Final Film Trailer, Film Poster and Film Magazine Cover

Evaluation: Q4- How did you use Media Technologies in the Construction and Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?

I have used Blogger to document all of my work and progression throughout the Research and Planning in preparation for producing my Film Trailer, Film Poster and Film Magazine Cover. I have published my progression of making these products onto Blogger also, including Social Network Feedback alongside this. I am also using Blogger to upload my Evaluation answers.


I have used Prezi create a Presentation regarding my Research and Planning for my Film Magazine Cover. It was a clear and precise route into deciding on the name, the price, the target audience, the colour scheme, the features etc. Prezi helped me brief out the main topics for my magazine which is what I linked back to in making my Film Magazine Cover.


I have used Word It Out in my Research and Planning to board all of my groups thoughts and ideas of Film Distribution and Production Company names. It also helped for us to link words for a tagline and also gave us help for the Film Title.

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I have used PowerPoint at the early stage of the year when making the Pitch for our film plots, and then used SlideShare to upload to my Blogger. The Pitch consisted of Plot Lines, Sounds, Locations etc. I have also used PowerPoint and SlideShare to upload my Q1: USE, DEVELOP, CHALLENGE in the evaluation stage.


iMovie was used multiple times throughout the year: To create the chase scene, to upload our audience research and also to make the actual Trailer. Although I had briefly used iMovie in AS Film Studies, I became more familiar and skilled with the software when using it doing A2 Media Studies. I learnt how to add text, how to reverse a clip, how to add effects, how to edit, how to change colour etc. so it would suit the Horror/Thriller genre. I was also the editor of the group, so my skills have increased from doing a lot of tasks in my research and planning (the chase, audience feedback, auditions).


GarageBand was used to help with the creation of the sound for our Trailer. We played around with the software and used it to record glasses filled with water to create an eerie sound which was used in our Trailer.


I have used iShowU to produce prodcasts to show my progression I have made through segments of the A2 year and new skills that I have learnt. I have also used iShowU in my Evaluation to have a more personal show-tell than answering in essay form.


We have used the SLR camera again in A2 year, using it to take the images for my Film Magazine Cover and Film Poster. Because we were familiar and had experience with the SLR cameras from AS year, we were able to choose suitable settings and were more creative with the angles and locations suitable for the Horror/Thriller genre. This made the images look more professional, more focussed and more creative.


I used Photoshop mainly to create my Film Poster and Film Magazine Cover. In A2 year, I was more familiar with the software so I was able to be more experimental due to me having more knowledge from using it in AS year. Both products, the Film Poster and the Film Magazine Cover, were made in half the time I spent making my Music Magazine in AS. I have also learnt more skills, like using the blending options, putting a spotlight on the photo, colour levels etc.


In Research and Planning for the title of our Film, we used Solvr to jot down Film Name ideas and then put the pros and cons of these in. This helped us lead to calling our film 'DISCONNECTED'.

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I have used the social networking sites Twitter and Facebook for Audience Feedback on my work. Examples of this are my actual products (Poster/Magazine Cover), the Production and Distribution Company names, the font for the Magazine masthead etc.


We used a Video Camera to film our groups Trailer. I had a fair bit of knowledge of using the Video Camera from previous work I did in AS Film Studies and my other group members had also used the Video Camera for work they have done. We had the option to use a tripod for filming, however we felt Hand-Held was more appropriate for the Horror/Thriller genre.

Evaluation: Q3- What have you learnt from your Audience Feedback?

Audience Feedback has been a massive input in my development for the products I've made. It has been something we have done since all the way back to pitching the storyline in Research and Planning and the start of the year. Here are the cases where I have used Audience Feedback:

Audience Interviews
Doing the Audience Interviews really helped us to give a definite for what an audience would expect in a Film Trailer. Although at this point in the development we had a different genre we were researching which was changed later in the process, it still helped up develop an idea for what would a person of the target audience's age group would find appealing and what they wouldn't find appealing. These interviews included what sounds they would expect and like to hear, what the pace they would expect, what colours would be used etc.

Questionnaires
We created a questionnaire to hand out across College to gain knowledge of more specific codes and conventions we could use in our trailer. This included whether to use a voice over or not, what locations could be useful and what editing would be expected. Again, this was when the genre of our trailer was going to be Fantasy/Horror which later changed to Horror/Thriller; however it still helped us because codes and conventions from the Horror played major impact into the answers from the audience feedback.

