an urban environment which made ours trailer more contemporary.

MAGAZINE

• Here I have shown how I have used the small text at the top of the magazine, used the '10 Best' feature and used the positioning of the barcode.

• Here I have shown how I have developed the text of my masthead to fit with the genre of my magazine, also how I have developed the '10 Best' feature to fit in with my magazines' genre.

• Here I have shown how i have challenged the elements of the Premiere magazine. I have changed the colour scheme to fit in with my genre of my magazine and to appeal to its audience. Also I have changed the image of my main characters as this shows the audience what type of film is being advertised and by using this image they can easily tell it is a romance film being advertised. And finally the fonts and sizes have been changed to fit around the image and cover lines on my magazine and to be noticed by my audience.

POSTER

• Here I have shown how I have used the positioning of my two character on the poster the same way the characters are positioned on the other poster. Also I have used the professional text at the bottom of the poster showing all the information about the film, this makes my poster look very professional.

• Here I have shown how I have developed the positioning of the characters, and I how I have change it so the boy is holding onto the girl, as in my trailer it is the boy going after the girl who he loves. Also I've shown how I have developed the text at the bottom of the page to fit with the font with the rest of the text and also the romantic genre of the poster.

• Here I have shown how I have challenged the actor name at the top of the poster, I decided I want both of my actors names above the text at the bottom as this fills out the page more. Also I challenged the smaller image the other poster has as I thought that my one main image would be strong enough to advertise my film and show their relationship.