Evaluation question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our media product challenges forms and conventions of real media products by using various techniques within the media product itself.
For example, in our media product we use a strong foreshadowing enigma. This captivates the audience and therefore produces competition in the producing industry for horror films. There’s a hidden aspect. You don’t know what’s going to happen, you can only wonder and imagine. This technique attracts the audience’s attention to the film.
Our media product also uses and challenges the way in which professional media products are edited. In our film we superimposed two scenes. One, gradually revealing the look of the villain; and the other of a first-hand running shot. Superimposing these two scenes creates a relation; and as our film uses a strong foreshadowing enigma, it is almost vital that we can identify where there is a relationship, or connection, to prevent confusion. Also, at the beginning of our media product, we achieve the desired effect of an old home video, with the aid of special effects. These included draining the colour from the clips, as well as adding an old film effect, which enabled effects such as hair lines and instability to appear on the clip.
From our original storyboard we have developed our product quite a lot; the villain of the film has now been added into the chase scenes, but his presence is revealed gradually body part by body part, and the scenes are unstable and inconstant motion, disabling a clear view and this disables him from being identified.
Evaluation question 2:
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Our trailer, combined with the magazine cover and poster is effective in the way that it builds an overall picture of what lies in the trailer and the main events that are to occur but are not seen (the foreshadowing enigma). The repertoire of elements within the trailer links to the magazine cover and poster as certain shots that are viewed in the trailer are used for the ancillary texts. This relation adds to the continuity as these products all join in some way shape or form. Similar shades of colours are used within the trailer and the two texts adding to the effectiveness as it keeps the connection stronger than if a variety of different shapes and colours were used. There is consistency. The wooded area is viewed in all three texts adding to its importance, therefore making this an establishing shot for the audience, as they can see that the trailer and other two texts are all associated with the same background. However the ancillary texts do not give you anymore information than the trailer provides which ties in well with the mystery of the trailer for example there is no release date or dialogue. However the texts do allow the audience to have a proper look at the girl’s kidnapper.
Evaluation question 3:
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
You can learn a lot from audience feedback and within the following paragraph is what we have learned from our own target audience. They said that the use of music was very successful at affecting people’s emotions. For example the piano music used throughout, made people feel sad and feel sorry for the girl. Also, when the scene cuts to a black canvas and writing appears, it breaks up the action of the running and flashbacks. They also mentioned that the constant cutting between the action, kept them interested. This is because breaking up the action makes the audience want to see more. This builds suspense. It also gives the audience a little more information each time, and gives them an insight into how a certain character may be feeling about the situation.
The use of flashbacks, breaking up the action, also gives the same effect as when the scene cuts to a black canvas and writing appears. Creating suspense. Also, as it is not immediately obvious that the kidnapped girl and the child in the flashbacks is the same person but younger, this kept the audience interested. This technique captured the audience from the start as we found out. It also made the audience think about the trailer long after they had seen it, and create a little confusion about the connection between the children in the flashbacks and the kidnapped girl. Due to there being no release date, if people were drawn to our trailer, this would make people want to know more about the film and would create even more mystery regarding what the film is about. There being no dialogue in the trailer means that that the audience is not being given the whole story. They didn’t know how a certain character was feeling and it took time to realise that the flashbacks, and the kidnapped girl, were the same person. Nobody within the trailer states that the name of the girl shown is “Eleanor-Rose”. This created a sense of wonder and kept the audience intrigued.
Evaluation question 4:
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
In the construction of planning our trailer we used Microsoft Movie Maker, which translated our trailer from a drawn storyboard to a more realistic design accompanied by a timeline, which allowed us to estimate the amount of time required on each scene. We transferred our drawn design onto this computer programme by taking photos of each scene using a digital camera and uploading them onto our computer drive before copying them into each allocated storyboard space. For our poster design we used Photobucket, (an online photo editing site), which allowed us to edit and modify our photos, by making them look more professional and adding the necessary effects, and then copied the finished photo onto our poster. We used a cartoon effect on the picture which gives the photo a slight blurred effect that restricts your view adding to the suspense as you are unable to see the full picture, other than the main mask adjusted at the front of the poster. We also tried to highlight the mask, by bringing it out of the dark background. By doing this we have pinpointed a reoccurring theme, keeping consistency and tension. The writing used on the poster was uploaded from www.myfonts.com; a website specialising in different font styles. For our magazine cover we used the Microsoft Publisher programme. Publisher supports the requirements needed for creating a professional-looking magazine cover, and therefore was our prime choice in software to use for the cover.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our media product challenges forms and conventions of real media products by using various techniques within the media product itself.
