Complete trailer

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research and planning -Final poster and magazine

Evalaution- Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

 I used Blogger this year  to show the progress of my work throughout my advanced portfolio, blogger helped me keep up to date and document my work also in my foundation portfolio. I could put all my research and planning that

i used the internet throughout the research and planning stage. i researched stuff like horror trailers on the website youtube to help me with sounds and editing of horror, the internet was also used for audience feedback  i used the social networking sites facebook and twitter to help me decide on the best tagline.

I used ishowu throughout the process of making my poster,magazine and trailer as a way of showing the moderator wherei was upto and what was the next stage of the process, i also used it to show of my skills on photoshop and to show me working on the program prezzi.

I used this program as a way of showing my potential production names for our trailer for example working title, spiral fims, my groups names were also included in the word it out, as a group with discussed and decided to use spiral films as our production name.

i used the program solvr for some ideas for our potential trailer taglines , the program asks a question so in my case potential film trailer taglines, i then came up with 4 different taglines and listed them below the question. i used audience feedback and discussions with my group to decide on The Retribution as our tagline.

Word is a program i have a very good knowledge of as i have been using it sinca a very early age, its a very simple program to use. I used this programme for when i wanted to write scripts or make a questionaire for my audience feedback, i also used it for my production documents such as shot lists, risk assessments and location recee's

I used this program to create my publication, Microsoft excel is another program i have good knowledge about as i also used in my foundation portfolio. I used this program to list all the tasks i had to do, i then had to plan and write down dates for when i was going to do each of these tasks.

We only used power point a small amount during the research and planning process and then i mostly used it for my evaluation. I have a good knowledge of power point so it was handy for when i wanted to document my work and keep a note of where i was up to on each task.

We used this program to create a sound test at the beginning of our work.As a group we used garageband and we created something similar to what we would do for our trailer. we learnt new skills on the program as neither of us had used the software before.

I used Facebook and twitter for most of my audience feedback, i used it to give me advice on big decisions for my magazine, poster and trailer because i believe research to the audience is the best way to make sure your audience is happy. The decisions i asked my audience were things such as the film title and the film tagline.

My group and i used our phones as a main way of organising what days we were going to film, and what we all needed to bring to the filming date. it was a simple easy way of organising and knowing what were doing.

I used youtube as a way of resaerching into existing trailers that were the same genre as mine. My role was cimatography so i used it to look at the way the chracters were dressed, the props used and the lighting of the trialer. The trailers i looked and anaylised were parnoarmal activity and saw 1.

Photoshop played a big role in my work, i used it to produce both my magazine and poster, because we used it in our foundation portfolio i had basic knowledge of the program, i then alot new skills such as the colour balance tool which added great effects to my images. I also used photoshop to create my green scene, which was a newsreader background.

I used the SLR for my pictures, i took pictures for both my poster and magazine. I used these camera's last year si i had basic knowledge but this year i learnt new buttons so i could make my images look alot more clearer and look alot better quality. I also used the SLR for my cinematography to show evidence of me doing the make up and costumes

As a group we used the camcorders for a variety of things and had our own tape to record it on, we also had a tripod where we could sit the camera on top so for when parts of the trailer had to be kept still we could do so. We used the camcorder for filming parts of the trialer, auditions for the trailer and the sound test.

imovie was used to put together and edit the whole of my teaser trailer movie.My group and i had never used this software before so we were all learning new skills together, we did struggle to find alot of things on the software but we got there in the end. everything was uplaoded to this software including the sound.

Evaluation- question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

This question consisted of me looking back through my research and planning and looking at all the feedback i had gathered and discussed.
For this question i have created a short movie on imovie to show and discuss how the feeback i recieved  has helped me throuhgout the process of producing my trailer, poster and magazine.
I gathered my audience feedback in many ways such as

- social networking sites
- Questionaires
- collegue feedback
- teachers feedback

Social networking sites
I used social networking sites to get feeback about my film title and taglines, i came up with about 5 idea's then posted them to my audience on feedback. My facebook friends were all the age of my target audience i decided on which is why this feedback to me was the most important. When my idea's were posted there was always one film title or tagline that stood out to people so that is the names i decided on.

