Evaluation Questions- Jake Williams

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Here is some of the feedback that i had got from my audience.

This video is of Tom Luck who also does Media and has not long completed his trailer and products. From this i have learnt that he also agrees with my target audience that the two posters are good but lack anything other than title and picture. He says he prefers the second one for the same reasons that a lot of other people did, the background adds more to the poster but he personally thinks that it could still have done with better editing.

This is feedback i had got from Facebook from my target audience. This feedback helped me a lot in understanding what my target audience wanted to see and what they liked, enabling me to edit and change my products to make them more suited and liked for my target audience

This is feedback that i got from my teacher. she posted these comments onto blog posts which i had placed onto the blog. Thanks to these comments, i was encouraged to carry out more research which then led to my product being even better. Because i did more research, i learned more and more and gathered more research. I also did more detailed analysations of my research etc which ensured that i did everything i could to match the comedy genre and appeal more to my target audience

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Evaluation Question Four- Emily O'Hara

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

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Evaluation Question Three- Emily O'Hara

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Feedback:

Evaluation Question Two- Emily O'Hara

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

In terms of our three products they work well together. These follow the conventions of other packages, to which I found in the summer research. The use of the other products just further promote the initial trailer and draw in the audience, as illustrated in our feedback.


Possibly in more time we would further promote it in the below ways of what usually happens:

These ideas have been followed from other products which been successful in the other types of marketing techniques.

Above is a moodboard for the marketing campaign of the film "Drillbit Taylor". In this campaign there are things such as posters, magazine covers, tee shirts, DVD's, websites and much more.

Delving into the website there is a little "Survival Guide" which consumers can buy. This would be a good idea for our products also because then we could target the younger audience by the fact it is a toy and would interest them.

To adapt this for ours, we could probably mimick the idea of the geeks and maybe a guide for "Geek 101" which could be all the ways in how to be a true geek or a how to avoid this geek stereotype and make it to the top.

These are little ideas that are out there that just bring in further revenue and could be interlinked into our own projects too.

Evaluation Question One- Emily O'Hara

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

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Final Products

After getting a series of feedback, we have finally edited our trailer to this last draft.





Magazine Cover:

Jakes Film poster

After continous audience feedback, i have decided to use this as my final product.

Emily's Poster:

Thomas' Poster:

Second Draft Trailer

First Draft Trailer

Weekly Update 13

In this week we mainly reflected upon what we've already done and improved certain aspects of our work, so it was fresh in our mind for the evaluations.

We got given our evaluation questions this week also and the group have started to individually work on this.

Our products are intended to be finished next week.

- Emily O'Hara

Weekly Update 12

In this week we continued on with the soundtracks putting them together and finishing them off so that they match with the trailer and can just be added when the sections are all added together.

We had two film sessions this week where we did some re shooting and getting the final pieces in the first and then got the final bit of the montage sequence in the second. Both of the film sessions went well and hopefully shouldn't have to be re-shot.

We also started to put all of the sequences into one finished trailer to which we can then just add the soundtrack to it. After looking at the length we may have quite a long trailer, however as a group we decided to do the full theatrical trailer as opposed to doing a teaser trailer so it should hopefully fit well.

Looking at our schedule we should be finished our print production, however as we haven't we plan to do it as fast as we can to the best of our ability and then concentrate on evaluations at a later stage.

Next week we anticipate to have our work complete with a photo shoot and all and then whilst working on evaluations get audience feedback so we can adapt our products through the process.

- Emily O'Hara

Filming Session 7

In this filming session we filmed the geeks "learning the moves" so the second year teaching them how to dance and then some chat up lines.

Filming Session 6

In this session we filmed the last bits of the beginning of the trailer where the geeks ask for assistance off the second year to make them look cool.

We also did the opening sequence entering the common room and being laughed at, to which we can use right at the beginning.

As some of our shots from our first shoot didn't go to plan as well as they should, we decided to do some re-shooting as well in this session.

Photoshoot

Weekly Update 11

In this week we continued to make up the magazine cover, by just making sure that everything was in the right place and the colours were all correct and ready for the photo shoot.

After not being able to find any copyright free music, we started to make soundtracks on Garage Band for each of the sections of the trailer. This was after our sound research us knowing that we have to use different styles of songs for each individual part.

We also filmed the missing sections of our trailer. This involved the shots where the geeks were being bullied in day to day life, in a variety of ways.

- Emily O'Hara

Filming Session 5

In this session we decided to complete the missing parts of the beginning sequence that we didn't have as yet. This involved the geeks being bullied in a quick montage of shots to which will be used after the common room shot.


