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This is my second draft of my film poster, and I think the most effective of the two.  I agree with the feedback which I received and I believe that this works better.  I used a landscape poster as I felt that it fit the image better as I wanted to use the empty space to make the image more mysterious.  I followed many conventions with my poster, I used the actors names at the tops and created a selling point - as it would be a new film - of the director who many would know.  I used a simple tagline and release date as well.  Overall I am happy with my poster as I think it is effective as it is simple but eery.  The main parts which I am happy with are the title, and the eye in the image.  The title I edited the transparency and gradient so that you could see through to the texture of the wall behing it and so that the colour changed at the bottom.  I liked this as I think it looks like green smoke and makes the title more interesting however it could make it harder to read the title which could be an issue.  The eye I think is very effective as in the original image his eye was black and the poster lacked focus overall, I decided to put the killer's mask as the eye ball as it makes it much more interesting as from first glance it looks like the eye but on closer inspection you can see what it is.  Overall I am very pleased with my film poster as I think it looks professional and from my audience feedback it is clear that they agree.

This is my final draft of my magazine although I have had many different drafts trying out different compositions and ideas.  Overall I think that I have followed most of the usual conventions used for a film magazine so that it appears professional and effective.  I used an already established film magazine of 'Total Film' and then used many of the other conventions which I found in my research.

 

 

This was my first draft of my film poster, however after I got some audience feedback my target audience felt the composition wasn't effective. To appeal further to my audience and to take into account their feedback I changed the composition moving the image to the left and using the dark space which was created for the billing block and the release date.