Thursday 17 April 2014
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
There are a few ways to measure the success of my film on its target audience, before I decide on my final cut I could get feedback on my first edit so I can improve to the audience requirements. After I've made my final cut I could then upload the video to YouTube and check for updates through the form of feedback comments from the public, also sending the link in an email to my friends and family for their opinions. Alternatively I could set up a film showing in our own time to invite students from all over the school. They could watch the film and I could give them a questionnaire to fill out with honest opinions afterwards. With recorded results the feedback would be easy to evaluate.I learned from audience feedback about the areas I needed to improve on in my film and the ancillary tasks. This allowed me to make my pieces more accessible to the audience, which help me sell my film.
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
My main product, my short film, is sold by my ancillary texts, film magazine review and poster. The are an effective combination because the photos I used in the ancillaries reflect my film.
I asked a focus group to look at my three pieces together:
I asked a focus group to look at my three pieces together:
- They liked how the review and film linked together with the same actress
- All the products look professional, this makes them more effective
- The poster stands out because it doesn't show the actress, and although its still a good poster this could make it less effective when combined with the other pieces.
- The review works really well as it reflects one of the main characters looking back on their journey represented by the road
- The red rose describes the romance and tragedy in the film
When viewed in combination the ancillaries work way to reflect both the story, the style, tone and atmosphere
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Ancillary:
I followed some conventions of a poster in the romance genre, but I also adjusted and subverted certain conventions. Through my research I found that using the colour red and having a white background are conventions because of the connotations that the colours hold, so I used white background and a lot of red in my poster for the same reason. Another convention that I adhered to was having the tagline at the top and the release date at the bottom, I did however adjust these slightly by having the font the same colour as the title and not black. I also stuck to the convention of having the credits in black at the bottom, and also showing the two names of the main actors although I chose to put them below the title instead of above for aesthetic purposes. I convention I challenged was having up to two characters shown on the poster, I chose to not use any because I think the red rose better represents my film and it also stays within a strict colour scheme. Using the two characters would give the audience more idea of the concept of the film although I chose not to use this because I wanted not corner my piece by using two white teen characters and not showing any other representations of class, ethnicity and age. By not using a model for my poster I have tried to eliminate any representational issues and aspects.
Film:
A convention that I have kept within is keeping within non-challanging representations. I have used two white teenagers, this does not show a variety in representation of ethnicity or age. I also do not have much to represent social class, but I do show different locales by having my two characters come from different places. Although, I could of had a stronger contrast in these locations by using a busy city and a rural area rather than a town.
I followed some conventions of a poster in the romance genre, but I also adjusted and subverted certain conventions. Through my research I found that using the colour red and having a white background are conventions because of the connotations that the colours hold, so I used white background and a lot of red in my poster for the same reason. Another convention that I adhered to was having the tagline at the top and the release date at the bottom, I did however adjust these slightly by having the font the same colour as the title and not black. I also stuck to the convention of having the credits in black at the bottom, and also showing the two names of the main actors although I chose to put them below the title instead of above for aesthetic purposes. I convention I challenged was having up to two characters shown on the poster, I chose to not use any because I think the red rose better represents my film and it also stays within a strict colour scheme. Using the two characters would give the audience more idea of the concept of the film although I chose not to use this because I wanted not corner my piece by using two white teen characters and not showing any other representations of class, ethnicity and age. By not using a model for my poster I have tried to eliminate any representational issues and aspects.
Film:
A convention that I have kept within is keeping within non-challanging representations. I have used two white teenagers, this does not show a variety in representation of ethnicity or age. I also do not have much to represent social class, but I do show different locales by having my two characters come from different places. Although, I could of had a stronger contrast in these locations by using a busy city and a rural area rather than a town.
Friday 7 February 2014
Evaluation Questions
In the evaluation the following four questions must be addressed:
- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
- What have you learned from your audience feedback?
- How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
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