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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Evaluation Filming
Today me and georgia with contribution from the group as a whole filmed an interview discussing the feedback we received from our questionnaires. We planned out what we were going to say and printed off prompts to help us when explaining the feedback and discussing our views. We will use this footage to help us answer question 3. Constructing a film sequence also incorporating snips from our trailer to help explain.
Video will be uploaded soon..
Video will be uploaded soon..
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Questionnaire Feedback
1. Overall all our viewers enjoyed watching the trailer, and they all said how professional and in keeping with the horror genre it was.
2. There was a variety of opinions to what their favourite part was. All were mainly clips including Katie. Various parts included the surveillance scene where Katie is sitting on a chair in a white room and the quick takes between Katie's face on the screen and her gradually crawling towards us.
3. The most common answer we received was the music and titles. Everyone said how they believe they both added great effect to the trailer.
4. The things that people thought could have been improved were the voice overs and the storyline. They believe that the voice overs weren't loud enough and were difficult to understand. The storyline was unclear and they weren't really sure what was going on, but they did however pick up the general idea of a disturbed child following in her mothers footsteps.
5. The feedback we received from this question was mixed. Some were unsure and some had a slight idea of what they thought it could be about. Many said the titles told a story, therefore helping them to understand the plot.
6. The first comment we got when a few people started viewing the trailer was how scary the main character was, accompanied by her make-up and costume. These aspects made the overall performance look more professional and realistic. The comments that were made was that the make-up wasn't too over the top which gave Katie a really creepy effect.
7. Although the people who took part in completing our questionnaires weren't media students they understood the concept of editing and were therefore able to comment on what they believed worked well and also what didn't work as well. They commented on the length of the surveillance and suggested that if they were made shorter they would be more effective.
8. The average rating out of 10 was 8.
2. There was a variety of opinions to what their favourite part was. All were mainly clips including Katie. Various parts included the surveillance scene where Katie is sitting on a chair in a white room and the quick takes between Katie's face on the screen and her gradually crawling towards us.
3. The most common answer we received was the music and titles. Everyone said how they believe they both added great effect to the trailer.
4. The things that people thought could have been improved were the voice overs and the storyline. They believe that the voice overs weren't loud enough and were difficult to understand. The storyline was unclear and they weren't really sure what was going on, but they did however pick up the general idea of a disturbed child following in her mothers footsteps.
5. The feedback we received from this question was mixed. Some were unsure and some had a slight idea of what they thought it could be about. Many said the titles told a story, therefore helping them to understand the plot.
6. The first comment we got when a few people started viewing the trailer was how scary the main character was, accompanied by her make-up and costume. These aspects made the overall performance look more professional and realistic. The comments that were made was that the make-up wasn't too over the top which gave Katie a really creepy effect.
7. Although the people who took part in completing our questionnaires weren't media students they understood the concept of editing and were therefore able to comment on what they believed worked well and also what didn't work as well. They commented on the length of the surveillance and suggested that if they were made shorter they would be more effective.
8. The average rating out of 10 was 8.
Questionnaire for Question 3
We created a questionnaire in order to receive feedback on our trailer. Below are the question that we asked our volunteers.
1. Did you enjoy the trailer?
2. What was your favourite part?
3. What do you think worked well?
4. What do you think didn't work as well?
5. What do you believe could be improved?
6. Did you understand what it was about?
7. What did you think about the mis en scene?
-Make up
-Costume
-Set Design
-Props
8. What did you think about the editing?
9. What would you rate this trailer out of 10?
1. Did you enjoy the trailer?
2. What was your favourite part?
3. What do you think worked well?
4. What do you think didn't work as well?
5. What do you believe could be improved?
6. Did you understand what it was about?
7. What did you think about the mis en scene?
-Make up
-Costume
-Set Design
-Props
8. What did you think about the editing?
9. What would you rate this trailer out of 10?
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
QUESTION 4- how did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this question we will use a second prezi to demonstrate how we used new media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages.
