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Centre Name: Norbury Manor B&E College

Centre Number: 14343

Candidate Name: Hibah Jan

Candidate Number:1093

Unit: G324

Fractured Illusions - Trailer

Fractured Illusions - Poster

Fractured Illusions - Magazine

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

In this blog post I will be discussing evaluation question four and which media technologies I used to help me present my research, planning, construction and evaluation.

I have been able to learn so much more about media technologies through this project, form blogging resources to editing software (Adobe). I have become more confident in editing visuals and images and am now able to create convincing photo manipulation and use darker colour correcting schemes. Through blogging I have been able to find many method to share what I have been learning. Blogger has given me a platform to show my steps and by using sites such as Emaze and Slide Share I have been able to demonstrate my findings and journey further.  

Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

In this blog post I will be looking at the audience feedback I received and what I have learnt from it. This is a table with the results I will be discussing:

Question	Yes	No
Do you think all three products link well?	111111111111111 – 15
Would you watch this movie	11111111111111 – 14	1
Were you scared at any point?	111111111111 – 12	111
Do you like the visuals in the trailer?	111111111111111 – 15
Do you like the visuals on the poster?	1111111111111 – 13	11
Do you like the visuals on the magazine?	1111111111111 - 14	1
	83	7

Some of the video footage of audience feedback after the premier:

Evaluation Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

In this blog post I will be discussing how effective the linkage is between our horror movie trailer, poster and magazine.

All together I am proud of all three of the products, they link well and share similarities, through general aesthetic (colour, mis-en-scene, etc.) and content (title, text, etc.). They come together to show the themes of our film (illusions, deception) and link back to out sub-genre of  psychological paranormal with the uses tone and overall look.

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

This blog post will answer evaluation question one, on how we developed, changed and used forms of real media texts in our poster, magazine cover and trailer.

Premier Tickets and Advertisement

For the premier my partner put advertisements all around our school building to get more people to come, this is a form of marketing through visuals and word of mouth. The advert lighthearted the location, time and date of the event, the titles of all the trailers and the rating (over 15s only):


She also created the tickets using the poster I created, these were handed out to some people to promote the trailer premier:

For the actual premier I created a power point that introduced our film, this got the audence ready for the trailer and showed them the poster and magazine:

All of these elements put together allowed us to promote our trailer and gain a connection to our audience in order to better our feedback. 

Target Audence Feedback

This is some of the feedback we received on the final products form our target audience (15-25).

 

 

The target audience got the concept of the products and liked the continuality of all three product. Overall the feedback was very positive and helps us know that our audience like the magazine, trailer and poster.   

Magazine Photograph Manipulation and Font Decisions

In this blog post I will be showing you the editing work I did on the magazine as well as discussing the text we used:

Text: 

Magazine Shots taken/mise-en-scene

These are the images my partner took for the front cover of the magazine. She shot them on a Cannon camera on a white backdrop (in the studio). She had the model try two different costumes, one with a black top and another with a over sized blue jumper.

 Close Mid Shot: This first image has a playful tone as the model is smirking and looking up. Although the lighting works well the tone is not what we want for our magazine.  

 Close Mid Shot: In this image the model looks out to the audience and is smiling with her eyes but not with her mouth. I like the idea of the model looking to the camera but the lighting could be more dramatic. 

Close Mid Shot: This is the image we ended up using, the model looks straight out to the audience and has lots of negative space around her, making her seem isolated.  

Close Mid Shot: this shot was taken from a slight lower angle and has the model tilting her head to the side slightly. 

 Close Mid Shot: this shot is taken from a side angle, the model still looks at the camera and seems as though she is hiding something.

 Close Mid Shot: she now looks away from the camera with her mouth open as if she is scared. I like this image but if we wish to add effects on top later it may be harder to see. 

 Close Up: the model looks at the camera here and has slight open mouth to show shock. She also has a different outfit on which I think has a weaker effect because of it's light colour.  

 Close Mid Shot: this last shot has the actress looking confidently at the camera, this does not match the characters personality and therefore was not used.

Overall I think my partner got some good shots but the image need to be enhanced to get the full effect. The next stage is to begin layout and Photoshop work.  

Magazine Cover Layout

These are the flat plans my partner designed for the magazine front cover:


We now need to enter the editing process, where we will take the flat plan and begin building up the layout.

