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Reece Bahia

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In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge and conventions or real media

products?

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As it is shown here that I have followed one of the conventions that has been used by the real media product producer. I took this idea on board when I researched into similar products and I took ideas of what I would try to use in my media product. I believe that it is useful to show somewhere in the trailer what the movie is going to be called so that the audience know what they are watching. Also, it is also useful for he audience to know if the producers have made other movies and if the other movie was interesting to watch then the audience may like to watch this movie trailer/movie. I have tweaked my text as I want the ‘Just Leave’ in bright red colours so that it would stand out from the black background and that the font that has been used on the text is clear so that it is clear enough for the audience to read what is available on the page. I have made ‘Outraged’ bigger than the other text so the audience can clearly identify what the trailer is called. I have also met another convention of a real media product as the background behind the text is black and this is done effectively as the background outlines evilness and it works with the colour of the text. I did this as my storyline outlines evilness and my text colour is white and red as it stands out better than any other colour.

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As it is shown here that I have followed a convention that has been used by a real media institution. I took this idea on board when I looked at this when I was researching into similar products. I tried this idea with my characters and happily enough it worked. I did this by a still shot as this actually worked with the ‘Bend it like Beckham’ scene that was used in the trailer and I feel that it was not necessary to use the pan effect on this shot. The only thing I changed was, in ‘Bend it like Beckham’ the character falls on the floor in which it causes tension between the two team and I did not want this and this is why my character stays on his feet in which it flows onto the next shot. When ‘Bend it like Beckham’ have produced this scene, they have chosen to include other characters in the background, I have also done this as it adds the effect to the scene as I wanted to make it to an effective surrounding to make it look professional.

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I did not follow the conventions of a real media product as I did not feel that it was effective enough for it to work on my trailer. The convention that I did not follow was the short snapshots within the trailer as I tried this effect on my trailer but I feel that the idea that I had in mind worked better with my storyline and sound. I also took into consideration of my research and planning into similar media products as when I was researching, I looked at many different trailers and most of the trailers were not short and snappy scenes. Also I produced a questionnaire for my fellow students to fill out whether or not the short and snappy scenes within the trailer were better than the longer scenes were better for my trailer. I concluded the results and it resulted that my fellow students preferred the longer scenes were better for my trailer and this is the idea I had in mind. Furthermore, I looked at the trailers that was the same genre that I was going to be producing a trailer on and it was shown that they had longer scene shots that was shown to the audience and this is what I wanted to happen in my trailer.

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As it is shown that I have followed the convention of real media product. I did this as a real media product is made by professionals so I would take inspiration from this so that my trailer can be half as good as a professional trailer. I followed the convention of the effect of the use of dip to black between each scene of the trailer. I used this effect as it is very effective between the use of scenes as there is no straight cut between the scenes. It also leads it nicely into the next scene. With the use of dip to black it slows the trailer down a little which is effective in the use of a longer shot time of the scene. It worked really well when I researched into the similar products and so I tried it on my trailer and it works really well with my scenes.

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This shows that the conventions of the real media product is the same as to my media product. As it is shown that the title of the magazine is big and long in which it stretches across the page. Also the font that has been used on this magazine is thin and long in which it is similar to my media product and I feel that it is better when it is like this as the bold writing takes up to much space on the magazine. Also some of the main image covers part of the letters of the title in which was effective as the main image of a magazine is meant to be big so that it attracts the audience to read the magazine.

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This shows that the conventions of the real media product is the same as to my media product. As it is shown that the articles are placed in the same manner as a real media product. I took this inspiration on board when I looked into similar products and I saw this when I came across it. I like this idea as the articles are placed and aligned to the left in which the layout of the magazine is effective. I also liked the way that the main articles are much larger than the others. Also the article on the left hand side of the page is effective in the way that it is placed as it does not cover the main attraction point on his face. This is why I originally took this idea on board as the layout of the articles on the page was very effective as it works well around the main image.

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As it is shown from the above is that my media product is similar to the real media product. This shows that I have followed the conventions of a real media product as the size of the image that has been used on real media product is the same size as my image on my product. I feel that the size of the image is effective as it will attract the audience and the way that the real media producers have laid out the page is similar into what I have produced. The only aspect that is different is the way that I have directed my character to do in the image but this does not effect the convention as it is situated in the same place on the page.

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This shows that the conventions of the real media product is the same as to my media product. As it is shown that the article at the bottom of the page is situated in the same place on the page as it is mainly placed towards the bottom of the page so that it does not cover any of the main image and this is what both products have followed. Also the colours that have been used on the text outstand from the background in which it is effective so that the audience can make out as to what it says. This is a convention that the real media producers follow into making a successful magazine. Also the main article is big on the real media product and my media product. This is another convention that the real media producers follow into making a successful magazine. Also the article underneath the main article is smaller on both products as it is not as important as the main article is to the audience.

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As it is shown above that the title of the movie is situated at the top of the page. The reason I placed the movie title at the top of the page is that it will attract the audience into knowing what the movie is named, this may the reason as to why the real media product has done the same. Also the font that has been used on this poster for the title looks similar to my font that has been used, this is convention that all media product producers follow as the font has to be clear and effective in which my media product and the real media product is. Also the size of both titles are similar as they both film the top of the page in which it has to as titles are always big on the page for the audience to see this.

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As it is shown from this is that I have followed the conventions of a real media product. This is done by the placement of the main image on the front cover of the page, I took inspiration from the real media product poster as I liked the way that the character was situated in the poster. I also had the idea to add bullying words around him in which this image and the way that it was going to be placed on the page would have been effective. The only thing that I did not follow is that the size of the image on the real media product is bigger in which I already decided when I looked at this poster was that I was not going to be making my image that big. Also the producers of the real media product have placed a quote at the top of the page, I liked this idea and took this on board and incorporated this into my media product but I did not follow the convention of the way that it is situated on the page as I aligned my quote to the left.

