Evaluation Development

Over the past week we have been working on our evaluations.  We wanted to make our evaluations interesting by using different forms of media.  With this in mind we have chosen to do the first question we have decided to film us talking with a green screen behind us.  In the editing of this we will add in pictures of title inspiration, film posters we liked, studio magazine and clips of teasers we researched.  We think this will be a really nice effect and add depth to our evaluation.  For question two we have decided to do a voice recording to discuss the ways in which we combined our teaser with our poster and magazine cover.  To go with this we will get clips from our film and photos showing the development of our poster and teaser trailer.  For question 3 we have already recorded us talking about our audience feedback.  We plan to edit this so it includes photos of what people have said they lied or disliked from the trailer.  Finally for the last question we have chosen to do a slideshow complete with pictures and videos to highlight the media technologies we used in this project.

Evaluation Q4- Notes

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

. Blogger                . Garage Band
. Youtube               . Internet
. Prezzi                   . ( Find Font)
. I movie                 . Camera
. I tunes                  . Studio magazine online
. I cloud                  . Scanner
. Sound cloud         . Voice Recorder
. Quick time
. Live type

Evaluation Q3- Notes

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

. We have a questionnaire
. Interview people of the target audience
. Post film of social networks to See reactions
. any anomalies

Evaluation Q2- Notes

How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

. The trailer is mysterious
. Push Boundaries ( especially Poster)
. Clear Synergy for magazine of The main actress
. They all have a sense of unknown
. All appear 'Quirky' as if Art House
. All include main Character, running theme

Evaluation Q1- Notes

In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Teaser Trailer inspirations:                            Poster:
. Black Swan                                                . Rabbit Hole
. Killer Elite                                                  . Gangs on NY
. Shutter Island                                              . The Idles of March
. Butterfly Effect                                           . The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus

Titles inspiration:                                           Magazine:
. Bugs Life                                                    . Studio
. Se7en
. Intimate Enemies

We will discuss how they influenced our trailer as well as how we took very slight inspiration and challenged it with our own unique take.

Finished Magazine Cover

Today, We completed our magazine cover. We are proud to have achieved what we have, especially due to our select skills with using photoshop. We really struggled with photoshop particularly when trying to cut Emily out of the original image and place her with a new background, without her looking like she had been stuck on. The most difficult part was her hair and the attempt to make it look free flowing and not drawn on. We applied multiple effects to the magazine the hope of creating a convincing magazine cover, this involved darkening the image so that the text would be more obvious. We also found the same fonts to follow the style of Studio magazine. We also chose a grey background as this appeared most in the covers of Studio magazine.
We are pleased with what we have created and will be ready to move on to our evaluation.

Background drama

Today we went and took a photo of Emily who played our main character in Verity Lies.  We wanted to get the same feel as the Studio magazine women did so we turned all the lights off and used lamps to light her face and also used a hair dryer to get her hair to flow.  We took some in front of Emily's blinds that were spotty as we thought it would make a nice background and then some against her plain bedroom wall.
   Next we shortlisted our favourite photos as we did when designing our poster and discussed which one we felt would work best.  Eventually we chose the one of Emily side on with her hair flowing behind as we liked the unusual positioning and Emily looks very beautiful.

 Initially we liked the spotty background but when applying it to our Studio magazine layout we decided it cheapened the overall look of our piece.  We then made the decision to cut out Emily from the background thinking this would be a fairly straightforward easy process.  WE WERE SO WRONG.
   Daisy stayed after school today trying to get the background gone and nothing seemed to be going right.  The main problem is the hair.  It is very hard to distinguish where the hair stops and the background begins.  Once finally managing to cut her out placing her onto our fully formed magazine cover made Emily look very out of place and just sort of shoved there without much thought.
   We will continue to try to use this image as we really like it and want to use it for our cover but we need to think of a better way to achieve the look we want.