Viral Marketing

Vertical and Horizontal Intergration

Monsters

Monsters is a British film released in 2010 that starred Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy, the film was written and directed by Gareth Edwards.

The Plot

The film begins six years after NASA had discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. Earth has been invaded by alien life form, and half of Mexico has been quarantined and called the 'infected zone' where the creatures are being contained by the American and Mexican  military. The story begins when an American journalist agrees to help his boss' daughter get back home, however this means them fighting there way through the infected zone in order to get to the safety of the US border.

The estimated budget for the science fiction film was $500,000, however at the box office it recouped $4,242,978 which is a massive profit for such a low budget film.

The film only cost $500,000 because there were only two cast members, Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able, as well as this there were only five members of crew who went out to do filming.
The film was shot in five different locations:

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• Texas

One of the major reasons the film was such a success was because all of the minor characters were not supplied with dialogue, they could do what they wanted with it and make it up as they went along, this made the characters feel more genuine, this was also the same for the two main characters, they were given a brief synopsis of what was going to happen in the scene, while for the rest they had to improvise and come up with the dialogue as they went through the film, this was so they would give more genuine reactions to what was happening in the scene.

Analysis of music magazine contents pages

Brief For Music Magazine

Brief For Music Magazine on Prezi

What I Learned From School Magazine Exercise

From creating the front cover and contents page for my school magazine, i have learnt a few things that will help me when creating my final product for my media project.

It is very important to have a good quality image on the front cover because this is the main focus of the magazine, one thing i think i will do differently is instead of having an image of a building, i will have the image of a person, who will be the person that will feature in my main article.

I also found that the text was not very clear against the background, so that is something that will need to be improved.

I think that the best thing about my school magazine is the colour scheme, it goes with the school logo and it is also the school colours, this is the type of thing that i would like to do on my final magazine because it is important to match the colour pallet to the type of magazine that i am trying to produce.

I also learnt that the contents page is just as important as the front cover of the magazine, because this includes all of the information that will guide the reader through the magazine and also give them the slightest bit of information, so they do not only know what to expect from the magazine but they are also left wanting to read on.

Review of Last Years Work