Evaluation - How Effective is the Combination of your Main Product and Ancillary Texts

Evaluation - What have you learned from Audience Feedback?

Evaluation - How long did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Final Product - Way Back Then

Ancillary Task - Magazine Review

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Ancillary Task - Choice of Magazine

For our task of creating the magazine review, we decided to look into which magazine our review would be placed within. We narrowed our choices down to Empire and Total Film and eventually decided to place it within Total Film. We decided on this magazine because it was more focused on films than Empire, and so would be more likely to feature a review on a short film.

Once we had decided on the magazine, we decided to review a two page spread that is featured in Total Film. This particular two page spread features a review of the film True Grit. The review features one single large screenshot with the text surrounding the picture. The use of the image is important in drawing in and attracting the reader to read on. The review takes on a very neutral point of view, coming to a conclusion that the reader.

The editor of the articles uses particular quotes from the text that help to summarise and generalise the viewpoint that the reviewer has of the film. The use of different subtitles for the text helps to maximise the effectiveness of the review, and makes it much more engaging for the reader. The Predicted Interest Curve was a feature that interested us, as it showed that Total Film uses originality and different ways of making a review more interesting. We also liked the Verdict at the end of the article, as it may well be that the reader only glances at that to get a quick summary of the consensus around the film without reading the whole article.

Overall, we feel that Total Film is a perfect choice for our film to be placed within. The depth of analysis and the variety of ways that Total Film reviews its films means that we will use Total Film as our magazine. The intended audience for our film (17-25 years) are also the primary audience for Total Film and so our film would gain the maximum exposure.