evaluation

In what ways does the media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I personally don't think our production pushes the boundries of the vast media industry. But instead i think we have proved with only a camera and a lot of work you can create a good value media film. WE made our film in six months only working on it for four and a half hours per week and at the same time we ahd to produce a blog and everything that comes with making a film (script, screen shots etc). we had no money to make the film so we used what we had to make it. Our film was different because we used itunes instead of final cut pro to edit it . also in our film we had to include a few jump cuts because we had a few flash back which meant we had to have them in . we also edit the feel of the film in our flashbacks because we darkened the scences to make them more like Blade or Underworld. our film also doesn't follow the normal film conventions because we had a voice over playing in the credits to tie the film up at the end because in our audience feedback they said they didn't understand what abby was. so we decided to tie it up at the end of the film. our film develops the media industry because we have followed the conventions of the most recent vampire films (Twilight) so we developed on them and make them have a classiuc vampire film ending.
How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts?
our film and its relevent our products ( poster , radio trailer ) all are linked together. we made this possible by whilst making the film we took picutures and we used them for our poster and we used clips from our film in our radio trailer nad we also used the same music used in our film. we did this so that people when they see or hear one of them can relate it to our film. our two ancillary texts are our film poster and radio trailer. we work as a group to produce each of them. although for our poster we made individual ones and then put the best bits from both together to make our over all poster. our marketing products are what would be used in the industry.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
i think we learnt alot from our audience feedback because without it our ending would be still confusing and it also helpt use understand what mistakes we have made with this production and how not to do them in future productions. Before we started our production we did a intail questionnaire and gather some results which helped us understand which way in the industry is going to and helped us decided on what genre of film we were making. whilst making and editing our film we put up a nearly finished film on youtube and we gathered some audience feedback on youtube facebook dailybooth and msn and face to face conversations. with this feedback we were able to make the film more audience pleasureable and better.
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
whilst making our film we used a range of technological products . firstly when we started to research the genre we used youtube to llok at relevent films and trailers . this was a very useful tool to use because it saved us time which we didn't have much of . during production we filmed in the sony hd cameras, these are industry standard cameras and give a amazing picture quality and are really easy to use . to upload our film to the mac we used a dv 1000 which are really useful and easy to use . whilst on the macs we used i movie to edit our film this is a very easy tool to use and is used in the industry. to record our voiceovers and radio trailer we used a zoom recorder. we did all of our work on macs. for editing our radio trailer we used garageband which the music studnets also use. we did our film poster on photoshop which is the industry photography tool to edit photos this was a easy and very craetive and professional tool. we also used microsoft word to write our coursework which we would later upload to blogger. we put all of our coursework on a public blog on blogger .