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

This Picture is of kierans windows 7 laptop where most of the editing of our trailer took place as well as the designing of our poster and magazine front cover. I completed my research and planning activities on the schools computers which are also windows 7.   

The picture above is of the camera we used to film all of the footage for our trailer. The camera is able to film in HD allowing our footage to be crisp and clear.

This is the camera we used to take all of our still photos for the film poster, the magazine front cover, costume photos and location photos. The camera is a Sony A300 DSLR.

This is the tripod we used when filming our trailer to keep a steady shot and to create some unique shots we used in our final trailer.

This is the scanner we used to scan the storyboard of our trailer and upload it to the computer. We used a scanner because the images that would be uploaded will be a lot clearer and crisp allowing our animatic to have a professional look to it.

Blogger has been used majorly throughout both my foundation and advanced portfolio. I have used blogger to present all of my final work as well as the work i have completed on the way. The content on my blogger is all of my research and planning which includes images and embed youtube videos with text describing what is shown. 

Youtube has been one of the most important pieces of software i have used, this is because i have used it to complete most of my research and planning tasks which includes analysing trailers and shots from films. Youtube is also where we showcased our final trailer, this also allowed us to present our trailer on blogger as an embedded video.

Our group used Adobe premiere elements 8.0 to do all the editing involved with our trailer. Adobe elements allows you to use certain effects such as adding text, speeding up clips or slowing them down as well as transitions.

Evaluation Activity 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The video above is a clip of the audience feedback after watching our trailer.
Whilst watching my trailer i can see many elements which remind me of other feature film trailers this is mainly because we used many conventions of film trailers. For example we used unique shots such as the change in costume shot in the bathroom, we had music build up throughout to create tension and we change the pace of our shots from slow to fast quick shots.

The Strengths which were picked out after watching our trailer were:
Our titles looked very professional at the end of our trailer
The short quick shots of our car chase were very good the shots of the gear stick and speedometer especially.
The storyline

The Weaknesses which were picked out after watching the trailer were:
The inter titles were too quick needed to be a second longer as they were hard to read.
The last shot of the gun pointed at the camera could have a gun shot or explosion added to it to add more effect.

Our trailer was also uploaded onto the social networking cite facbook, it only had to responses and one which pointed out any strengths. The response said "loving the font and intertitles".

Evaluation Activity 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The first picture shows the title of the film which is Eye to Eye, we reversed the second Eye to symbolise the alter ego of our main character. The font which is used has a slight crumbling effect to it symbolising the action genre along with the white on black background.

The second picture shows one of the settings of our film which is out in open area. This picture has a dark tint to it this helps raise questions and mystery which surrounds our main character and his alter ego.

The third picture shows one of the main costumes of our trailer. This costume is a stereotypical office worker consisting of a relaxed shirt with the top button undone and sleeves rolled up accompanied with a set of trousers. The audience will recognise this normal office job through the representation of the costume and the mise en scene of the shot with the white walls.

The fourth picture shows when our office worker changes into his alter ego after splashing his face with water onto his face. We show this with a change of costume and facial expression. This shot creates tension and raises many questions for the audiences making them want to know more about this character.

The fifth picture shows some of our intertitles in our trailer. we decided to use a different font for our intertitles but keep the crumbling effect as it follows our genre and narrative of our film. it hints at the narrative by using colours which stand out and contrast.

The sixth picture shows of our character discovering a ransom note which informs him of his family kidnapping. The next shot shows him running to the toilet, this shows his realisation of the current situation as he is coming to terms with it. Another way this i shown is through his body language throughout the scene.

The seventh picture shows the car chase scene where the main character first discovers he is being followed by another car. This shot shows the genre as its fast paced with quick cutting shots from the speedometer to the gear changes. the shot ends as our main character escapes the pursuing car as it disappears out of shot.

The eighth picture shows our main character as he alter ego for the first time in the trailer as he is walking through a field. This shot is slightly darker than most of the others this allows us to present questions to the audience leaving them intrigued to find out the real background of our main character. 

The last picture shows our only special effect in our trailer which is a standard shot of our masked man in a blacked out room with a static layer over the top to create tension and unease the audience. This shot also allows us to input horror elements into our trailer creating a slight hybrid genre as horror films normally use quick shots of dark figures that are blurry.    

Eye To Eye Final Trailer

Final Magazine Cover

This is the final version of our magazine front cover. We have made this by following the coventions of a typical empire cover by using some similar fonts and extra's like the plus.

Final Poster

This is the final version of our film poster

Poster Analysis

In all of these posters there are many conventions we thought about using. We started off by analysing posters that had a single dominant male character at the for front of the poster, all of these male characters are accompanied by a weapon which in all these cases is a gun of some sort. This gives the impression to the audience that a lot of violence will take place in our film. All of the posters have a dark colour scheme surround them this presents a eerie feel about our characters allowing them to be surrounded with many unanswered questions.

Magazine Research

Whilst researching magazines we came across this issue of empire which we really liked. This cover has some conventions we will no doubt use in our magazine front cover. These are the empire tagline and website under the title, the main image lays on top of the empire magazine title, the variations of font and colour of font are really good we especially like how they have written joker we are going to attempt to do the same but also try mixing up colours and the sprayed on plus symbol. Will we attempt to use all of these characteristics and add our own twist to them whilst hopefully grabbing the audiences attention towards the trailer.

Filiming

Today me and kieran decided to start filming in the office but unfortunately it was unavailable, so we decided to take shots of our kidnapper showing him in shadow's whilst constantly hding his identity.

Character Photos

This first photo shows our main character in his alter ego outfit allowing the audience to see he is able to blend in with his surroundings whilst being undercover.

This photo shows our main character in his action persona with his more laid back look with rolled up sleeves and undone buttons, allowing him to spring into action whenever he needs to.

This last photo shows our antagonist in his all black outfit allowing him to easily blend into the shadows for an easy escape. We're also using a mask to keep his identity hidden surrounding the character with mystery arising many questions.