Completed Film Magazine Cover

Completed Film Poster

Completed Trailer

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. :)

There was no embed code unfortunately.

       

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

Research & Planning - Technologies For Evaluation 2

During a recent lesson for our project, our media tutor informed us that we can use two more technologies for our evaluations for our 3 products.

UPDATE: I have also found a couple more technologies to use for the Evaluation.

MakeaGif.com

Glogster

Wideo

New Hive

Research & Planning - Technologies For Evaluation

For my upcoming Evaluations I will need to use some technologies to present my answers.

iPhone

Voicethread

Windows Movie Maker

Slideshare

iShowU

Prezi

Research & Planning - Survey Monkey Audience Feedback

I used Facebook to advertise the survey and received 12 responses from the audience, most of them were positive and one of them was negative about the film poster, and some gave me some helpful feedback.

QUESTION 1

QUESTION 2 

QUESTION 3 

QUESTION 4

QUESTION 5

QUESTION 6

QUESTION 7 

Research & Planning - Survey Monkey

I have posted on Facebook a link directed to a survey I created to receive the public's view on my Film Poster and Magazine Cover. 

Here is the link to the Survey.

Research & Planning - Official Film Poster

The moderators helped me and told me that I should change the Tag Lines font at the top of the poster, I agreed as the text on the old poster didn't blend well with the genre. So I have finally chosen a font that should fit with the Horror theme.

Before

Now

I really like this font (Aparajita) because it looks old fashioned and gives off a Horror vibe. I had other font choices in this similar style, but they were either too big for a small size or they were wide in size.

Research & Planning - Updated Trailer

We've Included:-

• News caster report
• Improved the title cards
• Included a tempo with the beat of the music 
• Moved/added clips

Research & Planning - Film Poster: Tagline Font

In order the get the grade I need for my Film Poster I had to reconsider on the font choice. I went through all of the font choices I had on my Photoshop and these are the ones I liked the most. Next week I am going to ask my media teacher for her advice on which one looks the most horror-fied font.

Aparajita 

Bell MT

Book Antiqua

Californian FB

Centaur 

DaunPenh

Research & Planning - How To Improve

I have recently received my moderator feedback, and was quite pleased with the result. :D

Improvements on....

Film Poster

• Change the Tag Lines font

Film Trailer

• Include an Establishing Shot at the beginning

• Shorten some clips

• Change some of the clips screening e.g black & white for the introduction/past moments

• Edit the sound bridge

• Add more dramatic music using Garageband

These are my targets for now, I will post some ideal fonts to my tagline, and ask some friends for their opinion. 

Also I will be working with my group and we will try to compose a fitting song to play throughout the trailer. Also film an establishing shot for the beginning of the trailer.

Research & Planning - Deadline

Here is my groups trailer. 

My official Film Poster, for a clearer image click on this FLICKR link. (The photograph fades and looks blurred after saving from Photoshop to posting on my blog, so I used Flickr to view the clearer version.

And here is my official Film Magazine cover with the protagonist, please click on this FLICKR link for the clearer version.

Research & Planning - Film Magazine Draft to Now

This idea I drew up on Photoshop was for a Film Poster idea, but when I was really struggling with coming up a background for my magazine cover's background I suddenly remember this.

I took a photo of our memorial wall to show the moderators what it looked like, but then i realised it would be perfect for my magazines background, as it looks quite similar to my draft.

And here is what my film magazine looks like right now, I faded the photo of the wall so that audiences can still see the protagonist but also what's written on the posters.