Evaluation Question 3-( YouTube feedback) Jennifer

Audience feedback was a key part of our final product, it allowed for our media product to sign off as excellent or satisfactory of our chosen sub-genre. It is incredibly important for the audience of our media product to relate to the genre, as they are consumers of the product, this is why they are key to the production of our task.

At the beginning of our planning and research, we decided to obtain a better understanding of our target audience, to do this we wrote up questionnaires, which contained multiple choice answers of the genre of horror films. Within the questionnaire, target audience were allowed to give their own ideas and perceptions of horror films and what they'd like to see in a horror.

From the audience feedback I learnt that it is important to have constant feedback throughout the different stages of our product.

Feedback was gained through various methods, including Facebook, twitter, BBM (black berry messenger) and YouTube.

As you can see from the screen shot taken from our you tube website, comments have been made by our viewers. As you can see, we had some positive feedback from our audience. Two of the comments that were made, expressed how they would like to see movie and continuously keep watching the trailer. This feedback was vital for us as a group, which proved to me that from what our viewers have commented on, our trailer was at a good standard. 

Above are the statistics for our final trailer. Overall, so far we have had 470 views from our audience, which has proven to be a good thing for our production team, clearly showing that our trailer has made steady progress. It also shows the percentage of people who have liked our trailer and disliked our trailer. So far we have 5% as likes and the other 3% are dislikes, this may be because they did not feel that our trailer suited their taste in film, even so honest feedback is considered as a positive for our production team.

Our trailer

Practice shots

 For our poster, we wanted to see what effects we would be able to use.  One of the effect we practiced what the shutter speed effect. By using the shutter speed we were showed what the effect can create..

As seen in this photo you can see that by slowing the shutter speed down will show the movement of an object/person from one position to another. This will then give a ghostly effect.

When we were given the opportunity to take a few photographs, we started off simple by having our model standing in one position and only moving her head.  Seeing as we didn’t not use a tripod, our cameraman had to keep his hands as steady as possible.  For our first attempt, the photo taken had come out quite good. This is because you can see where the model’s head had moved to and from, and you saw little movement in the body.

Our next attempt came out better than expected. This is because there is hardly any body movement shown and the face looks like a complete blur. This means  that the model had stood completely still,  and the cameraman kept their hand steady 

For our second attempt of using the shutters speed, we decided for the model to not only move her head but to walk into three positions which is in a shape of a triangle.

As you can see from the image on the left, this did not work out as we thought it would originally. However, it was our first attempt .  

In the next attempt, we made considerable progress. This meant that the models figure  was shown in each position they stood in. by doing that the model had to stand in each position for a certain amount of time ( time ranging between 5 and 10 seconds).

Finally, our last attempt was a huge success in using a moving figure. This was because you can see the two solid figures of the model with a vaporous effect in between each one, which showed the movement of the model.

Evaluation Question 2 ( Cross media promotion) - Jennifer

As part of our coursework, we were asked to produce a teaser trailer, as well as two ancillary tasks. The two ancillary tasks were created to advertise and promote the teaser trailer. When all three are combined, it will demonstrate a marketing campaign for the film. 

It is very important for films to have efficient and effective advertising, and I feel that as a group we have done this successfully. 

The combination of both our main product and the ancillary tasks is vital in keeping a house style image, by mixing it up it may confuse the audience (consumer), and will not maintain the genre of horror. I feel that we did in some way challenged the conventions as the three product did not follow the same scheme. that being of colour and texts. 

The poster was created to garb the audiences attention and perhaps persuade them to find out more about the film. Information such as the date release and the age certificate are provided to attract the audiences attention.

Our Magazine front cover

Our Poster

The Plague poster!

Evaluation Question 4 By O.J

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

Movie Teaser Trailer (Productin/Filming)

As I was the person recording the teaser trailer production I practised using a Canon EOS 7D which was some valuable experience as I could familiarise myself with the camera and practice recording. I done this in the early stages of the A2  course but have no pictures illustrate this but i do pictures when recording the trailer.

I did save time by familarising myself with the equipment such as the Canon EOS 7D and 400D and the vintem Pro 5 which is the tripod stand which was very important for me to learn how to use as it was very hard to set up.

After I had learnt how to set up the equipment I found it kind of easy without any did from teachers to assemble the equipment.

I learnt quite alot about cameras from the get go as i didnt have knowledge about cameras so one of the first things I learnt was taking pictures the camera has to be in focus and when pressing the camera shot button a red light will appear to flash on screen showing the point of focus and if it does not appear then the photo will not be taken.