Phoebe's Evaluation

Readers,

For my evaluation of my advanced portfolio I had to answer 4 questions.

My first question is a 3x3 picture collage with audio to describe my answer:

My second question as a Prezi:https://prezi.com/m87ygsldvll9/q2-how-effective-is-the-combination-of-your-main-product-an/

My third question:

Q3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

If I were to do this project again I would do more on my planning of the film and get more regular feedback e.g. show my product to more people throughout the progression of its development. The reason for this was that we left getting feedback to the last moment and found we had put the titling on screen for a very short time and people couldn’t read it. We had totally forgotten to add in the title of our film into the trailer. When getting feedback on our product this was highlighted so we were able to adjust these items for our final product and with hindsight we should have done this earlier. We put our trailer on Facebook and  YouTube.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phoebe.lowes

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jicOzLiiTqE

I found that all my viewers on YouTube were from the UK and that on the day I posted my video (28^th Feb) that had the most views (12 in total). The other two views were on 1^st March to give me a grand total of 14 views on my YouTube channel.

 Here is a video of some girls watching our trailer and their positive feed back and reactions to it.

                                         

My fourth and final question as a Prezi: https://prezi.com/sqpr1myms0ym/q4-how-did-you-use-media-technologies-in-the-construction-a/

Final Products

Here are our final products consisitng of our Main Task which was a trailer, and our ancillary tasks; a magazine cover and a poster that link in with our main task.

Evaluation (Beth)

Here is my evaluation for our Advanced Portfolio Coursework:

We made a film trailer that has the same conventions of an actual trailer. We decided to stick to the formula because it proved to work well and look professional.

Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I made a short Prezi answering this question:

Q3: What have you learnt from audience feedback?

Having had our audience watch our product we got some feedback to see what we could improve on. The feedback was generally positive and everyone liked the music plus our handheld effect.

The only things that were brought up improvement were the speed of the titling was way too fast, we missed the tagline and the title out and so we had to add that in.

Here's a small video of the AS Media class reacting to our trailer and then giving feedback:

From feedback we realised our magazine needed some editing. The magazine looked a bit amateur so we had to change it. We also noticed that all the branding didn't link together because we hadn't used the same fonts in the magazine that we used in both the trailer and the poster. So we changed to make the ancillary texts link neatly together with the main product.

Q4: How did you use the media technologies in construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Here's my little Prezi on how I answered this question.

Changing the magazine cover

In the light of feedback and having looked back on our magazine cover, we decided that it didn't link in with our other two products.

Having looked at other A2 Media magazine covers on Google Images we found that ours look amateur compared to what we could have done.

I used the same typeface in both the trailer and the poster but the magazine doesn't include this typeface so it doesn't link in with the ancillary text and the main product. We also found that there was too much blank space next to Allegra's head so we added more text after looking at real magazines.

So having looked at these problems we changed the poster:

Firstly we changed the title of the movie on the bottom. We took the red from the poster and added it to the title as well as putting it in the same font 'Trajan Pro'. 

However, the red didn't show up as well so we added a slightly opaque banner behind it and to bring the main focus of the magazine to the front. 

We then added a gradient to the masterhead so it looked just a bit more professional.

Having done all this we began to add the text down each side, trying to fill up the blank space. 

Beth

Music for graphic

Hi guys,

This is a short video explaining what I did to make the music for our graphic and how I got my inspiration.

Hope you enjoy! :)

Phoebe

Magazine cover 4th Feb

Readers,

This is a short film of how I made my magazine and the different stages I went through to get my final piece. Hope you enjoy!

Please comment and give me feed back. Thank you!!

Final Touches To The Poster

I added some final touches to the poster and these consisted of adding some film festival logos and critics reviews to complete the poster's look.

I took a high quality image of the 'Sundance Film Festival logo' off the internet and put it in Photoshop to delete the background and make it transparent then I put it on the poster. 

I firstly placed them below the tagline and by the silhouette of the school but I soon decided it took away the blank space either side of the school and didn't give it the same effect.

So I moved the reviews and logos up and decided to add some critics as seen in The Babadook poster, they have quotes from critics which looks effective.