Storyboard Plan!

After making my draft script I decided to write up a storyboard plan so that when I go to draw my ideas on a storyboard then it will be easier to understand and also makes it easier so that I know how many shots I have for my trailer.

Shot One:

· Establishing Shot of the Secret Service Building

· Voice Over (Amy) - My name is Amy and I was part of the Secret Service

· Quick blackout at the end

Shot Two:

·      The logo of the company appears and then disappears

·      On a black background

Shot Three:

· Close Up of the back of Amy's head with a chip being planted in her neck

· Voice Over (Amy) - They implanted a chip into our necks which removed all emotions and made us invincible

· Quick blackout at the end

Shot Four:

· Long Shot of Amy fighting a vampire in an training room

· Voice Over (Amy) - But it also programmed us to fight vampires making it our lives mission to protect the earth from anything that puts it in danger

· Long blackout when the voice over finishes

Shot Five:

·      Text appears that reads from the director of The Unexpected

·      On a black background and fades out

Shot Six:

· Establishing Shot of Amy standing on the left side of the Train Station in Thetford

· Voice Over (Amy) - After a while I moved to Thetford to change my life and to become normal if it were even possible

· Fade out to a white flash

Shot Seven:

· Medium Close Up of Amy and Michael running from the Secret Service building

· Voice Over (Amy)- On November 14th with the help of Michael I escaped, which led me to Thetford from then on my life was in danger but I was used to it

· Fade out with a white flash

Shot Eight:

· Establishing Shot of Thetford Academy Sixth Form College

· Voice Over (Amy) - With my life in danger I knew I had to go under cover so I decided to join the college and keep my identity a secret

· Quick cut to the next shot

Shot Nine:

· Long Shot of Amy fighting a vampire at the back of the college

· Voice Over (Amy) - Because I was programmed to fight vampires that stayed the same making it even harder and dangerous to keep my identity a secret

· Quick blackout at the end

Shot Ten:

· Medium Close Up of Amy bumping into Sam

· Amy speaking on the phone - Michael I have to say that vampire took it out of me but it was still fun

· Michael replies - Amy will you ever be normal

· Voice Over (Amy) - Having no emotions was hard but little did I know that one boy would break through and activate my emotions

· Quick cut to next shot

Shot Eleven:

·      Some text explains the movie

·      Spins at 180 degree angle

Shot Twelve:

· Close Up and Point of View Shot from Amy of Sam walking by her

· Sound of a heart beat and a shock

· Voice Over (Amy) - Having no emotions was hard but little did I know that one boy would break through and activate my emotions

· Blackout with the heart beat starting to stop

Shot Thirteen:

· Long Shot of Amy fighting a vampire and Sam watching from a distance

· Voice Over (Sam) - I knew I had to watch and protect her but there was secret that I had to keep and watching her I knew she had a purpose.

· Long blackout to the next shot with a thump sound

Shot Fourteen:

·      Medium Long Shot of Amy falling to the ground and a Medium Close Up of Sam running to Amy

·      Sam – AMY!!!!!!

·      Amy – Hello?

·      Quick blackout to the next shot

Shot Fifteen:

·      Extreme Close up of Sam’s eye’s and of his fangs and then a Close up of Amy looking shocked

·      Voice Over (Sam) My secret was out and now I’m afraid to lose her

·      Amy – No, it can’t be.

·      Quick cut to the next shot

Shot Sixteen:

·      Long Shot of Amy running away and a Medium Close Up of Sam yelling for Amy

·      Sam – AMYYY!!!! AMY!!!!!!

