End Of Project

We have finally completed our evaluation and come to an end with this project! We have really enjoyed creating our trailer and working together to produce a magazine cover and poster.  We are overly very happy with the outcome however, there are some aspects of our project that we feel did not completely go to plan due to technical difficulties.  One main problem we encountered when making the magazine cover was that our shots that we took of Ruth got deleted and we did not have time to schedule another photoshoot with our actress Kira.  Therefore, we had to make do with a still image we sceen shot from our trailer thus resulted in a slighty pixalated affect on our magazine cover.  We are very proud of all the work we have produced in this project and it has enabled us to increase our knowledge in the media industry.

SIGNING OUT :D

Evaluation- Question 4!

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
This had to be our favourite question to answer as we enjoyed hearing the feedback from our target audience. We understand it is helpful to gain both positive and negative feedback and we enjoyed learning from this, as we know it can help us for future projects.

Question Three!

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


This video describes the synergy between our trailer, poster and magazine cover. Our main aim was to include the 'horror' genre within all three with the idea of a spiritual figure. Here we wished to  present this question slightly differently. Thus here we presented stills of our final pieces along with annotations directly onto the video via youtube. We thought this would be easy for you to follow and understand the reasons of our choices.

Question Two!

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

Here we made a Prezi explaining the different media technology types we used when creating our trailer, poster and magazine cover. Moreover, the understanding of how new media technology has progressed since the last 10 years alongside our progression of understanding how to use these technology types. 

This emphasizes why we decided to use the template of a mountain showing this progression from technology 10 years from now leading to our evaluation after using these technology types. 

Question Two on Prezi

Question One!

In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products? 


Here we created a presentation answering this question using a new feature to our media department; the green screen. We edited this using the newer version of iMovie after learning how to add the image/clip behind our clip and shown on the green screen.

How we did this:
At first we re imported our clips (due to the crashing of the previous Imac we used) and placed them within the time line, then screen recorded the clip from Youtube of our trailer (as our previous project was on the previous Mac) collecting stills of our favourite clips, print screens of our media final products ; magazine and poster and screen recorded the trailers we were inspired by contrasted by our teaser trailer.

We placed the influence clips/ images over the green screen however this gained a grainy effect and was shown over our faces after clicking 'Green Screen'.  However after experimenting with this we learnt we had to import the influence clips/images first before importing the clips with us, placing over this.

We are proud of the final outcome as we believe it demonstrates our points well and the framing of the influence pieces are well shown.

Enjoy!

PROBLEM

In yesterday's and today's lesson, when we were editing our green screen clips for our evaluation, iMovie wasn't responding as quickly as it normally does. At first we thought that it was because there was a lot of footage on there, but something has happened and we're unsure at the moment exactly what it is, but we can't view or edit our work.

So, because we may have to re-film some parts, and we'll have to edit it all over again, the deadline for our group has been extended so we can finish it. Our teachers felt that this was fair as we were so close to finishing our evaluation and it wasn't anyones fault that the file is corrupted. So we are working extra hard to re-film and edit it all in the next few days!



This is what we have managed to save..

Green Screen!!

Today's lesson we decided to start question 1! We were really interested in using the green screen as it was an new addition to our media department and thought it could work well for the question. Our main idea for this was to involve our influences on the green screen whilst speaking about them/having an discussion in front directly talking to the camera. For this we all took turns speaking of a different influence as we found when we all stood in front of the green screen there wasn't enough room for the viewer to witness what clip or influence was being shown behind.

Hannah- spoke about the influence of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and its structure we incorporated within our trailer.

Steph- Paranormal Activity 2 with the spiritual focus of the film.

Claire- The Omen and The Orphan with the focus of the children of the film with the use of shots; midshot alongside the use of lighting.

Cindy- The use of costume influenced by 'Don't Look Now' trailer with the red dress and spoke about the titles of the film influenced by 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'.

We found that the green screen worked well as it looked interesting to watch and was an new way of presenting our evaluation also, taught us a new method learning about the use of the green screen.
We uploaded it to the new version of iMovie in which we had to discover how to place the green screen over the clip. Previously, we had made a time line of clips appropriate to what we wanted to speak about and eventually this worked well.

A problem we encountered was splitting the green screen clip as once we filmed we decided to continue filming as thought we could edit our mistakes by iMovie. To do this we had to import the clips into the project library click on the blue editing button once selecting the clip and click clip trimmer. For this we had to select the parts we wanted before dragging into the library again and if wanted a different part of the same clip we had to reimport that clip again.

Negative Feedback

Positive Feedback

We created a 'Wordle' with a few positive words that we received from some feedback.

Question 4! Preparation..

Before completing Evaluation Question 4 we have been given sheets of feedback about our trailer in which a different school has completed giving both positive and negative criticism. We are finding this helpful as it helps us realise what we could have done to improve from other viewers that ourselves and our classmates in which may be bias when giving their own feedback. 

The questions they answered were: 

a) What genre did you believe this trailer was? 

b) What gender and age group do you think the trailer would appeal to?

c) What did you like about the trailer?

d) What could be improved?

We are pleased with our audience feedback and thankful as we understand our feedback is honest and unbias. We feel this feedback would highly help us with our evaluation so we can question our choices and compare to this feedback learning from it in hope to improve our future projects with the feedback in mind.

Todays Lesson!

Todays lesson we have been focusing on finishing question 2 and our audience feedback video where we have inteviewed the same people in which we had interviewed previously when asking of their opinion of our storyboard. These are, Nkechi Ireogbulem, Antar Adams and Chloe Byerley. We wanted to interview the same people to see how our project as progressed and to gain their opinions of it however, it was not possible to track all our interviewees as some were on holiday or away studying for exams.
 We wish to interview from older aged perspectives to gain reliable feedback unbias of the age. But we are unsure if we have enough time yet!

