Research and planning: my finished film trailer - Yours, Always

Research and planning: my finished film magazine - Flicks

Research and planning: my finished film poster - Yours, Always

I made some changes to my film poster on photoshop. I changed the size of the text at the bottom of the poster and the colour or the two actors names. This feedback was given from my media tutor.

Evaluation: Question 4

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

This is a Prezi of all the technologies i have used throughout the production of my trailer, magazine and poster.



This is a video of my explaining and showing some of the main technologies that have helped me to create my trailer, magazine and poster.

Evaluation: Question 3

What have you learned from audience feedback?

From all the feedback I gathered over the research, planning and production of my trailer, magazine and poster I learned that all the comments that were made would all help to benefit me towards getting a better grade and product. I found that it is very important to keep in touch with your primary audience through out the making of all three products as all they were aimed at people of a similar age and needed to appeal to them. This meant by getting continuous feedback allowed me to make sure my products appealed to them meaning in terms of marketing my products would sell well. 

Questionnaires

I created a questionnaire to ask my audience directly what type of film they are most interested in. From these results I gathered that romance is a very popular genre, with a twist in the storyline and a happy ending. I tried to take these preferences on board when producing my trailer, and I feel I incorporated these elements in my storyline.

Poll Junkie

I created poll on the website 'Poll Junkie' this way I could ask people of all different age groups to visit my poll and answer my questions which were along the lines of, 'what is your favourite romance film' this way I could adapt my storyline to fit my audiences' preferences. Also 'would you prefer the male character to be in touch with his feelings or laddish?' this question surprised me, as my audience preferred the male character to be 'laddish', and when I asked in person why this was, because they would like the idea of changing the male in to a gentleman.

Audience Feedback

From my interview videos I gathered valid information that made me change certain elements of my trailer. After working on my trailer for so long I found myself not recognising certain things that were wrong with my product. However when I got other peoples feedback, these problems became recognisable. For example I was working on my trailer where at the end of it I showed my male character getting run over, this way I would be telling the end of my film in the trailer. But from working on the editing so critically I became unaware of this problem. So from getting feedback from different people this allowed the unrecognisable problems to be seen and changed.

To see the Gif I made of my target audience click on the small video below and the click on it once again on the next page to bring the Gif up larger.

Evaluation: Question 2

How effective is the combination of the main product and ancillary tasks?

This is a Glogster of my products and me explaining why they are all linked together and how you can tell that they are all products from the same film.



This QuickTime video is me explaining how all three of my products link together in terms of their different elements.

Evaluation: Question 1

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


TRAILER

For this evaluation question I created iMovie clips and uploaded them via YouTube to show more clearly the comparisons and differences between my trailer Yours, Always and three other trailers. 

• This is the first trailer I will be evaluating in terms of comparisons and differences with my trailer. This is the trailer for the film The Lucky One.

• This clip I made shows how The Lucky One and Yours, Always share the same theme of main characters falling in love, this shows a conventional theme of a romance genre.

• In this clip I have shown how I have developed The Lucky One and Yours, Always certain links they have in their storylines, creating more meaning in the character's relationships. However The Lucky One's link is a picture of the girl as he feels she saved his life in the war, yet in Yours, Always the necklace James gives to Serena gives him inspiration to go after her. 

• This clip shows how I have challenged certain aspects of The Lucky One's trailer in Yours, Always as the storyline is different in terms of the family issues and war scenes in The Lucky One, and in Yours, Always the dad of Serena doesn't allow her and James to be together, this is a very traditional romance storyline where as The Lucky One is more contemporary.

• This is the trailer for the film Love and Other Drugs. I will be analysing this with the similarities and differences between both this trailer and Yours, Always.

• In this clip I made on iMovie I have show the scenes in which my trailer use, develop and challenge different element from the trailer Love and Other Drugs.
• Both trailers have a contemporary setting in built up and city areas, we found this would be more suitable for our trailer's setting as this is our own environment meaning more access to city areas is available. When the male character goes after the girl in his car in Love and Other drugs, we see scenes of her looking out of the window at him, and in our trailer we also have elements of these scenes, also clips of the James in his car going after Serena.
• In the scenes where the male goes after the female in Love and Other Drugs, she is on a bus when she sees him, however in our trailer we developed these scenes as Serena is in her house when she sees him outside. 
• The way we challenged our trailer against Love and Other Drugs is the way our trailer is very conventional in terms of a classical romance genre storyline, yet Love and Other Drugs is contemporary in terms of their unconventional storyline.

• This is the trailer for the film The Notebook. I will analyse this in comparison to my trailer Yours, Always and discuss where I have used, developed and challenged certain things.

• This clip I made will shown the three elements of use, develop and challenge in the comparisons of the trailer for the film The Notebook.
• The similarities between both trailers are the use of the montage of clips showing the two main character relationship blossom and also the age of the characters are very similar.
• My trailer has developed the scenes of the girls parent not agreeing with her being with the boy as we have shown just the father warning off James from seeing Serena, we leave the audience in suspense as we see James going after Serena at the end of the trailer leaving them wondering what will her father say.
• My trailer challenged the aspect of the setting of The Notebook, as in that trailer a more scenic and rural environment is shown, with lakes and the country being the main element of this trailer. However as we are unable to access this type of setting we stuck to an urban environment which made ours trailer more contemporary.

MAGAZINE

• Here I have shown how I have used the small text at the top of the magazine, used the '10 Best' feature and used the positioning of the barcode.

• Here I have shown how I have developed the text of my masthead to fit with the genre of my magazine, also how I have developed the '10 Best' feature to fit in with my magazines' genre.

• Here I have shown how i have challenged the elements of the Premiere magazine. I have changed the colour scheme to fit in with my genre of my magazine and to appeal to its audience. Also I have changed the image of my main characters as this shows the audience what type of film is being advertised and by using this image they can easily tell it is a romance film being advertised. And finally the fonts and sizes have been changed to fit around the image and cover lines on my magazine and to be noticed by my audience.

POSTER

• Here I have shown how I have used the positioning of my two character on the poster the same way the characters are positioned on the other poster. Also I have used the professional text at the bottom of the poster showing all the information about the film, this makes my poster look very professional.

• Here I have shown how I have developed the positioning of the characters, and I how I have change it so the boy is holding onto the girl, as in my trailer it is the boy going after the girl who he loves. Also I've shown how I have developed the text at the bottom of the page to fit with the font with the rest of the text and also the romantic genre of the poster.

• Here I have shown how I have challenged the actor name at the top of the poster, I decided I want both of my actors names above the text at the bottom as this fills out the page more. Also I challenged the smaller image the other poster has as I thought that my one main image would be strong enough to advertise my film and show their relationship.