Evaluation for advanced portfolio
- 2. Both me and my partner thought very hard about how we could make our film both effective and different to other similar films using the same genre. Our film challenged real media conventions as the ending was very different and unpredictable to what is expected of a specific film in this genre. Another way in which it challenged real media conventions is that our film does not show the views and thoughts of an American boy but a British boy and how people all around the world were effected not just those in America which would be the obvious thought.
- 3. After finishing our film, me and my partner decided that it would be good to design a poster and magazine page in order to promote our movie. I think that they both worked very well in that the poster follows on conventions of a real film poster, it is both eye catching and exciting to look at. The magazine is very detailed in how it talk about how the audience will feel about the film, once again sticking to the conversations of a real magazine with added differences to make it unique. It also shares reviews of the public.
- 4. Me and my partner both found that the best way of finding our audience feedback was to carry out a questionnaire. We did this to ensure that the genre of our film will appeal to the main target audience that we will find out. The questionnaire also gave us the idea that audiences do like to receive media products from platforms such as the internet. This information gathered helped me and my partner come to the conclusion that if we was to spread the word of our film to our target audience, the best way to do so would be to use the internet. We used websites such as youtube, twitter and facebook to spread the word of our film.
- 5. The most important piece of media technology that both me and my partner did most of our research from was the internet. We found that typing into google things such as ‘short films on racism’ helped us massively to understand more of the basics on our specific genre which would ensure that we catch the audiences attention as best as we could. Youtube was also a massive bonus for us both as on there we could find videos of not only other short films regarding our genre but tips on both camera angles and mis-en-scene. Microsoft office was very helpful in small parts. It helped us to create a questionnaire that was used to find our audience and PowerPoint which was used mainly for research notes whilst planning for the film.
- 6. The main thing we used in planning for our film was our media blog. On these we saved every bit of research and planning during our production stage. This gives us something to look back on and show us how we developed throughout the film. Using the blogs also allows the public to view and comment on them, giving us ideas on how we can improve and make our film more appealing. This also allowed our target audience to see our progress through out the production.
- 7. In the construction of our film we used an editing system called EDIUS 4. All of our main film editing was done on this, there was even a mode called ‘title creator’ which we used to create our titles and credits.