The points we will cover is how we have the ability to create our whole media teaser trailer using one machine.
Also how different programs and software have enabled us to do this to a high standard.
Below are some of the programs and software used in the creation of Childhood. We will discuss in more depth when answering the question how these helped us to complete our project.
-Prezi, youtube, blogger, imovie, google, garage band, itype, quicktime, photoshop, iphoto, itunes.
The points we will cover is how we have the ability to create our whole media teaser trailer using one machine.
Also how different programs and software have enabled us to do this to a high standard.
Below are some of the programs and software used in the creation of Childhood. We will discuss in more depth when answering the question how these helped us to complete our project.
-Prezi, youtube, blogger, imovie, google, garage band, itype, quicktime, photoshop, iphoto, itunes.
QUESTION 3- What have you learned from your audience feedback?
We appreciate hugely that our audience of external AS students have taken time out of their own day to watch, study and evaluate our teaser trailer A2 Media production. We know that they are an extremely useful, valid source of criticism and praise coming from a very different perspective of not knowing anything what-so-ever about our film. We asked our external source of audience to identify our genre, target audience of 'Childhood' and asked for their honest opinions on what they liked about our teaser trailer and what they disliked and/or could have been improved.
To add to answering this question to its full extent, you will read our results from our audience feedback and our discussion about them in a video interview we will soon create where, I repeat, we will discuss the feed back we received from questionnaires we have created and also including interviews with have held with member of the public from different ages groups.
To add to answering this question to its full extent, you will read our results from our audience feedback and our discussion about them in a video interview we will soon create where, I repeat, we will discuss the feed back we received from questionnaires we have created and also including interviews with have held with member of the public from different ages groups.
QUESTION 2- How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
We are planning to create a Prezi to answer this question. Using all different types of media to explain how effective the combination of our main products and ancillary texts.
Some points we will cover:
-How you can clearly tell all 3 of our outcomes, the poster, magazine cover and teaser trailer all are promoting the same film 'Chilhood'.
-Our main link between the 3 is our main character which appears in all 3 outcomes. With simiar themes such a the poster incorporating props and themes from the trailer for example, a clock, television etc.
-Our genre is also consistently clear, for example some magazines when promoting the film display the actor them selves instead of the character they played on the cover. Where as on our magazine cover we displayed our actor in character still portraying the genre of horror.
-We will also comment on the manipulation of the title 'Childhood' on our 3 different outcomes. We did change it on all 3 to fit with the median we were working with at that particular time. For example using the title in our trailer and developing this for the poster by adding images into the text. Then for the magazine to get it the fit with the theme we completely recreated the title, we used a simliar theme for the phone using similar colours and layout. But still was easily linked to the trailer and poster.
Some points we will cover:
-How you can clearly tell all 3 of our outcomes, the poster, magazine cover and teaser trailer all are promoting the same film 'Chilhood'.
-Our main link between the 3 is our main character which appears in all 3 outcomes. With simiar themes such a the poster incorporating props and themes from the trailer for example, a clock, television etc.
-Our genre is also consistently clear, for example some magazines when promoting the film display the actor them selves instead of the character they played on the cover. Where as on our magazine cover we displayed our actor in character still portraying the genre of horror.
-We will also comment on the manipulation of the title 'Childhood' on our 3 different outcomes. We did change it on all 3 to fit with the median we were working with at that particular time. For example using the title in our trailer and developing this for the poster by adding images into the text. Then for the magazine to get it the fit with the theme we completely recreated the title, we used a simliar theme for the phone using similar colours and layout. But still was easily linked to the trailer and poster.
QUESTION 1- In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
To answer the question above, we have planned to create a montage of the videos and themes that have influenced our teaser trailer. Including such films as 'The Ring', 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' and many more. We will construct a voice over explaining how these trailers and themes have influenced the making of our trailer. Also how our trailer differs from them and in what ways.
