Friday 20 April 2018

Evaluation 2: combination of main products and ancillary texts

I had recorded a voice over for this evaluation, but the file corrupted last minute, so instead i am using the script that i read from when recording it.

For the three different texts i created, i tried to include multiple conventions of the psychological thriller genre, as well as stereotypes of the actual media products. I thought that if the synergy was used between the three texts, then they would be recognizable as all promoting the same film.
In all three pieces, the font 'Biro' was used. This suited our film as if it is used correctly, can come of as quite eerie, and the film is, to an extent, related to the the markers called sharpies, which is just another way that it can all link in together.

For my magazine cover, sharpie, the killer/kidnapper is the main aspect. It shows him with somewhat blurred images of himself covering parts of his body in a ghost like state, which adds to the overall effect of eeriness.

On my poster, the antagonist, sharpie, is once again the main focus. he has a blurred repeating effects around his head to show that there is mystery behind him, Who is he?, What are his motives? This is on top of a dark background, which connotes that he is inescapable.

In both texts, he is wearing the outfit he is seen wearing in the trailer, which is helpful as it is more synergy between the three pieces. The aim of this outfit was to reveal nothing about their identity, so use of multiple outfits may have also acted against this aim.

Throughout the three texts, the three protagonists are only seen in the trailer. this helps build up questions about where they are, and what happens to them. the fact that there is no reference to them in the poster or magazine cover could mean that something bad happens to them, or just that their fate may always be a mystery.

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Third and final draft of the trailer

Here is the third and final draft of our trailer for our psychological thriller, called 'Sharpie'