Main Product

Ancilary Products

Poster:


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Radio Ad:

Evaluation

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

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

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2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Poster Evaluation

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The radio advert, on the other hand, was made to make the audience ask questions and so be curious about the film. To do this we made it as if the character was talking directly to the listener, this would make them listen closer to what was being said and then become curious as to what was going on.

The fact that both ancillary texts both seem to, in some way, plead for help from the audience would spark concern and curiosity and would make many want to see the film.

In the audience feedback video I posted in the last post Becky believed that the combination of all three texts was very effective and said that the poster and radio ad would make her want to see the film and that the film lived up to the expectations she made. I sent links to the poster, radio ad and film to people through Tumblr (a blogging site) and Twitter as well in order to get further feedback and most people agreed with what Becky said.

3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?

From my audience feedback I learnt that the font size is an issue on the poster. This point was mentioned continuously when asking for final feedback on the poster but people also said that they loved the photo and the high contrast used believing that it was very effective. I also learnt that the idea to use black and white to distinguish the hallucinations from real life was a good one as the people I asked said that it made the film easier to understand.

Those who I talked to seemed to believe that the poster was the strongest of the three texts and many said that they instantly were interested in the film because of it. This could be because Rosie has had some basic experience with photography and we have both used photoshop a lot in the past for personal projects, this meant that we had a much easier job with this particular text rather than the film itself for which we both had to learn how to use a whole new programme in a limited amount of time.

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

Media technologies, for example the internet, helped greatly in every stage of the coursework from the construction to the evaluation. The internet was the most helpful technology during this product, it helped me get a wider range of opinions through friends I have made online and also made it easy, and free, to access many different films and short films to use as examples for research to help us understand the conventions of our chosen genre. Watching TV and listening to the radio also helped a lot as, I have discovered, many radio adverts for movies are actually the audio for the TV adverts and so research was easier to do as it is much easier to find TV ads than radio ads.

During the planning process we looked online for potential places to film and to get a general idea on the types of setting we wanted, it also helped us figure out when the best time to film would be as opening and closing times of public places were readily available, which made the whole production process easier. We also used the internet to help receive feedback by posting the links to our texts on different sites (such as twitter) and asking people for their opinion. This helped greatly as, on twitter alone, I have nearly 90 followers so it meant I could distribute my film to numerous people very quickly.

Programmes such as photoshop helped greatly with the construction process of the poster and Final Cut Pro, though complicated, made our film look much more professional than a basic video editor would have due to the wide range of transitions and effects it has. If I were to use a basic editor, like windows movie maker (one which I would never use but provides a good example) I would be very limited as to what I could do. As you can see in the screen cap below the programme is very basic with only the simple fade in fade out transitions:

30th March 2011

We were able to complete the final edit of our film as planned and uploaded it to youtube yesterday. The film is shown below: Those who have view both this version and the original version said that they preferred this version and that they felt that it flowed better with the new part included. They also said thatit was good that we shorted one scene (The scene in which Lucy is putting on her coat and shoes) and before they felt it lasted to long and dampened the pace of the film. We also feel that this version flows alot better and we are both glad that we produced the extra scene and shot some extra angles, where possible, for other parts of the film.

Due to the initial feedback session being lost we only have one recorded feedback which is shown below and, for the most part, corresponds with what other people we asked said:

23rd March 2011

Today we went out to film the extra scene we need to ensure that our short film met the time requirements. As mentioned in the last post we planned to shoot during lesson time as it was both at an early time of day and on a school day, ensuring that the playground at the part would be as empty as it could be while maintaining somewhat consistant lighting. The filming in question progressed with any problems and we completed the parts we needed quickly, giving us more time to plan when was the best times to edit to ensure that we would get the film finished in time and to a suitable standard. We are goingn to spend the next week editing whenever we have the free chance to do so and plan to have our film completed by Wednesday 30th March.

16th March 2011

After the audience feedback session was that our film was too short. We originally had worries that this would be the case and so had a plan set out and ready just incase. We decided on a part of the film in which extra footage could be put in without runing the flow of the film (this being the part between my character running towards the stairs and reaching the bench) and that we were going to involve the playground at the park we had originallyfilmed at. The only issue would be isuring that the playground was relatively empty as, if it wan't, the children in the shot would ruin our plans so we planned to during school time, when most children would also be in school, early in the morning.

9th March 2011

Upon relistening to our radio advert we realised that the ending didn't run as smooth as first thought and so we were hopeing to fix it. However, for reasons we were unable to figure out, the project file for our radio advert had corrupted and we were unable to fix it. Because of this we deicided to re edit the radio advert completely. The new advert can be seen below:

It's the same as the old one but we both feel that it flows better now and is less choppy.