'A Lost Soul' Poster (4th Draft) and Feedback

This is near to thew final version of my poster, this addressed many comments made on the previous draft. Within this draft, the changes that I have added to the poster is the release date, actor credits and the release date. These improvements have made the poster more conventional, however there are some minor adjustments that need to be made in order for the poster to be complete. In regards to the text, I need to change the colours on the release date and the actor credits in order to help the title stand out but as well as to help visibility of the text. 

'A Lost Soul' Poster 3rd draft (Responses)

After creating the third draft of my poster, I gave it to my two media teachers in order to gain some feedback regarding my work in order to learn what works and what doesn't. Overall they like the layout of the poster, they find it effective and presents my product very well. However there are particular conventions that are absent on my poster such as: actor credits, release date and age rating; this point will be brought in the next version of my poster. The most unsatisfying comment was the fact that they didn't like the disintegration element within my poster as they didn't understand the visual message as they assumed it was dirty or tree leaves coming off from the subject's face. I was disappointed to hear that as I was eager to incorporate this idea within my poster but there perception of it was understandable as I received a similar reaction from friends and family which meant that clearly something was not clear on my part as the graphic designer. 

Overall there feedback was extremely beneficial and will most certainly be addressed within the next draft of my poster. 

'A Lost Soul' Poster (3rd Draft)

This draft was an experiment I made to see how my original vision for my poster would look, now I intend on gaining feedback from my media teachers on whether or not they find it effective or not; based on their feedback, I will determine whether I should continue to improve on this design or to just abandon the idea complete. Regardless of the outcome, I created this design to ultimately present my original vision for the poster of my short film.

'A Lost Soul' Poster 3rd Draft (Editing)

For my 3rd draft I wanted to create a new poster that resembled my original design for the poster. My overall inspiration towards the design was the poster for "Sicario". How I intend on being influenced by this poster is by using the concept of fading various images from my media product into the main image of my lead character's head. 

Inspiration

Another idea I intend on including within my poster is the element of disintegration, my inspiration for this idea was seen in form of promotional artwork for "X-men: Days of Future Past". The reason as to why this idea appeals greatly towards my product is because the idea of disintegration particularly regarding the "X-men" image it this idea of losing yourself and not being whole. For the character 'Wolverine' within the image, he appears to be struggling with the pain of loosing who he is, slowing falling apart one layer after another. This really intrigued me as this would be a very interesting concept to apply to my poster, adding the disintegration effect on the lead character 'Max' adding this visual metaphor of him loosing his soul and the impact that will have on the vessel contain his soul; without the soul the human body cannot survive and will begin the decay. This will add great depth towards the poster as it can hint a lot to the promotion of the media product as it can hint a lot to the audience as to what they can expect to see from this story.

Disintegration Inspiration 

In order to achieve this effect, I did some research towards on how I could achieve my vision. I came across this tutorial that helped explain I could present my idea of disintegration on my poster; this video provided me with a set by set guide to how I could do it.

Overview of responses from 2nd Screening

After reviewing all of the feedback from the 2nd screening of my film, I am pleased with the initial reaction to this cut of my media product as the test audience was positives; rating the film overall between 7-10/10. 

I did receive comments on minor aspects of the film, however these comments were addressing parts of the film that I as the film-maker intended. An example of these comments was addressing the grainy look of the cinematography; this was an idea I intended to add to the visual style of my media product in order to emulate and 35mm film look towards my product.  However this comment was constructive as it made me rethink the effect and glare at the entire edit in order to ensure that the effect doesn't seem to distort the audience's attention and focus to the story; this was in fact only 1 comment out of the 8 received.

Overall the reaction to my media product is significantly better in the second screening in comparison to the first, I will now continue to finalise the edit of my media product.

Feedback from 2nd Screening

Today I had another screening of my short film, during this screening I handed out response sheets to my test audience in order to gain some feedback; I designed the questions to be answered through numerical rating. This decision was to make the audiences more comparative in their response as they know there is a lack of writing involved but in also can provide me data that can be quantified.

Scheduled 2nd Test Screening

UPDATE!

I have scheduled for a 2nd test screening for the 9th March, my plans for this screening is to preview my latest cut of my short film in order to see if my new alterations made to the film has improved it's overall quality; but as well as gathering more constructive criticism on my project.