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

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Evaluation Question 2- How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 3- What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 3 from amber_98

Feedback-

The use of our audience feedback was very effective; therefore we used it across the whole project, for our Trailer, Magazine Cover and Film Poster. It allowed us to have feedback instantly, and make changes appropriately, without wasting time. Feedback was both positive and constructive.
We were also able to, due to the feedback, conduct our research further into professional looking products, in a variety of ways, through online questionnaires, survey and interviews with audience members, appropriate to our target audience.
As well as this, we used questionnaires to gain answers to questions we had about the pieces. For example, helping us choose a colour that would best fit a certain piece of text, if we could not choose which one looked best ourselves. 

VIDEO 2
Below is the feedback that we gained fron our target audience (Males and Females, between the ages of 16-25)



VIDEO 3
Below is the final cut video, where you can see that we took our audience feedback into consideration to ensure that our trailer looked professional.

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

Overview of the Prezi:
Prezi - we used this website last year in our AS work therefore was fairly familiar with using this in our work. Prezi was good in displaying our research in a presentable way to make it more interesting than creating a PowerPoint. We used this in the research stages when deciding on a genre. We used a simple template provided on the website then added the information about the different genres we felt we could recreate. The fact that Prezi is interactive meant that it could show our ideas and the journey to our final chosen genre. We also used this for our evaluation question 2 to make our work more creative and it meant that it was clearly laid out and easy to see the connections and our explanation between our three products. 

Slideshare/Powerpoint/Word -Slideshare is an online resource we used which we could upload PowerPoint and Word documents to in order to embed them on our blogs so the file could actually be shown. We used Powerpoint and Word as we were highly familiar with these programmes therefore felt it was a good was to display our ideas because we could do this fairly quickly which meant we could manage our time better and perform more research to ensure our final products were of good quality.

Videos -Obviously this was the form of our trailer, however we also used videos in our research stages when discussing ideas for our storyline as well as to record audience feedback shown in our evaluation. We found this helpful, particularly when receiving audience feedback as we could record our audience as they were saying it rather than having to try and remember or write as they talking. This made this a good resource to refer back to when making the improvements to our products. We uploaded videos to YouTube first as this meant that we could then use the embed code to make sure they worked on our blog. 

Although some of the technologies we used were similar to our AS work, we wanted to challenge ourselves more by producing more varied and creative work. We both felt that one of the biggest challenges we had this year was editing the trailer.

As we wanted to be more creative generally this year, we found different softwares we could use to present our work in order for our blog to be more intriguing.

The Last Summer- Final Cut

Film Poster (Analysis)

Film Poster (Final)

Magazine Front Cover Analysis

Magazine Front Cover (Final)

Trailer- Audience Feedback(Trailer)- Freya

Name: Freya
Age: 18
Favorite Genre: Horror


Strongest Points of the Trailer: The kill scene, the scream, Sarah's and Lukes fighting scenes
Weakest Points of the trailer: Too much Luke footage
Favorite Part: Lauren's hang scene, especially the feet
Cinema: Yes
Out of 10: 10/10


Strongest Points of the Magazine: The devil shadow
Weakest Points of the magazine: The right hand side is a bit lacking
Is it eye catching: Yes
Out of 10: 9/10



Strongest Points of the Poster: Editing, the special effects
Weakest Points of the poster: None
Is it eye catching: Yes
Out of 10: 10/10


So what does this tell us that in terms of what our intended audience?
We have achieved our goals in making a successful poster, trailer and magazine cover.
We was always aware of the amount of footage of Luke issue, although we still had a lot of footage it was about the musicality and how well they mesh together and the clips we had didn't go well with the audio.

Freya was exactly right in the the right side is empty for the sake of the shadow although Amber and I stand by our reason for keeping that side emptier and focusing the text on the left hand side.

Film Poster- Editing

This as i before and after shot of the photo of myself and Vikesh. We were able to make the background darker, to match the background of the poster, We also added the effect of a rope burn around my neck, making me a lot paler (due to the lack of blood) as well as a bullet hole on Vikesh's head. 

Here are all the stages that we went through to get the final product.

After than, we imported the photo onto Canva, so that we could fit it onto the poster. 

Film Poster (In Real Life)

Amber got the photo from Google, by searching 'Street Poster Template' and she then used Pixlr. Editor to edit our film poster onto it. By doing this, it allows us to see what our poster would look like it a real life situation. 

Film Poster- (Third Draft)

Using the helpful feedback that we were given, we increased the size of the date, and changed the colour to match the title of the film. We also added the names of the three main characters of the movie (with their surname more prominent than their forename) to show who will be starring in the film.Finally, we added IMAX and 4DX which encourages the audience to see these versions of it, as it will generate more money.

The final thing left for us to do on our poster is to take the main photo.

Film Poster- Choosing the right time of day to shoot

-We need our photo to be taken during a gloomy part of the day.

 -Because of this factor, Amber and I decided to search up sunrise and sunset times. We have decided to take it  around 6pm on the 10th of March.

Film Poster- (Second Draft)

This is the second draft of our magazine cover. The feedback that we were given was that the colours are synergised with the rest of our products,which is good; the title being in red clearly shows the genre of the film, and the tagline grabs the attention of the viewer.

Constructive criticisms that we were given, was to add the names of the three main actors, so that the audience are aware who will be starring in it; make the release date more obvious(possibly the same colour as the title and add some more idents (such as IMAX)