Evaluation: Question 4

Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

Here is a little tutorial about the Technologies I have used.

And here is a presentation of all of the technologies used.

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Blogger kept track of my work e.g. Research & Planning, Production.

Created a word map of words relating to zombies & horror. 

Research & Planning for Media Products.

Watch Tutorials for zombie make up and analyse trailers.

Produce presentations to plan trailer's plot and publication plan.

Print off actor release forms, and permission slips.

Posted my projects on social networking sites for target audience feedback.

Used to take photos and record scenes for trailer.

Produced my film poster, magazine cover & company logo.

Put together clip's we filmed.

Creates film score and sound effects.

Records protagonists & other characters voiceovers.

Evaluation: Question 3

Q3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

To answer this question, I have looked back at my audience feedback I have gained in September to March. I will also discuss what I have learned from this experience and how it has impacted upon the creation of my Zombie Horror trailer ‘INFECTION’, film poster and film magazine cover.


Class Feedback - My media class helped give me feedback on my trailer/film poster/magazine cover because they are part of my target audience. Most of the students were also doing a ‘Horror’ trailer too like myself and my group, so they knew what to look for in a Horror. I learnt a lot from my audience as they told me what to improve on my poster/magazine cover/trailer and they also told me what they, as my target audience liked about my work.

Questionnaires - To collect feedback from my target audience I designed a questionnaire to help me find out what is appropriate and suitable for my target audience. I asked questions such as Locations, Protagonists Gender, What type of angles to use etc. Creating the questionnaire helped me to improve my knowledge on what is needed in a Horror trailer.

Social Networking Feedback - Using Facebook and Twitter, I shared Film Poster/Film Magazine/Trailer to collect my target audience feedback. My friends and online followers are 18 and over, so me posting my products online is appropriate for them to see. The audience gave me back some good honest feedback on what they liked and what to do to improve.

Audience Interviews – Doing Audience Interviews helped me to study and understand what my target audience like about Horror films and what they would like to see in mine and my groups. I also managed to learn what to include in my 3 products thanks to my target audience.

Product Polls – To gather some more audience feedback I put together some polls and posted them onto some social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. These polls helped me to know what I should do to improve my 3 products. Using these polls helped me to find out what gender the protagonist for mine and my groups protagonist should be, which was an un-stereotypical female (Brave & Hard Working).

Audience Feedback For Trailer.

  

Audience Feedback For My Film Magazine Cover.

  

Audience Feedback For My Film Poster.

  

Audience Feedback For Finalised Trailer, My Film Magazine Cover & Film Poster.

I have created a gif using makeagif.com of two teenagers both aged 18. These teenagers are both the appropriate age for my target audience for mine and my groups Zombie Horror ‘INFECTION’. I used two females as the main protagonist for my film is a female, so they are most likely going to watch the horror. 

Evaluation: Question 2

Q2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Please click on the main image and you will be directed to the presentation. :)

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Here is a podcast giving the audience more detail about the effectiveness in mine and my groups main product and my ancillary tasks.

Evaluation: Question 1

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

Film Magazine

 

Film Poster

Film Trailer

Completed Trailer

We have:- 

• Included background sci-fi/thriller music while the beat is playing during the trailer
• Used Davids "All will be ok, won't it?" over the fight scene to make the trailer ironic
• Included a 'BANG' noise when the zombie is behind the protagonist and Damsel
• Changed the sounds volume 
• Faded the heavy breathing at the end