Reece Bahia

In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge and conventions or real media

products?

As it is shown here that I have followed one of the conventions that has been used by the real media product producer. I took this idea on board when I researched into similar products and I took ideas of what I would try to use in my media product. I believe that it is useful to show somewhere in the trailer what the movie is going to be called so that the audience know what they are watching. Also, it is also useful for he audience to know if the producers have made other movies and if the other movie was interesting to watch then the audience may like to watch this movie trailer/movie. I have tweaked my text as I want the ‘Just Leave’ in bright red colours so that it would stand out from the black background and that the font that has been used on the text is clear so that it is clear enough for the audience to read what is available on the page. I have made ‘Outraged’ bigger than the other text so the audience can clearly identify what the trailer is called. I have also met another convention of a real media product as the background behind the text is black and this is done effectively as the background outlines evilness and it works with the colour of the text. I did this as my storyline outlines evilness and my text colour is white and red as it stands out better than any other colour.

As it is shown here that I have followed a convention that has been used by a real media institution. I took this idea on board when I looked at this when I was researching into similar products. I tried this idea with my characters and happily enough it worked. I did this by a still shot as this actually worked with the ‘Bend it like Beckham’ scene that was used in the trailer. The only thing I changed was, in ‘Bend it like Beckham’ the character falls on the floor whereas my character stays on his feet.

I did not follow the conventions of a real media product as I did not feel that it was effective enough for it to work on my trailer. The convention that I did not follow was the short snapshots within the trailer as I tried this effect on my trailer but I feel that the idea that I had in mind worked better with my storyline and sound. I also took into consideration of my research and planning into similar media products as when I was researching, I looked at many different trailers and most of the trailers were not short and snappy scenes. Also I produced a questionnaire for my fellow students to fill out whether or not the short and snappy scenes within the trailer were better than the longer scenes were better for my trailer. I concluded the results and it resulted that my fellow students preferred the longer scenes were better for my trailer and this is the idea I had in mind. Furthermore, I looked at the trailers that was the same genre that I was going to be producing a trailer on and it was shown that they had longer scene shots that was shown to the audience and this is what I wanted to happen in my trailer.

As you can see from above it is shown that I have followed the convention of real media product. I did this as a real media product is made by professionals so I would take inspiration from this so that my trailer can be half as good as a professional trailer. I followed the convention of the effect of the use of dip to black between each scene of the trailer. I used this effect as it is very effective between the use of scenes as there is no straight cut between the scenes. It also leads it nicely into the next scene. With the use of dip to black it slows the trailer down a little which is effective in the use of a longer shot time of the scene. It worked really well when I researched into the similar products and so I tried it on my trailer and it works really well with my scenes.

How did you use media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

Adobe Premier Pro Software Adobe Photo Shop Software Memory Sticks and Memory Cards Prezi Slideshare Camera – Fujifilm Computer and Laptop

Without Adobe Premier Pro Software I would not have been able to produce my trailer effectively. Premiere Pro has also allowed me to edit my trailer to a good standard. When I used Adobe Premier Pro it allowed me to use editing techniques such as Dip to Black in which it has allowed my trailer to flow better as this is what I had found out when I researched into similar products. This was not all good as throughout the use of Adobe Premier Pro, we had many technical difficulties towards the start of the project and the editing of my trailer as my computer continually crashed and some of my projects did not open.

Personally, I feel that Adobe Premier Pro was an effective program and that it was easy to use and Adobe Premier Pro allowed me to use the tools to create an effective trailer.

Adobe Photoshop has been effective in allowing me to create my poster and magazine as a part of the ancillary task. My ancillary task was to create a poster and magazine in relation to my trailer. Adobe Photoshop was easy for me to use as I have been using this software for many years now, this allowed me to use the tools that I am aware of. The tools that I used were blurring, erasing, lasso tools, cropping and air brush tools to gain the desired poster or magazine effect I wanted.

I faced no technical difficulties with this program in which it allowed me to finish my magazine and poster in quick and easy time. If I was going to do my magazine and poster again then I would use a different variety of colours and designs.

I used a standard Memory Stick to carry my work over to another machine as when I witnessed technical difficulties with my machine, I transferred my work on my memory stick so that I could carry on with my work. My memory stick was essential as it allowed me to not lose my shots and my trailer. When we first began to create my trailer, we specifically used standard computers in our school class room. Despite this, we were fortunate to be able to use Apple Mac computers and this meant I had to back files up so we were then able to complete my trailer on the Apple Mac computers.

I did not face any overall problems with the use of a memory stick.

Slideshare is an internet based programme in which it has allowed me to publish my work that has been produced on PowerPoint onto my blog. I have had only one issue and that is when I have uploaded my Slideshare onto Wordpress, it cannot be shown to me as the school network does not allow me to read what has been produced on PowerPoint.

The program is quick and easy to access and upload onto Wordpress, I am also know how to use this program effectively as I used this program in AS media.

I used the Fujifilm camera which was provided by the school. I used this camera as I was recording my footage within my school time in which I used this camera to record my footage with and to take my magazine and poster images for this project. In general, the Fujifilm camera was very easy to use and the footage that was taken by this camera was effective and in a good condition.

I had no major problems in the use of the camera and I had already used this camera for my AS media project.

What have you learned from your audience

feedback?

Once I completed my trailer, I wanted to receive some feedback on my trailer from my peers. To find out the information that I wanted, I created a questionnaire in which it allowed me to find out the positive and negative aspects of my trailer and the improvements that I would make if I were to do this project again.

The feedback has allowed me to find out the positive aspects of my trailer. Some of my positive aspects of my trailer is that from my 5 questionnaires that they would be interested into watching the full movie as they wanted to know what happens in the end and that the storyline drags you in to watch the movie. Also the feedback that I had was that the storyline was clear and that the first two characters are in love and that the other characters get involved an ruin the life of one particular character. A question that was asked in the questionnaire was whether the sound worked well with my scenes and that my feedback responded well as they said that the two sound clips that have been used in my trailer have worked well together because one is up beat and the other is sad and that the sad music shows depression within my scenes and the choice of artist was chosen very well.

It also shown from my feedback that the language that was used in my trailer was appropriate for the audience to listen to and that one questionnaire came back and that it shown that it also suited the characters as they were very fluent. Also another positive aspect is that the feedback from the questionnaire is that they all knew what genre the trailer was and it is Romance. Another positive about my trailer is that the location of my trailer suited my genre as many questionnaire believed it was the right location for the genre as the storyline was about a school so it was just right for the location to be in a school. From my feedback it is shown that the ages of my characters suited the storyline of my trailer.

What do you l ike about the trailer?Questionnaire 1:

The way that the emotions switch throughout the trailer.Questionnaire 2:

The storyline works well with the characters and the characters did well with the acting and a good trailer overall

Questionnaire 3: The storyline is very clever and the way that it has been constructed is very effective.

Questionnaire 4: The sound that was used in the trailer and some of the camera shots that was used.

Questionnaire 5: The way that the director used his surroundings for the storyline of the trailer.

It also shown from my feedback that the language that was used in my trailer was appropriate for the audience to listen to and that one questionnaire came back and that it shown that it also suited the characters as they were very fluent. Also another positive aspect is that the feedback from the questionnaire is that they all knew what genre the trailer was and it is Romance. Another positive about my trailer is that the location of my trailer suited my genre as many questionnaire believed it was the right location for the genre as the storyline was about a school so it was just right for the location to be in a school. From my feedback it is shown that the ages of my characters suited the storyline of my trailer.