Everything Completed

Dear moderator, I have attached the finished copies of my teaser trailer, magazine and poster onto the post below. Hope you enjoy my blog!

 

Evaluation - Question 4

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

Research and Planning: 

 

Initial construction: 

Evaluation - Question 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback? 

In order to answer this question, I have looked over the various pieces of audience feedback I have collected throughout the year.

Interview Videos:
At the very beginning of the year myself and Lucy interviewed and filmed three people, asking them the following questions:
Would you ever watch a social realist film?
What would you expect from a social realism film?
What age should I aim mine at?
What plot would you find most interesting in a social realism film?
Where would you expect a social realism film to be set?

It was useful for us to do these interviews at the beginning of the year as it gave us a basis to start planning and know where to begin with research and production. We asked different people of different ages and this was useful as it gave us a mature opinion, as well as opinions from people who are actually around the age of our target audience.

Pitch:
Further on through the year - but still in the early stags of research and planning - we created a pitch on SlideShare. It enabled us to establish what we would be expecting from our trailer, what conventions it should include, plot ideas and generally; what would be included in all our tasks. It was a useful method in which helped to form more detailed ideas in our trailer, whilst also looking professional.

Questionnaires:
As we continued through the year, I created another series of questions, this time on paper in which I handed out to the people in my class - you can find the photos displayed on my blog. I find these to be more useful for audience feedback than the interview videos, purely due to the fact people could sit down and complete them in their own time without feeling shy about being on camera and filmed, as well as give anonymous feedback. I would definitely use this method again. It helped us to decipher what age group would be most appropriate for our trailer and this was a big help.

PollJunkie:
Using the online site Polljunkie, I was able to create another set of questions in which could be answered anonymously. It was a good help due to the way it gave us statistics and analysed our answers for us. It enabled us to reach wider feedback, as we could just give them the link online rather than have to print out sheets and psychically give them out to people.

Proposals:
Using Powerpoint Presentations, myself and Lucy were able to create a bunch of ideas and put them onto the slide. We could then show them to our teacher and other people, meaning we were able to decide which would be the most successful based on people's reactions. We ended up going with a drug dealer theme, as this follows the genre of social realism and seemed the most interesting.

Name Ideas:
We had to decide on a name for our trailer, therefore we came up with a few ideas and collected feedback on which would seem the best fitted to our genre. We eventually came up with Warning after an idea from Lucy's Dad which we both liked. This worked well with the drug theme due to the illegal aspects surrounding it.

Magazine:
After looking at previous feedback from my foundation (AS) year, I had decided I would follow the same conventions I did as last year. I followed a house style of three colours. For the name and the slogan - a pun - I asked people's opinions and showed them and they encouraged me to use them. I felt this made my magazine look consistant with my previous years work, which I really liked last year.

Teacher opinions: 
Throughout the year myself and Lucy have been getting consistent feedback from our tutor, Andy. His feedback has proved useful the whole time as one of his favourite genres of film is social realism. He has been able to help in the way that he could guide us with what could be included into our trailer to make it typical of the genre and ways in which to build upon its strengths.

Constant Class Feedback:
Throughout the process of creating our work, we have asked members of our class how we could improve and showing them our trailer. This was useful as a guide as people our own age and also people that would be in roughly the age for a target audience could give their opinion on how we could improve our trailer. In my opinion, peer guidance is the best feedback, as they understand what can realistically be achieved within our filming and they also understand the conventions of trailers due to thorough study on the subject themselves.



I have created a GIF of my target audience in which can be found below:

Evaluation - Question 2

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


I have created a Quicktime above of me talking through what I have used and below I have attached a Glogster. 


Fonts: 

I have used the same fonts on my magazine and poster on title 'Warning'. This gives them consistency, and links to how I have also used a bold plain font on the trailer. The cover lines of the magazines and the font on the reviews of the poster are plain, simple and similar, this follows themes of realism, as a fancy font would create an impression of fantasy.

Lighting:

Although the trailer itself and the theme of drugs are quite a dark aspect, all three of the pieces of work contain quite high key lighting. We did originally plan on having a low key lighting theme, however daytime filming made us unable to do that and the filming we did do in the dark wasn't as much of a high quality. It is also a polar opposite and challenges of darker social realism films such as Kidulthood and Adulthood, in which are quite grimy, dark environments and lighting.

Images:

I have used a variety of shots throughout my work, however most are quite up close and personal shots in which enable the audience to see facial expressions and build tension. The poster and magazine have similar shots, and are both of main characters in the trailer. People are more likely to recognise actors in the trailer than an area. This also would help promote little known actors and make them a household name.

Costumes and settings:

All through my magazine, poster and trailer the actors are wearing hoodies, trackies/jeans and trainers. This follows conventions and stereotypes of the setting and also of 'chavs'/ The use of this sort of costume helps to keep consistency. Both of the photos are taken on an urban background, with bricks and alleyways, this is in keeping with the setting of the trailer and the various locations of Haughton Green we have used. 

Representations of characters:

All of the characters are represented in a similar way, however the females also being drug dealers as well as the male challenges stereotypes of females and the fact that they are weak and innocent. This challenges stereotypes due to the way the females attempt to take on the male and try and win their dealing area back.

Evaluation - Question 1

Research and Planning - Magazine Re-draft

Research and Planning - Poster Re-draft

Research and Planning - Magazine Re-draft

Research and Planning - Poster Re-draft

Research and Planning - Magazine Re-draft

I have created another draft of my magazine, this time I have added a few more coverlines and added drop shadows to all the text, to make it 'pop' and stand out more. 

Research and Planning - Poster Redraft

Research and Planning - Magazine Re-draft

Research and Planning - Re-taken Photos

Research and Planning - Re-taken Photos For Poster