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.

Influences

What films have influenced your ideas? The genre of our film is a psychological thriller we have been influenced by different thriller films. one of the films that influenced our group was 'When a stranger calls' because the film based on a well known legend which is about a babysitter that gets a mysterious phone call and starts to get stalked little does she know's the phone calls are coming from inside the house. We used this idea because it is well known so we would get a big target audience however we have made it a modern version with it own climax twist to make it relate to the people of the present day. The best films are from remakes. Another good thriller that had an influence to our trailer is 'Perfect Stranger'. This film is about a reporter that investigates a murder case and starts following around a big business man trying to get information. The film has a twist that gets the audience thinking,this gave us the idea to have a twist and a stalker to make it more interesting. Plus we find out that the women that is investigating is actually the killer and by doing this she is trying to hide herself. For the horror effect we watched many differnt trailers to see how the killer was presented and also to see how they had used mise en scene and sound to create the fear factor. Saw was of of the film that used the genre of horror in a different conventional way. This film used in a game process which the victim can end up killing themselves. This is different from conventional horrors because we know who's the killer but he isn't actually killing them he just puts them into a situation.

Poster/magazine cover examples

This is a horror magazine cover Theses magazine cover show two different images one is showing a horror film, the picture is a close up with her faced covered in red make up to make it seem like she is covered in blood. The face expression on her face is like she has just come out the film and straight in to a picture. The other magazine is a picture of sarah jessica parker and she is known to be starring in rom/coms so her picture was taken as her looking in to the camera but it shows a side view of her and it seems as she is trying to give us the impression that she is a cute girl and it shows how she is in her films.