The merchandise we put together on the Merchboard is a collection of various items related to films. We dissected them and gathered research that we thought would help with our merchandise. As follows:
The t-shirt design used on the family guy t-shirt is bold and simplified. The colour scheme is very plain (using only black and white) which adds a blunt effect, yet a desirable one as it shows what the t-shirt is without any lyrical additives. When we looekd into other film-related t-shirts they all followed a very basic colour scheme or jsut simply adapted the film poster onto them. Very rarely did any t-shirts have an outbursting colour scheme unless said colours where used to illuminate any specifics such as a title or tag line. We concluded from this that in order to make an effect t-shirt we must also follow these basic guidelines.
Smaller merchandise and slightly more mainstream things such as cups and post-cards followed a very simple pattern of simply using the films poster on them; we adapted this and have therefore decided to do the same due to its high effect and cheap production.
More prominent items in the merchandise market are props and collectables from the films. Take for example the star wars 'stormtrooper' helmet. The storm trooper helmet is one of the most biggest selling movie props of all time, and not only is it a colelctable but it is also practical, alot of them actually being able to be worn. Other props such as supermans cape, predators wrist blade and batmans suit are also very popular, and normally very exact in detail. Given that these are the most successful pieces of merchandise we also decided to focus on reproducing the memory stick that is used in our film.
In the next post there will be images of a T-shirt, Post-card, a mug and a memory stick all in relation to our film.
Good, at the end you start to contextualise your post in terms of your production. I like the word collectino, I think it's an improvement.
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