Survey Monkey results for new magazine cover

Here is the link to my survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/93FYFSK


I decided that it would be a good idea to find out some audience feedback regarding the improvements that I have made to my magazine cover. The results are shown below:

Question 1: On a scale of 1 to 10 what rating would you give my magazine? (1 being very poor and 10 being excellent)

• 8
• 8
• 8
• 9
• 9
• 9
• 10

Question 2: What do you like about my magazine?

• The features in the magazine and the choices of text
• I like the image you have chosen and the variety of texts used.
• I like how you have made the images look like they are part of the film strip
• The image of the three actors
• The variety of texts used
• I like the box at the bottom with additional features and the title
• I really like all of the texts that you have chosen and how they all stand out

Question 3: How well do you feel it works along with my poster and trailer?

• I think that they all link well
• I think that you can tell all three are connected, as images of the same actors are used, so would say very well.
• I feel that it works brilliantly, as they all use a similar style
• I think that the connection between the three can be seen through the images used
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Screenshots of new magazine cover- improvements based on audience feedback

Screenshots of magazine cover- improvements based on audience feedback

More PowerPoint presentations from Charlotte Booth

The editing process that I went through for my magazine cover is as follows:

The film strip and images:

· Firstly I dragged the photo of Frances, Jon and Peter further to the right, and made it smaller.

· I placed a black rectangle down the left-hand side, and moved the film strip across to the same side.

· I made sure that the images of the three female celebrities looked like they were part of the film strip: it can be seen through the image of Rachel McAdams on my presentation above that the edges of the photo were defined, but once I used the blur tool then the image did not look as though it was separate from the film strip.

The text:

· I went onto dafont.com and chose new text from the Sans Serif section, as the style of the text followed the conventions of other film magazines. When receiving feedback from one of my Media Studies teachers she said that all of the fonts on the front cover were very similar, so when choosing new text I looked through the many pages on dafont.com and selected various styles.

· I typed the text into the box on dafont.com and print screened it. When there was a lot of text I had to type it in and print screen it separately and then place it one beneath the other on my magazine cover. One long line of text would not have worked.

· I then copied and pasted it onto Paint, selected the text, cut it and re-pasted it so that the rest of the print screened page was no longer there. If I needed to I chose 'invert' so that there was white text on a black background, and so that it was readable when I put it onto my magazine cover.

· As I went through this process I saved the text from Paint as a JPEG file, and then dragged it onto Photoshop.

· From here I used the magic wand tool so that there was just the text and no background. I deleted the original text and maneuvered the new text into its place.

· I used the same techniques for all of the text I obtained from dafont.com, but I only inverted the text if I needed it to be white and not black.

· I also made sure to name the layers so that I could find all of the text I had imported to Photoshop.

I feel that through making these changes my magazine follows the connotations of other film magazines, and that it is of a much higher standard.

New and Final Magazine based on audience feedback

Another update...

Over the past couple of weeks we have been continuing with editing, putting the shots into an order we feel works well, and importing the shots that we did of the fire. We will have these incorporated into the footage so that they appear in amongst the rest of the shots, creating intrigue.


We have been continuing to develop our ideas as to what we can do to make our trailer even better. One of the ideas is to make words or phrases such as: "lady of nobility", "anger" "passion" and "powerful man" flash up on the screen as the other shots can be seen. We will make the editing for these quick, so that they are almost like subliminal messages.


Another point is that yesterday we recorded a voiceover using Sarah, but we did not think it worked that well, so we are going to get a male to do it instead. Today we did an over-the-shoulder shot of Sarah on Findmypast.com as we got permission to film their website. This will link to the modern day aspect of the film well, and create a contrast between the two time periods. We also filmed some newspaper clippings we had created about the fire at Kiplin Hall and how it has been restored so that Sarah has a reason to go back and visit the house. One of the clippings had been teabagged to make it look old, and so that a contrast between the two could be seen. These props will be of significance to the storyline, as they will make the link between Sarah and Frances clear, as well as creating interest for the viewer.

These are the newspaper clippings that we created: