mAGAzINe cOVer tAKE 2

This is our completed magazine front cover, of which features our film "Marmaldy". After receiving useful feedback from our teacher, we decided to add additional alterations and sub headings on the sides advertising other topics that will be covered in the magazines contents in order to address different readers preferences. The use of the cost of the magazine alongside the bar code in white font  is effective as it brings the realism to a magazine, however we also kept it a small font so that the price is not the advertised aspect of the magazine as it isn't very cheap we want our audience to immediately focus on what we are featuring. 

We additionally added a brief quote spoken by the protagonist herself to the right of her. "Growing up is just finding out who you are and what you want" this complies and conforms to many coming of age dramas, also appealing to a younger audience through the audiences empathy to the character and quote, as it touches on the themes of growing up. Additionally suggesting that this may be what our protagonist is thinking in this very image as she looks into the distance. Social issues and being in touch with your feelings are very prominent representations in coming of age movies. 

Editing Process Part 2

Editing Process Part 1 - Behind The Scenes

Here is just a brief clip of Luiza Paulielo getting stuck into editing our trailer. Throughout this process we used the software "Adobe Premier Pro CC 2015" of which I have developed my skills in throughout the years, self taught through online YouTube tutorials. This was a slight struggle for us when it came to asking our Teacher for help as he had been working with another Adobe pack. However we managed to pull through with the help of YouTube videos, and sitting down with my partner Luiza discussing ideas, and Learning new techniques.

Magazine Cover - Take 1 + Analysis

Here we have our first attempt on a magazine cover to promote the movie. We found a peculiar name to use as the magazine brand, using "Vivienne" makes the magazine sound like a generic fashion, media or arts magazine. We found a sleek font that would fit to the style of a magazine. We didn't want to go with the stereotypical magazine name and look, as we wanted to show that this movie was a big thing and open to a large audience. 

Firstly, I took a photograph off of my Instagram that I had previously taken of the protagonist, which we then formatted into a magazine cover size. Once applying the Title "Vivienne" over the top,we decided to apply a slogan/ subheading which added to the cover. "The very best in culture and the arts" suggests that this is of a magazine brand that specialises in all things art and media. Applying the small details such as "issue 27" and the date of "January 27" conformed to that of a magazine cover, additionally making it seem more professional. 

The main priority of the cover was to get the message across of promotion, we intended to "promote" the new movie to an audience, by having "Luiza Paulielo IS Marmalady" is engaging and hits the audience, its short and snappy, yet says a lot. To add the style of an "arts" magazine and also the youth in the character,i applied layers of paint brush strokes beneath "Luiza Paulielo" also creating a cleaner look. 

I decided to stick with a specific colour scheme in attempt to increase its professional appearance, and to suit the character herself, and the magazine layout. We went for a simple approach on magazine cover writing by just adding a brief look into whats to come inside the mag. By using different colours on both "Exclusive" and "Eleanor" it creates emphasis and also pin-points the importance of the writing.

To improve, we would add additional writing on the front of the cover, for example, we could add a promotion and add to another feature length film beneath the brief writing we already have. This would conform more to the magazine cover, as of now it is mainly focused on "Marmalady" itself.

Marmalady storyboard

Influences to our Work

"The Text Scene"

The text scene was influenced through several teen movies, however none specifically. We thought out that by adding the animation of iMessage bubbles, typing, and receiving and delivered notifaction sounds, it would make the trailer look to a higher standard than just showing the typing footage. We took away the sound filmed through the camera as it was of a poor quality. and replaced this with the iPhone typing sound that we downloaded from Youtube, and additonally the text receive and deliver sound. We created the iMessage bubbles through Paint.Net by downloading the speech bubbles from Google images, and applying a layer of text over it.

"The Payed for Boyfriend"

The typical "Paying the popular guy to date your bestfriend" was influenced through several chick flicks such as "She's all That" in which the Jock was forced into a bet to get to nerdy girl to Homecoming, whereas we altered this to make it so the protagonist's bestfriend was the one who reinforced the idea of dating her, whilst being payed. This underlays with several coming of age movies where the protagonist and the bestfriend get into a fight due to the involvement with a cute boy.

Research and Planning Feedback

Well done - some impressive analysis and planning.  Make sure the stroyboard is provided as an animatic and provide your own responses to evidence such as your recording of your session guitarist - what motivation and brief did you provide?