Reseach into Film Magazine House Styles

In this blog post I will be exploring some film magazine, in particular horror movie covers or magazines. I have selected four to analyse:

Horror movie Magazines Analysis from hibah24

Overall I like the 'Empires' house style the most as it is simple and works well to show the movie but I also really like the creativity of 'Rue Morgue' as it has a vintage/retro feel and showcases the movie well. Out of these two I think Empire would be the best choice as it is more recognized and hold a wide audience who enjoy not only horror but other genres too (such as thrillers), and with a larger audience more people would see the film. 

Creating The Poster and Image Manipulation

In this blog post I will be showing you how I edited the horror movie poster using Adobe Photoshop.

Overall I am happy with the outcome of the poster, it shows our genre well from the use of shattered glass. I have been able to learn many more skills from Photoshop through creating the poster and I believe it has heightened my editing skills.

Poster Font Decisions

When creating the horror movie poster, I used some tested different fonts theses are the fonts I ended up using:

Shots taken/mise-en-scene

These are all the images I took for the horror movie poster;

Medium close up: For this image the actress wears a baggy jumper in which she wears in the trailer, this creates a linkage to the poster and trailer. Her makeup is minimal to show a child like inosence. I decided to put the studio lights on my right hand side in order to create a dramatic shadow on half of her face.  

medium close up: this image is slimier to the last but she is looking to the right of the camera giving a sense of danger (something is coming). This is the image I decided to use as I felt it captured the emotions of the character well. 

 medium close up: this shot was again taking in the studio. the actress is wearing a green flannel to show growth and harmony, but her questioning face suggests she may nor remain this way.  

 medium close up: she is now facing away from the viewer to suggest something more important/dangerous is taking her attention away. 

 medium close up: this is the image I decided to use, it has a dramatic shadow (like the other images) and her facial expression shows shock and innocence. 

Close up: this image again shows through the facial expression disbelief and innocence. The red top shows that she is in danger and will possibly die later in the movie.  

 medium close up

 close up: this is the image I decided to use as it captures a face in fear, Is also has a dramatic shadow showing she is innocence but will enter darkness (like the others)   

medium close up: I then got her to turn to the other side to cast a different shadow, but I felt this was less effective as her fear did not stand out as much. 

Overall I am very happy with the images taken, I believe they will work very well on the poster 

Poster Layout/Flatplans

In this blog post I will be presenting the flatplans I designed and how they were created.

Horror Movie Posters Research

In this blog I will be presenting some horror movie posters that I think have a good aesthetic in which I could get some ideas from.

Construction Linked to Theories and Storyboard

When editing the trailer, it was important to refer to the storyboard and conventions to consider if we were changing some of our original plans and either subverting or conforming to horror movie conventions. 

Evidence Controlled use of the Camera and Exploring Shot Types

In this blog post I will be exploring the shots I took for the trailer and how and why I choice to use them.

Individual Contribution

Throughout the course of the trailer production and post-production my partner and I have shared out tasks in filming, editing, directing etc. In terms of my personal contributions, here is a presentation of what I did:

Careful use of mise-en-scene

In this blog post I will be looking at some of the main uses of carful mise-en-scene we used when filming our trailer scenes.

Evidence of Editing and use of shot transitions

In this blog post I have added a slides of the editing process I will also be going through the key editing going on in the print-screens.


Hibah jan's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Here is a video and audio of me going through the main editing:

Use of Sound Effects

Some of the sounds we used were first hand such as all of the dialogue and voice overs but for the audio we could not capture we decided on using sound effects from online.

For the glass smashing sound effect we found that this was the best piece of audio as it was not to loud and was realistic enough to fit the clip.

For the home phone ringing we wanted to use a modern ring tone as we felt a vintage phone ring would be cliche and unrealistic whereas a modern ring would fit the look of the phone and the beat of teh muic.

We used four voice actors to get all of the voice overs, each actor filmed scripted (dialog) and non scripted (shouts, screams etc.) audio. This allowed us to get a range of audio for the trailer and add in any extra audio that was needed.  

Titles and Font Used

My partner took the lead on font choices for the movie's trailer but we both put in some input to the final decisions, here is a slideshow of the text options and the process we went through to choose the text:

Titles and Font Used from hibah24

Changes 

After receiving feedback on the text, font and layout, we decided to change the titles screens to create more motion and to have a better flow. The new titles have a moving video of shattering glass in slow motion which not only links to our title but also to the smashing glass in the trailer. These are the new titles:

Overall I really like the text, it adds motion to the trailer while also linking to the plot and aesthetic of the film. 

  

Research into and use of music

In this blog post I will be showing you how we decide on the music for our trailer.


Overall I am very happy with our music choices they really help us with timing and to set the tone.

Evidence of Filming

These are some images of my partner and I filming the footage for our horror movie trailer.