TITLE CARD.....

Here are some possible background images that I am considering that could be used as a background image in conjunction with the chosen typography that I have chosen earlier.

A TITLE IS EVERYTHING...

Here I have added a few possible title card possibilities.

Kress & Van Leeuwen

Kress & Van Leeuwen has carried out significant research on magazine and page composition. Here are some of the things they found.

The positioning of information on the page itself can convey meaning.

· Kress & Van Leeuwen (1996) examined double page spreads Australian women’s magazines. The found that the right pages were ‘dominated by large salient photographs from which the gaze of one or more women engages the gaze of the viewer’

· These pictures often showed women in unusual or contradictory roles with which the reader is invited to identify, such as a working woman doing a tough masculine job

· They concluded that the right page was the site for ‘key’ or new information.

· The page on the left was the ‘already given’: information which the reader is already likely to know (e.g. who the person is, the new film they are appearing in etc...)

Kress & Van Leeuwen proposes three principles of composition:

Ø Information value – the placement of elements, e.g. left and right, top and bottom, centre and margin, can endow them specific information value.

Ø Salience – the elements placed to attract the reader’s attention to different degrees, e.g. foreground or background, relative size, contrasts in colour, sharpness, etc.

Ø Farming – The presence or absence of farming devices (dividing or framing lines, which connect or discount elements, signifying that they belong or do not belong together.

LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION.....

In this first exaple print media text's feature article
i liked the fact that postioning of the the subjects and their body language and that they are shown in a direct mode of address










In this second example of print media text the features i liked were the fact that it is Black and white
It forces you to see the image rather than the colour. A low-light image of shadows can look like nothing
in a colour photograph but be a powerful picture in black and white. It also conveys remarkable purity of the action

In this example we can see the subject in ain direct mode of address that conotes that he is looking at somthing out of frame and i also liked the fact that he himself is positioned in the foreground above the tite to show that he is the cheif narrative focus

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

We asked a close friend who produces music semi-professionally to do a cover of the popular lullaby “Hush My Baby” but when he produced this audio text we found that the tone and pace of the sound did not comply with the generic codes and conventions associated with our media text. So in the end we ultimately decided to drop the idea all together and opted to go a for more commercial but less mainstream soundtrack in order to attract our target market (demographic).

A TUNE TO MURMER THROUGH THE AGES...

For our media text I wished to create an individual soundtrack that best represented our texts genre and narrative pace and path.

To achieve this we enlisted the help of a close friend who produces music we asked him to perform and record an instrumental cover version of the popular lullaby. We did so to raise our production values allowing for a greater sense of professionalism. In doing so we hoped to create some of the archetypal codes and conventions associated with our chosen genre of our media text. Following in the footsteps of some of the most iconic themes from timeless classics such as

The Exorcist (1973)

Exorcist theme

Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park theme

Jaws (1975)
Jaws theme

With all these themes that have come before are now synonymous with their particular associated media texts. With these particular examples that had inspired me to condone the creation of a similar yet unique theme tune to be associated with out media text. Due to the source of my inspiration I thought it would be best to acknowledge them and reference them in some way or form this would be done using the tool of intersexuality.

A TIME FOR EASTER EGGS

Our media text's narrative revolves around a unnamed man trying to save a unnamed woman from dying however later in the narrative it is revealed that the woman is actually a patient in a mental asylum and the man and his whole world is a concoction stemming from her mind. Due to this plot twist I thought it would be beneficial to introduce Easter eggs that hint towards the plot twist throughout the trailer.

I wanted something short and right to the point. I ultimately opted to go with the phrase 'IT'S NOT REAL'. Due to our lack of a budget we had to use Photoshop to create a fake newspaper front page with the phrase on it. I also spray painted the phrase on a collection of posters and placed it on a wall as the unnamed man ran past. With this the easter egg has two roles; one, to inform the protagonist of the narrative's destination and secondly, it breaks the fourthwall and talks directly to the audience by doing this I intended to reinvent the world famous Greek tragedies that Shakespeare also produced were the audience knows the inevitable demise of the character but is only there to look on and see the journey the narrative takes to get there.