Evaluation Magazine cover

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When creating my final product the Magazine cover I first started researching and analysing previous film magazine covers such as Empire and Total film. I looked at the similarities and the differences of these different magazine covers. I also analysed where the main focus of the magazine cover is, the main title of the magazine cover and the text for example on the Empire magazine cover it tells the audience that there is a "Massive preview special" and then in smaller writing underneath shows "45 new movies you need to know about right now"  this gives the audience a preview of what you will be reading about inside the magazine.

My final product is a film magazine cover, I have named my final piece Cinimer. When I first starting designing my magazine cover on Photoshop I had problems with the text on my background. The way how I had solved my problem was by making my text much bolder and used the special effect Shadow drop so that you way able to read the writing without it contracting with the background picture.

When creating the magazine cover I feel that best features of this magazine cover would be how I have placed the main focus point as I have lighten up his face and his body but darkened the side of his face to give the audience the impression that this character is not a friendly person and he was a dark side towards him that not everyone can see.

The thing's that I feel went bad when creating the magazine cover would be the text on the cover. The black text behind the bold red strip can be slightly difficult to read if the person that is reading it is slightly far away, for example if someone is going into the shop to buy something and pass the magazine aisle they might not realise that the magazine tells the audience that the stories that are inside this magazine has an exclusive story about the new film You can't run but you kan hide.

If I was to re create this magian cover again I would change the colour's of the title face and change the positioning of the text so that the text isn't so close to the edge, as when the magazine cover is printed the text might become but of the page making it impossible for the audience to read. I would do this by chaining the size of the font so that it doesn't cover the face of the main focus point. 

The differences and similarities that my magazine cover has to other magazine covers for example Total film is that I have used the same style as Total film by making my main focus in the centre of my page. Also when designing my cover I used the same technique of having the name of my main focus beneath my character in the center with the ad World exclusive above inside a dark red box. The differences that my magazine cover has to Total film is that with the main title of the cover I have put it in front of my main focus as with the magazine Total film they have put their main title behind their main focus.

Evaluation DVD sleeve

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When creating my DVD sleeve I looked at the purpose, content, reception and the audience of other DVD sleeves. Every DVD sleeve has three faces that is the front cover, the back cover and the spine of the sleeve. When researching about DVD sleeves I analysed Harry Potter, This is the end and Angus thongs and perfect snogging DVD sleeves. When researching different DVD sleeves I mostly looked at Harry Potter as this format of DVD sleeve was very similar to mine as both films have action. When creating my DVD sleeve I looked at the aspects of creating a similar look towards the Harry Potter sleeve, for example the Harry Potter sleeve uses a narrative background on the back face of the character Voldormort, this character is the villain of the film as I have used the Character Kate as the character is vulnerable trying to fight her way from the villain in You can Run but you kant hide as the DVD sleeve is looking towards a older age range of 15+. 

My final product is a stalker horror DVD sleeve. Before making my final piece I wrote a proposal on what I wanted my product to look like. In my proposal I explained that my main focus for my DVD sleeve would be an abandoned shed which will be highlighted from the rest if the sleeve, this is very similar as what I have created is an abandon shed as my back ground which is a lot lighter than anything else in the background as everything else is much darker and gritty looking, I have used this techniques because I want the audience feel as if they are being pulled into the shed. I have made the character much darker than everything else in the DVD sleeve because it gives off the impression that he is dangerous and that there is a dark soul inside him waiting to give out an attack to the vulnerable. My main focus on my DVD sleeve is different to the focus on my movie poster as I have used the main character Ben where as in the movie poster I used Kate as the main focus. This is because I wanted the audience to feel as if Kate is the villain in the film as this character looks as if she is running towards the audience, this creates more of a twist and surprise when the audience watches the film. 

The thing's that I felt went well when creating the DVD sleeve would be who I lightened up the abandoned shed behind the villain to show the audience that this is the location where the story is happening. This gives more of an impact on how creepy and how much the main character is actually a psycho.

The things that I felt went bad when creating the DVD sleeve would be the type face on the spine of the sleeve. The reason why I feel like this part of the DVD sleeve isn't as good as other parts of the sleeve is because it is really hard to read what it is saying, as the colours blend in with the background. I also needed to change the colour of the word 'But' as if I kept this word the same colour as the other words, the audience would be able to see the word creating confusion.

If I was to improve the DVD sleeve I would to lighten up the whole of the cover and use the different colours as this DVD sleeve is very dark and glum and makes it hard for the audience to read the text that has been put on the sleeve to help the audience know what the film is about and the different features used within the film.

The differences and similarities that my DVD sleeve has towards the DVD sleeve Harry Potter have are that the similarity between You can't run but you kan hide and Harry Potter is that in the back face Harry Potter has a narrative back drop for their back ground of Voldermort fighting with his wand out. As on my back face I have a narrative back drop of the character Kate lying down in the floor injured. The difference between my DVD sleeve and the Harry Porter DVD sleeve is that in the Harry Potter sleeve they have uses scene picture from the film where is on my sleeve my content does not include scene pictures and has a small description about the film.