Footage:

Weekly Update 10

After the reflections over half term and the deadlines of rough cuts, to which did not go ahead due to missing footage we planned to make sure we had everything organised this week.
We decided to make sure we had as much as we could for the 3 montages, knowing they would be a large bulk of the trailer.

On Monday this began with the creating of intertitles, to give an animation effect of the text moving on the page and getting clearer and more defined. As there wasn't a specific intertitle for this we created one ourselves using a pad of paper, pens and a still camera taking shots. At the first attempt it didn't work as well so we decided to re-do the three because the angling wasn't staying the same, so we set it up as a tripod.

On Wednesday I had got in contact with a local charity shop to see if it was possible to film their changing room the geeks trying on different "cool" outfits on in a montage of shots, like the same concept for the getting tougher in the gym.

We then filmed in our media lesson on the Thursday further footage of the geeks getting tougher by filming in the park the pair jogging, to which we could edit into the previous montage.

On Friday we edited the footage of the two montages that had been filmed so far into one sequence. This involved the rough edited footage being made more defined and added together.

Also on Friday we made up the magazine front cover mock-up, minus the image of the main character. This involved organising the general layout of where the text would all go. This will be tweaked next week and hopefully have photos taken for the next session.

We then as a group discussed what shots we needed to get for the trailer, to which Jake made a short video outlining each of these. We hope to get these done next week alongside a photoshoot in hope we can air our project as a mock up to get feedback from our audience.

In terms of the soundtrack we are in the process of getting copyright free music already, however if that fails we plan to create a soundtrack on Garage Band to go over our montages and opening shots.

- Emily O'Hara

Fiming Session 4

Wednesday 2nd November

In this session we filmed in a local charity shop to get the shots of the characters changing their image to make themselves look cooler.

The filming went relatively well and we managed to get the shots we needed, not to mention they had the element of professionalism because it was and actual shop experience.


Our footage:

Filming Session 3

Wednesday 2nd November

In this filming session we shot the extra bits of the getting tougher of the geeks in the eyes of the public getting tougher by jogging and such like.

The session went well as we managed to get the quiet aspect at the time when the park wasn't busy so we could get nice clear shots and the weather was looking better than previously in the week.

What made it easier was the cooperation of the cast (as usual).

The footage:

Weekly Update 9

After spending a week apart in half term we all did different things for the project individually.

Jake's Half Term Update:

Tom's Half Term Update:

Emily's Half Term Update:

Weekly Update 8

This week gave us a great step in the professionalism in our filming when Jake came up with an idea to source a gym for the section of our trailer when the geeks are getting tougher so on Wednesday we went out to the gym and filmed the two geek characters "getting tougher".

The footage was then edited together so we could go over what we had done in that session and show each of the parts going together.

We then continued to work individually on our posters for the bits to which we hadn't yet finished.

As the week after was half term, we didn't devise an exact plan of what to film as we later found out one of our main characters was unable to film. However over half term we decided we would all work seperately to make sure we had everything complete.

- Emily O'Hara

Filming Session 2- Wednesday 19th October

This is the footage we took on Wednesday the 19th of October at the Dolphin Centre Gym.
We did get filming permission to film there after ringing up on the grounds that we provided a detailed risk assessment and that we acknowledged that if something were to happen to equipment, actors or filmers, it was not up to them to resolve it or pay.
We also had to ensure that were did not get any of the public in shot sand if we did, we had to make sure that it was ok with them to be in shot, everyone potential person in the gym we thought may be in shot, we made aware of our filming and got permission to use the footage if they were in it.

Filming Session 2

On the second session we hope to continue filming as we did and get more shots for the next stages of the geek process. This would involve the 3 aspects of change hopefully (changing image, getting sportier and then getting females).

At this point we may also try to get our photo shoot done for the magazine and for each of the posters.

We were lucky enough in this session to manage to get access to a gym at The Dolphin Centre, after Jake rang up and asked the permission to film a couple of shots doing the various comedy style work outs. This gave us a perfect location to film in an environment that is actually there.

Weekly Update 7

In this week we began officially our print project.

This began with us first of all on the Monday and Tuesday (whilst our actors were unavailable) to set up our individual posters as a basic layout for the print project on photoshop. This involved sorting out the text or extra graphical elements, all except the main characters on the screen.

On the Wednesday we began filming. In this session we filmed the two geeks being approached by the second year in the way that he had agreed to help them. For the rest of the week it was mainly looking over this footage and then creating a clip of the session.

We also planned for the next filming sessions to make sure that they were all organised and the cast knew what was happening.

- Emily O'Hara

Filming Session 1- Monday 17th

Here is most of the relevant footage that we had captured during our first filming session on Monday the 14th.
Included, are the shots of the bully helping the Geek, the geeks reaction, the bully telling the geeks he'll help them and the geeks reaction to confronting the bully about help.

