Workshop With Media Professionals

Media professionals, Myra Lee and Phil Chamberlain came into Marlwood to give feedback and advise for our advanced production coursework. Myra is a journalist, lecturer and media trainer who gave advise on our film work. Phil is a freelance reporter and communications consultant who has written news and features for newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Mail. Phil gave advise on our print work.

Here is the feedback from Myra after watching my trailer draft:

- She didn't like the dialogue because it wasn't clear and crisp enough. This I agreed with and planned on taking out the dialogue anyway.
- She thought the titles were too descriptive. She thought the titles were too obvious and cliche so could be changed to something that is going to draw the audience in. Such as "can they live without each other?", because then the ending isn't revealed and it leaves the audience wondering if they get back together or not.
- One of the shots was of the female actress wiping a tear from her face. Myra thought this looked too artificial so suggested removing this clip from the trailer.
- She thought the trailer gave the story away and needs a structure that won't do this. So at the beginning of the trailer will be a shot of the two characters meeting and being in love, then having an argument and then shots of them missing each other.


The feedback that Phil gave me on my poster is that I should enlarge the top imags so that they overlap over the page. I should also make the font larger and edit the main image to remove the tree at the top (seen below). For my magazine cover, I need to include a price and remove on font, sticking to only a couple on there. Phil also suggested I put a price on the magazine cover so I decided on £4 because media magazines are generally around this price.
Here is the before and after image to show how I have edited my main image on my movie poster after receiving feedback from Phil:

Before

After

As you can see I have removed a piece of the tree from the top frame because it looked random and in the way. It was an object that wasn't needed in the image. I had tried taking it out originally but I found it hard to look realistic, however when Phil gave me his feedback I tried again and successfully removed that part of the image.