EVALUATION QUESTION 1: (PART 3 - POSTER)

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

On my poster, using PhotoShop, I put together three different images I took from my photo shoot, this is because Jakiya was playing two of the characters who are twins therefore I had to take separate pictures. I also took a few separate pictures of Nafisah (playing Tessa) by herself holding a knife covered in blood. In the end, I decided to get a picture of Tessa by herself and Mac and Wyatt by them self and by using Magic Magnet on PhotoShop, cutting around them and putting them together to look like one whole image, having Tessa in the middle and the boys on either side, so the poster immediately shows that in the film she's had to choose between them, or that the boys have had a fight and she's stuck in the middle.  This allows the audience wonder what has happened and why Tessa is holding a knife. The main influence for the poster to have Tessa in the middle and the boys on either side was from Star Trek, where there are two characters on each side of Chris Pine, who is in the middle to show clearly that he is the leader.

The image is placed at the top, taking up 3/4 of the page, this is because I think the image is the most important thing on a poster, whether it is just one single object or a group of people. If the image is effective and engaging, and grabs the audiences attention then the audience is more likely to be interested and will want to watch it.On my poster, in the billing blocks I added the cast names, such as the actors, the director, producer, executive producer and editor. The release date is placed at the bottom, but is in a bigger font than the billing block so that it stands out. Next to the release date is the company what is distributing it; Dolby Digital. This is a well known company that have produced many successful films such as Batman Returns which was the first movie to used Dolby Digital technologies. The title of the short film is placed underneath the image. I used to different fonts, the word Wedding is in a font which looks elegant whereas the word secret is in block capitals to emphasis that the secret is the important thing in the film. I got this idea from other real wedding movie posters, such as 'A Christmas Wedding Date', 'The Big Wedding' and 'Our Family Wedding'. In all these posters at least one word is an elegant font and the rest is normal font.