Evaluation 4

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

Before we started filming our teaser trailer, I did a lot of research into different horror and thriller film teaser trailers to get ideas for ours, I used YouTube to do this and watched trailer such as Saw, Dead Silence and Nightmare on Elm Street, once we had decided on our film idea we found a trailer that was most suited for our idea and watched and analysed how they created a suspenseful trailer.

During filming we used a Sony HD V1 so we could
shoot clear footage and the end result would have a better picture. During the editing stages we used Final Cut pro to edit and put together our footage

To create my poster and magazine cover I used photoshop

Evaluation 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

When I’d completed my poster and magazine cover I decided to show it to the people in my media class and people around the college, I did this to see their reaction and to get constructive feedback. I asked them whether they liked the idea I had come up with. People had different reactions to it, most people I asked said they like it and it looked like a real poster and magazine cover, other people said they liked the idea of it and it was good but it didn't look as real as it could have. If I’d had posted my poster and magazine cover on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr I could have got more feedback from a wider audience of different ages but as I was limited with time I didn't have get around to doing so.

By showing my poster and magazine cover to people and getting their feedback I now know what I could do differently and how to improve it.

I posted our trailer on YouTube as it is a widely used site all around the world and easy accessed by people, as well as posting it on YouTube I also showed several people around the college including students and staff, the comments I got back were very positive, praising our work and saying they would like to watch the whole film if it was ever made.

Evaluation 1

Media Evaluation 1

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

For our media creative production we had to make three media items a teaser trailer, a magazine cover and a poster promoting an upcoming film, we created a teaser trailer to appeal to a certain audience, for teenagers aged 15 onwards, trailers are created to make the audience aware of the upcoming film and give them an insight into what it is about, bringing up the hype about it. We decided to post out teaser trailer on YouTube which is a good way to promote our film as many people use it daily all around the world.

All three products will contain the same character as it will be easier for the audience to know what film it is and be able to relate them together. To make our teaser trailer seem like a real trailer I watched different horror/ thriller trailers such as Saw, The Signal and Dead Silence I watched these specific ones as they are similar to our story idea, I also watched the Hunger Games trailer, although it is not a horror or a thriller the context of the film was similar to our film idea. All these trailers have helped us create our finished product to the best of our ability. I looked at the different camera angles and the soundtrack that was used in all of them so I could incorporate that into our trailer to make it captivating for the audience, we decided to stick to normal camera angles on the tripod although did break away from normal conventions by using it handheld to give the audience a sense of being there. The soundtrack we used created suspense within the trailer.

An example of one teaser trailer I watched

We decided to change the contrast of our film footage as we wanted a gloomy look to make it creepier and more like a real horror film trailer. We tried not to break any conventions from a real horror film trailer as we thought it would be better to stick to it to make it look more real, we decided to only film in one location as we wanted to create a claustrophobic feel to give the audience an insight in to what the real film will entail.

Once the editing of the teaser trailer was complete I moved onto constructing my magazine and poster again to make sure I had this done to the best of my ability I looked at real horror and thriller posters and magazine covers. The poster that gave me most influence was Dead Silence, I chose to do something similar to that because it was simple yet effective.

The poster I decided to get my main idea from was Empire I liked the way everything was positioned on the cover and the colours used, by sticking to the way this magazine cover looks I could make mine look as real as possible

I decided to stick mainly to the codes and conventions of a horror movie only breaking them once or twice when we decided to use the camera handheld and by only using one location by breaking the conventions we appeal to a wider audience, however by sticking to the codes and conventions people will know what to expect and they will enjoy because they know what to expect.

Poster

Magazine Cover

The Caller Teaser Trailer

Evaluation 2

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

We decided to make our teaser trailer accessible on different technologies such as computers, TV, Smartphone’s etc. We chose to do this because then more people would be able to view it wherever they were as most people have Internet access or a phone with the Internet on it, by making it available on these different technologies it also made it easier for people overseas to view it therefore making it available for a bigger audience.

By making my poster and magazine cover accessible on the Internet it was therefore seen by more people even if they aren’t into horror or thriller films, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook are widely used social networking sites all around the world, so by putting them on these sites they will be spread around and talked about.

 

 

The effect we wanted our teaser trailer, poster and magazine cover have on the audience it was targeted at is that they were intrigued by it and wanted to see it, I think that they work well together as they all have the same character on the front so the audience can relate them together, they also all stick to the conventions of horror or thriller promotional products.

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