Feedback from the Media Class
After pitching our two ideas to our College Tutor, our 1st pitch which (we were going to be doing) being the Fantasy/Horror and the 2nd being the Thriller/Fantasy, she told us she thought we could be more experimental and use more locations/codes and conventions in doing our back up pitch. To reinforce this, we  asked the class (which were the ages of our target audience) which sounded like the better pitch and the majority vote went with pitch number 2. This obviously helped a lot as it impacted everything for our final products.

Social Network Feedback
I often asked people of the target audience age group for feedback on my work on Twitter or Facebook. This helped me with the name of the Distribution and Production Company names, the name of my Magazine, the font for my Magazine, images used etc.

Overall Progress and Work Class Feedback
Often throughout the year, we each shown our Trailer, our Poster and our Magazine Cover to the class to show our progress so the class could make notes on what they liked, how genre was represented and what could be improved which would be collected in afterwards for feedback. These helped immensely as it got to show what was working well and what tweaks we could make whilst we were still all in the procedure of making the products.

Evaluation: Q2- How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Representation of Characters
From all of my 3 pieces of work, I tried to make the focus on the blurring of lines to whether Josh is a hero or a villain. A constant theme through all the three products is Josh looking battered, drugged and weak... yet keeping an eerie and underlying mystery surrounding the character. This portrayal remains throughout, by using the same battered and distressed look in each media product yet creating dark shadows and strong poses suggesting otherwise. This remains the same constant mystery around the character in each media piece.

Good vs. Bad
We can see that in the trailer, Abbie (the main female character) is distressed and looking for Josh and is suspicious but is the only one still searching. She is represented as the good character throughout the trailer. The audience don't see who is bad or 'the villain' as the media products create ambiguity around whether Josh is bad or good and there is also other characters present in the trailer such as Amy (other female character) and Luke (the other male character) which is unknown whether they are good or bad.

Colour/Lighting
The colour and lighting is very dark/low key in all 3 pieces. The Film Magazine Cover is slightly lighter, but this is because of the nature of the magazine which is about the film and the actor; but it still remains eerie and dark. Colours used throughout are Green tinges and Red enhancements of all three products (Green is a theme of the footage of Josh in the Trailer, there is a very slight tint of green on the Film Magazine Cover, the blood red is enhanced on the Film Magazine Cover, Red is common throughout the trailer including the title, Red is a main cover on my Film Poster).

Location
The location is frequent in all three pieces, Josh is inside/near a brick building.

Text
The texts are all relevant throughout and remain similar. The text is different on the Film Magazine Cover, however the colours Red, Black and White relate it back to the Film Poster and Film Trailer. The text for 'DISCONNECTED' is always capitalised and bold.

Evaluation: Q1- USE DEVELOP CHALLENGE for FIlm Magazine

Evaluation: Q1- USE DEVELOP CHALLENGE for Film Poster

Evaluation: Q1- USE DEVELOP CHALLENGE for Film Trailer

Use develop challenge from SamArrandale94

Research and Planning: Trailer

As you can see we have really tried to make more of a structure to the Trailer and I think it looks more effective now. I added a green Sci-Fi effect over the footage of Josh by selecting the Clip Adjustments; Video Effect. We added a voice over and some stings and a sound track also to the trailer as well as Captions, Twitter Involvement and a Website. To improve, I think we could add more unique shots to the montage to involve more of a trailer motif rather than a film extract.

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback on Final Film Poster & Film Magazine Cover

For my final audience feedback for my Poster & Magazine Cover, I got all good reviews which is good times.

Research and Planning: Trailer to date

The structure of our Trailer is starting to take place and also make sense. I think to move this forward there should be more of a similarity between the texts as they are all quite random at the moment in terms of fonts, colours and size.

Research and Planning: Film Poster Retouched

Research and Planning: Film Magazine Cover

I added a slight green tinge to the cover to link in with the theme of the trailer, but only slight so that it represents a magazine. I used the reds, blacks and white colours also. I enhanced the redness of the blood by using the paint tool and added a spotlight with black faded edges by selecting Filter; Render; Lighting. I also enhanced the eyes with an orangey colour by using the same technique I did with the blood.

Research and Planning: Film Poster

Research and Planning: Steel tongs, Distribution/Production Company and Title on Film Poster

This is my Steel Tongs Font Credits with enlarged title to fit the screen. I also put the distribution and production company logo's in at the bottom, but put down the opacity to make it not be too loud. I also added a website and twitter trivia, I didn't put the Twitter icon in because its assumable that the target audience would know what they are for because Twitter is a popular and modern trend.