·      Long blackout with him still yelling for Amy

Shot Seventeen:

·      Panning Long Shot of Amy punching a punching bag in slow motion at the end

·      Voice Over (Amy) – No matter how much I fell for him it was programmed to kill them and now I had to kill the one man I have ever fell in love with. Could I do it

·      Long blackout to the next shot with the voice over still going

Shot Eighteen:

·      Text appears on a black background with a bit on the movie

·      Quick blackout to the next shot

Shot Nineteen:

·      Following Shot of Sam walking in the woods and a Medium Close Up of Amy waiting in the bushes

·      Sam – Amy I know you are here and can I just explain

·      Amy – No way vampire boy. Are  you prepared to be turned to dust

·      Quick fast cuts of the fight with fast music

Shot Twenty:

·      Long Shot of Sam and Amy fighting then a Medium Long Shot of Amy about to kill Sam

·      Voice Over (Amy and Sam) – I know I loved her/him and I know she/he won’t going to hurt me

·      Amy – I can’t do it, I have to go

·      Quick cut to the next shot and the music starts to slow

Shot Twenty One:

·      Long shot of Amy running and a Medium Long Shot of Sam waiting ahead of her

·      Voice Over (Sam) – I knew I had to stop her I have waited century’s for a girl like that and I won’t give up that easily.

·      Quick cut to next shot and the music stops

Shot Twenty Two:

·      Medium Close Up of Sam kissing Amy and then a Pan Out of the couple

·      Sam – Amy I love you

·      Amy – I love you to Sam

·      Voice Over (Amy and Sam) – Amy: The chip had broken and I knew I was going to be normal well with a vampire boyfriend but who is normal. Sam – I knew then I had her for life and that I would always protect her. Both – And we lived happily ever after well for about a month.

·      Fade to a black background with the voice over still continuing

Shot Twenty Three:

·      The slogan appears for the movie

·      Quick cut to the title and release date

Shot Twenty Four:

·      The title appears and then fades out

The release date appears and then cuts out

Draft Of My Script!

Before I could actually film my movie I have to make sure I know what I wanted to film so to start with I wrote a draft script so that I could get an idea of how my trailer looks and it would help me decided how I was going to do the storyboard.

Scene 1

Establishing Shot of a Secret Service Building with a voice over from Amy

VO (Amy) – My name is Amy and I was part of the Secret Service.

Quick Blackout at the end

Film Company Logo appears on a black background and then fades out

Close Up shot of a chip being put into the back of Amy’s neck

VO (Amy) – They implanted a chip into our necks which removed all our emotions and made us invincible

Quick blackout at the end

Long Shot of Amy fighting a vampire in a training room

VO (Amy) – But it also programmed us to fight vampires making it our lives mission to protect the earth from these creatures

Long Blackout when the voice over finishes

Text appears ‘From the director of the unexpected’

On a black background and fades out

Establishing Shot of Amy at a train station

VO (Amy) – After a while I moved to Thetford to change my life and to become a normal person if it were even possible

Fade out to a white flash

Medium Close Up of Amy and Michael running from the Secret Service Building

VO (Amy) – On November 14^th with the help of Michael I escaped, which led me to Thetford from then on my life was in danger but I was used to it

Fade out with a white flash

Establishing Shot of Thetford Academy Sixth Form

VO (Amy) – With my life in danger I knew I had to go undercover so I decided to join the college and keep my identity a secret

Class bell at the end of shot

Quick Cut to the next shot

Scene 2

Long Shot of Amy fighting a vampire on the back of the school

V0 (Amy) – Because I was programmed to fight vampires that stayed the same making it even harder and dangerous to keep my identity a secret

Quick Blackout at the end

Meduim Close Up of Amy bumping into Sam

Amy – Michael I have to say that vampire took it right out of me but it was still fun

Michael – Amy will you ever be normal

Quick Cut to the next shot

Text about the movie appears ‘Having No Emotions Is Hard’ Spins at 180 Degree angle

Close Up/ Point of View Amy looking at Sam as he walks by

VO (Amy) – But little did I know that one boy would break through and activate my emotions

Low sound of a heartbeat at the end then louder when the balck screen appears then a gasp

Quick Cut to blackout shot

Long Shot of Amy fighting a vampire and Sam is watching

VO (Sam) – I knew I had to watch and protect her but there was a secret that I had to keep and watching her I knew she hunts them

Thump at the end

Long Blackout to the next shot with a thump sound

Meduim Long Shot and Close Up of Amy falling to the ground and Sam runs to Amy in shock horror

Sam – AMY!!!!!!