Filming Session 1

Monday 17th October 2011:

Intentions:

On this session we have all of our cast together as a way in which to make sure we have everything we need for it to work properly and we have all the correct forms and such.

On this day we plan to try to film as much as possible. This is involving all of the background shots, such as the geeks being bullied and the build up to the storyline. This sets up the main outline of the trailer and something we can use as the foundations.

Whilst the group is together, we may also try to do our photo shoot with them, this will make it easier and utilise our resources to the maximum potential.

Our Session:

Photo Evidence:

Change in filming:

We planned to start filming on Wednesday 12th of October, we had got a camera hired and had arranged to meet the Cat to start filming for our first draft of the trailer, however only two members of the cast were present, Myself with costumer, and Joey Collins with no costume.

Due to this, we had to cancel filming and have scheduled to meet cast and start filming on Monday 17th of October.

-Jake Williams

Thomas' Poster Progress

During the production of my poster, I decided to have my poster portrait. Therefore when opening a new document, I put the requirements needed for an A4 sheet of paper in portrait position.

The font I have used is 'Badaboom' as this was chosen earlier from font research. I felt that this font showed similar connotations to comedy films due to the the font being basic in style. Using 'Badaboom' came about from further research developed from analysing professional products which films have a similar genre to ours as we felt as a group we wanted to create a font which was similar to other successful professional products, this will therefore give our products similar connotations as these which represent the comedy film genre. The use of red, also researched in the font research, was used again due to our research into various professional products as many films we researched including 'Superbad' and 'Drillbit Taylor'. These included thick bold font in red. Our group felt that the use of red would be best suited to our film due to this and our personal opinions.

I decided on including a review on this film poster as using this will be very effective in attracting audience appeal. I believe that having a review will work much better instead of including sell lines for our film as our film does not have the big-budget like many professional films have, therefore having a magazine review may help in promoting our film to the audience. The font is again written in red with the style 'Badaboom' to help fit together and not look unappealing. I decided on having 'Star Magazine' written in black font as I didn't want the whole film poster to use red font as it will look unattractive and dull which will not work when attracting the attention of the audience. 

Putting five stars helps give an idea to the audience of what to expect from the film. The five stars will help generate a positive response from the audience as the film has been received positively and that has been reflected through the use of the five stars.

Many film posters include the credits at the bottom of the poster, I found this due to research into other professional products. I decided that if I wanted my film poster to look professional, I would therefore have to include one of my own on the film poster. Due to the credits not having much significance into the film, I followed other professional products by deciding to have the credits located at the bottom of the film poster.

This is the overall layout of my film poster. This is just a draft and isn't the actual products. I still need to organise a photoshoot of our groups actors with the best photo taken being used on this film poster to help promote it. Looking at the 'Moving On Up!' text, I decided to have this located in the top left corner as the audience are more drawn to the left, therefore the film's title will hopefully be what the audience notices first. Also, I dcided to have the text rotated about 30 degrees counter-clockwise as I felt that having the writing just in a straight line would look less appealing and simple, therefore having the text slightly rotated would help make it seem more of a comedy film and much more appealing to the audience. The review is located in the top right of the film poster, I felt that this review will help play a vital role in selling the film and that is the reason for its position as the audience tend to look top to bottom of a film poster. Again, the credits are located at the bottom of the film poster due to the insignificance it has to the audience but I have included the credits to make my products much more professional.

After adding all the text onto my film poster, I decided to add the release month and year to my film poster. I dd this to help create excitement and nervousness among the audience as the arrival of the film to cinemas is drawing closer. I decided to locate the release month and year at the bottom of the page as I felt that the boldness and distinctiveness of the font would help draw attention to it. Also, I believed that the release month and year were not as significant in comparison to the film's title and the review which will help sell the film.

When creating the text for the release month and year, I tested both red and black as colours for the text. I felt that these two colours would be the best suited for my products due the continuity it has amongst the other writing featured on the film poster. I prefer having the red font, similar to the 'Superbad' film poster as I believe it attracts more of an audience than the black font does. Also, having the credits written in black helps having the release month and year written in red as it makes it much more enterprising to the audience.

These are the two drafts of my film poster, the only difference is the colour of the text of the release month and year on each product. As discussed eariler, I prefer having the red font as it contrasts from the credits black which will help attract the audience to it, however I am keeping my options open until the photoshoot has been done and an image has been chosen for my film poster as I want the font that would look best with the image. However, I intend of having my photoshoot in the Media Studio with a white background. If my plans and aims work, I believe the red would be a better option to use instead of the black font again this supports my opinion.