Research and Planning: White Text Slogan Dilemma

After getting the audience feedback, I was happy with how they said white text looks best. However after adding all the Steel tongs and added features I feel it looked too bright and loud so to compromise I added in a gray colour and made the words "Past" and "Future" white to stand out. I also made the "Bring" and  "Disappears" text a red colour to make them words stand out as well.

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback on Text Colour

White Text Wins.

Research and Planning: Text Colour Decision

Research and Planning: Film Poster to Date

Research and Planning: Editing Log

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback on Trailer, Poster and Magazine

 






 
The audience feedback was really useful and constructive for how we can progress with our Trailer, Poster and Magazine Cover.

Notes that we picked up on were ones such as creating a more flowing montage, adding more sound and having the same font and style text running through the trailer. Also a point made was to put a black screen at the end of the trailer so it didn't end on the characters face.

Throughout the feedback we also received positive reviews such as how all products so far were linked to each other and how well it was all coming together.

Research and Planning: Film Trailer So Far

I think so far the trailer is a little messy and too random. We need to improve on the sound also because it overlaps some of the shots and makes them unclear. The structure is sort of coming together, however needs improvement. However I feel with the footage we have it won't be difficult to make these improvements. We may need some extra bits of footage, but we may not depending on what the outcome looks like in the next upload.

Research and Planning: Film Magazine to Date

I made a last few changes to my Film Magazine after seeing a few little errors such as the texts not being in line and the right hand side looking a little bare. I made the Masthead larger as well.

Research and Planning: Film Poster to date

Research and Planning: Brusheezy Designs

I have decided to look for some Brusheezy designs for some brush effects on my poster. This is wear the effect will have come from on my final design. It is just a sort of vision I could go for so I have looked into it for influence, however I have not yet decided whether to use them or not but I thought it was worthy of a mention. I was going to use it as a sort of blood dripping down the page on my Film Poster, but it may not be needed and look too crowded. I would also have to find the correct brusheezy design to give the blood effect.

Research and Planning: Film Magazine to date

This is my Film Magazine so far. The layout is all okay however I feel to make it more Horror-esque I could play around with the gradients and lighting effects because I feel it looks too bright. The right hand side also looks a little bare.

Research and Planning: Trailer Dilemma

The edited trailer hasn't been uploaded to my blogger yet as I haven't had access to the iMac with it on to upload it; you can find the trailer on my group members Amy Sheldon and Samantha Chapman's blog and I shall upload it as soon as possible.

Research and Planning: Film Poster Unfinished

Research and Planning: 'Disconnected' caption ideas for Trailer

disconnect  [dis-kuh-nekt]

Part of Speech:

verb

Definition:

take apart; uncouple

Synonyms:

abstract, break it off, break it up, cut off, detach, disassociate, disengage, disjoin, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, drop it, part, separate, sever, sideline, unfix

Antonyms:

attach, connect, couple, hitch, hook, join, link, plug

Research and Planning: Missing Poster

 

This is the missing poster we made for the Trailer. It could also be used for the Film Poster or Magazine if necessary. 

Research and Planning: Update

Over the last few days we got busy doing a lot of filming for our Trailer, although we are not fully done. I have started editing and am currently finishing off the first final edit before going onto doing the rest. We plan on filming the rest of our footage, finishing off the editing then doing the sound.

Research and Planning: Trailer Unedited Footage

This is our unfinished and unedited footage for our trailer so far.

Research and Planning: Film Magazine so far

Research and Planning: Film Magazine Typical Articles

For inspiration for articles that could be in my magazine, I have looked at front covers from other Film Magazines. This research will also be helpful in guidance to what would be suitable to be on my front cover, layouts and colour.

Research and Planning: Final Masthead with Slogan Design

This is my final design for my Masthead for my Film Magazine with the slogan.

Research and Planning: Change of idea on Film Magazine Masthead Design

Although the bottom one was favourited by my target audience and also myself, in context it didn't look good when it was on my magazine due to the brick background of the picture. Instead of using this, I have just simply used the one with now blend to it as I felt it looked slick and professional.

Research and Planning: 'Josh' Footage

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback on Film Poster Title

This is my audience feedback on which title looked best, published on Twitter. The clear winner was the bottom one which has a Gradient Overlay effect on it which was also my favorite out of the bunch.

Research and Planning: Film Magazine Title Ideas

These are my three ideas for my Film Magazine.