Questionaires
I made up a questionaire, i asked questions that i knew would help me lot with prodcuing my trailer such as locations . They were all questions that were focused on the horror genre and what i thought would help me make my trailer the best, the last question in the questionaire asked for idea's, so from the questioanires i had new idea's to think about

Collegue feedback
When i showed my collegues my trailer, magazine or poster i always asked there opinion, and because they were all media students they all had good ideas on improving my work, they also had good thoughts on what they believe makes my trailer successful.

Teacher feedback
When i got feedback from my teacher it was one of the most important advice i listened to as she knew how to make the quality of my poster, magazine or trailer alot better.

This was my magazine before i asked my audience for feedback, my audience said they didn't like the banner across the bottom as it makes the magazine look unprofessional and draws more attention to the banner than anything else.

Once i had this feedback i removed the banner and decided to go for this layout instead.

Evaluation - question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

 I made a podcast and then on the software IMovie I edited it together with images and videos from my trailer, magazine and poster. I discussed the process of making my trailer and the tasks we had to do throughout. My role in the group is mise en scene so I have talked about the lighting, the make up and costumes of the chracters  and also the props used to make it a horror genre.I also discuss my magazine and poster. I have talked about how the poster and magazine link togther and how the colour scheme or the content indicates its a horror genre.

 The poster and magazine link together mainly because of the colours used, I used black and red which both connect to the horror genre. The fonts i used also connect together the poster and magazine to the trailer as I've used similar fonts. i tried to make my magazine and poster show the horror genre as much as i could by using scary mise en scene such as the scary eyes, i wanted my magazine and poster to look simple but effective. 

representation of the characters: the 4 of the girls have the same hair, make up and clothing throughout the trailer. Becky (the possessed girl) when the possessed scenes in the trailer have been used she has the same crazy hair and scary make up which is also then used in the magazine and poster.

good vs bad : in the trailer there is clear binary opposites, the audience can see who is the villain and who is the victims   

colour: I've used a consistent colour scheme throughout the three tasks, i've used quite dark colours and a red colour, the red colour represents the horror genre. Keeping a consistent colour scheme throughout also links them all together and shows the audience that there all part of one film.

lighting: on all three tasks I've used low key lighting to portray the horror theme. When i took the images for the poster and magazine i took it in dark lighting but then on top of that i edited the in Photoshop to make it even darker, and make the scary make up stand out. Towards the end of the trailer the lighting gets darker and darker to show the possession taking place.

Location: i used a house for the location of tasks and i used the same location for each of the tasks. We tried to make the house look like a student house so the audience could understand the narrative better. for the poster and magazine i used the natural darkness outside , and i had just the flash for the lighting.


 

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Evaluation question 1

In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In my poster, magazine and trailer i have used, deveopled and challenges froms and conventions of real media products.

Conventions which I have used from real media text

The coventions i have used from real media convention's is

- i've used a montage effect (kuleshov method) this is a selection of different shot which are edited by jump cuts to each shot.
- I used the final girl theory (Carol clover) where one of my chracters survives but through the whole film she was terriosed
- Titles and production logo's at the beginning
- The hair and make up of the possessed girl.
- Build up of sound throughout the trailer
- sound effects on jumpy parts

The coventions i have developed from real media convention's is

- i've not only used the tripod and camera but i've also used my phone for like a handheld effect.

I did this because when students are drunk at party's they take video's and picture's to remember good nights, a horror film that has used the hand held effect is the blair witch project.

The coventions i have challenged from real media convention's is

- Our narrative is abit more different, normally it's an outsider who kills there victims but in our film, its one of there best friends who kills them.

research and planning- magazine upto date