Construction (all)

4. Final – How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? (with evaluation)

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

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

Originally my film was made with my magazine and poster in mind. This was shown through some of my original recording which, like my poster and magazine, contained many images of Odaa’s Chapel. However, as these shots didn’t quite work with the rest of the trailer I decided against using them, which was probably a bad move. This is because my trailer doesn’t quite fit with my trailer, apart from the title.

 

However, I feel that my poster and magazine pictures work well together, as both largely feature the same chapel, which is quite recognizable, and from my audience feedback I gathered that there people thought there where some similarities, and reconcilability. However, I gathered that although audiences linked my poster, they felt it had a graphic novel quality to it such as the basic use of colours, and the chosen font.

 

 However, according to my audience, my poster had certain ‘cartoony’ qualities like my poster, like the colour choice and font.

I feel that as my trailer is a ‘teaser’ it would have been the first text to be released, just to build up some hype and make it a recognisable name amongst horror fans. Both posters would have been place much after, in public places such as train stations and on the side of busses, especially school ones, as they seem to often have horror posters, as the 15-18 age group is a large portion of the horror market. This would make it a more recognisable name to audiences, and especially amongst my target audience (15+). The magazine would have been released shortly after, or at a similar time to the poster, just to let people know more about it, so it becomes more that a recognisable name, people actually know something about it.

Although the trailer doesn’t quite fit with the poster and magazine, I think because it is a teaser this isn’t too bad. This is because teaser often aren’t very relevant to the actual movie, or any part of it, it is just to get audiences excited and know the name is being released.

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What I learned from: The video above

I got some unexpected analysis of my products from the two interview partcipants above. For example, they focused a lot on my poster being ‘graphic novel’ styled. Although this isn’t what i intended, it has helped me to fit my trailer with my poster and magazine cover, as they seem to have more in common after hearing what outside voices say.

They also seemed to focus on my actor for my trailer being ‘nerdy’ (which is not quite what i was going for, but they did also mention him being like a sort of explorer/documentary presenter etc. This helped me to talk more about sterotypes and how characters are presented.

It did also help me to find out how effective my products where, as for the most part it was their first time watching it, and they onlt watched it ONCE. This meant they could try and detrmine it as any first time audience would.

They helped me to point out where I went wrong (and how i could justify my ‘mistakes’) and where maybe my genre wasn’t clearly established, and where ideas conflicted.

Amazingly, they helped me be more specific with my particular target audience. For example, in my poster they identified things I didn’t notice such as Batman and Simon Pegg (who are on my poster) being ‘nerdy’ linking with my film and character also being ‘nerdy’

Luckily, they didn’t agree with each other on everything, so I got more than one response.

What I learned from: Polls

Polls helped me mainly with my poster. For example, I asked what people thought was the best poster, and from that my style and colour scheme was chosen. This meant i could create a poster based on what my target audience wanted (sort of 15-19 Y-O)

Polls also helped me establish if my chosen genre was a good choice (which I think from the results, it was) becuas my target audience decided on what their favourite genre of horror was.

What I learned from: Facebook

rather than posting my products on FB for people to ‘like’ etc, i asked people personaly via it. I asked them just to have a quick look at my blog and respond ‘honestly’ to what they thought of my products. I got responses such as ‘bold’ and ‘eye catching’ as well as ‘conflicting’ and ‘unclear at points’.

Technologies used (not fininished)

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? (not finished)

long poster (reupload)

Technologies used in creation

Magazine and another poster