Question 1

 Film poster

There are many conventions we’ve implemented within our film poster, and I believe this has increased the professionalism of our poster. Piecing our poster together had great difficulty because of the position I was in when posing for each image, therefore we needed a quick solution to overcome this issue. Luckily as stated previous Becka and I both take A-level Photography and therefore overcome this with our technical skills of the programme.

Having reviewed real media posters I understand that the thriller genres use low key lighting to give off and reinforce the mystery of the following film being promoted. We enhanced our image using Photoshop by changing the levels and hue/saturation, this instantly improved our image and overall look because it made the lighting look more low-key promoting our thriller genre.

Unfortunately I didn’t wear the same outfit that I’d worn within our film so we alternated to wearing a black vest top that was barely visible, this was an valuable decision because if I was wearing completely different clothing (such as a different jumper) this wouldn’t show the consistency in our media products.

We had to quickly change our poster due to audience feedback claiming that it was too large, it had shown that we didn’t properly think of the posters we’d previously reviewed because the billing block is always very small. The quick change became problematic because we’d previously ‘flattened’ our image therefore in order to correct it I had to restart the entire poster. This was beneficial because now our media poster was much better and had actually stuck to the conventions of a real life poster product. The smaller billing block paired with a shadowed effect over the image created an overall more effective piece.

We stuck to the conventional appearance of a thriller film by having the victim low to the floor and peering up to the antagonist, the direct eye contact engages the audience into the model and creates a focal point. The effect of this created a more beneficial product as it presents the victim looking vulnerable.