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Welcome to my A2 Media Studies blog that contains all of my work I've done which I started September 2012. A lot of effort has gone into this with my working partner so I hope you enjoy it!

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

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 :(

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