Research and Planning: Final Trailer

Research and Planning: Final Poster

Research and Planning: Final Magazine

Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evalution stages

I used this website to make a presentation about my target audience for my A2 work. This was used to refer back to throughout, to keep me on track with my work. Prezi was quick and easy to use which was good.

WordItOut was a fun and interesting way to put words together to find out our production and distribution company logo names. It was easy to use and very quick but still effective.

 I didn't find Solvr as helpful as WordItOut and Prezi but it was still fun to be able to use more technologies. Solvr was quick to use and after being shown how to did it, it was easy. We used it to come up with a film name.

I used SLR cameras to take pictures for my magazine and poster. We was taught how to use SLR's in AS so it was easy to do.

 I had never used a video camera until making my trailer so I was using it without experience, but I found it easy to use, and because I wasn't in charge of cinematography, I didn't have to film as much.

I used my standard digital camera for test shots for my research and planning.

 I used Garage Band to create all of the sound for our trailer. After a while of having to have help, it got easier to use.

 iShowU was used for podcasts which I used for this evaluation question. It is really easy to use and also really helpful.

 I used Photoshop for my magazine and poster. I have been using Photoshop for two years now so I know how to use it. Its quick and easy to use.

This is a labelled picture of iMovie which wouldn't open in my podcast so I will just show you how to use it now.
Once you've got your footage it will go into your 'Project Library'
Your toolbar has buttons which you can use to add editing transitions which I talk about in my video. You can also record your voice or sound effects through the record button.
Where it says event browser, that is the part where it shows all your footage which you can highlight and then drag and drop into your Project Storyboard.
Once you have edited all of your clips and made your video, you can press play and watch it back on the viewer.

Question 3 - What have you learnt from your audience feeback?

Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasts

Representation
From all pieces of my work, Josh features in all of them. I tried to use the same representation but making it a bit more different on the poster, because the poster is the main product which will make an audience want to watch the film. In the poster I tried to make Josh look like the villain by using a close up on his face with a red tinge on his eyes to suggest that he is the bad one. In comparison, my magazine is different to this, as the picture is quite natural because it hasn't been edited as much as the poster. I also use a High angle shot to make him look like the victim not the villain. Throughout the trailer there is a number of shots of Josh, first of all in the equilibrium where Josh is happy and laughing, this suggests that he is the victim not the villain but the last shot of the full trailer suggests otherwise. My magazine goes with the start of the film, whereas the poster goes with the end making the representation quite even.

Good Vs Bad
In my magazine and poster there is only one person, so it is hard to see if he is good or bad, but there is a slight edge which makes the character look better in the magazine than in the poster. Once you look closer, into the trailer though, an obvious good vs bad starts to appear with the character of Abbie, Josh's best friend who wont believe that Josh is dead.

Colour/Lighting
The colour is different for the character of Josh on all 3 products. On the poster, there is high key lighting which isn't a regular feature of a horror poster, but I really like the effect and with the shadows on Josh's face and the red eyes, the high key lighting doesn't take the edge off the horror side to the poster, which was my main worry. my magazine has quite natural lighting as I didn't edit it as much as the poster or the film. In the film, we put an effect over all of Josh's shots so that there was an obvious theme throughout the trailer.

Location
I used a brick background for all of the shots from my poster, magazine and shots with Josh in it on the film. I did this so that the audience would see a relationship between the three products and it would be an iconic part of the finished product.

Text
Throughout all three pieces of my work, I have tried to use similar texts, for example, I used the same font for the slugline on my poster and the slugline in my film. I used a similar font for the word 'Disconnected' in all three of my products.

Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

These vox pops helped me as they all suggested that my main product was obviously linked wth my ancillary tasks, which I tried really hard to do, so I was pleased with the outcome.

Question 1 - In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Amys work from SamArrandale

Question 1 - In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Research and Planning: Film name

My film name is called 'Disconnected'. I was speaking to my friends and they said that they was unsure what the film would be about with this name. This made me worried, so I googled the word to see what images would come up. The images included broken telephones and lightbulbs, this reassured me, as I was worrying it wouldn't be the right name for the film.

Research and Planning: Film posters

I like these two film posters because of the close up of the face on both images. My poster is going to be inspired by these posters, in the way that both posters have dark shades within the images.

Research and Planning: Update post

We have been doing more filming and editing over the past few days and since the feedback we have decided that the trailer needs to show less of the story line because at the moment, it is being give away a lot more than we want.
We have been recording different objects to make specific sounds, for example, we have been using wine glasses with water inside to create an eerie effect. This will make the genre of our film more obvious throughout the trailer.

Research and Planning: Magazine and Poster so far

Since last time I have changed my poster a lot. I really disliked the old one and felt that the image looked blurry. So I decided to take the image of the grass out, and replace it with the image of the phone, I made it really opaque and then made the image darker and more saturated. I then put a red tinge onto the eyes of my model to make the genre more obvious.

I plan to change quite a bit about the magazine, but I havent got around to doing it yet. i will post pictures when I have done.

Research and Planning: Poster so Far

Since the last post, I have decided to make a number of changes, for example, I have moved about the steel tongues writing, to create more space and moved my film name to the bottom of the page.
I have also changed the colour and font of the title name, I think it stands out a lot better now.
Last time, I mentioned that I didnt like all of the layers of images, so now I have made it more simplistic.

Research and Planning: Magazine so Far

Since the last post, I have added a lot more text to it as well as some magazin features for example, the barcode in the bottom right corner.

Research and Planning: magazine and poster so far

My magazine needs lots of things still doing to it. I have decded that I dont wat the blue font as my masthead anymore, and the colour red would go much better with the horror genre of my film.

I'm not sure about my magazine, as I think there are too many pictures, and the film name doesn't stand out as much. I am going to change my poster I think.

Research and Planning: Poster so far in stages

Research and Planning: Trailer so far

Research and planning: Props

This is the missing poster we made as a prop for our film trailer.

Research and Planning: Unedited footage.

 Here is some more of our unedited footage.

research and planning: Unedited footage

This is some of the unedited footage so far.

Research and Planning: Film poster

Here are some of the screen grabs of my work today. This is for my poster and isn't completed.

Research and Planning: Social networking feedback

I put the pictures on twitter to get feed back. These were my posts.

This is the feedback I received.

From this I have decided to choose picture 1 and picture 4.

Research and Planning: My favourite pictures

These two photos are my favourites, but because they are similar I am going to get some audience feedback on them

 I am also going to do the same for these two next pictures.

 

Research and Planning: Photos for the magazine/poster

These are the pictures which we have taken today.  I am in charge of mise en scene so I have done the makeup, bought and decorated the tshirt and brought in tape and rope.