Evaluation task 4

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

Here are the slides of an interactive Prezi which show how we used new media technologies throughout our planning, research and evaluation stages. 

Final Film

If video does not work please see: http://samrichardsa2mediablog4173.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/final-trailer.html

QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS (task 3)

After viewing our trailer, 10 volunteers filled out a questionnaire which I had put together to analyse their understanding of our trailer and get the feedback relevant to the evaluation question: '3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?' 

The questionnaire was mostly multiple choice to keep it simple for the people who were taking part. 

To asses our effectiveness at portraying genre conventions, our first question asked why they thought the genre was. 100% of candiadates said they felt it was a romantic comedy, this would suggest to us that we were successful in keeping to genre conventions. 


The second question was about the quality of acing in our trailer, all candidates felt this this was either 'good' or 'very good'. This was reassuring to us as it meant that the handwork we had sent of writing and directing would not be wasted due to a poor standard of acting.

The third question was about our choice of music in the trailer. Although one candidate felt that this was 'average' the rest all felt that it was ether 'good' or 'very good'. The music had been a struggle for us as we had to find some that was un-copyrighted, so it was nice to get feedback suggests that this time in post-poduction had not been wasted.

The forth question asked audience members what they thought of our choice of miss en seen in the trailer. The Suburban London setting was something that most people found was 'good', and 2 felt was 'very good'. I think this was down to the way that the suburbs of London can offer the bet of both worlds in the sense that we can portray globally iconic London characteristics, such as red buses alongside the tranquil setting for a British Romantic-Comedy.

The Final Question asked the audience to rate their enjoyment of our trailer/film overall. This was where we were most pleased with the results as almost all audience said that they thought it was either 'good' or 'very good'. I feel that this was important and whilst film making is, of course, an art form, if our piece was the being professionally released it would be driven to success or failure by the consumers.

There were also 'further comments' and questions on what age rating they felt the film would have were also coherant with what we were going for when we set out to make the film. Therefor I feel that overall our film has been a sucess.

Questionnaire (task 3)

.AUDIENCE FEEDBACK.

What genre would you say our film coheres to? (tick one)

[     ]Romantic Comedy

[     ]Action Adventure

[     ]Thriller Horror

[     ]Drama

How would you rate the acting in our trailer?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

How would you rate the music choice in our trailer?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

How would you rate the choice of loactions (mise en scen) in our trailer?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

How would rate our film overall?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

What age range would you say our film is best suited to

[     ]  U (Universal)

[     ]  PG (Parental Guidance)

[     ]  12

[     ]  15

[     ]  18

Any further Comments:




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Evaluation task 2

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

The following is a magazine article on how our main product (the 'Plus One' trailer) is linked to our ancillary texts (the poster and magazine cover).

Evaluation task 1.

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

story board

FILMING PLANNING - Previous Productions.

Before filming it was important to analyse As a pair, Sam and I have done many previous productions together. Most notably our AS film 'Downfall'. This was the story of a wealthy man living in central London who loses everything.

Here is a link to our opening sequence and teaser trailer on another blog:

http://samrichardsa2mediablog4173.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/sam-richards-and-charlie-palmer-cogan.html

Looking back, I think that we relied far to heavily on the Mise En Scen in this production, and therefor the characterisation was not as strong as we would have liked. We also had a lack of establishing shots, something that we will be careful not to miss out in 'Plus One', our current production. On the other hand we have lots of good time lapse shots of famous london landmarks, such as the houses of parliament and the London Eye that can be re-used. Saving us valuable time when we begin our final filing.

Magazine Final

Our final magazine cover contains, the main character at the centre of the page, the rules of thirds has been implemented to ensure the poster is balanced and all parts are proportionate. We also moved some of the side features so that they were not in the characters eye line. By opting for a simplistic background, we can be sure that no focus will be drawn from the main image and Title of the Film or Magazine. I feel this magazine cover fits well to the conventions of Romantic Comedy film magazine cover.

Poster Final

Our final poster was heavily influenced by other Rom/Com posters. I feel that we took the simplicity and added to it, without it becoming over crowded. I feel that this poster communicates the themes of our film well. The older brother is clearly better groomed more confident in his posture. We also took a romantic twist with the 'London a Night' Mise En Scen.

Poster.

We have taken inspiration from other Rom/Com posters. Such as 'There's something about Mary' and also 'Love actually'. From these it was possible to deduce the themes that regularly occur in Rom/Com posters.

This poster contains images of several characters, in a present. It is therefor not typical of a Rom/Com poster as it is also seeking to show other themes within the film, and perhaps to appeal to the 'seasonal' audience rather than just those interested in romantic comedies. It also contains credits and also the names of actors along the top. giving the audience as much information about the film as possible.

This poster is more more simplistic, it is very well suited to a romantic comedy as it shows a 'giggly' looking Cameron Diaz (romance) and also a dog in a full-body cast (comedy). The simplicity is also genre reflective in the way that the films should be easy to digest, therefor making it an easy and thought free process for the viewer. 

Poster update.

Our poster was a simplistic image of the main character with a back ground made up of several girls, showing his promiscuous ways, this linked strongly to the 'There's something about Mary' poster. Although simple and effective we liked the more intense look of the of the 'Love Actually' poster and decided to make a U-turn decision and opt for a more intricate poster.

Update on the cover.

After realising that the EMPIRE logo was both inconsistent and very hard to photoshop. We decided to look for inspiration from other film magazines. One of which was 'Total Film'. We found that whilst the conventions of this magazine were similar to Empire the cover was more erratic and had a lot more going on. This will result in us needing to to add more text to to cover, an idea we have thought of is to use the themes of other classmates films in these.

Magazine Cover.

For the magazine cover we will be taking inspiration from EMPIRE film magazine. This is a British film magazine which is owned by a cinema company, which means whilst it often shows the blockbusters, it will sometimes also have a underlying bias towards the British Film industry as most of its journalists and editors are, of course, British. I will try to replicate our magazine from several examples of their covers.

I have photoshopped out the Empire logo onto a transparent background so that we can place it onto our cover when we have it finished. Here are some inspirations that we took from previous empire covers.

British/American ROM/COM. 

Colours are bright and fun-looking.

Minimalistic blockbuster cover.

The film is already well known so it is not necessary to add lots of information, whilst these covers are a personal favourite, I don't  it would work for our film.

Independent film cover, these contain a lot more information about the film as it is probably not well known. Therefor a mix between this and the first one would be ideal for our film.