Evaluation question 1

Evaluation Question 4

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


Research and Planning

Before we started any filming we researched the horror genre and got different ideas from different types of horror films we noticed that there was different effects used but the typical conventional for a horror was repeating so we noticed what we had to do. We used youtube and apple trailers to watch them. we also analysed them as well this helped us with the typical conventions. We watched about 20 different trailers all of them were linear ones so they just went from beginning to end.

The Amityville horror was one of the main film we used as a guideline.

I also used google images to get pictures of the films just to see them as an example for when we started our magazine cover i also used this for finding a location because the pictures showed the establishing shots for a certain type of area where many typical convention horrors are normally filmed. Google was also used to view different types of magazine covers just to have a brief understanding of what is normal and what graphics,font is needed.


For the filming part we used an sony HD V1 camera to have clear and clean footage this also helped with the editing stage as it didn't really need much work done all the shots did appear separately so it was easy to delete them too. For editing we used finale cut pro.

The footage was imported from the camera from a sony tape deck and i just had to log and capture it onto the computer. On finale cut pro it appeared on a timeline so it showed how we filmed each shot and what we needed to change in each one and to cut any extra scenes from the footage.

When trying to film a horror trailer the scenes don't have to be in linear form so the shots had to be moved up and down through the timeline. Once i cut the the extra shots and put the footage in order i then had to edit the colours and add effects.

The three ways colour filters was used to change the lights to brighten or darken the footage with different fades and hard cuts into the footage. With the three way colour filters i had to play around with each filters to see what colour footage would go with each one and if it made any difference in the shots. The colour corrector helped getting the footage into the horror genre it was different using this but once all the footage was edited and put together it came together very well.

To design my poster and magazine cover i had to use Adobe photoshop this was very new to me as i have never used photoshop before so i had to do many different trials before i could start making my magazine cover.

With photoshop i had to learn how to use a whole new different technology so it was really hard to put things together. with making the magazine i had use different icons from google so it was hard getting them from there onto my picture but eventually it came out good it was a perfect cover but i had a finish one done to help promote my trailer.

Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

When we completed our trailer, to get an audience feedback we used social media,like twitter and youtube. By posting the video on youtube we wanted to show our trailer and see what people actually think about the film and if they would like to watch the completed version of it,we used twitter so all our friends and family could also view it and give us back some constructive feedback.  Another reason we used both of these social networks is because we know many teenagers of our age group would be on twitter and watch this type of genre related trailer also most of our friends are on twitter and also wouldn't mind viewing our video on youtube.


Also after completing our poster and magazine cover we showed it to our friends and family so we could get some sort of feedback we also wanted to see what type of reaction they would give and if it wasn't the reaction we were looking for then we could ask them what should we change for next time.

We started of planning a psychological thriller film we filmed parts of it and wanted some sort of feedback so we decided to showed a group of audience including our friends and family hoping for some constructive feedback, which we could use after. The feedback we got was, we should change the genre of the trailer to horror because they said it was more horror then psychological if anything.

Magazine cover

Evaluation Question 2

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

We were targeting a teenage group with our horror film by having this target audience we had to promote our film across various media we made them on accessible on different technologies e.g Mobile Phone,Television,Computers and Tablets.

Mobile phones are modern technologies that are used by many people now days and they now have access to the internet through they phone. The tablet is another modern technology that many people use and it also has different apps so i based our film to be useful on these applications for more teenagers to view it.

Our media product was filmed on a HD camera which made the film clear and easy to be viewed on these different technologies. We also made are teaser trailer to view on television even though its an old technology it still is good to promote films and attract audiences to come see the film.

The magazine cover and poster was also going to be published on twitter and on face book to get people talking about the film and get it to attract it to the bigger audience. By networking it like this it would spread all over the world.

I included a number of re-occurring motifs across all three of the products using the same character to make it more recognisable plus the same font and graphics were used on the magazine cover and poster.

Production

Our film did not go as plan and time was running out so instead we used audience feedback and decided to change our film into a horror and also change the narrative of the film and made it into a young girl who becomes possessed and burns down her house but still appears and disturbs the people who live in the house now.

Story Narrative horror

The story is about a young girl who ends up being burnt in her house ,but she appears to come back and she starts looking at old pictures of her family and her stuff and becomes obsessed with it all and ends up being a possessed girl who doesn't leave the house and disturbs anyone who moves into the house. The film itself is about the girl but the twist is that she was the one who actually burnt the house down herself and made the whole mess because she was not happy with her life and did not like having her family around her. The film is a horror it is mainly about a girl who has become possessed and gets angry and kills her family because she is not herself her actions are being forced by someone else.