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

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Question 3 - What did you learn from your audience feedback?

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

To start off with, the title screen used in my short film has the same title graphic used in both the review page and the poster. This immediately links all the the media products together because they are all obviously about the same thing. I used the same actors in the same clothes as in the short film for my main image on the review page. This is to make the article link directly to the short film. 

 I have also used the directors cartoon face in the opening credits to my short film and the secondary image on my review page. My review page uses the same colour scene as my poster. This is to make them synergise without the obvious same titles and actors. For my poster, I haven't included real photos to link the actors directly to the film however, the graphics used look very much alike the actors sitting in positions seen in the short film. The fonts used in both my review page and poster are the same fonts as well. This is to further connote the relations between the two products.






















Finally, the purpose of each products works together as well. The short film is the main products so the poster focuses on the short film. It advertises the film by using digital drawings of the things seen in the film and by giving the names of the short film, director and actors. My review also focuses on the short film but includes a photo of the director as well. This is a behind the scenes photograph which links to the short film. The text is about the film by commenting on the footage used and the storyline. I treated the director like a Youtuber and compared this videos to other fictional videos which helps links the director.

Question 1 - In what ways does your media prodcut use, develop and challenge the conventions of real life products?

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Question 4 notes

Research and Planning

• Youtube
• Apple Macs
• Blogger

Construsction

• Apple Macs
• Canon Legria camera
• Graphics Tablet
• iMovie
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Indesign
• Adobe Flash
• Incompetech
• Microsoft Word

Evaluations

• Prezi
• Audacity
• iMovie
• Blogger

Question 3 notes

• Surveys - Feedback at the start of the year for ideas, target audience and genre.
• Positive feedback from friends after presenting ideas.
• Audience feedback about music choices.
• Feedback from co-director - solutions to problems during filming and editing.
• Presenting my work to another class of media students.
• Feedback on synergy between my products.
• Negative feedback got changed into improvements for me to make.

Question 2 notes

• House style
• Common themes
• Same colours - Blues
• Same fonts
• Fit for purpose
• Same titles

Question 1 notes

Short Film

• Under 45 minutes
• Twist Ending
• Title Screen
• Credits
• Location Shots
• Effects
• Transitions
• Actors
• Music

Poster

• Title
• Colour scheme
• Actors' Names
• Director's name
• Main images
• Background
• Small print
• Tagline
• Date

Review Page

• Title
• Text
• Main image
• Secondary images
• Colour scheme
• Bubbles
• Writer's name

Credits for the End

All of the short films that I have studied have credits at the end. This is to give recognition to everybody involved in the production of the film. I made my credits look like year book pages to fit with the school theme of my film. I got this idea from the film GBF because that film also ends with a yearbook. After the first page of credits, I have included clips of the actors behind the scenes. There are multiple reasons why I have done this. The first reason is because I want the audience to notice my actors as real people and not just the characters they play. I have also noticed that a lot of short films have a different video uploaded with behind the scenes footage and outtakes. I didn't have enough extra footage to make a whole second video so I decided to only include a shot of each actor during the filming process. Finally, some long films have bonus footage during the credits or after the credits. An example of this would be an avengers film.

Last Minute Editing

After filming the last of my footage, I needed to edit it into the work I have already done. This was easy enough to do because all of the shots were at the end of everything I had already done so it didn't change any of my previous footage. I also tweaked a few minor things that I noticed after watching my footage finally all together. Finally, I added the credits to the end of my film with the bonus footage. This is to finish my film. I am happy with my film. If any further changes are made, they will only be slight changes to the timings or transitions but for the most part, my short film is now finished.

More Filming

My short film was mostly done but due to busy schedules, we were not able to film the last shots for a long while. I have finally managed to get this filming done during free periods in our school timetables. One actor however, did not have the same clothes so I decided to change a scene at the end. This scene now includes another joke about how dumb this character is.

Editing my Short Film

I found using imovie was a good enough software for my short film. I didnt need any fancy special effects so this free software did a good job. I was able to use all of my footage, music and transitions. Each feature is easily adjusted in the settings to make the footage the way you want it. For example:
Transitions

Text screen

Imported footage

Music and sound Effects

Magazine Editing

I found editing my magazine to be quite a simple process. For the images, I used illustrator to paint them and then export them into indesign. This allowed be to adjust the position and size to fit what I want. Using the features in indesign, I was able to easily add the text and colour. Each item was on a separate layer to make it organised and easily adjustable. The tools made the software easy to use for my review page. For example:
Shapes and Text

Transform

Layers

Magazine Decision

I had made two different versions of my review page because I couldn't decide during making the page which layout to choose. Once I had saw both options, I decided to use the one with the real photograph. This is because the references I have looked at use real photographs rather than digital drawings. I also believe that there is a lot less blank space on the review page with the photo. I couldn't tell during planning my page which one I wanted to use because I planned it with labelled boxes. Once I had added all of the text, images and colours, I decided to chose the photograph. There is already enough synergy between my poster and review page by using the same colours, fonts and style without also having the same images.