Magazine Front Cover (final stage)

This is my finished magazine front cover. I changed the brick wall to a much darker tone to blend in with the top black box and look more harsher and tougher.

Magazine Front Cover (stage six)

I have now added back my smaller images. As well as that I added white boxe around the famous movie character pictures to make them look more like photos taken, which gives quite a good effect. For the background of the feature article photograph I added a brick wall to make the setting appear more tougher and make it look like it was in a garage like setting, along with the punchbag. I added a transparent white box around the movie strip to seperate the plugs from the main photo subtely.

Magazine Front Cover (stage five)

As you can see, I have now uploaded the picture of Chris after cutting the background of the room the picture was taken in. Some images are gone, only because they were being changed at the time I saved this progress picture. I have put a black box at the top of the page to bring out the title more, and with this I had to change the "greatest film characters" to a white font for the reader to be able to see it. As well as adding the feature article photograph, I have added a "Cl" in rockwell font to the "Everlast" to make "cleverlast". I had to select the colour of the actual writing on the punch bag then choose it for my text. Once this was done I had to resize it to fit with it.

Magazine Front Cover (stage four)

I have added more pictures from google images onto the page. Firstly I added the bar code at the bottom to make it look more authentic. I then added the movie frames into the film reel, I thought this was quite a clever and appropriate thing to do for a film magazine. Above this I have "Films of the month". I did this in a blue and black shadowed font of times new roman. I experimented with different fonts but liked this one the most. Below it I have the film names in a blue bold rockwell font. I chose the films because they are out in the cinema at the moment, therefore might be on a films of the month section. At the top I chose to have "50 greatest film characters" along with pictures of famous well known actors in such roles as the "taxi driver".

Survey

To find out what my target audience look for in a comedy film I asked 22 12 to 18 years olds to answer my survey.




The survey was:





1. Do you prefer a comedy film that is character lead or story lead?

2. Do you expect to see more action in a trailer or more of an indication of the story?

3. Would you like to see a romantic interest in the film?

4. What genre of music would you like to see in the trailer?
Pop/Chart / Rock / Hip Hip/RnB / Dance / Classic / Other(please state)

5. How serious and realistic do you want the films story to be?

6. How serious and realistic do you want the characters goal to be?

7. What kind of goals would they be?

8. What sort of personality would you want the main character to have?

9. What is your favorite comedy film?

10. What film title do you prefer from the following?

Cleverlast The Transformation The Clever One

11. How would a trailer get you interested in a film? (Can tick more than one box)

Gives away a small amount the plot of the film
Contains a high amount of action
Contains your favorite actors and stars from the film
The film company or well known director who made the film
Instantaneous gratification (e.g a horror movie makes you jump)
The music used
Other (please specify)

12. Do you find the dialogue in a trailer funnier than the physical happenings, such as someone getting kicked in the groin?

13. Does the setting of a film influence the films you would view? If so how positively or negatively. If not why do you feel its not important?

14. When you watch a comedy film what sorts of characteristics would you like to see in the main characters personality?









My results were:









1. Exactly 50 percent for both answers. This shows that the trailer can either focus on the character or story.







2. A majority of people actually said they would rather see action. Indicating that physical comedy is more important in advertising a film than shwoing its plot







3. Again the majority answered no indicating that romance is not an important role in a comedy film, judging from my audience sample.







4. Everyone that answered said that they would like pop/chart. This shows that the audience has more mainstream tastes, suggesting my trailer should follow mainstream comedy conventions







5 and 6. Everybody except one person stated they would like the goals to have hardly any seriousness at all. As well as this, everybody said that they would prefer the story to also have less seriousness, showing that in order for my film to be a success, I need to have a daft plotline.

7. This rquestion had many differernt answers. These were ideas such as finding a lost person/people,

Magazine Front Cover (stage three)

I have added the magazine details below the masthead. The price is in a red box, with a shadow effect. The white text inside it is Tahoma. The film4u.com is also in tahoma bold. I chose this font because its quite simple and easy to read. At the bottom of the page I added in a grey box with a "plus" then a selection of actors names. The "plus" has been given an outer glow, only because I thought it looked more interesting and makes the word stand out. The box itself has a shadow effect around it.

Magazine Images

For my magazine I captured two images, both set in Chris' garage involving him and the punch bag.

This is the first image I took. It invloves Chris punching the boxing bag. The picture shows the name "Everlast" which can easily be changed to "Cleverlast" using photoshop. His facial expression shows him smiling in quite a proud way and suggests that he is proud of himself for being tough and training with the punch bag.

This is the second image I took. I shows a proud Chris standing in front of the punching bag. I prefer it because unlike the first picture, he is the main object of the shot, being the biggest and appearing in the middle. The position of the "Everlast" logo will allow me to add a "Cl" to make it cleverlast.