37b. Final Products

These are my final produtcts.

Short Film:

Poster:

Magazine Review double page spread:

37a. Roles and Reponsibilies within filming

My Roles:

• Organised Locations
•  Chief Editor
• Sound 
• Played a major role within the Camera Work
• Made my own Magazine and Poster

Fiona Aldwins Roles:

• Organised Actors
• Co-Editer
•  Played a major roles within the Camera Work
• Costumes 
• Made her own magazine and poster

Ben Howard's Roles:

• Acting
• Contributed to Camera Work
• Runner
• Made his own poster and magazine

Rosie-Mae Christopher's Roles:

• Contributed to camera work 
• Contributed to editing
• Made her own poster and magazine

36. Alterations to film review according to feedback

This is the first draft of my film review article:

 

This is the final draft of my film review article

 

Using my feedback, I have adapted my magazine review article to appeal more to my target audience. To do this, I have added a stand out quote in large blue letters. This breaks up the text and adds more colour into the article.

 

I also added a 'Look Closer' section over the corner of the photograph. This contains 3 facts about the film that the audience may not know. This is a convention of an Empire magazine article which I have based my magazine review on.

 

The last thing I have changed, is adding in a caption to the photo in the corner, this is always used in empire magazine articles and makes the review look more realistic and as if it would be featured in a magazine.

35. Film Magazine Article and Feedback

This is the first draft of my film magazine:

I handed out a questionnaire to 20 members of my target audiences and made this slideshare of their feedback

34. Write up of Film Review

Here is the article that I wrote to put into my film review:

After the tragic death of his father, Josh, who is normally a model student, finds himself lost and feeling abandoned. While standing alone at school one day, a group of seemingly friendly and helpful boys call him over and offer to be his friend. Josh soon finds that these boys are not as friendly as he had hoped.

Instantly drawing in the audience, Dead End shows a truly gripping and emotional tale of a young teenage boy, feeling lost after a family tragedy. Josh – played by upcoming British talent Ben Howard, is struggling to figure out what to do with his life after the loss of his father. He meets a gang of boys who seem friendly, but he soon starts to feel peer pressured into doing things he does not feel comfortable with. So should he just do what they tell him just for the comfort of having a friend?

The Writer, Fiona Aldwin, worked closely with Director Mollie Bugg, to produce a realistic Drama that draws on the emotions of the audience, leaving them with an emotional connection to the protagonist. Dead End is the newest in a whole line of Drama films that have been released recently, such as Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and 12 Years A Slave (2013). The film also features a supporting role by Fiona Aldwin – who plays Josh’s love interest Amy. She is able to capture the sweetness and innocence of the character and could be argued to be the hero of the whole film.

The many close ups and montages used within the film create convicting relationship’s with the short 5 minute film and show the deep conflict that Josh Miller has to go through. The audience is truly connected with the characters. The different music played over the scenes and montages add drama to the story and show the different emotions that Josh is going through with his grief. The happy ending leave the audience wanting to know more about how the relationship of Josh and Amy has turned out, but leaves them feeling content that Josh has came to the realization of who his real friends are.

MOLLIE BUGG

33. Conventions of an Empire Magazine Article

  In order to understand the conventions of a double page spread film review article, I looked at the Janurary 2013 issue of Empire magazine. I specifically looked at this review of the Jack Reacher film that had newly been released when the issue was published. I looked at this article as it was similar to the article I would be writing as it is a double page spead. Below is a photo of the whole article. The article features a large photo of the main actor from one of the big action films within the scene. Thgis gives an idea to the reader of the article tha the film is an action film. This is bedause the main character is dressed in black and holding a gun. The ddark background colours also connote ideas of the film being violence related.

The headline of the article is normally the title of the film, this is in a black and bold font that stands out and is easy to read. Below that is the subtitle, this is sometimes a short sentance that the critic has said about the film, such as "small but perfectly formed", or the logline of the film. The subtitle is in a smaller font tha the title is is not bold howbere it is still bigger than the main body of the article.

At the end of the article there is a verdict section.This rounds op the critics overall thoughts about the film and gives it a star rating out of 5. This fond is bold and stands out against the main body of text.

Underneath the subtitle there is basic information about the film, this includes the release date, the certificate, the director, the cast, the running time and a quick summed up version of the plot.

There is normally a 'Look Closer' section placed voper the main photograph. This section gives 2 or 3 facts that the reader may not know about the film but may be interested in. These are usually usual facts that only apply to that specific film.

32. Research into Film Magazines

Sight and Sound Magazine

Sight and sound magazine is a british monthly film magazine ran by the British Film Institution.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine

It is more formal and sophisticated compared to other popular film magazines such as Empire. Below I have inserted photos of pages from the magazine. They use a combination of words and photos in a 'clean cut' style.

This is an independent film magazine and tends to feature mainly art house films and attract a higher demographic audience.

Empire Magazine

Empire is a British monthly film magazine which is less formal than Sight and Sound and mainly read by males. This could be because of the types of film that are featured on their cover which are mainly superhero and action films which stereotypically attract males.

Along with my research, I also found this slideshare which shows more of the conventions of film magazines.

Codes and conventions of film magazines from KirstyW94

As the film my group have made is aimed at mainly teenagers, I think it would be best to base my magazine on an Empire magazine article as these readers typically have a lower demographic such as group E -students.