John Walters Analytical Poster Review

For our poster, which is in the process of being edited, we have a shadowed figure in the background, which may show the audience that the main character is a strange yet mysterious person. This may also show the possibility of a split personality problem, and how he has not got a clear idea for himself.
The use of light on the back wall, suggests how Walters may be moving forwards into the light and into a brighter future, especially suggesting the way that his shadow is facing. It may also suggest the use of a split personality once again with the use of the light with him dark, perhaps suggesting how he is in a different mindset.
The use of the lonely guitar case resembles Walters past, as he has been very troubled, and has gone through a rough patch in his career. The Guitar case also represents strength to the audience, as it stands there alone, it can relate to Walters, how he has to battle his own wars alone with alcohol and drug abuse without any help.
The use of font for our poster is Vanilla White; we chose this because it gave the best effect of a western genre. The wording is very western like, but also gives a slight hint of the godfather, with the lines blurring off to the side.
The use of the website on our poster is to give the idea of a real poster convention; therefore like the posters we studied such as Inception, they all had links to their websites at the bottom of the poster.
The use of production companies at the bottom of the page is another typical convention of film posters, as this is shown with the posters in Gran Torino and Inception. It sometimes has links to the production company’s websites, which can give more information into the existing film.

6th February 2012

Final production work is eventually being tied up and completed now, and should be completed shortly. The poster has been evaluated and completed, and we are just waiting for other members of the group to upload them. Our evaluation is also near conclusion; the only thing we are waiting for is the upload of the final pictures to the evaluation.
Our magazine cover is also near to being finished, with just a few, small adjustments being needed to try and perfect our cover, we were having obvious problems with the titles and sub-headings along the side of the front cover. We had problems with the 100 greatest performances, which seemed strange for a magazine cover. For the fonts, we had numerous different fonts for the magazine cover, therefore causing a lack of continuity running through our front cover.

Feedback: Ancillary Task Poster

I have been working on our film's teaser poster and need feedback but mainly to try and decide what font would be best.
Here are some images below...

Feedback: The Magazine Cover

The magazine cover was interesting and gave us many responses which would allow us to further our progress such as:
The font of the magazine could be smaller and clearer to see
Some of the titles on the sides of the cover could be clearer, and more thought of
The image is good, and gives a clear picture of the film
The use of lighting is good showing a light side and a dark side of the film
The barcode at the bottom of the page could be turned flat
The price of the magazine is too big for the proportion of the magazine
Good title very big and bold, makes it stand out to the reader

Feedback: Teaser Poster

The audience feedback was really productive for us as a group; we got feedback on both our poster and magazine.
Poster:
Font is too big for the proportion of the poster
The website should be changed as it is unrealistic and usually has movie or film added at the end of the URL
Like the image as it stands out
The title of the film ‘The Resurrection of John Walters’ should be lowered as this will fit in with the shadow
Like the use of the production companies at the bottom, looks very professional
Good use of props and clothing
Good use of lighting
Tagline could be shorter

Poster Analysis- John Walters

We used a light background on Jimmy’s front side to firstly show him in colour, but secondly the use of the black shadow behind him to show how his character is somewhat confused, and shows a sense of insecurity and uncertainty.

Here we have the use of writing in our title and the tagline which stands out as it is white on black. We used the font Engravers MT as it gave us the impression of a western film genre, and also gave us our own feel. As we created this poster ourselves.

Here we have our actor, Jimmy, who is posing as a washed up country singer, who is slowly regaining his stardom, to create this we used the correct costume such as shirt and tie, to portray a singer who is slowly coming back. We also used a guitar case, to make the storyline clearer for our audience. The use of lighting was also used to show how our character has turned away from his past, and is now living a new life.

The use of lighting was specifically used to show how our character has changed his ways, and is now living a new life, the lighting effect was also brilliant as it created a shadow effect behind Jimmy

The use of titles was included as this is one of our own production companies in which we created, specifically for the resurrection of John Walters. We also made our own website and pictures companies.

Wednesday 7th December

In today’s lesson we have finished the editing of our evaluation, and are now looking for specific pictures to add into our final evaluation, we have edited all of our evaluation including the sound, and we are now biding our time, looking for pictures to include into our evaluation. As the producer I am closely watching over the process of the evaluation, and watching closely at the editing.