Above is the newspaper advert of ‘The Wrestler’, I have had to look into other sorts of Newspaper adverts due to finding it incredibly hard to find any Documentary adverts, only film adverts.
There are a few points that I will be taking out of this first Newspaper advert to re-create in my own climbing documentary advert:
- Quotes from newspapers about the documentary
- Star rating from newspapers/sites about the documentary
- Bold striking title of what the Documentary is, the audience will straight away know what the documentary is.
- Relevant background image that goes well with the advert to keep the theme of the documentary running through the advert.
The Wrestler advert is a good advert to start looking into similar media texts as it has most of the codes and conventions that would be found in any advert whether it be in a newspaper or magazine, there is a lot of good points that I can take from this such as making sure the fonts that are used are interesting and also making sure that the title of the documentary is the main one that everyone can notice straight away.
Above is a second example of a newspaper advert that would span a whole A4 page, I look at this and think that is slightly worse then ‘The Wrestler’ advert that is above as it is harder to understand the meaning of what the film is about straight away and when it is out in the cienema, an upside of this advert is the font that is chosen for the title as it goes along with the dark and gloomy outlook of the black background.
The points that I will be taking from this advert are:
- Make sure it is obvious when the documentary is going to be showing so that the audience knows.
- Have a good font to drag the audience into looking at the advert and finding out more about what the documentary is.
- Make sure that all of the writing on the advert is readable and isn’t too small.
The Exorcist poster is a good example of making a poster that isn’t cluttered with information and gets the bare essential facts over to the audience, the bold date of when it is out will get the audience remembering, nearer the bottom the title of the film ‘The Exorcist’ is also the largest piece of font there is on the page so your eyes are dragged down to the name of the film.
On the advert there are no review quotes from any newspapers or magazines which could put some of the audience off thinking that it isn’t that good, whilst this could be an attempt to show that the film is still as good even though it doesn’t have the quotes.
The simple ‘…What a day for an exorcism’
What I shall try and re-create:
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Double Page Spread Research
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The double page spread that can be seen above is a colorful example of spread in a magazine bright colours throughout the spread drag the attention towards the advert and main background image, the main title taking up atleast a third of the page in white writing with the contrast to the other colours lets the reader know that is where the title is which has been done well, on the left hand side of the double page spread there is minimal writing only introducing you to what is going to be described on the second half, which is obviously going to be about tomatoes.
On the right hand page of the double page spread is where the real information is transferred over, mixed in with other images at slightly angled ways keeps a flowing theme throughout the double page spread.
What I would like to take from this example:
- Bright Colours keep the readers attention more then black bland colours, make sure to use bright and 'warm' colours.
- Make sure the title is the biggest and boldest part of the double page spread so that it is identified as the program it is straight away.
- Relevant pictures in the background.
http://www.derekknight.net/images/backpacker_spread.jpg
Above is another example of a Magazine double page spread for a Documentary which was featured in BackPacker Magazine, Ireland, this is a great example for me to look at and take items from due to it actually being a double page spread of an actual documentary, the two pages are packed with loads of photos that are made to look like holiday snaps which are once again all angled on different degrees of tilt.
The title is the biggest section of the double page spread and it is there to drag the attention.
The double page spread has simplicity with very little actual text but the space is filled really well with many photo's.
It doesn't matter that some of the photos break onto both sides of the page of the spread due to when being opened, you can see the crease line but the photo's flow from one page to another.
What I can take from this page:
-Possible photo's that could be split between the two pages.
-Good photo's that are relevant to the text to keep the reader interested
-Angled photo's to give the spread a bigger feeling of depth.
http://www.talegagolfclub.com/press/Talega_92673_Magazine_Spread.jpg
The third magazine double page spread above is cleverly created so that the double page looks as if it is actually just one page, this has been created through using the whole of the 2 pages as a work plane and merging photo's over both pages and some of the writing, this has to be done careful in case of how the magazine opens that you cannot actually see parts of the photo's or writing, although it is a bit blander and does not have a real background image, just a white background this does make it easier to read the text then some other magazine spreads that are around, especially in this spread there is a good balance between the amount of photo's that have been chosen and how much writing, this will not put the reader off as it is a digestible amount of writing. Although i think that there are good points about the magazine spread I believe that it is the weakest of the three magazine spreads as there is a lot of white blank space around the place, especially behind the columns of writing.
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