Evaluation Question 4

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




The text characters was rather hard to use so the animoto was rather brief. 

I would say coming across these four stages, construction and research, planning and evaluation, the most difficult would have been the actually construction of putting everything together. The most difficult thing that I had to do was to use Premiere Pro CC, I had never used this or a camera before, So this had already set me behind everyone else that chose to do a film trailer/short film. 

Evaluation Question 3

3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2

2) How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

Below is a detailed Prezi where I will be talking about the combination of my trailer, magazine cover and film poster. I will be talking about what similarities are present, how they are there and why. Within my film trailer, poster and website homepage I attempted to create synergy. The  poster in particular was mysterious and elusive, so it intrigued the audience but also kept the story line and narrative as secret as possible so the audience could discover it for themselves when watching the film trailer. The film poster and trailer together combined work together to represent the artistic nature of the film, as well as the narrative. There are numerous elements throughout all my tasks that connect with each other, and I will explain all of this in my Prezi below. 

Evaluation Question 1

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

     In order for my film trailer to be recognized as a horror film trailer by my target audience, I have ensure to follow particular conventions which apply to this genre of film trailers. My product closely follows the conventions of real media products in many ways. I believe my trailer, poster and magazine cover all closely conform to a strict set of norms found within the horror genre. These conventions include the use of a dark colour scheme, often the colours black and red which are heavy signifies of blood, death and danger. A element commonly found within the horror genre is how they want the audience to be able to feel like what is happening is safe and no different from there normal day to day life. Once this has been accomplished, the audience will be able to connect with the film, and in conclusion to this, the audience will feel more frightened when the real horror kicks in. The way I have followed conventions of the horror genre is quite general. The fonts I have used are all conforming to the genre, but I have more specifically followed the codes and conventions of the slasher horror sub genre. These conventions are more specific, such as the use of a masked antagonist. A group of young people placed in danger, and the frequent representation of blood, gore and violence. 

Finished Film Website

http://louishegarty1.wix.com/the-name

Finished Film Poster

This is the completed version of my film poster. 

The elements of the film poster that I have improved are the fact that I have added a credit block at the bottom of the page. I have recently said that the only reason that I did not have that is because there was a issue with the font I needed to use. I have now passed that bridge and there it is. Changed the font color from a light blue to a pale white, the reason behind me doing this is because the light blue, although I believe it did fit the poster, that colour did not match my colour scheme for my film. I would improve this by taking a picture that is more beneficial to my film. Yet I do not think that my picture is one that would gain me a low grade. 

Finished Film Trailer

When I am comparing this to my past film trailers, I am feeling satisfied and rather confident, this is possibly the best of my ability when it is coming to a new piece of software and recording, which prior to this I had never done before. If I had more experience and had more time to spend on all of my tasks, the elements of my film trailer that I would improve would be the editing and the quality of acting. My editing sometimes is not up to scratch and is a bit, unprofessional. When it comes to the acting there was nothing I could have done about that.