Tuesday 12 February 2013

Evaluation Question 4 - 'How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?'




In this slideshare presentation I have showed many of the media technologies that I have used to create my coursework. There were many different websites and equipment that were used, many of which presented my work in different ways for the audience. There are many positives and negatives that come with using media technology.
Many can be easy to use, and since lots of people use cameras/websites, it is easy to find tutorials on the internet. However, if for some reason you cannot get access to the internet, it is near impossible to do your work since it relies so heavily on the internet. People who own Apple Macs are at an advantage when it comes to editing, since they will have iMovie, therefore people who don't are limited to school or somewhere that has one. This means they may have less time to edit, due to the lack of availability.
Web 2.0 allowed me to post my work on social websites so I could gain valuable feedback, while blogger and other websites such as prezi allowed me to easily apply these improvements and repost them.



Sunday 3 February 2013

Evaluation Question 3 - 'What have you learned form your audience feedback?'

The audience of your particular creation is the key to improvement and success. Without their help, it will be very hard to make changes that will appeal. Therefore when I started producing my film and  ancillaries, I showed them to my audience throughout the production process, to I could continuously add the changes that need to be put in, until my work came to a final state. My first stage in looking at appealing work was to have a look at existing products and deconstruct them, and find out which parts about them that the target audience enjoy; which parts draw them in.





I created this poll and added it to the side of my blog, so people could vote which horror movies they prefer. This really helped my work, as this audience input allowed me look at the movies they like best, and find out why. No one voted for 'other' which shows the few movies I selected as an optional answer are ones that fans enjoy, so I already had a correct idea on how to approach filming.







Here, my peers are watching my short film, in order to give me feedback afterwards:




This really helped me out, as it allowed me to make changes to my short film that I knew were going to have a positive impact on it, rather than just guessing. After completing my full film, I was able to improve it to the best it could be after these changes that I wrote down were made.



This is the feedback I received, which I wrote down on a piece of paper. I was then able to take this with me to where I edit my work and add the improvements in, making my horror short film more appealing. A lot of the changes included adding or altering the sound effects in certain parts of my film, for example making the door squeak louder, and altering the length of some of the shots. 




One of the greatest pieces of audience feedback that I received was from a group of Year 9 students, who looked at my initial front cover.


Before

The reason that the most important change I made was to my front cover was because I added a whole new picture. Judging from my feedback, it was too difficult to work out what was happening in the picture. The Year 9's couldn't work out that this the murderer (the antagonist) in the centre of the front cover, for example they suggested it could be someone hiding. Therefore I took a new picture, added the same effect and made it into this:


 After
                                                                                   

This image gives off a lot more of the correct connotations about my film, as you can immediately tell this is the antagonist by the fact he is aiming his glance and knife toward the camera. This is why I chose this piece of work to be my final choice, rather than the cover with the previous picture.

Monday 28 January 2013

Evaluation Question 2 - 'How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?'






















Here are my three media products that I created:
Film Snapshot (bottom), Film poster (top-right) and Magazine Review (top-left).
Putting them together like this allows a better comparison, and so makes evaluating easier.






In this prezi presentation I have outlined all the key elements about my products that I think work well together, and the similarities between them. I feel that the more similarities there are, the better they tie in with each other and so making it easier for the audience to recognise the film.






During this video, a member of my audience talks about certain aspects of my media products that he thinks work well together, for example, how the genre of horror is brought across from the media products to the audience.





Sunday 20 January 2013

Evaluation Question 1 - 'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?'

In this prezi I have analysed Question 1, and to do this I used existing horror films to help me compare my work to theirs. In doing this, one is able to see how I have gained my ideas and put them into my own short film.


Monday 7 January 2013

Feedback For Film Poster - Final Draft



                   Final Draft                                                                                        First Draft
























During a lesson, I brought both of my film posters up on the screen (to compare the pictures) in order to see which one people preferred. The final one gives off a lot more information about what the film is about, however the effect on the image is slightly lacking behind the previous picture. This is because the lighting is too light in the final draft, therefore the eerie/old photo look to it is lost. So I shall play around with the image and try to change the angle of the lighting and perhaps dim it, while attempting to make vertical and horizontal lines that go through the image stand out more.

Wednesday 26 December 2012

Production Process Of Film Poster

This post just outlines some of the production processes that went into creating my film poster. For example, in the first picture I have not added any effects in, other than the effect the main image already has. In the second picture is where I added all the effects and changed a few of the colours.




Tuesday 25 December 2012

Film Poster - Final Draft


After my Year 9 feedback, I have changed the picture on my poster. This should give the viewer a much bigger clue as to what the film is about compared to the signs that the previous picture gave off. In this image, the antagonist is leaping towards the camera, so it looks like he is coming to kill the viewer, with a knife.