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Megan Powell

The student aimed to create a film poster that conformed to conventions of real media products. They analyzed psychological thriller posters to understand conventions around color schemes, images, taglines and layout. Their poster places actor names at the top, uses a 70% main image, features characters' faces without revealing the entire plot, and includes the same billing block and title as the trailer. While drawing inspiration from the Donnie Darko poster, the student sought to portray both main characters and make the title bold and crisp. They believe their final poster effectively promotes the film while adhering to typical poster conventions.

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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Poster
Deluded- Film Poster For the Planning and production of my film poster I did a lot of research before creating my product in order to have a full understanding of the conventional product. I aimed to incorporate my research into creating my product to ensure that it is successful and looks like a real media product. I began to analyse Posters which had the same genre of our trailer- psychological thriller. I focused on colour schemes, images, tag lines and the layout in general of the poster. I then applied what I had found out with my product to ensure that my poster resembled my trailer as well as the genre and follows the codes and conventions. I had to ensure that I chose an image in which still left the audience with intellectual puzzles but so they understood the poster at the same time and ensured that it was an effective promotional tool.
Inspirational Posters • Due to the narrative of our film having an imaginary friend, Donnie Darko is the film in which inspired us the most with the plot and therefore when looking at the poster for Donnie Darko I liked how the poster mainly incorporates the imaginary friend rather than the character who sees the imaginary friend. But for my own poster I wanted to ensure that I portrayed a picture that had both the characters in it as I felt for our film trailer this was essential and I wanted to ensure that my poster portrayed the film trailer. In the Donnie Darko poster I also liked how crisp and clear the title and the billing block was on the page and therefore for my poster I wanted to ensure that mine was bold and crisp also.
How does my product challenge or conform to conventions of real media products? • I think that my poster conforms to the conventions of real media products. I placed the actors names at the top of the page which conforms to the conventions of real texts, my main image also takes up 70% of the page which is also conventional for a film poster. The picture itself I think resembles our trailer well and the genre of the film, I also believe that it follows the conventions as it reveals the characters faces but it does not give the plot of the trailer away completely and does leave the audience with questions which is the function of the poster. I used the same billing block from the trailer onto my poster to ensure that it was the same used across the products I also used the same title to ensure everything was the same across all the products. In my poster I also added multi media platforms to show the audience that there are ways in which they can communicate with the film too the release date is conventional due to it coincides with a dark gloomy month of November.
Conclusion • Overall, I believe that my poster is an effective promotional tool in which follows the conventions of real media products. I have used conventions to fit in with my own narrative and overall I am pleased with how my poster turned out and I do think that it looks like a real media product.

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  • 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Poster
  • 2. Deluded- Film Poster For the Planning and production of my film poster I did a lot of research before creating my product in order to have a full understanding of the conventional product. I aimed to incorporate my research into creating my product to ensure that it is successful and looks like a real media product. I began to analyse Posters which had the same genre of our trailer- psychological thriller. I focused on colour schemes, images, tag lines and the layout in general of the poster. I then applied what I had found out with my product to ensure that my poster resembled my trailer as well as the genre and follows the codes and conventions. I had to ensure that I chose an image in which still left the audience with intellectual puzzles but so they understood the poster at the same time and ensured that it was an effective promotional tool.
  • 3. Inspirational Posters • Due to the narrative of our film having an imaginary friend, Donnie Darko is the film in which inspired us the most with the plot and therefore when looking at the poster for Donnie Darko I liked how the poster mainly incorporates the imaginary friend rather than the character who sees the imaginary friend. But for my own poster I wanted to ensure that I portrayed a picture that had both the characters in it as I felt for our film trailer this was essential and I wanted to ensure that my poster portrayed the film trailer. In the Donnie Darko poster I also liked how crisp and clear the title and the billing block was on the page and therefore for my poster I wanted to ensure that mine was bold and crisp also.
  • 4. How does my product challenge or conform to conventions of real media products? • I think that my poster conforms to the conventions of real media products. I placed the actors names at the top of the page which conforms to the conventions of real texts, my main image also takes up 70% of the page which is also conventional for a film poster. The picture itself I think resembles our trailer well and the genre of the film, I also believe that it follows the conventions as it reveals the characters faces but it does not give the plot of the trailer away completely and does leave the audience with questions which is the function of the poster. I used the same billing block from the trailer onto my poster to ensure that it was the same used across the products I also used the same title to ensure everything was the same across all the products. In my poster I also added multi media platforms to show the audience that there are ways in which they can communicate with the film too the release date is conventional due to it coincides with a dark gloomy month of November.
  • 5. Conclusion • Overall, I believe that my poster is an effective promotional tool in which follows the conventions of real media products. I have used conventions to fit in with my own narrative and overall I am pleased with how my poster turned out and I do think that it looks like a real media product.