Confessions of a Sock-a-holic: Final Cut

Here is our final edit of our short film, 'Confessions of a sock-a-holic', starring Jacob Lucas and Duncan Rowe. Enjoy!

Magazine Review...Final Version

This our final magazine layout for the review. As you can see, we have made multiple changes to the layout from the previous draft in order to make it look authentic. These changes include:
-The layout colour has een changed from purple to white, because most magazines use a white background
-We have one main picture of Paul on the stairs, which is a turning point for the whole short film, so it is an important image to feature in the magazine
-The pictures of the rest of the cast have been included
-It has a border around the outside featuring the magazine name, the date, a website and page number.
-The actual review has been updated to make it appear and sound more professional
-The production company logo has been removed

Magazine Review...First Draft

This is our first draft of our magazine review. It includes a picture of the main character, Paul, a still from the short film and the production company logo. It also has a bold title, release date information and the article itself. However, after recieving feedback, we have decided to make several changes to that layout. This is because our own personal opinions mixed with the feedback of others concluded that the layout didn't look much like a magazine. This is because, to start with, magazine layouts seldom include a background any other colour than white, so this will be one of the changes we make. Another issue we picked up on was the images involved. The image of Jacob (Paul) includes him wearing an outfit than is not seen in the film, so this may confuse readers. The production company logo is also unneccessarily large and covers up part of the title, which will cause a reader, who does not already know the title, confusion. There is also little emphasis on the supporting characters, so this will be added in to the article.
Once these changes have been made a newer version will be uploaded.


-KW

How we are constructing our magazine review...

We are about to begin our contrustcion of our magazine review for our short film. We are planning on using the software 'Adobe Illustrator'. This is the best programme for us to use as it will allow us to use professinal layout and will give us more freedom in the design. We could use easier programmes such as Microsoft word which would save time, however we felt it better to use Illustrator as it looks more professional and is overall better quality.

 

 

 

 

-KW

Film Poster...Final Version

 

Here is our finished film poster. I quite like the poster for a number of reasons:

 

Strengths:

-It is fairly minimalistic as to avoid giving too much of the story away

-It follows the conventions of a typical film poster

-I feel like it is quite intriguing

-We shot the image ourselves

-It has relevance to the story

 

I do however believe that there are some improvements that could be made if we were to have more time to reproduce it.

 

 

Weaknesses:

-It could be more interesting/have more images

-More reviews could be put on to draw in more viewers

-There is no production company logo

 

 

-KW

Examples of magazine reviews...

 

Below are a few examples of real magazine reviews of films that have appeared in magazines such as Empire, which is dedicated to film. These reviews all follow the conventions of typical magazine review layouts, but they are all slightly different as to make them unique.

This magazine review is one done by A2 students. They have closely followed the typical layout and their outcome looks effective and realistic.

This is a magazine review layout which I could follow in the creation of my own magazine review of my short film.

-KW

What do I want from my poster?...

What I want from my film poster is what any film company/creator would want. I want my poster to act as advertisement for my short film. Other than the obvious, I also want my film poster to intrigue and attract my target audience and maybe a wider market to want to watch the final film. I feel like so far this could be the case as the film poster doesn't give too much away but it still references socks, which is what the film uses as a stimulus. I feel like it does target our desired audience as the writing stands out and is fairly simple, so it is likely to draw in a younger audience who would consider themselves as Mainstream film viewers or Mainstream plus.
I also want people to admire the poster and agree that it does not give too much about the film away but that it is also effective it attracting an audience to watch the film who have no prior knowledge of the film.


-KW