Research and Planning - ALL 3 Products Completed!

Sound effects, voice over and everything anything trailer could possibly require! We've finished all 3 of our products, finally :D

Evaluation: Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

 

I've used a wide range of technologies during each process of the making of my advanced portfolio.  Here are some of the technologies that I've used during Research and Planning:

Garageband: The reason for me using this within research and planning is because I didn't actually use this for my production,  I used this to experiment within a preliminary task and plan what type of genre I wanted our trailer to feature.

Word it out: I used word it out to generate my production company name and distribution name by putting random single words down, and the program would generate my ideas together to give me a more broad view.  I'll show my use of knowledge within this program on the video.

Mozilla fire-fox: is the MAIN source of my research. Without this I wouldn't be able to access any information or magazines that I've retrieved and helped me to plan my work.  It also granted me access to programs such as Word it out, Prezi and Blogger.

 Blogger: This website basically contains EVERYTHING that I've researched, planned out, documentation of my production process and soon to be completed evaluation!

Prezi: An online program I use to place images on and annotate, like a presentation slide but more quirky. Helped me research and plan into what my price, colour code and genre was at the beginning of the project.

Microsoft Word: Produced all my production schedules on here, as well as shooting schedules and planning of locations.

Media Technology used in Production:

 Sony SLR HD camera: Used this to produce our main filming and used all different filters and settings.

 IMovie: used this program to edit my movie with the sound

Magix: Used to produce my soundtrack (home programme). I've added different loops into the programme to create a tune and added scores with a drum for instance - and then changed the pitch etc.

SLR Camera: Produced photos for magazine and poster with high quality.

 

Photoshop: Used  to produce my actual magazine and poster and edit pictures etc.

Magix in production (I could not do an ishow you video for this due to this being a programme i have at home)

ALSO PREZI doesn't seem to be running through blogger sometimes due to the site and it's own technical difficulties, so please click on the title 'untitled prezi' and it will divert you to the site where you can see the prezi there. SORRY!

Evaluation - Question 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

• Interviews: We gave people a set of questions that were based on two proposals and included questions about locations and such and all in all helped us find an age range of our trailer and definitely include a female character that would be aimed a male audience.  We also gathered our audience would prefer a montage pace and a voice over - which we did infact include in our finished trailer!
• Chelsea was the one who was in charge of finding a name and through Facebook found a name suggestion of Alexis and Fury.
• Teacher feedback gave us the idea of an attatched name such as 'Alexis Von-Fury'.
• Feedback on trailer:  Enabled us to provide a voice over to provide more narrative and a scene of Acura company as the audience wanted more story.  I also increased the volume and pitch of the soundtrack as people wanted more sound effected music.
• Feedback on all three products: Basically we already knew what we wanted to do and they all liked our products and due to previous improvements on voice over etc we just had to add our pictures.  Someone gave me feedback in order to change my masthead so I did, I changed it to a more bold font that gave the magazine a better look.  I was also given feedback that suggested I added a gradent over my work to darken it in order to make it look more suited to the genre such as a dark violent theme, so I did and I added the red to it.

Evaluation - Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Throughout the film we discuss:

Representations of characters: Alexis Von-Fury remains consistent throughout the movie; same leather clothes, makeup, weapons, stance and the Zombies remain consistent too such as the make-up and the way they act - it isn't like "fake acting". She's presented the same throughout such hero vs villain in the trailer.  Both our magazines show how she's the protagonist with the main photo being her.

Good Vs Bad: Clear contrast between hero and villain in the trailer as throughout the montage she's always attacking the zombies.  My poster also shows the bad one as well due to her being in the middle of the eyes of a zombie to imply they're "watching" her. My magazine doesn't include and bad but still you can tell she's the hero as we state "zombie hunter" in bold to imply she's the hero.

Colour and Lightning:  Filmed in a blue filter to imply cold/dead/evil and so she's alone and isolated.  Also included CCTV to show she's also being watched and filmed in sepia to show past tense and provide a little hint of narrative behind the trailer.  I've chosen a dark red colour gradient to go over my poster to imply 'violence' and 'blood' and also darkness so it suites the genre of horror especially with the eyes being brightened so they're 'alert' and always watching. My magazine was in a blue gradient and adjusted similarly to the trailer again to provide a dead/isolated feeling, and both my poster and magazine have the same font colours red and white, red to provide violence.

Location: We chose a deserted place to show that she was alone and that everyone had been affected by the virus, so it was an obvious outbreak.  The same location is implemented in both our posters and magazines so we're consistent.

Text:  'Shaun of the dead' font used throughout both trailer, movie and poster to be consistent and be thorough with the horror zombie theme and also on my magazine provided a 'blood splat' font that also gives a sense of action and violence! All 3 products contain font that's consistent throughout.

Narrative:  Easily shown through all products. Trailer: We show the girl protagonist, kinda like a "final girl" and the montage of her fighting them off.  Poster provides narrative with the tagline 'they just keep coming back for more' and a longshot of her to show she's the protagonist and finally, the magazine shows it through her being the 'zombie hunter' and that she's there to kiillllllllll! as you can see with her weapon shown throughout all 3 products :o hehe

A video I recorded asking a member of our target audience revolving a question around how all 3 products represent the same thing.

ANOTHER TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO IMOVIE THIS MOVIE WON'T CUT FROM 18 MINUTES LONG, IT'S INFACT ONLY 9:30 MINUTES SO PLEASE STOP NEAR 9:30!  IT WOULDN'T CUT :(

Evaluation - Question 1: In what ways do your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

NOTICE: If the Prezi powerpoint does not work due to software problems as it usually randomly occurs, then please click on the title 'Untitled Prezi' and it will take you to the site where you can preview my answer there and flick through the slide.