What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

For the duration of this project wherever its in the main task or ancillary texts technology has been a major part of the success of both stages. Without the input of technology society would not be shaped in the way it is today, the impact of technology to a certain extent has shaped the media forms produced today. In terms of our project the concept of making a film trailer would not have been possible if it wasn't due to the technological developments of programmes on offer today.

Although, it could be argued that a fundamental key to constructing, researching and planning was the internet. The internet was use for a wide range of different purposes however, the main purpose was research. Research was a vital part of our project, the main websites we used were google youtube and twitter. Social networking sites such as twitter were used to aid our audience feedback. We posted our videos onto twitter so that we could get audience feedback. However, in terms of the internet youtube has been a massive part of our planning and research. The impact of the technologies today has meant that access is instant. This is similar for all media technologies with advanced technological development access to what you want via media platforms is instant and becoming more common in society. 

However, websites such as IMDb have contributed their role into producing our film trailer. Vast majority of our film trailer research was done using IMDb. Prezi was used to display most of our work as it was different and worked well. Soundcloud was used for our voice overs in our film trailer.

Blogger is an online website which allows you to construct your own blog. All of my posters were administrated using labels therefore they could be easily sorted and accessed. Without the application of using blogger my work would of significantly suffered as I would of had no way of keeping track on my work. 

Different technologies are best suited for different people. With this mind with divided our group into job rolls for each member. Editing was our main issue as none of us had much experience using windows live movie maker, however this was overcome through practice. Additionally, following some controversy using windows live movie maker we had to use garageband which enabled us to incorporate voice overs as well as using background sound. Using garage band meant that we could also fade in and out the music more effectively.

When constructing media forms such as the  film poster and magazine front cover I used a variety of different programmes that impacted on me being able to manipulate the perfect photo conveying the visual elements of our film trailer. Using serif page plus to construct my film poster and magazine front cover was a great programme

as it allowed me to easily move and change objects aswell as manipulate the page to best suit my target audience. By this I changed the visual style of my font making it bolder and wider to stand out. Additionally cropping my photos so they would fit perfectly on the page. In terms of editing pictures, this was done by using serif photo plus. I spent a considerable time editing photos so they would reflect the representation I was hoping for that would be appealing to my target audience. By this, I changed the saturation and the colour in several photos as it fitted the codes and conventions of an action genre film poster and made the picture more mysterious and iconic.

Prezi has also massively influenced the project. Prezi was used on numerous occasions, we first started using prezi to collaborate  ideas for our presentation. Prezi is a very useful tool for presenting work as it enables you to embed videos and insert photos. Throughout the duration of this project prezi has been vital for presenting work and the free edition is still highly efficient.

The influence of technological convergence on the world of media today is massive. Technological convergence refers to the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing the same task. By this, it means that everything is becoming accessible on different media platforms. With developing technology this impacted massively on our project as technological convergence has meant that through the computer we can now search the internet with the click of a button and upload photos from our mobile devices.

Difficulties 
The project at times did not go as smoothly as we hoped. At times especially during editing and importing the data was a major problem and we experienced a wide range of different error messages.

"Unable to upload" "Error.Try again" "Windows Live Movie Maker Error" "Not Responding, Force Quit" 

This was mainly due to the quality of the film being to high quality for the movie maker to render therefore it caused the program to crash. This also happened on garage band after editing our soundtracks and uploading the voice overs the program crashed and this impacted on us loosing all of our work which was highly annoying.

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

The most important aspect when combining our main tasks with our ancillary texts is maintaining all the appropriate pleasing properties  that were included in the film trailer, film poster and film front cover magazine. Ensuring that we maintain a suitable and clear style throughout our main tasks this has constructed synergy and our audience can see this association and link between our media forms.

For our audience pitching to a mass audience it was crucial that we decided on a suitable font that would appeal to our target audience. Using DAFONT we established the font "ActionBold" that replicated exactly what we were looking for. The next step was incorporating our font into our film trailer and our film poster as my magazine was "little white lies" incorporating our film title into this would of gone against the little white lies concept therefore the film title was not added to the magazine front cover. Using synergy is also important, in this case our synergy was created by all three media forms, iconic pictures were manipulated on both the film poster and the magazine as replicating the main actors is also another method used to create synergy.










Clothing was also a fundamental factor when combining the link between the main task and ancillary texts. Throughout the clothing was kept specific to fit the criteria needed of their roles. Researching into what our characters was not a problem as we simply wore what we would normally wear being school students. Although linking to our ancillary texts we ensured to the decoder that this would be done through using the same clothes in the magazine front cover, film poster and the film trailer.

Furthermore, colour is another way that will attract our target audience. Our colour preferences needed to be outlined in our film poster and magazine poster to portray the concept of our film trailer. By this I mean that the film poster needs vast amounts of light however with a contrast of dark to make it stand out. This will also replicate our film trailer that has a transition of light to dark . 

The only difficult aspect of creating synergy was through creating a consistent symbol that we could relate to our film poster and magazine as well as our film trailer. Selecting an action genre meant that this would be a difficult task. So be improvising we used ancillary texts to reflect the symbolism. By this we incorporated our tag line into not just our film trailer but also into our film poster which reflected the symbolism of passion and the pain that the couple had gone through. Furthermore, in terms of the magazine creating a suitable magazine that would reflect the same codes and conventions of the film poster and film trailer was also a difficult task. Little white lies are usually bright and colourful and in some aspects reflecting happiness and passion. However, I used editing and an iconic picture to contradict this concept and aimed in making my magazine reflect pain and a sense of feeling "trapped". This shows that even when attaining synergy through all media formats their is always one aspect that is harder to create synergy. 

Overall I feel that using forms and conventions as a platform was pivotal to create synergy,  I feel the process throughout the production of these tasks has gone very well and I have in-turn, created three products that can relate to the same film trailer. With this in mind I feel the aspects I used create a combination between all three, which gives a good idea of the genre and target audience of the film, therefore its evident that the combination is highly effective. 

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

Audience Feedback

10 Missed Calls Feedback

"I really liked the trailer for 10 missed calls, throughout the whole trailer I was on edge. For me the Music worked really well and anchored the shots making them more effective. The acting was also pretty good I liked the fact that you didn't use much dialogue and let the sound create the tension"

"10 missed calls trailer was excellent! the music and sound effects and the opening shot was amazing. I liked the fact the locations differed it was really clever and professional. I really want to know what happens in the end. I would definitely go and see it at the cinema"

"The trailer overall was very good. I feel that it was clear about the plot but did not give to much away. However, I felt that with a lack of dialogue I didn't really feel on edge"

" I really enjoy watching the media piece, It was very good and definitely reflected an atmospheric trailer. It was professional and worked very well I would definitely go and see this film the characters all worked really well together it is clear that it took a lot of time to do"

 

10 Missed Calls Film Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZ7r7wJ1Cc

This is our finished film trailer, the video is unable to be found through searching on the youtube videos.

Film Poster

Magazine front cover

Trailer Feedback

Uploading our film trailer to youtube I collected feedback from peers in my class and from friends  from this I constructed a wordie with represents some of the words that were used to summarise our film trailer.