Sunday, 29 April 2012

Directors Chair Interview Q2: 'How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts'?




‘Overall, we had gained a lot of good feedback on each of our media products and also on the media package itself. All of the products seemed to convey the genre of the film well and each created a very atmospheric feeling towards the audience. Although, the majority of the feedback we had gained was affirmative there was some constructive criticisms such as the poster and magazine cover including two different characters as its centrepiece. This aroused some confusion as to who the main protagonist was due to the lack of continuity between our poster and magazine cover. Another minor fault with our poster was the fact that it had the names of actors that were not present in the trailer such as Tom Cruise and Jessica Alba. This is obviously unrealistic but is easily corrected so it wasn’t much of a problem.
 
Our teaser trailer had received a lot of good comments as it clearly informed the audience of the genre and created a lot suspense and tension. The red title shot at the end of the trailer was good as it was bold, eye-catching and helped to convey some of the themes of our product such as blood, danger and death. One criticism was with the unrealistic gunshot which I had created using a program called ‘Paintbrush’. I had originally aimed to create the gun shot effect using a website called ‘Footage Crate’ but was unable to do so due to limited accesses'.


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