'SECOND LIFE' - Final Product

This is our finished complete film entitled 'Second Life'. It follows two geeky teenagers who embark on their first date together. The film finishes at 5.16

1) In what way's does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?

This is our Director's Commentary for our short film 'Second Life'. In this we are answering the evaluation question: "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?" Commentary provided by Jake Mitchell & Eleni Gerolymbou.

Final edited film poster!!!

This is our final completed film poster for 'Second Life' and we are very happy with our end result. We made some slight changes from our previous draft after getting some feedback from our tutors and peers: we decided to put the tagline 'love is loading' back into the poster as we felt that the poster really needed a tagline as every single poster we've looked at during research has had one of some kind. We also made our black box slightly smaller in order to make the text 'Second Life' bigger and more eye-catching. We also changed the font of our credits to make it smaller and look more realistic. We have also changed our certificate to a 12 as this is the most common certificate rating for the romantic comedy genre.

new idea for film poster

After evaluating our film poster we decided to completely change our design and go for a much more simplistic look. We looked at some other poster designs and the poster for the romantic comedy 'Knocked Up' really appealed to us and inspired our new design. We decided to just have the two protagonists heads in the centre and make this the biggest image on the page - this connotes comedy and the loving look that the female character is giving him communicates to the audience that this is a romantic film. We made the film text much larger and moved it into the centre of the page and we also changed the colour and text of the actors names and used much more basic colours and this looks much more professional. We got rid of our tagline: 'love is loading' as we felt it made the poster look a little crowded and it wasn't really necesary to include it. We replaced the keyboard and put our credits inside a black box which looks really neat and modern. Finally, we changed the certificate of our film from a 12 to a U rating as we realised our film had no offensive elements in it and it was suitable for young children.

'KNOCKED UP' FILM POSTER

This was the design which we based our own film poster on.

film poster with male protagonist

This is the 3rd draft of our film poster and we're still not happy with our product. We have tried to make the poster look cartoon like and animated but we feel it actually just looks rather unprofessional and bare. There is far too much blank space on the poster and the central image still isn't big enough on the page. I really like the idea of putting the protagonists in the computer screen but I'm just not sure it looks right with a white background - it makes it look extremely unrealistic. Also, (its not clear on the image) but the green background doesn't go with the rest of the text - we're definitely going to have a rethink and post our edited poster on asap.

film poster progress

We decided that the central image needed to be much larger on the poster and we also thought that the other smaller images were taking the attention away from the main image and also made the poster look messy and too busy so we changed it. This version is a working progress and still needs a lot of work and also the image of the male protagonist needs putting into the computer screen.

fillm poster first draft

This was the first intial draft that we did of our film poster for our short film 'Second Life'. We put the two names of the actors portraying the protagonists at the top of the poster and made the colour of the text connote the actors genders. We were both very happy with our logo as the green links back to the sci-fi element in our film and the font is bold and attractive. We experimented with the idea of having the main image within a computer screen, and also having the credits in a keyboard - after putting it together we felt the poster was far too cluttered and messy and there were far too many areas of blank white space and therefore we decided to make changes to our work.

magazine front cover

This is our final draft of our film magazine cover: 'Take 3'. I am really happy with our final design and think it is extremely effective. We have tried to make our magazine cover conventional of similar texts: our main image (showing the two protagonists in 'Second Life') is the largest image on the cover. We then have smaller text at the sides advertising other features included in the magazine.