Josh Connor

Friday 29 January 2010

Evaluation

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
List all of the equipment you used and how it helped you – what would you have had to do if you didn’t have access to it?

In the construction of our film trailer we include new technologies such as the apple imac which we edited and added music to the trailer from, the imac has enabled us to produce higher quality editing and fast and effective transition from shot to shot, the imac also provided us with sound effects and we were enable to manipulate a voice to make a voice over . we used a limux camera with a high quality image to film digitally which was a lot easier to transfer on to the mac when we had filmed, as the camera was of high quality it enabled us to keep the action clear, and easy to watch for the audience. we also used the camera to take the still shots of me for the poster and the magazine front cover and these were very clear and detailed photos, With out these technologies we wouldn't be able to produce such a high quality of work and would of took us a lot longer to make also the audience wouldn't have as much interest in our trailer and ancillary products.

Within research we have used media technologies such as the Internet to provide information on film trailers, posters and magazine covers.
Websites like www.YouTube.com provide video clips that helped us think of ideas for an action film, such as camera angles, mise en scene, type of music and how to act. google images gave us ideas for film magazine covers and for film posters and helped us keep the generic conventions of each of these, the images helped our research a great deal as we found an image and copied the same properties for example the godfather film poster. www.Jamendo.com provided us with the copy right free music that we added to our film trailer and the song we chose which was 'lukhash psyche' fitted the genre of music that we wanted for our film trailer and what we had researched.The access of the Internets also enabled us to publish our work on to the blog and other websites such as face book and YouTube where we gained successful comments off Friends and teachers without the access to the Internet our research would have been made ten times harder it has provided ideas from hundreds of films for our trailer and ancillary tasks

In the evaluation stages technology helped us again as we used screen grabs to capture parts of our trailer and then we commented on lighting, sfx, mise en scene and editing. we have evaluated on our blogs which is another advantage of having access to the Internet, we can log on to our blogs on any computer with Internet access allowing us to get more work done. without this the whole evaluation would be written by hand and screen grabs would have to be from a photo and then stuck on to paper to Analise.

To conclude the new advances in technology enabled us to produce a higher quality finish to our product. research is made a lot easier thanks to the access of the internet and the mass of media services it provides, we canlook at and analise film trailer, film posters and film magazine front covers to help influence our work.

Evaluation

In my media coursework i had decided to share the workload with one other person, Josh Plant. I decided to create to-do lists, and became the main organiser. We planned our week schedule very well and always had something to do, therefore we worked efficeintly.

We have answered the first question together and is on our shared blog.

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

In order to make our ancillary tasks a good part of our campaign to promote our film we have had to a lot of research into the generic conventions of what a good action teaser trailer, film poster and film magazine front cover should be.

We decided to get our poster done, we researched into classic films such as "The Godfather" in particular. This poster struck us as a great basis for our own poster. We used a similar, simple black and white colour scheme to show the contrast between good and evil. We used this for both of our ancillary tasks because it is important to keep similiarity so not to confuse the genre of the film. We did this maily becuase we found most films did this. For example the godfather uses a very similar DVD case colour scheme to its poster. We made sure that both film magazine and poster used the space well. By this i mean i made sure that the main character of the film was always occupying most space on the paper. When i looked at other action posters this is exactly what i found and that all focus was aimed on the character. Everything else on the other posters were a lot smaller or duller and did not attract attention. We have successfully achieved this in our poster as well.

The Film magasine front cover also had to considered this. We did not make the image of the main character as big but it is still clear that it is the most important piece. We used the same colour contrast to make the big, white font stand out and draw your attention to the text. Also we made sure to use catchy headlines "Josh Connor whoi is the man behind the name?", this would definately grab the audieces attention due to this man being in the dark, making the audience think who is this mysterious man?

I think overall our poster was good and fits into the convention of a action film poster, it may of took as a few goes to get in right but it was worth i tin the end. If i could change anything it would be the pose of what the main character is doing. Despite is being very mysterious and powerful i would of like to use a low angled shot to create the illusion of power and really play on the convention of an action film.

Thursday 28 January 2010

Evaluation - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We have attempted to get feedback for our media by posting in on facebook at first.

This proved unsuccefull!

We then decieded to post it on facebook.

I have learnt a lot from my audiece feedback, we mainly learnt that our feedback was all positive and therefore our intila draft was good. Despite this positive feedback we decied that our piece coud be vastly improvd and contunued to add far more to it.