Final Film

final film 

Audience Feed Back

Audience feed back 

You can see from the audience feed back videos and the first and final drafts of our trailer that we made subtle changes. You can also see very small editing changes that we have made also. The main change though is the music we completely removed it from the beginning of the trailer. We had a lot of feedback from our friends, family and teachers. We also were advised to get rid of the blurred music we had in the back ground of Chloe waking up as it didn’t make sense. We also put the ‘‘Best seller by Rupert Browning’’ into the foreground of the girls getting ready. We put some background music also when Chloe is on the phone to Frankie. The final change was the bathroom scene, it was too long and lacked purpose so we shortened it to make it fit in more. After looking at the trailer with all audience feedback changes we are very happy with final result.

Youtube

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Youtube is a website that allows you to share comment and like videos.

The types of video they show are:

Music video

Movie trailers

Documentaries

Interviews

Tutorials  

I you youtube mainly to research trailers and to watch tutorials videos for final cut express. Using youtube we was able to research the ‘‘blind side’’ and ‘‘remember me’’ the two main inspirations for our trailer.

Google

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When we could find the answer for something this search engine came in very handy. We used research from Google for our age our genre research and age restriction. With the handy typing bar, this meant we could type in any query we may have had about any of the software we were using and would usually get the answer straight away.

Final cut express

This is what we used to edit all or our footage for our trailer. This was the software that we knew the most about how ever we also needed both wiki how and youtube to show us everything.

Wiki how

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Wiki how is like a search engine but your question and queries are answered by real people. This made things a little simpler for me and some of my group as sometimes we couldn’t understand the technical jargon.   

Blogger

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We used blogger to document our data and help us create a diary of all of our work. We had used it in foundation so it wasn’t hard to grasp once we all got the hang of it again.

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

What type of promotional package did you want to create?

We wanted to create a melodrama that was targeted towards teenagers and young women. Our age range was 15 – 25. We always hoped however for a small niche audience of mother watching the film with their daughters. We aimed for our audience to be female as we wanted to connect with the audience on an emotional level. Our niche audience we imagined to be 35-55 and we thought they would probably enjoy the film as they have life experience and can connect with the idea of having a baby.

Do the three elements work together?

The trailer poster and film in my opinion work together very well. I think that the film trailer works perfectly with the audience we have chosen and is a success. I think the young sweet and almost a bit naive characters express what people in our target audience are like at this age. The poster shows the friendship between them being unbreakable and the film magazine depicts an emotional journey.    

What elements do you think are successful in each product?

Film poster – the way we follow all the convections made it look very professional.

Trailer – the best element was the music I think we worked hard on that and it truly paid off. The music for each scene was very fitted and chattered to that scene.

Magazine – I think the advertisements on the magazines are very professional looking. This adds to our magazine very well as the picture is a little gloomy it brightens the whole magazine up.

What difficulties have you overcome?

We had some major issue with Photoshop. However we overcome this by finding new ways to edit our pictures, using publisher power point and paint.

What weaknesses do you think each product has?

Film poster – we couldn’t get the correct font for the billing bloke.

Trailer – the camera work in some scenes could be a lot better.

Magazine – the background and the foreground (picture of Emily) needed to be blended better.

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

We use a typical production company, for the type of film we made. I think this shows we conformed to real media and that we used our knowledge wisely to make our film seem as professional as we possibly could. We also used touchstone at the very start of our trailer, which is what we had seen in all the other trailers we had observed. This also made our project very professional looking as the structure was on point with all other professional trailers.

We already knew that all trailers had to be U ratings, so they could be shown on television before the watershed. So I think we made a smart, and conventional move when we added this to our trailer. This rating card starts at the very begging of most trailers. It made our work look very professional and very suitable to watch.

Not many films that we found used quotations from magazines or newspapers. I believe this challenges convention because we really wanted something such as a review to make our film look at good as we possibly could. I think this was a good move on our part as it showed we wanted to go that little bit extra for our film and push the boundaries a little.     

This scene is perfect to attract the audience, as it creates drama effortlessly. Straight way when you see it you immediately want to know what is going on and why. This also create suspense in our trailer as you’re not too sure where it links in with the story until you find out she is pregnant.

I think the camera work here really speaks to the audience here as the it is completely level with both of the actors no one is being spoken down to. This in this emotional situation is very important. The location of this is very picturesque and secluded which is what we wanted from this scene. The prop used in this is also very effective, we used a umbrella to make the friends stand closer together and to make the conversation seem more private. This also gave our audience a main force point.    

 

Film poster

When making our film poster we stuck to a lot of convections.We made the title bold as we could because we wanted it to be a main focus point.

The quotation ‘‘only one person to depend on’’ was also something that was highly convectional on a film poster. With all the other film posters we had reviewed we saw a pattern of small quotes on film posters.We also did a billing block which is seen as very conventional. There a little problem with the font but nothing that I would consider to challenge convection.   

Film magazine

When it came to our magazine we chose to go with Total Film. We chose them as they seemed to be the most conversional film magazine. We followed Total Films media convections very closely. We used the main character on the foreground of the very front. Then in the background we used a rainy scene for representation of what is to come for young Chloe. The main characters on Total Film usually have expressionless faces, and also stare into the distance. We used a lot of advertising for other films on our magazine. This was to make our magazine look really professional.     

Editing Magazine

We took inspiration for our film magazine from the magazine of the hunger games.

We really loved the way that Jenifer Lawrence is surrounded by flames, as the film is an adventure.  That is why we used the rain to etherize the tragedy that lies ahead of her. We also loved the set out of the way the magazine shows other films being advertised.

Many of the shapes we used for our film poster where original made on power point. The film poster wasn’t too hard to do we used a basic picture of Emily Hamer and put in the foreground and for the background we used a establishing shot at the nature reserve.

We also noticed that other magazines always had text on them such as ‘‘Top 10 new films of the week’’. So we created our own ‘‘Are you in our new social network’’, we loved the idea of a rhetorical question for it.

Film Poster Editing

We attempted to use Photoshop for our poster, but it unfortunately didn’t work as we hoped. Emily Read then had the idea to use publisher, which we both agreed was a lot more effective. We also used power point and paint in office to create the rest or our poster.

We chose an image from the nature reserve as we believed it to be the most powerful of all the other images. We believed this as we know this is where Frankie comforts Chloe, after she confesses she is pregnant.

We made sure the title was very immediate to the eye, and we also added the touchstone pictures presents as that it what we had seen previously in other movie posters (the name of the production company). Like other movie posters also there is a quotation next the title ‘‘with only one to depend on’’.