Amy – Ughhh

Quick blackout to the next shot

Extreme Close Up and Close Up of Sam seeing the blood and shows he is a vampire and Amy in shock horror

VO (Sam) – My secret was out and now I’m afraid to lose her

Amy – No, it can’t be

Quick cut to the next shot

Long Shot and Medium Close Up of Amy running and Sam yelling for her

Sam – AMMYYY!!!! AMMYYY!!!

Long Blackout with Sam still yelling for Amy

Scene 3

Panning Long shot of Amy punching a punching bag in slow motion

VO (Amy) – no matter how much I fell for him I was programmed to kill them and now I have to kill the one boy I fell in love with. Could I do it?

Long blackout to the next shot with voice over still going

Text about the movie ‘Love really does suck’

Quick blackout to the next shot

Following and Medium Close Up of Sam walking and Amy waiting in the bushes

Sam – Amy I know you’re here can I just explain

Amy – No way vampire boy are you prepared to be turned to dust

Quick fast cuts of the fight with fast music

Long Shot and Medium Long Shot of Amy about to kill Sam

VO (Amy and Sam) – I love him/her and I knew she/he won’t going to kill me/him

Amy – I can’t do it, I have to go

Quick shot to next shot

Long Shot and Medium Long shot of Amy running from Sam and Sam stops her

VO (Sam) – I knew I had to stop her I have waited centuries for a girl like that and I won’t going to give up that easily

Quick cut to next shot and music stops

Medium Close Up of Sam and Amy Kissing then titles of the actors name and shots of the characters and goes back to the kiss

V0 – Actors names

Fade to black backgrounds slow shots of actors quick cut to next shot

Slogan appears with a shot of the two characters

Two lovers, Two secrets and fight for love

V0 (Sam and Amy) – We would now fight for our lives would we surivie

Fade into slogan quick cuts to character shots and to next shot

Title and Release date appear

Secrets of the Heart 14.02.2014

Sound of a heartbeat

Fades between title and release date then quick cut out

Trailer Analyse Part 2!

All though I had done a trailer analyse on my own looking at the different genre trailers, I then went onto to do four more trailers for my media group as we looked more in depth at our chosen trailers. We each chose a trailer and then had to come up with questions for those trailers and discussed them as a group. These trailers were:

1. Ace Ventura Pet Detective (My Chosen Trailer)
2. Despicable Me 2
3. The Kings Speech
4. The Avengers
5. Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Ace Ventura Pet Detective

1. What draws in the audience most?
2. What is the most effective aspect of the trailer?
3. What is the least effective aspect of the trailer?
4. In what ways does the trailer introduce the film and it's genre?
5. If you didn't like anything what would you change and why?

I think that the part that draws in the audience the most is Jim Carrey's character, Ace Ventura. The reason for this is that his character acts really crazy which then brings in that comedic element that Jim Carrey brings to his characters which then draws the audience in, it is what draw me in to watch the film.

The most effective aspect of the trailer is the music behind the trailer. The reason for this is that because it sounds like a spy movie but is then demolished when the comedy kicks in on the trailer from all the characters which then makes it more entertaining.

The least effective aspect of the trailer is the style of the text at the beginning. The reason for this is that because it seems lifeless and doesn't show that this could be a comedic film and is also just a plain colour which is different to the title on the DVD cover which looks much better.

The ways the trailer introduces the film is by using famous action stars at the beginning and then moves onto Ace who is not exactly in the right frame of mind compared to the famous action characters given. It then goes onto to show more of his madness and and the way he acts around other character and also his one liners which are funny and also go with the genre of the film.

I liked everything about the trailer I wouldn't change a thing. The reason for this is because it didn't give to much of the movie away and also the music that accompanied the clips behind it made the film more of a comedy which is what it is suppose to be.

Despicable Me 2

1. What are the key details a film trailer has?
2. How is sound/music used in trailers you looked at?
3. Is there any additional information given in the trailers (Websites, 3D, Facebook, Films actors have been in? ETC)?
4. How is the suitable target audience shown?
5. Can any of these trailer help with your own trailer? If so why?

The key details of this trailer and all other trailers is that it always introduces the main character(s) first then go into the main part which is to tell the story. It also has music which accomplices the type of story it is and what type of genre of film it is.

