Evaluation - Question 2

Below are photo shopped images showing how my media products would work as a package and also stand up against contemporaries.

Here is the DVD cover for my product scattered with other DVDs like it, purely to visualise how it would compete with competitors in the same market.

In this image I have used a favourable Album cover of mine (Bob Dylan "Bringing it all back home") to show how the magazine cover and film poster contain vintage and retro qualities, they are not out of place being products of the year 2010 in an image taken in the mid sixties.

The main reason i think my combination of products is effective is because of the underlying theme that runs throughout, there is a sense of mystery about both the print products and the film product, i think this works to draw in the crowd who are intrigued as to what it all could mean. The iconography works in all three pieces, the film poster shows scattered Kodak prints, a very relatable iconic factor that oozes quality, the same photo prints appear as a title background in the film product, allowing the audience to instantly connect the two. The initial connection between film trailer and film poster is the more important one, it isn't until days or weeks later that the magazine appears on shelves, this is to allow audience to get acquainted with the ideas and character(s) through advertisement free to them before actually wanting to part with their money for a magazine. There isn't a connector as such between the magazine and poster/trailer, this is because the character is being used as the iconography now, an assumption is being made by this however it is quite an iconic looking image and again relatable to the audience. The text inside the '74' title impression on the poster is mashed together from parts of song lyrics i found appropriate, and perhaps could be seen to be the writings of the main character, it runs like a monologue not dissimilar at all to the one used in the trailer. There is also a conceptual theme present in each of the products, a battling relationship between father and son is very clear though the film trailer, the film poster also portrays some sort of negative feeling (though the writing) towards the main image (which could be assumed to be the father), it could also be presumed through the mise-en-scene that the creator of the messed photos and text is a teenager. The magazine cover again shows less of a theme, however it is clear that there is some kind of trauma going on through the bleak colour and close up hidden facial expression. Out of the two ancillary task, the magazine doesn't work quite as well as a promotion package, however I am still pleased with its turn out as an individual piece.