The Ring was one of our main influences. We used there concept of the main character being a young and disturbed child. We knew that having a young main character in a horror film would be a classic way of scaring the viewers as many horrors include young children and are associated with them.
When watching The Ring we decided to brain storm some of the themes involved in the film and see if we could some how incorporate these aspects in our trailer. Some themes we were particularly interested in using were the surveillance's scenes and the use of the television as a visual prop through the film.
Insidious and Hide and Seek were too films we used as influences for the sound aspects of our trailer. We liked the sound effects Incorporated in Insidious because it was so sudden and unexpected and we wanted this in our trailer between some of the different clips. We got the idea of using a voice over from Hide and Seek. We believed having a voice over some of the clips added a creepy effect which was what we were looking for.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo inspired us with it quick, sharp short takes. There were enough for you to get a slight idea of what was going on but also at the same time not giving away to much of the storyline. It left you as a viewer slightly confused but also intrigued to know what was happening.
The Ring was one of our main influences. We used there concept of the main character being a young and disturbed child. We knew that having a young main character in a horror film would be a classic way of scaring the viewers as many horrors include young children and are associated with them.
When watching The Ring we decided to brain storm some of the themes involved in the film and see if we could some how incorporate these aspects in our trailer. Some themes we were particularly interested in using were the surveillance's scenes and the use of the television as a visual prop through the film.
Insidious and Hide and Seek were too films we used as influences for the sound aspects of our trailer. We liked the sound effects Incorporated in Insidious because it was so sudden and unexpected and we wanted this in our trailer between some of the different clips. We got the idea of using a voice over from Hide and Seek. We believed having a voice over some of the clips added a creepy effect which was what we were looking for.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo inspired us with it quick, sharp short takes. There were enough for you to get a slight idea of what was going on but also at the same time not giving away to much of the storyline. It left you as a viewer slightly confused but also intrigued to know what was happening.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
For our final magazine cover we came to the conclusion that using a screen grab from our trailer would not be good enough quality to be enlarged as it would become pixalated and fuzzy. So we decided to use a camera to take a series of images of Katie in character with make up, hair and costume done. We used a high resolution camera to create shots that would be enlarged and still of a good quality.
We wanted her to still be in character rather than have her as her self shown as an actor on the cover as many magazines do. We felt this would link the magazine cover to to the poster and trailer keeping the main character and sense of genre clear.
Taking a range of images gave up the ability to experiment with what images would fit into our magazine layout best. This is why we took a variety of angles, front on and side images. Also ones from different angles.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
DETAILS
While researching other teaser trailers we were interested in the idea of creating a small credit bar that are show at the end of many trailers. This we felt would make our trailer feel more realistic and less amiture. Although we didn't feel we had enough time to create this title we put the idea to one side. Towards the end of the construction of our trailer we felt this aspect was a vital piece missing. So we made an end credit to be shown for a few seconds at the end of our teaser trailer.
Above on the left is our design and on the right is the design from the end of the film 'Insidious' teaser trailer' which we took inspiration from. Taking the idea of making the names larger than the text such as 'In Association With'. This is what the style of most teaser trailers credits are like.
The Insidious credits are very long which isn't like all films credits, but as ours is a small scale production we made ours shorter and straight to the point. We overlapped our text in our design as we had seen it on another films credits which we felt is unique and different to the run of the mill layouts we have seen, also making our credits look more professional over all.
FINALISING IDEAS
After playing about with screen shots taken from our teaser trailer we decided the quality wasn't good enough for use on our magazine cover. We decided to focus on the creation of the titles, backgrounds, and other ordinary features of a typical Virus magazine. We felt this would be best to focus on until we had taken our better quality photographs. We started to draw ideas from different elements of various magazines.