The sound/music used in this trailer is to give off a spy adventure type of music which goes with the plot line of the film. For other trailers it also allows people to think about the music/sound which goes with the film which draws them in to the film.

In this trailer the additional information includes the actors names and that the film is going to be in 3D. The other information is an official website for the movie and also a Facebook page for the film itself, with the company's logo next to the additional information.

The target audience for this film is for young adults/kids and family's. This is shown by the story line of Gru having a family of his own and also by giving the film a comedic element which is often aimed at young people when they watch an animated feature film.

This trailer can help me a bit with my trailer as I need to find the right music for my trailer which would show my target audience but also show what genre of film it is. This is because the music shows the genre of the film and also goes with the style of the plot line.

The Kings Speech

1. How does the trailer tell the story of the film?
2. How do the creative aspects of the trailer enhance it?
3. What are the conventions used in the trailer?
4. Were you able to interpret the films genre from the trailer? And how?
5. How is sound used in the trailer?

The trailer tells the story by using music. The music sets the story up as to be an emotional journey for the main character as it goes with the dramatic scenes but also adds a bit of a comedic part to the story with the way it changes near the end as he finally gets to his speech.

The creative aspects of the trailer are the use of camera shots and the use of the dramatic images between clips enhance it. The reason for this is that it suits the music that is given in the trailer and also the dark and grey images between clips with the smart text enhances the story more.

The conventions used for this trailer is music, speech and transitions. The reason for these conventions is that the music would stick in your head which then relates back to the film, the speech in the movie from all the characters are serious which enhances the story and the transitions between each shot is dramatic and also slow which shows it is going to be a heart warming story.

I was able to interpret the film's genre through out the trailer. This is done by the music in the background as it sets the scene and the genre of the movie which is a historical drama which is based on a true story.

The sound is used very dramatically in the trailer. This is done by turning down the music when there is going to be a break though in the characters life and it helps tell the story about the king which then makes it more appealing to an audience.

The Avengers

1. How does this trailer represent the genre of the film?
2. What is the most &least effective and why?
3. What & how are camera angles used in this trailer?
4. How are sounds and effects used?
5. What aspects of this trailer could you take away and apply to your own? If not, why?

The trailer uses action clips and music to represent the comic book genre. This is because very comic book film always has action in them and also the music is superhero like which then interprets that it is going to be a comic book style film.

The most effective part of the trailer is the use of different action clips, this is because it doesn't give to much away but allows us to see what is going to be like. There is no least effective part of the trailer as it looks and sounds good and makes me want to watch it.

There is allot of different camera shots but mostly establishing shots and long shots. These are used to establish the style of the movie but also show all the characters in a good way which introduces them to the film audience.

The sound effects are used to create a dramatic type of atmosphere. This is used often when something is falling, being hit or is being taken into the shot by a character which then makes the scene more dramatic.

I would take away the use of how the music is stopped and played. The reason for this is that the music is always stopped at the right places and also is used effectively to produce the dramatic action that is happening in the film.

Hunger Games: Catching Fire


1. What mood and atmosphere is created by the use of the music?
2. What transitions were effective and why?
3. How is the genre represented?
4. How effective are the camera angles?
5. Is a clear storyline shown throughout the trailer?

The music is slow to start but then grows into more of a dramatic victory type music. This then gives off the mood and atmosphere which of a more tense hunger games and also that the war isn't over which then gives it more of that dramatic yet emotional edge.

The effective transitions were during the end when it was about to be the start of the games also the transitions between her and her family at the beginning. This is because they are short yet dramatic shots which then adds more drama to the movie and also make fans of both the film and the book to want to see it more.

The genre is represented through the music and the way it is shown to the audience. This is because the music is the theme of the film but also gives the genre that it is going to be dramatic but also an adventure for the characters which is also shown through the clips used.

The camera angles are very effective and gives the film more of an edge. The reason for this is that the camera angles follow the characters story not just what is going in the clip and shows the right amount of the characters expressions and body movements.

