Name: Sophie Olah
Candidate number: 7220
Centre number: 17131
Centre name: John F Kennedy School
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Evaluation: How do your ancillary texts relate to your media product?
http://www.voki.com/mywebsite.php
Evaluation: What have you learnt from audience feedback?
The feedback give to us really helped us improve on mistakes from postive and negative feedback and helped us recognise this and to accept the constructive criticism was going to help us create and desgin this best we could achieve from our ability. By asking many people we were able to discuss frequently what would be best and what would not. We decided to keep all the parts within in our trailer that public/friends/family that they said were good/positive as this made us feel confident, for example the fast editing and the black a white theme to the trailer. From the negative feedback we took out parts which did not work and carried on improving. Such as, our first setting where we filmed was in school but from our feedback we were able to see this was not effectual. From having been given back such useful feedback it helped us distinguish what our target expected to find within our trailer and therefore do our final project based on this feedback.
I created a wordle to show some of audiecne feedback we had which were quote:
I created a wordle to show some of audiecne feedback we had which were quote:
Evaluation: In what ways does your media product, use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
http://prezi.com/jxssmxb_l6_n/1-in-what-ways-does-your-media-product-use-develop-or-challenge-forms-and-conventions-of-real-media-products/
Final draft of magazine cover
By planning and from feedback I have been able to produce and design my final draft of my magazine cover:
Final draft of poster
By planning and from feedback I have been able to produce my final draft of my poster:
Reasons why I decided to make our trailer in this way:
The black and white theme to our trailer I feel was effective because it makes it seem mysterirous and thrilling and exciting. It challenges a typical convention of film trailers but I chose this theme in order to make it unique. Our voice over is a whisper so it comes across as very effectual with a haunty and chilling feel. The music in the background is significant as it enforces the horror genre with sudden moments in the music. We didn't tell the story but it's obvious from the trailer and the name of our film that the girl is snatched but we dont know what fully happens to her, with the flashback at the beginning making it curious and dark.
The black and white theme to our trailer I feel was effective because it makes it seem mysterirous and thrilling and exciting. It challenges a typical convention of film trailers but I chose this theme in order to make it unique. Our voice over is a whisper so it comes across as very effectual with a haunty and chilling feel. The music in the background is significant as it enforces the horror genre with sudden moments in the music. We didn't tell the story but it's obvious from the trailer and the name of our film that the girl is snatched but we dont know what fully happens to her, with the flashback at the beginning making it curious and dark.
Actors in the trailer
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| We chose a man in our trailer to be seen as the 'villian' and the one who snatches the girl as this a typical convention of the horror genre for a male who is seen as a scary and frightening. In our trailer you dont see his face but you can still recognise that from his back his manly figure. |
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| We chose Maisie to be part of our media trailer as she is young with long hair to present an innocent, naive and angelic character in the film. We wanted our character to be presented in this way because a typical conventione of the horror genre is to have someone that they see as a victim by feeling empathy and sympathy for her which I believe our trailer does. |
More feedback
For more feedback we posted our trailer onto a social network site; FACEBOOK and then onto youtube so our friends,family and the public could post their thoughts we had comments such as:
'wow thats well good!'
'thats pretty cool :)'
'u should b proud of that'
' welllllll i would watch that haha :)'
'wow thats well good!'
'thats pretty cool :)'
'u should b proud of that'
' welllllll i would watch that haha :)'
first draft feedback from our trailer and ancillary texts
In order to improve our ancillary texts and film trailer we need positive feedback and constructive criticism on the work so we could gradually make it better until we were fully satisfied.
+ Black and white theme adds eeriness to the trailer and makes it clear what the genre of the film is.
+ Fast editing of the trailer is very effective and interesting.
+ The fact the girls face is shown in shadows adds a thrilling and horror feel to the trailer.
+ Sound effects help to recognise the genre.
+ Short and sweet which shows the main points of the film as it does not give too much away.
- Add a voice over to make the trailer more effective.
- Edit the sound of other people voices out as it's not relevant.
- Change the setting - film somewhere else it was too obviously filmed in school.
- Add some scary sounding music.
+ The picture is very effective shows the eyes well to portray her emotions.
+ Colour red is significant to the genre.
+ Black and white theme relates back to the genre.
+ Looks very much like a real fim poster with the small print, age rating, production, actors names.
+ Title is vert good 3D effects makes it eye catching and stands off the page well.
