Evaluation: Question 4: How do you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

 

Media Technologies on Prezi

Evaluation: Question 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Evaluation: Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

This is the make-up I did for Laura and I.

Evaluation: Question 1: In what way does your media products, use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Use:-

• The masthead is big.
• The main image overlapping the masthead, and its center.
• The tag line is at the top of the masthead.
• There is a Plus bar at the bottom of the magazine.

Conventions:-

• Both use Bar Codes
• Both have Date
• Both have issue number
• Both have main story/image

Layout:-

The Layout in my magazine compared to the TOTAL FILM magazine is different, although I've got everything included in my magazine as on that.. such as the Conventions and masthead etc... But there are some differences:

• The text is in the center underneath my picture, whereas Total Films is at the left side.
• The PLUS bar at the bottom is different, with mine having a cross symbol and a red bar behind it.
• There are no other images featured on the front cover, where as I have two stories behind my main.
  

Develop:-

• The tag line, although both are at the top, Total Films is all one block colour, and quite big, whereas mine is small, with 'Behind the Scenes' highlighted in red.
• The bar-codes, all magazines have them, Total films is underneath the heading, whereas mine is at the bottom with the plus bar.

Challenge:-

The on thing I think I have challenged with my Film Magazine, 'PREMIERE' is the fact that the main picture, is shadowed, its very rare you get the main picture slightly darkened, but for a purpose. I made it so his eyes stand out, but the image itself is slightly darker than normal magazine images.

Use:-

• Both have main Film Titles, 'VENGEANCE' and 'DRAG ME TO HELL'.
• Both have main images.

Conventions:-

• Both have a Masthead.
• Both use Tag Lines.
• Both have a Character list and directors/producers etc..
• Both used images of the Main Character(s).

Layout:-

The Layout in my poster compared to the 'Drag Me To Hell' poster is different, although I've got everything included in my poster as on that.. such as the Conventions and masthead etc... But there are some differences:

• I don't have a imaged background, just a plain black one.
• I have 4 characters on my poster, but the 3 girls are just head shots.
• Also it looks like I have used more effects on my images, whereas they've added flames.

Develop:-

• What I've developed, comparing too 'Drag Me to Hell, is I've added names of the Actors to the top of the poster.
• Also the effects on my poster are not as visible as as 'Drag Me To Hell's' as the effects I've used are too make Brendon less visible making him black and white and slightly faded, also the 3 floating heads I've used are coloured blue, feeling cold and isolated, Whereas the other poster has used deep red flames.

Challenge:-

What I've challenged within my poster is, that you cant actually tell who the good or bad guy is, it is not as clear as most other stereotypical posters. Brendon is shadowed but has a broken heart so you feel sorry for him. The 3 of us, are cold and blue looking scared, are we dead or manipulative? you decide.




                                                      

   Use:-

• They both have the green audience approval clip, knowing that is has been approved for all audience.
• Both have the company Logos, ours are: Granite films and Crooked Pictures.

Conventions:-

• Both have a good use of music, how its all okay at the beginning but the music takes a twist.
• Both have clips of writing, such as: One Missed Call's trailer has "Every day 2 billion cell phones ring..." Whereas ours has "What does it take"
• Both introduce to the main characters right away.

Develop:-

• In our teaser what we've developed compared to 'One Missed Call' is that we have used a mobile phone clip in our trailer, although its not a challenge as other movie makers have used this, but its developed our trailer.

Challenge:-

• What our group has challenged, is not necessarily the conventions of a traditional trailer, but the story line of our movie/trailer, as you don't know who to feel more sorry for either, Brendon or us 3 girls, as Brendon gets dumped, but we get tortured for laughing!

Research and Planning: Comparison of my first and final draft of my magazine.

  <-new magazine          old magazine->












Looking at the magazine I first designed and looking at my final production, I can clearly see that my skills within media have progressed dramatically.
My photo skills are better, because on the old magazine I've used a standard camera, whereas on my new magazine I've used and LSR camera and you can tell by quality which is better.
I like how I've kept the tag line at the top the same, but with 'Behind the Scenes' a different colour it stands out more than the old magazine!

Research and Planning: Spare filming shots.

Today whilst we put up some of our 25 minutes of filming shots, to share, we also have had a play about on garage band and have a list of sounds that we want to use :

1. Veradero Shimmer
2. Negril Sweep
3. Gorai Atmosphere
4. Mercury Wash
5. Floating Embers
6. Aquatic Sunbeam
7. Reflective Strings.

Research and Planning: Final Teaser Trailer

This is our final draft of our teaser trailer completed.