The storyline is shown clearly throughout the whole trailer. This is because it shows the right amount to give a brief summary what is happening in the movie without giving to much away to the audience especially to the ones who have read the books.



Trailer Idea Brainstorm!

Once all the research was done I moved onto to think about what my trailer is going to be about. This meant that I had to come up with ideas which would represent what movie I was going to do, to do so I just thought about what kind of story I could come up with. These are my ideas.

1. Horror at the 14th House - Based on a story that I started to write. A girl named Amy gets sent home from sixth form because someone had rung from her house, when she arrived she noticed the door was open. As she walked in she fell and found out she slipped on a puddle of blood and then heard a noise coming from the living room noticing a shadowy figure walk by. I followed were the blood was coming from and found a tape in the cupboard which said play me, she went to the video player played the video and noticed that her family had been kidnapped and then heard a ticking from behind the TV, she ran out of the house and it exploded and she fell to the floor blacked out and the last thing she sees is the shadowy figure pick her up and carry her away.
2. The Change - A group of teenagers who were all born on the same date were all hanging out at an empty house when they are all called away to their homes. When they arrived home they had noticed their parents had something to tell them, as they talked their parents they didn't believe that they had curse placed on them at birth and that very night at midnight on the full moon they all screamed as they were all changing. They work up the next morning and noticed that all had something different about them, one could read thoughts, one could move at the speed of light, one could control the people around them, one could swap voices with anyone and the other one had a very special gift which was they could control all of the groups gifts which turned them evil.
3. Dream War - Six friends have a sleepover and during the sleepover they talk about the fears they have and why they have that fear, one of them gets the idea that they should recite a poem that was written about dreams and fears. They all read the poem and then they started to fall asleep, within each of their dreams they are in separate locations but can all still hear each other and though out their dreams they notice that their fears have become real and if anything happened in the dream then it would happen to them in real life. With each one having to face their own fears they have until midnight to fight their fears otherwise they would be stuck in their dreams with their fear until the poem is recited again.
4. Love Story - Amelia, a young adult, dreams of the guy she knows is her soul mate and in doing so wakes up to find out she is late for her train to Thetford. When she arrives at the train station she notices that there are only five people at the bus station and when she turned around she noticed they were after her and started to attack her before she got on, she than ran to a clearing and started to fight back when someone attacks one of the attackers and when she looked closer she noticed it was the guy from her dreams. As the fight finished the dream guy grabbed her by the hand and ran with her she released that the guy was someone she met a long time ago and as they continue running he tells her that she is endanger and must stay with him to protect her and she agrees. From then one they fight many battles and start to fall in love ending in a big fight which left her injured and ends with them running away from the action.
5. Fairy Tale Mix-Up - In the modern day versions of the classic fairy tales such as Red Riding Hood and Cinderella the town of fairy tales find out that all the tales that are being told are getting mixed up, as the narrator reads a book each fairy tale character swaps places and each story is being changed and rewritten. None of the characters understand what is going so a group of the main characters from a couple of the fairy tales decide to band together to fix what is happening, along their journey the narrator continues on reading and with that came problems along on the journey as every so often some of the characters would disappear and appear in a different story. The journey presents troubles what also presents lessons to be learned as the group walk though each story to reach the narrator and the other side of the town.
6. School Lock-down - One night a group of students were studying in the school library when all of a sudden they hear all the locks in the school begin to lock and run to each door to try and open them, without success decided to wonder around the school to try and find out a way to unlock the doors. As they wonder though the school they start to see and hear things that no-one has ever seen during the day, they begin to notice some doors begin to unlock and within each one contains a secret that has yet to be discovered. As the night goes on they decide to split into pairs and try to find a way out, along the way they come across doors that would open and with that came more secrets but not just about them but also about the town, the school, the teachers and their families.
7. The Singing Sin - As the town wake up they think everything is normal but when six teenagers wake up they know that something is going on. When the five teenagers go about their lives they notice that people are singing around them miming to songs that represent how they are feeling, this soon effects the teenagers as they go on with their lives which includes break ups and also their thoughts being projected though them singing a song that represents how they feel at that time and mimes to that song by that artist. Soon they start to think if this is a good or a bad thing to happen and with that they decided to work it out by looking though the town to find out what is going on them around them, with musical numbers going on during their journey not just from them but from the people around them.
8. Movie Madness - One day whilst everyone was at home watching their favorite movies a sentence is whispered though out each person shown and soon they become the characters from the movie they are watching. With everyone a character from what they are watching the school becomes a movie itself with a group of students start to recite lines from that movie and soon the other characters begin to connect to other characters making their lives become less normal and more of a movie making harder for people to go back to the way they were. So the group decide to go along with it when they start to remember who they once were, but will the movie characters make them forget again or will they actually remember who they actually were.
9. Breakthrough - Sam, a young male artist becomes the worlds most famous singer and soon feels alone and wants someone to be his duet partner. One day he is practicing in his studio when he hears a girl singing in another room, but by the time he got their she was gone and to find her he set a message to his fans that he is looking for the girl with the mystic voice. As all the girls turn up he starts to think that he will never find so decides to go for a walk, when walking he notices a girl across the street in a house singing and he knew it was her so he went to find her and when he got their she was gone again. When he was about to leave she turned up behind him and told him to keep quiet and then the door was kicked in and their were men attacking her and he noticed that she was doing amazing and then realized that was the girl and then she tells him to run. Will he ever meet her again or will she just never turn up, as these thoughts ran though his head he decided to keep looking for her.
10. Secrets Of The Heart - Amy, a 18 year old girl decided to join the secret service and when she joined she had a chip placed in her neck which removed all emotions and made her combat skills more intense. When she finally escapes from the secret service, her and Michael move to Thetford and when there goes undercover at the local sixth form but still goes out and fights the secret service when they find her. One day she bumps into a boy and feels a connection and one night when she is fighting one of the secret service men, Sam saw her fall to the ground and when she noticed the badge she knew she had to leave. The next day she was training and practicing to fight Sam and with tears rolling down her face she didn't know if she loved him or not, that night she went out to find him and found out he was waiting for her so he could explain but instead she attacks him and then they fight. When he falls to the ground she goes to kill him but then runs off and he catches up to her and hugs her and then they are attacked by the secret service men and decides to run. Will they always be endanger or will they actually lead a normal life.

