Teaser trailer.

Magazine cover.

Film poster.

evaluation q4.

Evaluation q 3.

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

The internet as a whole helped me a lot whilst carrying out my research as I could compare different types of media to another. YouTube was helpful with my product research as well as comparing different types of teaser trailers and focusing on the specific conventions used within them. By comparing different teaser trailers I started noticing things that appeal and work well and things that are somewhat unnecessary to have.

I then started posting my work onto blogger and used it as a day to day diary of my work where I could keep all my notes and research in one place. My audience research questionnaire was both done on paper and via e-mail and it was much easier putting together the results from the emails.

To create my production piece I used a video camera and a tripod to make it stable and ensure a good quality shot. Using the camera on my own was a whole new experience for me as I was the actor in my group’s production piece last year I got to only record a few shots and use the camera at rare occasions. This meant that I struggled a little at the start with the features of the camera and how to position the tripod etc. however I managed to correct myself and get the best shots possible for my teaser trailer.

For both my magazine and film cover I used a SLR camera which gave the pictures good quality and made my production pieces look better.

I edited my teaser trailer using iMovie hd. As I had used iMovie in my last year’s production it was fairly straight forward to use except some of the features which I forgot about which included the slides in between shots. I created my magazine cover and film poster using adobe Photoshop which was a whole new experience as I had never used Photoshop before. After having several practise attempts at producing a magazine cover and film poster I managed to come up with two for my own production.

Evaluation question 2.

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

I think that my film poster works well with the main production piece as it is an in action shot of my character. However I failed to use the same font within my main production piece and my film poster which was very disappointing as it would have shown the connection between the two as well as consistency.

My magazine cover doesn’t relate much to my product as it focuses more on the star of the movie. However this can also be used to promote the movie.

Evaluation question 1.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convetions of real media products?

Whilst making my media products I had to research and develop my knowledge on the conventions of existing media products of the same genre. I made a decision on my genre which ended up being thriller/horror after I carried out my initial research which was a questionnaire I set up asking general questions e.g. age, gender, preferred film genres etc.

After carrying out further research into the conventions of thriller and horror teaser trailers I decided to use title slates to intrigue viewers and make the viewer want to watch the film to get answers.

These where title slates taken from the movie “saw 3d” where I initially got the idea from that I could use title slates to intrigue my audience.

In thrillers and horror teaser trailers I noticed that the music in the background mostly remains the same which is usually the official soundtrack to the movie. The soundtrack also usually starts of slow and gets faster and louder with the speed of the editing of intensity of the scene which is what the soundtrack in my teaser trailer achieved successfully.
I noticed that in thrillers some scenes are shown and they get more intense and intriguing before the teaser trailer comes to an end. I also applied this in my own teaser trailer.