1. Evaluation

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

4. Our film trailer uses forms of a real trailer, to start with, we used the conventional green screen certificate at the beginning of the trailer, and chose the producing sign of Universal mid way through our trailer.

12. How effective is the combination of our Main product and Ancillary tasks?

13. Film trailer with ancillary task, film poster: Why are film posters made? Film posters are made in order to publicise a film and make a specific audience understand what type of genres and themes are included. In search of what our poster should consist of we looked at one similar trailer and poster that we researched in our STA’s ‘The Notebook’ Screen shot of ‘The Notebook’ trailer ‘ The Notebook’ Film poster We noticed that both the poster and the trailer focused on this idea of the central characters alone in the rain. This clear link shows the audience a defining and compelling clip that entices the audience to see the film so we decided to do a similar thing...

14. Our Film poster and its relationship to our trailer In our trailer we had moments which showed emotion and stood out visually none ore than our ‘silhouette’ shot. So we pictures with the intention of using Photoshop to black them our in comparison to the background. We took new images of this rather than taking a clip straight out of our trailer because it was very tight framing and did not have the arch of the back of either character so would not have the desired effect. We considered this to work well as it relates to the audience that these two characters are totally separate from the rest of the world as they look into each others eyes, and how what they have is so special. This Silhouette in our trailer was A moment that really symbolised how these characters are extremely passionate about each other, as it is the first shot we see them together in a relationship sense. This image in both our advertisement based products work well in correlation with one another because it tells the audience how their relationship is the central focus of the film. This also tempts the audience to want to see the film because her face is blacked out and not shown. There is a clear connection between the characters before they even see one of them enticing us to want to see her face.

15. In terms of what we give away to the audience through the poster and the trailer itself, we decided to go with different approaches. For the poster we wanted to add an air of mystery with such a harsh and powerful title. The point of this was that it challenges the words ideology, the fact it is written so freely amongst images of freedom such as the field and open sky in the background. This makes the audience question why is this love forbidden and implies that if they were allowed to be together that they would feel the freedom that the poster conveys. The trailer in contrast plainly shows what is forbidden and why it is and focuses instead on building up questions in the audiences mind about whether they can escape the problem. We felt that this would work well as it shows that their is more complexity to this story after seeing both tasks. In our research we found that an interesting story is one of the largest selling points especially with a teen romance.

16. Concluding, for our poster and main task that they work well together in advertising the film ‘forbidden’ as they both quickly display to the audience the themes of love and intimacy from the way the characters are close together. Also how the poster poses questions that the trailer can answer and that suggests that to undrstand the trailer you would have to see the film.

21. Concluding, that for our magazine front cover it was vital to advertise the magazine from a different perspective. This shows that the magazine is used alongside the trailer to be totally separate but both advertise the same thing through totally different mediums . This means that an audience can get a full view of how good the film really is and encourage their desire to see it as they can understand alternate views on the film from the story in the magazine and produce their own upon watching the trailer. Overall the combination of our main task and ancillary tasks was for one purpose: which is to advertise the fictional film we had created and we felt we did that by covering needed aspects and fulfilling all required codes and conventions of all three media outlets.

22. What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

30. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? OCR Media Studies - Unit G324

35. Canon XM2 – Video Camera To film our trailer, we used a Canon XM2 HD Mini-DV Camcorder. The Camcorder had many features which proved to be useful to us during our filming time. The lens had a very wide zoom, it allowed manual focusing, it had a mic input and fire wire PC connection. These features enabled us to create our trailer exactly to our needs. The camera also had an interesting feature of zoom on both the handle and side, which meant when doing low shots the camera could be held and controlled using just the top handle.

37. MS Office We used Microsoft Word for all our documents and for our back ups and Microsoft PowerPoint for our evaluations. Microsoft documents are accessibly usually by a wide range of universal programmes. This means, most computers can open these files as long as a word processor/presentation software is installed. By using this in our coursework and evaluation sections, we are able to ensure that our coursework is accessible to those who will be viewing it.