In the end I decided to go for idea 10 because I felt that it was the better one to do and also appealed to me more. However it was also the one I knew I could do with what I have to work with, I also liked it because I felt that it would be a good trailer to do and appeal to who my target audience.

Movie Magazine Cover Analyse!

Finally after I had analysed trailers and posters I moved onto looking at a couple of movie magazine covers and then analysing them. The four magazine covers I looked were:

1. Empire
2. Entertainment Weekly
3. Total Film
4. Film Review

I looked at all of the information that is presented on the magazine covers and around the cover I wrote what I saw on the magazine and then later analysed it a bit more. After looking at the covers I wrote about each one in more depth so I could understand the movie magazine covers more. I started by annotating Empire

What I wrote around the cover was:

• Sub Article Image
• Date and Price
• Sub Article Title
• Main Article Image (Unique Selling Point)
• Magazine Title
• Magazine Website
• Magazine Advertisement (Unique Selling Point)
• Article for Magazine
• Sub-Heading for Main Article
• Other Articles in Magazine
• Barcode

The next magazine cover I annotated was Entertainment Weekly

What I wrote around the cover was:

• Sub Article
• Main Article Image
• Other Articles in Magazine
• Magazine Title
• Date and Issue Number
• Unique Selling Point (Exclusive)
• Main Article Title
• About the Article
• Writer of Article
• Photo Information

The next movie magazine cover I annotated was Total Film

What I wrote around the cover was:

• Sub-Heading for Magazine (Unique Selling Point)
• Magazine Title (Unique Selling Point)
• Main Article Image (Unique Selling Point)
• Magazine Website
• Other Articles in Magazine
• Sub Article
• Title of Main Article
• Sub Title for Main Article
• Other Articles in Magazine
• Barcode
• Articles Linked to Main Article
• Other Magazine Article
• Date, Issue and Price

Finally the last film magazine cover I looked at was Film Review

What I wrote around this cover was:

