Hello Moderator,

This is my A2 media blog, I hope you enjoy reading through my blog and looking at my final products - Film magazine, Film poster and Teaser trailer.

My research and planning starts 20th June 2011 and finishes 23rd March 2011. My evaluation starts 23rd March 2012 and finishes 18th April 2012.

My completed magazine, poster and teaser trailer is found on the 28th April.

Thank you.
Lucy :)

Friday, 13 April 2012

Evaluation: Question four

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

Blogger
Prezi
Microsoft excel

Microsoft word

 Internet

Powerpoint
 
Canon SLR
Mini DV
Digital camera 
Iphoto
Imovie

Garageband 
IshowU
Photoshop

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Evaluation: Question Three

Evaluation: Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?


Throughout the year I conducted several pieces of audience feedback to different people to find out what I needed to do to complete my final products.  I used the audience feedback to shape my production to make it how it is now. Here are some examples of what type of audience feedback I have used:

Interviews
As I have never made a teaser trailer, I had to find out what elements you see in a teaser trailer so interviewing my media class individually helped me find out.  I asked a series of questions find out what was their favourite genre, what attracts them to a film and codes and conventions found in the teaser trailer.   This finally helped me find out what genre I would want to produce.

Questionnaires
I made a questionnaire based on 'horror' and handed it out to my media class and this focus on cinematography, editing, sound and mise-en-scene they expected to see in a horror teaser trailer.  I felt this was appropriate as my class was aware what this media language meant.  Once collected this data I then evaluated it with Keisha to help us think about our pitch.

Proposals
Now Keisha and I knew what genre we wanted we decided to write a proposal of what our storyline we wanted.  We come up with three story plots and to decide which one we used the social networks 'Twitter' and 'Facebook' to reach to a wider audience to find out which plot story was the best.  From the feedback we found out that our intended audience would prefer the 'curse of the scarecrow'.  I was happy with this result as this was mine and Keisha's favourite plot story.


Name of film magazine
I had five choices of names for my film magazine so again I used 'Twitter' and 'Facebook' to reach a wide mass audience to help pick my film magazine name.  Most people liked ' Ultimate film' so I decided to go with this name for the magazine.

Teaser trailer feedback
Keisha and I shown our teaser trailer to the media class who then filled out audience feedback forms which then told us if they knew they narrative, weaknesses and strengths of the teaser trailer.  Keisha and I then tweaked and changed our trailer from this feedback.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Research and Planning: Magazine cover draft

After having a discussion with my media teacher I felt I need to change the colour of my masthead to red to stand out and a banner on the bottom to make it look less bare.

Friday, 24 February 2012

Research and Planning: Prezi. Digital technology





Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Research and Planning: Sound track influences



Here are some examples of scarecrow themed soundtracks which could help me make my music

Research and Planning: IshowU editing video

This is a video of me editing my film magazine.

Research and Planning: Plan of week

This week I plan to do the following things:
  • Hopefully take pictures for magazine if Emily finds top. 
  • Manipulate pictures for poster and magazine. 
  • Place them on the poster and magazine and do final edits to them.
  • Start thinking about sound which I will need for the trailer.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Research and Planning: Newspaper and article idea

Keisha and I got the idea for the newspaper article and Ethology from 'Wrong Turn' 2003.

Friday, 13 January 2012

Research and Planning: Problems with photographs

I took pictures last night for my film poster as the characters were dressed up, but because it was dark we had to put the flash on, as we put the flash on the pictures lighting wasn't very good. Therefore I am going to re take the pictures in the lights on Wednesday. 

Research and Planning: Photographs of filming.