Electronic Evaluation problems

I have been editing the electronic evaluation for quite a while and have came across many problems, one problem is that some of the MP3 files that we recorded will not open in iMovie and is proving difficult to do so and we have also lost some of our electronic evaluation images and audio.
However I have spent the last few hours putting the evaluation together and editing some of the recordings we have, Myself and Rudi will also try and convert these MP3 files into iMovie tomorrow so that the evaluation will be complete and uploaded to blogger. We are hoping that we will not face any more problems and the evaluation to be uploaded early next week at the latest.

The three of us also completed a 2nd and final draft of our magazine cover earlier today based on the feedback we received from our class- Rudi should be uploading the updated magazine cover very soon.

Feedback on ARCANE Magazine

This is our feedback that we gathered from our class, we found that our magazine has improved but still needs improving:

Good Points:

• Black and White effect is effective as it suited our film
• Direct mode of address, meaning showing our film in the right way to the audience.
• Good Clean style 
• Very Sophisticated

Bad Points:

• Seems a bit arty
• Change font color as little is red
• font seems randomly placed
• Too bigger space where world war Z is.
• More Color is needed 
• change the catch line
• Include the actor's name within the magazine to inform the audience who he is.
• Change the Capital B of Bastards to lower caps b. 

New Magazine Cover

The three of us have created a new and improved magazine cover as we disliked the last few that we had made, we think this new poster is suitable and very similar to real life examples of magazine covers.
We looked at Empire magazines as Empire is a well known and popular magazine- Myself and Rudi also enjoy reading it. We noticed a pattern in Empire front covers where the main character is the largest image on the cover and sometimes the only image in order to show the actor who is in the movie and the type of character that is in the movie - tough characters often hold weapons and look scruffy whilst smart characters are cleanly dressed and look away from the camera. I have shown a few examples below:

                                                                                           

 In all of these Empire covers the biggest image is of the main character in the movie that is the focus of the particular issue. In the Skyfall special Daniel Craig as James Bond is the only image on the page and this looks very neat and clean as it is a clear image of the character in black and white, the image suggests he is classy as he is neatly dressed in a suit- his glance to the right of the page suggets he is wanted or looking for a person and the confident way he holds the gun upright suggests he is used to killing with a firearm.

In the Joker issue of Empire the Joker gives a very intimidating look at the camera/reader suggesting he is an enemy in the movie this is also shown again as he is sat in a prison cell. The joker is dressed very scruffy and dirty suggesting that he does not care about his appearance which is the opposite for the profile of a good character (protagonist). The fact that the joker is smiling whilst in prison also suggests that his character is slightly crazy and doesn't mind getting caught.  

As the image of the character is important in showing the type of person they are we tried to do the same with our magazine cover:

 Our character Dirty Derrick looks directly at the camera with an intimidating look similar to the Jokers issue of Empire in order to show that he is the main antagonist in the our movie. This is also shown again as he has his fist raised in the air as if he is ready to punch someone and he is scruffily dressed in a waist coat with no shirt- we hope this gives the impression that he is ready to fight and is not scared of anything.
In order to allow the reader to know what movie the character is from we placed the title 'Dirty Diamonds' in bold red letters across his chest- this is similar to the inception issue of Empire where 'Inception' is across the character of Leonardo DiCaprio. To allow the reader to know his name we have added the short description 'We explore the dangerous world of Dirty Derrick' under the title - this also proves that Dirty Diamonds is the main focus of this issue.
We added a short and snappy description taken from an article onto the front page in order to attract the reader and persuade them to learn more about the character we also placed the page number where the speech '...the new boy in town' was from. This was done with the Jokers issue of Empire with 'He's a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown'.
We noticed that in a lot of magazine covers the image often covers apart of the logo for example Johnny Depps head covers the 'M' in one issue of Empire shown above. Our teacher told us that this could only be done if the magazine was widely popular otherwise people may not be able to read the title, so as 'Arcane' was a new magazine we created for this task, the logo could not be covered so instead we had Dirty Derricks head cover apart of the underline of the title and we think this looks very good and professional.
As the issue could not only be about one film we needed to have short pieces of text showing what else is shown in this issue but we also did not want the magazine cover to be cluttered as we wanted a clean cover similar to the James Bond Empire so we added text talking about a upcoming summer blockbuster 'World War Z' and the famous director 'Quentin Tarantino' who has just realised a successful western movie. 

Electronic Evaluation Update

I have been recently editing our electronic evaluation and have completed most of it, However our group is unhappy with some of the speech we did as we feel we could have answered the questions far better this is why we plan to redo these questions either in person or over a Skype call - I will then put the new audio into the evaluation and match it with image and video in iMovie so that we have a complete and quality evaluation.

Post Production

Now that we have finished our trailer (at last!) and our poster & magazine covers, I have started to edit together our electronic evaluation. We have over an hour of dialoge from the three of us including a Skype call that Myself and Rudi did in which we spoke about some of the work we created together including taking photos, capturing footage, editing and creating a soundtrack- I recorded this Skype conversation for the evaluation.
I am currently cutting most of the dialogue down to the most important pieces of information as we would like our evaluation to be under 25mins long. I am also looking through all the images and footage we took over the past year to play alongside the evaluation, as well as finding & adding images from the internet to help make the electronic evaluation enjoyable to watch.

As editing the evaluation is a long process Rudi has agreed to help me finish it during the week.
Once the evaluation is complete it will be uploaded to YouTube and to our blog.

Potential Poster Photos and Influential Poster Images

As a group we came up with ideas to what we can incorporate within our poster, we looked additionally looked at other promoting movie posters to get inspiration for what we can achieve to include in our own posters.

We had some advantages to establish a poster, as we had a school photography studio to take the images for the poster. The initial idea that we had to include to our photos was that we included the necessary  props and costumes to it, allowing our audience to see what they wear in the film.

Here are some examples of our influential posters give an idea of what we implied into our own editing.

In this 'Taken 2' poster we used the idea of half and half shadow, this where one side f the poster is dark and the side of lighter sort of shade, revealing apart of the character's face. What we thought  this would create is an idea of a dark and sinister character.

As can see here we have the exact same concept than we do compared to the "Taken 2" poster. We wanted to incorporate this within out poster as it would show the sinister side to the film.

This image just so happened to be an accidental photo, which happened to resemble the "Taken 2" poster so we were very fortunate to stumble across it.

The Final edited version of the poster shall be posted within the week, we are currently in the process of finishing it.

Dirty Diamond's final production

Here is the newly enhanced "Dirty Diamond's Trailer", where we took the feedback from our audience, such as the class for example.

With this trailer, we have changed quite a bit by adding in certain amounts of production companies trying to increase the duration of the trailer. You will see the difference from the "draft" to the "new" trailer.

We wish to get as much feedback off this than we did with the last one, so that we can take it into consideration. Hope you like it, and last of all Enjoy!