Update of Evaluation..

In today's lesson, we focused on recording the voiceover to add to our imovie project for Question 2. We wrote a script and split it up between us and we talked about all of the different softwares and technologies we have used throughout this whole project and what we used them for. To go with the voiceover, we have printscreens and mini videos that are shown as we talk about each topic.
In addition to the voiceover & video, we have created a prezi, which also talks about the different types of technology, and compares what we used for our A2 coursework and what we have used now.
As well as working on Question 2, we have almost finished our feedback for Question 4; we have edited the clips of what we have so far, and in tomorrow's lesson we would like to film two more people to get their view on our teaser trailer.

In yesterday's lesson, we were given some feedback from other schools and we found it really helpful; it's always nice to hear good things about our teaser trailer but we were more interested in the criticisms. I felt that some were fair comments and we had even discussed some of the issues ourselves, such as the music. We would like to get as much feedback as possible so we set up an event on Facebook and posted our teaser trailer on it asking a big group of people to watch it and tell us what they think; they have been told to be very critical and honest! We should hopefully receive all of that feedback soon.

So hopefully by the end of tomorrows lesson, we should have finished Question 2.
Then, we have two weeks to finish Question 4 & start and finish Questions 1 and 3!!

Todays Lesson!

Todays lesson we have been focusing on finishing question 2 and our audience feedback video where we have inteviewed the same people in which we had interviewed previously when asking their opinion of our storyboard. These are, Nkechi Ireogbulem, Antar Adams and Chloe Byerley. We wanted to interview the same people to see how our project as progressed and to gain their opinions of it.  We received a vast range of compliments and constructive critism.  This we will use to evaluate our work and answer the feedback question in detail.

Introducing our Evaluation!

To help us plan our evaluation to help conclude our project we thought of different ways in which we could present our answers in an interesting and fun way.

A spider diagram of different methods we could use to present them using different technologies and software.

Here are our set questions in which we would have to answer about our trailer, magazine cover and poster.

                                                 

 Finally here is an scan of our final ideas of how we will present our questions which could evidently change mixing two of the same method together for example; a prezi, a video, screenshots and an voiceover.

FINAL MAGAZINE COVER!

Initial Poster Idea..

This is our inital poster idea! From our location shots where we had tested with practise shots before making our trailer we tested our idea with this image of Steph's eyes to see if our idea would be successful or not.

We took a print screen; Command, Ctrl and 4, and print screened the shot of Kira as Ruth in the corridor. We liked the use of lighting here creatign a silloutte, still obvious it is of a girl. Because the lighting is quite dark and the eyes are covered with the image I believe our genre is obvious to its audience if we were to use this stragedy for our poster in hope to advertise our film.

We did this via AS Photoshop C5 by opening both images in Photoshops and clicking; Command A which selects the whole image so we could copy and paste it onto the eyes photo (Command and V). We then had to transform this image; Command and T and dragging the corner arrows inwards in hope to smallen the photo. We found it easier to zoom into the photo by this point for us to gain a better understanding whether it would work for our project and would fit in the eyes. Because we copied and paste this it is an seperate layer so we could rub out the access of the photo in which would appear around the eyes using the rubber tool on the side bar. We found this quite difficult at first as we werent completely sure where the eyes finished however after chaning the opacity (above the layers) and pulling the bar down, we could clearly see where the photo ended.

We are happy with this design as it looks slightly eerie and creepy showing the genre quite clearly. The only issue we think is what else we would include on the poster deciding on whether we'll have it landscape or portrait.

Influences for Poster..

Influences;Posters

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A presentation (by Cindy) of posters which as a group we collected in class, with added descriptive evidence  as to why we liked them and how they can influence our poster.

OUR TEASER TRAILER!

Our final teaser trailer! We're happy with our final outcome and look forward to hearing others feedback once we have our screening session.

Our trailer so far..



Development: What we wish to change:
- The opening clip with the puddle we decided to make longer to help introduce a build up in the trailer
- We wish to cut the effect of the library scene as it was too fast and to create a contrast between the scary 'darker' parts than the ones shot during the day.
-We took the pan out of the trailer (at the beginning) of the school because we didn't feel it was  completely appropriate as is set during the night at the beginning of our trailer.
- We wanted to have the clips as a whole at the beginning longer to emphasise the shorter, quicker ones towards the end along with faster eerie music to show the change of event since the opening.
- The music is also a factor we wish to change, possibly adding a heart beat towards the end overlapping the other to add to  the faster pace intriguing the audience.

First Preview..

In Friday's lesson we sat down as a class and we all had a preview of everyone's teaser trailers. It was a really helpful lesson as we were able to get some positive feedback as well as some constructive comments to improve our teaser trailer.

Before we showed our trailer, we already knew that we would have to change the order of our music as some of it doesn't fit with a few shots; so we took it all out and have decided that adding the music and sound effects will be the last thing we do.

We need to make sure that we extend the 'puddle' clip as we need to show Lucy exiting the frame.
Near the beginning of the trailer, we have an establishing shot of the library, however, after hearing some feedback we think that it would look better if it isn't face paced; we have decided that the light, calm shots will be normal pace but the darker, more frightening shots will be faster.

Another improvement we are planning to make is to ensure that the pace of the clips are more consistent throughout our teaser trailer to create a big build up towards the end creating a larger indifference between the library scenes and the darker scenes of the trailer (slower before the book is opened) to create an eerie feel.