Planning - Magazine cover, final

This is my final magazine cover. It's very similar to my mock because my mock received extremely positive feedback. I decided to fill the dead space with a free offer, but also something humorous. This technique was used as it grabs the readers attention, possibly making them buy the magazine or opening it up for more information.

Planning - DVD cover, final

This is my final DVD cover. As you can see, there were no major advances made from my draft due to my resources for it being limited. However, I responded to the main query of their being so much blank space, so I re-organised the layout slightly to fill some of this space. I also placed a couple more logos from conventional DVD covers on there in an attempt to make it look more realistic. Personally, I think it looks like something you'd find at a car boot sale, yet feedback from colleagues shows that it would be something that they would look into buying, because the message is still conveyed, regardless how cheap it looks.

Planning - Film poster, final

Above is my final film poster with edits made to it to adjust to the feedback.

The main picture I used was a man in a suit, but with an odd looking almost snowman style head. I selected this picture because due to my shooting schedule, it has snowed outside. This means that any outdoor shots will now show snow, which associated with winter and Christmas. It doesn't really affect the plot of the film, but people would question the snow/time of year if it has nothing to do with the film, so I opted to use it in the promotionals.

I also opted to keep a similar font to my last one. I did go for a more serious looking font, but I kept it simple because it looks 'childish'. This sounds strange at first, but when the film is called Pop goes the Weasel, and the main theme for the trailer is said song, they both tie to the childhood toy, 'jack in a box'. Ergo, the childish font matches up with this.

I also decided to add a few lines on there to put suspense into the viewers, hopefully wanting to make them see the film more. I also jumbled the words 'stay offline', almost playing with the viewers head, and revealing to them that the film has something to do with being online.

Planning - DVD cover, first draft

This is the mock for my DVD cover that I have had to produce as part of my digipack. I decided to keep the DVD cover matching a similar layout to my film poster and magazine cover. This meant that I used the same font and the same colour schemes, to help it tie in with the other products. This is effective as if a viewer sees only one of the products, regardless which one, they will still get the same meaning from it as it conveys the same message.

Feedback for this product is summed up in a small paragraph below:
"In general, the product contains large amounts of unnecessary dead space and doesn't advertise the film very well. On top of this, the cover lacks a lot of features you'd find on standard DVD covers released mainstream today."

Using this feedback, I am going to edit and post a final edition of my DVD cover.

Planning - Magazine cover, first draft

This is the first draft for my magazine cover, as part of my digipack. I decided to keep the cover simplistic following other conventional magazine layouts, whilst choosing to have the main antagonist from the film displayed clearly.

I obtained feedback from peers about my cover, and the majority said it was good apart from the large amounts of dead space that can be seen above and below the main picture. I noticed this myself during the creation of it, but due to the pictures I took whilst filming, there aren't many solutions as to what I can fill them with. So, I am going to have to look at other methods such as a different layout in an attempt to fill the dead space more.