On the Virus cover on the below and left the detail titles and snip its to what is enclosed inside for example what movies, reports, games, music etc. are located at the bottom of the poster in a very simple listed structure. This we found present on almost all the posters. Although we don't dislike this lay out we felt it was a bit dated but experimented in creating it anyway. After creating this section of text we felt it wasn't going to give our magazine cover the look we were hoping for but at the same time we wanted our cover to look like a real Virus mag.
Doing some further research into virus magazine we came across a more current issue for Final Destination 5. We were intrigued by the new layout on the cover. We felt it looked alot more modern to the Hatchet cover and was what we had aspired ours to look like. We quickly started to experiment with the new layout of filling the text in a strip format. Finding a similar font and varying our text in size. On our poster i believe we have created a similar effect with great precision.
On our design above we have incorporated both text ideas by having the strips down the side and also two lines along to bottom. This is not our final design so when our image is in place we will decided whether both are need or if only the strips down the left column are need to make the layout a success.
We then began to look into the smaller detailing such as the slat of blood shown on the Final Destination cover. WE again like this idea and wanted to create something similar. We came up with the idea of instead of having the splat displaying text like the one above saying 'JAMES WAN INTERVIEW' we would incorporate our previous task of creating a poster for our film and display this on our magazine cover. This using the cover as a promotion tool for 'Childhood'.
Finally we have used one of the barcodes from another poster with a blue them like our design. On all Virus magazines there is one set colour theme and we have chosen blue. This also ties in with the blue theme on our poster. Linking the two products together and helping make the connection between the poster and the cover more visable as different imagery is being used this helps tie them together.
If we have enough time we will recreate our own barcode to fit more with our own design.
Friday, 9 December 2011
Inital Magazine Cover
Below is our first throw together of ideas we have had for our magazine cover. We knew we wanted our man character to be enouperated in it some where. but also maybe another element from the film. This is where the television idea emerged from. We started by coping the title from an already existing magazine to give us a base to work from. We the encouperated the television image, merging the still from our trailer into the screen.
We began to realise that the title needed to be worked on as, when we copied it we also coped a black outline with it meaning the title wasn't able to be manipulated. We wanted the title to be cut out so our imagery could be seen through the gaps in the title like any other magazine. This is where we started to work on cutting out the letters on Photoshop using the wand tool, to get the letters outlined perfectly so the background below was now visable. (this is shown on the next post above). This has also now been done on our film title 'Childhood' as we had the same problem with outlining on this also.
The last problem we came across on this teaster poster was the quality of the image. As this image was only a screan grab from our teaser trailer the quality was very low. This was fine for our poster we created as we wanted to effect of the facial image used on the poster to have a low oppacity, making the quality of the image unvisable. But we wish to have a larger image un edited on our cover inspired by the Virus covers we have researched.
We will take new photographs of our man character to use on our final cover idea for the best quality we can possibly get.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Chosen Idea
We all found that when researching different horror film magazines, that they all come across very tacky especially with their titles. But in this case we like the name of the magazine being "VIRUS" just not the font, so we decided to manipulate it into something that fits with our trailer, because we found our title "CHILDHOOD" has a similar font.
COLOUR:
All the aspects of the cover such as the bar code and titles are in keeping with the colour scheme of the photos used from the film. This gives off a simple but effective aspect that we are interested when designing our magazine cover!
LAYOUT:
We really like the layout of the cover because it is simple and to the point. It has the the Title of the film at the top and the content of what is included inside at the bottom of the cover. This is good because it is minimal and prevents distraction from the main image.
WHY APPROPRIATE?
We feel that this film magazine is appropriate for our trailer because, most of the films advertised are horror/ thriller so it fits in with our genre. Some of the films featured on the cover are ones which we have used as influences for our trailer. Our poster which we created is very minimal also and we want to stick with the same theme, keeping the imagery the main focus.
WHY NOT APPROPRIATE?
Although we like the idea of keeping it very minimal, this may prevent us from getting the highest grade, therefore we have decided to use aspects from other posters, to ensure it is a original design.
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