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Friday, 12 April 2013
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Evaluation Question 4- How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Research, planning and evaluation stages.
Construction stages
Using Imovie:
Evaluation Question 3- What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
Audience feedback for me and my partners trailer, our poster and magazine:
The audience feedback I have gathered has been really helpful in the development of my media products. I have been collecting audience feedback at the beginning from pitching a story line in the research and planning stages. Here are the cases where I have used audience feedback.
The audience feedback I have gathered has been really helpful in the development of my media products. I have been collecting audience feedback at the beginning from pitching a story line in the research and planning stages. Here are the cases where I have used audience feedback.
Audience Interviews:
At the start of the process I filmed
audience videos to see their expectations from a film trailer which is where
the base of my ideas came from. The interviewers told us what was expected from
the horror genre such as the fast pace of a horror trailer, what interests
audiences to see a horror film and what is typical background music. We learnt
that the possession/stalker element would be a good and interesting idea to
develop for our plot.
Audience Interviews:
Me and my partner created
questionnaires across our college peers to find the typical codes and
conventions of a horror trailer. This included asking if people would prefer a
lot of transitions between shots, the ages which we found would appeal to 16+,
with an even score of the gender who would be interested in our trailer. A
helpful element which we took from the questionnaire was whether to use a
handheld camera throughout our trailer, which we found people liked the sound
of.
Feedback from the Media
Class:
We pitched our trailer ideas to our
college tutor, it was then decided that our first and more in depth plot would
be more realistic to create, and was overall the better more thought out idea.
We then took these ideas and filmed a short sequence of flash back scenes, of
our main character in a mental hospital. After viewing this to the media class
we received helpful feedback with improvements being to make the fact that she
is a mental hospital more clearly. An element of our trailer which the class
really liked was the fast pace editing which we then developed and worked on
through the whole trailer. After 3 viewings to the media class of our trailer
to show our progress we were given help for improvement each time and strengths
to expand, the feedback from our class was really helpful and influential throughout
the whole trailer.
Social Network Feedback:
Throughout the whole process of
creating the productions I often asked people from my target audience to give
feedback on my work through Facebook and twitter. This helped gather the
opinions and again make changes were needed and also decide the names on my
film, magazine name and production company logo/name. I found it really helpful
getting social networking feedback on my film poster; I struggled to make my
poster fit in with my other products so the suggestions received helped me a
great deal.
Overall Progress and Work
Class Feedback:
Through the year I gathered feedback
of my Trailer, Magazine and poster from my class and social media which were
very helpful in the process of creating my media products and was very influential
regarding the genre, and representation of my products.
Trailer commentary:
This is our trailer commentary showing our trailer before social networking feedback and after. On the first cut of our trailer majority of the scenes are flash back asylum sequences and our animatic storyboard. We took the advice and areas of improvement from our media class which can be seen on our final trailer.
Evaluation Question 2- How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
Representation of Character:
On my trailer I have included the
main character to look strange and relatively villain-like. Whereas on my
poster and magazine I have shifted the focus to the sub-main character to show
a different character point of, and a more vulnerable point of view. The
supporting character on my poster and magazine looks innocent and vulnerable
which represents a control from the trailers villain main character, from the
photos her posture and pose make her look like a victim and from the trailer we
see that she has been manipulated and 'turned mad'. I decided to change this
point of view to give an element of mystery and question for the audience. I
used dark colours and shadows throughout to show the genre to be
horror/thriller.
Good vs. Bad:
We can see elements of the good and
bad characters in our trailer, Harriet (short haired female) to be not necessarily
evil, but suspicious looking due to the strange looks she gives and the
flashback shots of her in a mental asylum. We also see a montage of shots of
another character who acts as a supporting role, as a victim. We here over the
montage a doctor’s voice saying 'she’s turning others mad' this suggests that
Harriet has manipulated her and turned her insane. The divide between good and
bad isn’t over ally clear in our trailer because you could argue that Harriet isn’t
intentionally a Bad character, just mentally unstable.
Location:
The main location featured in my
trailer is the college, various college rooms and corridors because the setting
and story is in a college which worked well. The asylum scenes were shot in a
small room in college which we altered with a sheeted table to look more horror
relatable. We also filmed some sequences in the woods to show a change of
location and a more diversity of locations. The location for my poster and
magazine just required a white wall for the background. I chose not to have a
busy location because I wanted the only focus to be on the character, and
because she is a hospital patient there wouldn’t really be any other
appropriate place to capture.
Colour and Lighting:
The colour and lighting I have used
is very dark and low key throughout all of my work, I have done this to give a
clear portrayal of the horror genre I have chosen. Although during the mental
asylum scenes the room seems quote light because of the white walls, but the
grain and green tint over these shots relate to the hospital feeling. There are
a few scenes outside in woods which are lighter than the others because it was
day light, but I think the wet ground and the trees made it look relevant and
spooky even in the day. My poster and magazine related well to the horror genre
because of the black/white/red colour scheme which is often seen on horror
related products.
Text:
The texts and fonts I used for my
poster, magazine and trailer are all very similar and simple, this is because
due to the fact I am doing products relating to horror, the other elements are
all very busy so I thought simple plain texts would contrast well. The colour
for the fonts stuck to the three colour rule of red, white and black with small
elements of grey on my poster.
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