Time Management

I will complete my Evaluation by the 10th of March.
I have two weeks to complete four questions using a variety of media platforms.

I also need to complete three blogposts on two sets of deconstructions, past students work and outfits and props that I featured in my film trailer.

Evaluation Questions

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

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

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

I will answer these questions using various media technologies...

Film Trailer - Hidden Lies

This is my first film trailer product, after I received feedback from my teacher I made changes in order to improve my grade.

FEEDBACK

• Change the production logo at the beginning to a black background and white text to match the rest of the text screens in throughout the trailer.
• Remove some unnecessary scenes to make my trailer a little shorter and to make the scenes changes quicker.
• Remove the scene where all three actresses are looking at the camera to avoid confusion to the audience.
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Magazine Front Cover and Film Poster

FILM MAGAZINE FRONT COVER

FEEDBACK I received on my film magazine front cover

This was my first finished product of my film magazine front cover. After I received my feedback I made various changes in order to improve the product and the grade.

The Feedback I received from my teacher was...

• Change the hidden lies font to a normal font and not the film font.
• Make my sub headings closer together.
• Take out the added poster image and the bubble as this is too distracting from the strong main image.
• Make the plus smaller and wider.
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FILM POSTER

FEEDBACK I received on my film magazine front cover

This was my first final product of my film poster. After I received feedback I made some adjustments and improvements to boost the grade of my product.

The Feedback I received was...

• To take out the review quote because this is a teaser trailer nobody has seen the film yet because it is just being introduced.
• make my logo smaller and add in more film logos, small at the bottom.
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Sound and Video editing

I edited my film trailer on Adobe Premiere Pro. As well as editing my clips to a certain size I also added in text boxes to carry important information to the audience; the actresses names', the title of the film, the release date (coming soon), the credits, the two taglines and the website and Facebook page.

I also edited the video clips and the audio.

• Dip to black
• Exponential fade
• Film Dissolve

I used the "dip to black" between scenes to keep the mood dark and mysterious but also to make the film trailer flow continuously throughout the clips.

Here I turned down the brightness of the garden because when I filmed it was in bright day light. I turned the brightness down to in keep with the sinister effect of the film trailer. I also turned down the background noise to make the film music the main focus.

I used audio transitions to blend the music better which makes the trailer flow and appear professional. This are called Exponential Fades and I have used this at the beginning of my trailer to introduce the music and I have used this at the end of my trailer to run off the music gently so the trailer is not coming to a sudden stop.

Music choices and copyright

These are two music instrumentals that I found on YouTube.
They are creepy, intense and will set the mood for my ghost story trailer.
I will use around 30 seconds from one of these instrumentals in the creepy scenes of my trailer, which will feature at the beginning of my film trailer.

This is part of the GRUDGE soundtrack. I will use part of this instrumental for the second half of my film trailer. The second half of my film trailer is the most intense and scary, therefore this music fits perfectly and compliments the scenes occurring in my trailer.




This is a screen shot of the letter I sent to ask for permission to use the grudge's music.