Our Film Trailer

Our Film Poster

Here is our completed film poster.

Our Film Magazine Front Cover

Here is our completed film magazine front cover.

"EVALUATION QUESTION FOUR: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?"

Evaluation Question 4

"EVALUATION QUESTION THREE: What have you learned from your audience feedback?"

                                                                Evaluation Question 3

"EVALUATION QUESTION TWO: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?"

Evaluation Question 2

"EVALUATION QUESTION ONE: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

Evaluation Question 1

Film Magazine Front Cover Design 2

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For our film magazine front cover designs we chose to have our media production advertised on the front covers of 'TOTAL FILM' and 'EMPIRE' magazine, as they are two of the most popular film magazines and are also targeted at a more younger audience (which ties in with our production being targeted at a younger adult and older teenage audience). We analysed a copy of 'TOTAL FILM' magazine and a copy of 'Empire' magazine, so we knew how to follow the conventions of both of the magazine's layouts when creating our own sketches. Here are our rough sketches of our film magazine front covers.

The Changes That Were Made To Our Original Storyboard

After me and April decided what order we wanted the following camera shots to appear in, we created a new storyboard. We did this so that we could analyse how our original order of shots had changed, and look at which camera shots we changed or removed from our production in order to allow the camera shots to 'fit' our production.

Our Institution Logo

Instead of first creating a institution logo together, me and April decided to go off and come up with various ideas of designs for our institution logo separately. We then came together to display each other's sketches of institution logo designs to see which one we liked the most, and felt would be the most effective and eye catching for our audience. We decided that we would use my institution logo design of the lighthouse, with the institution name 'Baylight Productions'.

Here are April's institution logo sketches

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Here is our completed institution logo 

As April is more experienced at using Photoshop than I am, she had the most control over the editing of our institution logo. Like with the previous institution logos that I had analysed such as the 'Warner Bros' institution logo, (who manipulated their logo with the Harry Potter franchise as each of the film's narratives got more darker) we also manipulated our logo to create a black and white look so that it would fit the disequilibrium that our film trailer is centered around. As our trailer is set on the Isle Of Wight, we thought it appropriate to use an image of The Needles lighthouse as our template, which we then customised using Photoshop. April also came up with the creative idea to have a light shining out of the lighthouse to present the name of our company 'Baylight Productions'.

The Finished Editing Of Our Film Trailer And Creation Of Our Film Poster

Since my last blog post me and April have been continuing to edit our film trailer so that our media follows the codes and conventions of a Teen Drama film trailer, and represents a clear demonstration of a Teen Drama film trailer. After being inspired by the various editing techniques from a selection of Teen Drama film trailers that we have analysed, such as 'Cherrybomb' and 'Kidulthood', we began applying and experimenting with various editing effects. We also took note of the different soundtracks and other non diegetic sounds that were being used in the trailers, and began listening to similar music tracks that would flow with our film trailer's narrative.

In terms of creating our film poster, me and April decided to go with my first poster design of having Lewis and Nico's (Nathan and 'The Other Nathan') faces consuming the majority of the poster, with various stills taken from the film trailer placed below the character's faces. However we decided to go against this idea slightly when it came down to making the final decisions about our poster design. Instead we decided to still have Lewis and Nico's faces dominating the film poster, but chose not to include the stills taken from the film trailer. We made this decision as like my second poster design we wanted to create the 'simple yet effective' look. We also felt that with the different styles of font and the character faces, the poster would become overcrowded and wouldn't be as appealing and effective as we would want it to be for our target audience.

Consent For The Music Track That Was Used In Our Media Production

Apex Rise who produced and created the music track 'Thirsty' knows April's boyfriend on a personal level, which therefore allowed him to ask Apex Rise if it would be possible to use his music track for our production. He was more than happy to give us full permission to use the track, however the document stating that we could use the track was not presented in a more formal manner.