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Final Products

chollandchs — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:11:39 +0000

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

chollandchs — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:59:53 +0000

3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

chollandchs — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:46:43 +0000

3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

chollandchs — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:58:09 +0000

This is the feedback I got from people on facebook having loaded them onto my profile to gain feedback. People seemed to like them with one comment stating that they would actually go and see the film based on the poster alone. This shows how my poster is effective in attracting attention as many people liked it. They liked the element of mystery that was present in my poster as it made them want to find out more which may lead to them watching the trailer. The QR code was used by someone so people are aware of it and what it does, showing that it does work as a feature.

My trailer got feedback in private and not publicaly where someone said that it was good but felt the free running went on too long. This I feel is true so I have removed some but left most as I disagree, believing that it captures the audience’s attention instead of boring them. It is an unpredicatble scene that adds excitement to disguise the fact that this is a low budget action film, with few special effects to feast the eyes.

My magazine received feedback from a former A2 media student stating that it needed to look more 3D as I had just dropped a photo of the protagonist onto the background which looked a bit cheap. I took this into account and therefore edited the photo on the existing background to give him a presence and to make it look more realistic. So overall posting this to facebook was a helpful exercise as I could gain honest feedback from friends.

Teacher feedback was essential also in the development of my products as they were able to advise on what did not work at all and what could be improved in terms of all texts. The trailer required a lot of feedback such as the transitions between shots. The opening scenes were lacking something quite integral to the trailer when many shots are stacked one against the other with fade transitions between them. The teacher suggested that I use a sound effect to break them up and create suspense, so I found an effect that sounds a bit like a heartbeat slowed down and used that. I think it is effective and it certainly helps to create suspense.

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

chollandchs — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:20:53 +0000

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

chollandchs — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:56:48 +0000

Here I have evaluated the conventions of a real poster against my own film poster.

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

chollandchs — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:05:30 +0000

Here I have analysed a film magazine that already exists. I chose to do this to show the conventions of a normal magazine and next I will add a similar document containing elements of my magazine that follow and go against the conventions. I can the link it to this one to show how my product uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products.

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

chollandchs — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:44:14 +0000

Film Poster Progress

chollandchs — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:55:44 +0000

Im pretty much finished with it now I think. I added the QR Code with a link to my trailer on youtube which I think is a nice technical touch. I made it smaller than before because it went over the foot of Elliot. Then I went on dafont and made the coming soon text similar to that of my title as I forgot the font I used earlier. Still, it works and I’m done I reckon.

Magazine Progress 7

chollandchs — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:41:49 +0000

This is the latest update on my magazine cover where not a lot has changed. I felt that something was lacking from the last post and with feedback realised everything is fairly uniform in colour in comparison to the Empire issue of Tron. I therefore used photoshop to adjust the colour levels and decrease the hue (whatever that is) to make it a bit brighter. I tlooks slightly purple at first but the binary stands out more on his face so I think it works well. It is definately brighter.