- Edit the picture slightly better.
- Font a big better so it's slightly more clear.
- Put a few more things on the page looks empty.
MAGAZINE COVER
+ horror genre is presented well and clearly.
+ picture is effective and significant to genre - gag round her mouth.
+ Conventions of exisiting magazine covers such as barecode, date, issue, price, masthead etc.
TRAILER
+ running at the beginning of the trailer particulary effective.+ Black and white theme adds eeriness to the trailer and makes it clear what the genre of the film is.
+ Fast editing of the trailer is very effective and interesting.
+ The fact the girls face is shown in shadows adds a thrilling and horror feel to the trailer.
+ Sound effects help to recognise the genre.
+ Short and sweet which shows the main points of the film as it does not give too much away.
- Add a voice over to make the trailer more effective.
- Edit the sound of other people voices out as it's not relevant.
- Change the setting - film somewhere else it was too obviously filmed in school.
- Add some scary sounding music.
ANCILLARY TEXTS
POSTER+ The picture is very effective shows the eyes well to portray her emotions.
+ Colour red is significant to the genre.
+ Black and white theme relates back to the genre.
+ Looks very much like a real fim poster with the small print, age rating, production, actors names.
+ Title is vert good 3D effects makes it eye catching and stands off the page well.
- Edit the picture slightly better.
- Font a big better so it's slightly more clear.
- Put a few more things on the page looks empty.
MAGAZINE COVER
+ horror genre is presented well and clearly.
+ picture is effective and significant to genre - gag round her mouth.
+ Conventions of exisiting magazine covers such as barecode, date, issue, price, masthead etc.
Risk assessment
WALKING THROUGH THE ALLEY WAY WHEN FILMING - careful on not to trip on anything and be careful of not bumping into the genral public. To prevent this we will make sure when filming the scene through the alley way there are no people nearby and take note of anything that we could fall onto/into by walking carefully.
FILMING IN THE PARK - beware of people in the park, crossing over the road before hand and not to trip on the apparatus in the park. To prevent this we will watch out of those using the park facilities, make sure there are no vehicles coming when crossing the road and then to take care on the swings.
RUNNING SCENCE- take care when running not to injure yourself by falling over and look out for any dangers which could harm such as glass on the ground and generally aware of the surroundings.
FILMING IN THE PARK - beware of people in the park, crossing over the road before hand and not to trip on the apparatus in the park. To prevent this we will watch out of those using the park facilities, make sure there are no vehicles coming when crossing the road and then to take care on the swings.
RUNNING SCENCE- take care when running not to injure yourself by falling over and look out for any dangers which could harm such as glass on the ground and generally aware of the surroundings.
Age Certificate
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| When making my film trailer I decided when finishing what age certificate would be appropiate for my film trailer. With this symbol meaning
No-one under 15 is allowed to see a ‘15’ film at the cinema or buy/rent a ‘15’ rated DVD or video game. Parents are warned that ‘15’ rated works are not suitable for children under 15 years of age. It is therefore targeted at older teenagers and over as I believed that this age they can make a descion on weather or not they like the horror genre and there ability to see it. I chose it to be at this age because most of the horror is in the form of shadows, darkness and noises with the language being light with no drugs, sex or alcohol. There are many jumpy moments but there is no blood and gore, then I would of thought it was necessary to put it up to age 18. The film targets at this particular audience because many young teens enjoy the thrill.
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Props and Costume list for trailer production
In order to effecively organise our film trailer I put together a list of what will be needed on the day of our filming:
I firstly suggested that the girl in our trailer was to wear normal everyday clothing to present a normal everday life look so it looked realistic. Then for the male to wear dark clothing to present his dark and mysterious character to give off a scary feel to the trailer so it immediately suggests to the audience he is the villain. We then needed our camera, tripod. There were not many props within our trailer because we focused very much upon the characters and the setting which are the main focus within the trailer and this is what makes our trailer a horror genre.
I firstly suggested that the girl in our trailer was to wear normal everyday clothing to present a normal everday life look so it looked realistic. Then for the male to wear dark clothing to present his dark and mysterious character to give off a scary feel to the trailer so it immediately suggests to the audience he is the villain. We then needed our camera, tripod. There were not many props within our trailer because we focused very much upon the characters and the setting which are the main focus within the trailer and this is what makes our trailer a horror genre.
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