Evaluation 4

Below is the Prezi Presentation I made to answer Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

 

Evaluation 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

This is the questionnaire I shared with students, coworkers and friends who are within the target audience age range I picked for my work. I shared this document with 32 people, within and outside of my target market.

In the presentation below I have analysed the results from my questionnaire and given a brief statement saying what I think individually each result tells me about my film trailer. 

     

What have I learnt?

From doing an audience questionnaire i have learnt that it is important to do so. My audience's opinion on my work is the only one that really matters ( besides mine) and luckily I managed to please them. It was a good opportunity for me to see what I could do better, if I was to do it again but also good for me to see which aspects of my trailer that they liked best. I've also learnt the effectiveness of doing research prior to making it. The questionnaire I did during my research and planning enabled me to tailor my work to the likes and needs of my target audience. I hadn't used photoshop before this project so when it came to my ancillary task I was nervous I wouldn't be able to get it to a good standard but from my questionnaire feedback the words 'professional' and 'fitting' to describe my tasks showed me that I was wrong in thinking I couldn't do it and by sticking to the typical codes and conventions I was able to complete the tasks to a high standard.

Evaluation 2

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Evaluation 1:

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My trailer

Creating my magazine cover

My magazine Cover

 On the left is the original image that I took to get to the image I have now I had to use the magic wand tool to remove the background image.Then I decided that the image would look good in black and white so I pick between the three different types of black and white to end up with my final magazine cover.

On the right is my first draft, as you can see I have been playing around with fonts and the placing of the block colours. 

For inspiration I looked at existing magazine covers, I really liked the block colours around the writing so I decided to create my own version, I fiddled around with the colours and the placing of the blocks but decided that they looked best at the bottom. 

Film Poster

To create this poster I used Photoshop, I was unable to get Will and Tasha at the same place at the same time so I took a photo of them individually and put them together. I used an effect called ' halftone screen' over tasha and Will, I did this because I think it gives off an indie, low-fi vibe which is exactly what im looking for, for this trailer.

My Magazine Cover:

This is my final magazine cover. 

Magazine covers

In this post I will be looking at and analysing some existing magazine covers to give me a better of idea of what sort of cover I think would be appropriate for my film. I will also be looking at the typical codes and conventions of magazine covers to see what sort of things i'll need to include.

Magazine cover codes and conventions:

• Masthead- the title of the magazine 

              it usually will fill the width of the top of the cover, usually between one or two words long.

• Puff - Offers, free give a ways usually at the bottom half of the magazine 
• Barcode- bottom right or along the right side 
• Buzz words- used to bring in extra interest, words like: exclusive, free and plus 
• Coverlines- a line of text on the front cover designed to attract the attention of the readers
• Main cover line- usually large text that anchors the meaning of the image, with a subheading giving slightly more information about the article
• Strip- across the bottom of the magazine containing lists of items which feature in the magazine giving a the reader a wider idea of some of the stories that the magazine will cover

When looking for inspiration I was looking at mainly independent companies, my reasoning for doing so is that 

Inspiring magazine covers:

Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by Independent Feature Project, which acts in the independent film community. The magazine publishes stories including interviews,case studies, festival reports but it also looks at distribution and financing reports, alongside production updates, legal pointers and filmmakers on their own filmmaking. It is an American based magazine and used to be accessible in the Uk but since 2009 it has not been on sale in the UK.

Film Journal International is a motion-picture industry trade magazine published by the American company Prometheus Global Media. It is a sister publication of Adweek, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, and other periodicals. The magazine was launched in 1934 and published monthly, Film Journal International covers exhibition, production, and distribution, reporting both U.S. and international news, with features on industry trends, movie theatre design and technology, screen advertising, and other topics.

Which covers do I prefer/which do I think are most appropriate for my film?

Out of all of the above magazine covers I like these two the best.

 

Out of all the Film international magazine covers this was my absolute favourite. I think the image is really elegant and the block lines over the face make it look really creative, the blocks over her face slightly hide her identity making it look as if she was hiding something which in fact may have something to do with her storyline. I think that it would appropriate for my storyline as my character Sophie is hiding the fact that she is in love with Ben. This is an image that I will use to inspire my image.

This image really caught my eye, I think it is because of the colours and the playful typography. Again like the above image I will use it to inspire a draft of my film magazine cover and between the two I will pick which I think suits my genre the best as well as fitting the codes and conventions.








Looking at indie magazine covers you can see that some of the typical codes and conventions aren't used on their covers.

 

Nightmare.

Absolute nightmare last night.... My laptop crashed and when I turned it back on all of my footage and my project was wiped! Luckily I had the footage on my camera so I redownload it and have started re-editing it. This happened at around 10pm so I didn't have much time to attempt to finish it but will do today or tomorrow. 

Editing

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Little bit more...

From watching my trailer over and over I've noticed that the pace of the trailer is a bit too slow. The trailer itself is within the time limit we're required to have but to me and a few others I've shown it too have a greed with me.

What I'm going to do to improve this...


I intend on adding in a few montage sequences which will hopefully pick up the pace of the trailer.
im going to play around with the possibility of having the 'rule' read out over the montage sequences.


Inspiring trailer: Mama Mia

Filming done!

Despite three cancelations and a sick bug I managed to complete my filming in one day and against all the odds (of the month) it was a beautiful day! All in all a success! Through out the day my friend Lucie took some photos of us filming and here are some of them.

Production logo questionnaire

Questionnaire results:

                                    

Above are the results from my questionnaire about my two production logos( bellow) I simply asked which of the two they preferred and then an optional question of why they choose it.