For example, in our media product we use a strong foreshadowing enigma. This captivates the audience and therefore produces competition in the producing industry for horror films. There’s a hidden aspect. You don’t know what’s going to happen, you can only wonder and imagine. This technique attracts the audience’s attention to the film.
Our media product also uses and challenges the way in which professional media products are edited. In our film we superimposed two scenes. One, gradually revealing the look of the villain; and the other of a first-hand running shot. Superimposing these two scenes creates a relation; and as our film uses a strong foreshadowing enigma, it is almost vital that we can identify where there is a relationship, or connection, to prevent confusion. Also, at the beginning of our media product, we achieve the desired effect of an old home video, with the aid of special effects. These included draining the colour from the clips, as well as adding an old film effect, which enabled effects such as hair lines and instability to appear on the clip.
From our original storyboard we have developed our product quite a lot; the villain of the film has now been added into the chase scenes, but his presence is revealed gradually body part by body part, and the scenes are unstable and inconstant motion, disabling a clear view and this disables him from being identified.
Evaluation question 2:
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Our trailer, combined with the magazine cover and poster is effective in the way that it builds an overall picture of what lies in the trailer and the main events that are to occur but are not seen (the foreshadowing enigma). The repertoire of elements within the trailer links to the magazine cover and poster as certain shots that are viewed in the trailer are used for the ancillary texts. This relation adds to the continuity as these products all join in some way shape or form. Similar shades of colours are used within the trailer and the two texts adding to the effectiveness as it keeps the connection stronger than if a variety of different shapes and colours were used. There is consistency. The wooded area is viewed in all three texts adding to its importance, therefore making this an establishing shot for the audience, as they can see that the trailer and other two texts are all associated with the same background. However the ancillary texts do not give you anymore information than the trailer provides which ties in well with the mystery of the trailer for example there is no release date or dialogue. However the texts do allow the audience to have a proper look at the girl’s kidnapper.
Evaluation question 3:
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
You can learn a lot from audience feedback and within the following paragraph is what we have learned from our own target audience. They said that the use of music was very successful at affecting people’s emotions. For example the piano music used throughout, made people feel sad and feel sorry for the girl. Also, when the scene cuts to a black canvas and writing appears, it breaks up the action of the running and flashbacks. They also mentioned that the constant cutting between the action, kept them interested. This is because breaking up the action makes the audience want to see more. This builds suspense. It also gives the audience a little more information each time, and gives them an insight into how a certain character may be feeling about the situation.
The use of flashbacks, breaking up the action, also gives the same effect as when the scene cuts to a black canvas and writing appears. Creating suspense. Also, as it is not immediately obvious that the kidnapped girl and the child in the flashbacks is the same person but younger, this kept the audience interested. This technique captured the audience from the start as we found out. It also made the audience think about the trailer long after they had seen it, and create a little confusion about the connection between the children in the flashbacks and the kidnapped girl. Due to there being no release date, if people were drawn to our trailer, this would make people want to know more about the film and would create even more mystery regarding what the film is about. There being no dialogue in the trailer means that that the audience is not being given the whole story. They didn’t know how a certain character was feeling and it took time to realise that the flashbacks, and the kidnapped girl, were the same person. Nobody within the trailer states that the name of the girl shown is “Eleanor-Rose”. This created a sense of wonder and kept the audience intrigued.
Evaluation question 4:
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
In the construction of planning our trailer we used Microsoft Movie Maker, which translated our trailer from a drawn storyboard to a more realistic design accompanied by a timeline, which allowed us to estimate the amount of time required on each scene. We transferred our drawn design onto this computer programme by taking photos of each scene using a digital camera and uploading them onto our computer drive before copying them into each allocated storyboard space. For our poster design we used Photobucket, (an online photo editing site), which allowed us to edit and modify our photos, by making them look more professional and adding the necessary effects, and then copied the finished photo onto our poster. We used a cartoon effect on the picture which gives the photo a slight blurred effect that restricts your view adding to the suspense as you are unable to see the full picture, other than the main mask adjusted at the front of the poster. We also tried to highlight the mask, by bringing it out of the dark background. By doing this we have pinpointed a reoccurring theme, keeping consistency and tension. The writing used on the poster was uploaded from www.myfonts.com; a website specialising in different font styles. For our magazine cover we used the Microsoft Publisher programme. Publisher supports the requirements needed for creating a professional-looking magazine cover, and therefore was our prime choice in software to use for the cover.
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