• Main Article Advertisement (Unique Selling Point)
• Issue and Price
• Title of Magazine
• Sub-Heading for Magazine
• Other Information
• Other Article on Magazine
• Main Article Image
• Magazine Website
• Barcode
• Main Article for Magazine
• Sub-Heading for Main Article
• Information on the Person in the Image (Unique Selling Point)
• Other Articles

After annotating each cover I decided to write about each one so that I could understand the magazine covers a little bit more and it's appeal to an audience. The questions I answered were:

1. What are the most common elements of the magazine covers? Why are these elements important?
2. Which magazine cover is best at catching attention of potential readers? Why?
3. Is there anything missing from any of the magazine covers? Do you think there is a reason for any missing items?
4. Do the magazine covers offer any information that is not related to the film it is promoting? What is the other information and why is it necessary?
5. Can any of the magazine covers help you design your own magazine cover? Which one and why?

To make sure that each cover is analysed I changed the colour of the text so it shows the different covers and that represent that cover.

1. What are the most common elements of the magazine covers? Why are these elements important?

The most common elements of Empire is the title of the article, a medium close up of the actor of the main article and the article title. These are important because it then aims at a specific audience for that article and bring in more people to that magazine and film.

The most common elements of Entertainment Weekly is the title of the article, a medium long shot of the actors in the main article and the information for other articles. These are important because they want people to concentrate on the main article.

The most common elements of Total Film is the colour of the text, the sub article information and the sub-heading. These are important because it has to link to the main article to draw in people to the magazine.

The most common elements of Film Review is the advertisement for the main article, the sub-heading for the article and the image of the actor in the main article. These are important because they want to publicise both their magazine and the actors in the main articles.

Overall the most common elements in a magazine cover are:

• Title of Article
• The Main Image
• The Other Information on the Article
• The Other Articles Related to Main Article
• The Adverts
• The Sub-Heading of the Main Article

These are important because if it was just plain and simple which then makes it less interesting to others.

2. Which magazine cover is best at catching attention of potential readers?

Total Film is best at catching attention of potential readers. This because the colour and layout of the text connect with the film. The title of the magazine also relates to the film. Finally the information of the article makes a reference to the film.

3. Is there anything missing from any of the magazine covers? Do you think there is a reason for any missing items.

I think there is nothing wrong or missing from Empire magazine. It gives the information correctly and in simple yet dramatic way.

I think the thing missing from Entertainment Weekly is the barcode. i think they just wanted people to concentrate on the article and image.

I think there is nothing missing from Total Film magazine. It includes all the information needed and it connects to the film article they are doing.

I think there is nothing missing from Film Review magazine. It gives the information correctly, includes everything a magazine needs and yet the text is simple it still looks good.

4. Do the magazine covers offer any information that is not related to the film it is promoting? What is the other information and why it's necessary?

Empire is promoting 'The Avengers' and it offers information on other films. The other information is bond Skyfall, and other action type films (Titans, Hunger Games, Bourne, Stifler). It's necessary as they want to advertise films that are similar and that are from other companies similar to Marvel.

Entertainment Weekly is promoting 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' it offers other information. The other information that are released next year, it's necessary because it needs other articles for the magazine.

Total Film is promoting 'Inception' and it offers other information. The other information is a different genres of film (Toy Story 3, Predator). It's necessary because then it can appeal to others than just one person.

Film Review is promoting 'Sean Connery' and it does not offer other information. It only offers about Lord of the Rings and the rest is about Sean Connery, it's necessary because it's called 'Sean Connery Special'. Which means other information not to do with Sean Connery is not important.

5. Can any of the magazine covers help you design your own magazine cover? Which one and why?

I think that Empire magazine covers could help me design my own magazine cover. This is because all through it's simple it is effective and also focuses on the film. I also think that it look really good an puts more focus on the image.

After annotating and going through it more in depth I found out that the important things for a magazine cover includes:

• A Big Main Image
• A Couple of Small Articles
• A Big Article Title
• A Website for the Magazine
• A Sub-Heading Underneath The Big Title
• A Date, Price and other Information