Progress

We have now finished filming our trailer and we are currently working on Editing the trailer, the front cover of the magazine and the poster for the movie. Working in a group of three is a lot easier rather than working individually because you can allocate different tasks to each other so that it can get done to the best quality.

Questionnaire

This graph conveys how many people took part in the questionnaire and what gender they were. The fact that my peers questionnaires were carried out by predominately males I thought I would ask more females so that are information could be even and we could hopefully focus on both genders.

This graph shows us what age groups answered the questionnaire and as you can see half the questionnaire was answered by people aged 11 to 15 as the movie is rated 15. This means that older people will also watch it hence the reason we asked older people as well. The reason we asked these people is because of the fact that we want to know what they like and what they want to see in a horror movie as they will be the main target audience.

This graph illustrates what colours the audience thought established the horror genre and as you can see from the answers, Black and Red were the two that the majority answered. This is because of the fact that Red symbolises blood and gore and that Black connotes a something dark and gloomy. This allowed us to know that we should use Red and black in our products as it relates to the horror genre.

This graph conveys to me what location the audience would like to see in our trailer and the majority chose the woods to be the best location.  This tells us that the audience will like to see the woods being the main location as it fits in with the horror genre. This will influence our decision because we now know what the audience want.

This question was based upon what Horror movie they thought was the best and the majority either answered Paranormal Activity, Saw and the omen. This allowed us to know what movies were liked so that we could research them more and see what codes and conventions were used.

Magazine Planning

The title of our magazine is 'Memory' which we've agreed upon by connoting it to death and remembering the bloody incidents which happened in the past, therefore "Memory". Memory, as a universal name, can also relate to different genres of movie reviews when used in the future.

In terms of pricing, we came upon our magazine to be £1.50 since our target audience are around the 15 year olds, they may not have that much money to purchase a much more expensive magazine. The magazine should be monthly as not many films are released too frequently.

In the magazine, according to my research of codes and conventions in movie magazines, our magazine title should be on top, preferably middle or top left. Although it is quite a long name, we've decided upon putting it on the middle to blend with the composition of film magazines. The font should be simple, but with the special horror edition, we could add signifiers of gore, horror, etc. such as blood splatters on the magazine's title, with the agreed colour of red to signify blood.

The main photo should contain a mid-shot or a long shot of the three main protagonists with red eyes of the "monster" behind the trio showing the protagonists' facial expressions to inject emotion onto it and signify the genre of the magazine's main headline. I plan on including a rhetorical question on the front cover such as "Will they all survive?" to entice the readers to look into the magazine and purchase it. Also, an additional celebrity endorsement for the actors can be done with lines such as "find out what they like about...” etc. to engage the viewers about the actors and purchase the magazine. Along the cover, I plan on including gimmicks such as special offers, and other films which will come out to widen the topic pool of the magazine and gain more audience