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How did you use media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

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Adobe Premier Pro Software Adobe Photo Shop Software Memory Sticks and Memory Cards Prezi Slideshare Camera – Fujifilm Computer and Laptop

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Without Adobe Premier Pro Software I would not have been able to produce my trailer effectively. Premiere Pro has also allowed me to edit my trailer to a good standard. When I used Adobe Premier Pro it allowed me to use editing techniques such as Dip to Black in which it has allowed my trailer to flow better as this is what I had found out when I researched into similar products. This was not all good as throughout the use of Adobe Premier Pro, we had many technical difficulties towards the start of the project and the editing of my trailer as my computer continually crashed and some of my projects did not open.

Personally, I feel that Adobe Premier Pro was an effective program and that it was easy to use and Adobe Premier Pro allowed me to use the tools to create an effective trailer.

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Adobe Photoshop has been effective in allowing me to create my poster and magazine as a part of the ancillary task. My ancillary task was to create a poster and magazine in relation to my trailer. Adobe Photoshop was easy for me to use as I have been using this software for many years now, this allowed me to use the tools that I am aware of. The tools that I used were blurring, erasing, lasso tools, cropping and air brush tools to gain the desired poster or magazine effect I wanted.

I faced no technical difficulties with this program in which it allowed me to finish my magazine and poster in quick and easy time. If I was going to do my magazine and poster again then I would use a different variety of colours and designs.

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I used a standard Memory Stick to carry my work over to another machine as when I witnessed technical difficulties with my machine, I transferred my work on my memory stick so that I could carry on with my work. My memory stick was essential as it allowed me to not lose my shots and my trailer. When we first began to create my trailer, we specifically used standard computers in our school class room. Despite this, we were fortunate to be able to use Apple Mac computers and this meant I had to back files up so we were then able to complete my trailer on the Apple Mac computers.

I did not face any overall problems with the use of a memory stick.

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Slideshare is an internet based programme in which it has allowed me to publish my work that has been produced on PowerPoint onto my blog. I have had only one issue and that is when I have uploaded my Slideshare onto Wordpress, it cannot be shown to me as the school network does not allow me to read what has been produced on PowerPoint.

The program is quick and easy to access and upload onto Wordpress, I am also know how to use this program effectively as I used this program in AS media.

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I used the Fujifilm camera which was provided by the school. I used this camera as I was recording my footage within my school time in which I used this camera to record my footage with and to take my magazine and poster images for this project. In general, the Fujifilm camera was very easy to use and the footage that was taken by this camera was effective and in a good condition.

I had no major problems in the use of the camera and I had already used this camera for my AS media project.

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I have used both computer and laptops to create and present my work within research, construction, ancillary and evaluation stages. The laptop has allowed me to do work in my own time out of school hours. The computer was essential for my project as my work is computer based. Using the computer and laptop, it has allowed me to be more independent and more interactive and without use the computer and my laptop then I would not be able to produce any work for my A2 media coursework.

I had only one issue with the school computer as I could not access my Adobe Premiere Pro files in which we were allowed to access the Apple Mac computers to finish our project.

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What have you learned from your audience

feedback?

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Once I completed my trailer, I wanted to receive some feedback on my trailer from my peers. To find out the information that I wanted, I created a questionnaire in which it allowed me to find out the positive and negative aspects of my trailer and the improvements that I would make if I were to do this project again.

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The feedback has allowed me to find out the positive aspects of my trailer. Some of my positive aspects of my trailer is that from my 5 questionnaires that they would be interested into watching the full movie as they wanted to know what happens in the end and that the storyline drags you in to watch the movie. Also the feedback that I had was that the storyline was clear and that the first two characters are in love and that the other characters get involved an ruin the life of one particular character. A question that was asked in the questionnaire was whether the sound worked well with my scenes and that my feedback responded well as they said that the two sound clips that have been used in my trailer have worked well together because one is up beat and the other is sad and that the sad music shows depression within my scenes and the choice of artist was chosen very well.

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It also shown from my feedback that the language that was used in my trailer was appropriate for the audience to listen to and that one questionnaire came back and that it shown that it also suited the characters as they were very fluent. Also another positive aspect is that the feedback from the questionnaire is that they all knew what genre the trailer was and it is Romance. Another positive about my trailer is that the location of my trailer suited my genre as many questionnaire believed it was the right location for the genre as the storyline was about a school so it was just right for the location to be in a school. From my feedback it is shown that the ages of my characters suited the storyline of my trailer.

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What do you l ike about the trailer?Questionnaire 1:

The way that the emotions switch throughout the trailer.Questionnaire 2:

The storyline works well with the characters and the characters did well with the acting and a good trailer overall

Questionnaire 3: The storyline is very clever and the way that it has been constructed is very effective.

Questionnaire 4: The sound that was used in the trailer and some of the camera shots that was used.

Questionnaire 5: The way that the director used his surroundings for the storyline of the trailer.

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It also shown from my feedback that one questionnaire had came back and they did not understand the football scene and that it did not work well with the rest of the trailer. Also there were question marks raised on a couple of questionnaires as it was not clear to them what genre was the trailer. Some of the questionnaires stated that I should refer back to my text within my trailer to edit it to sound much more interesting to the audience. Some people responded and said that they did not like that some scenes were 3-5 seconds long and they prefer 1-3 seconds.

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What do you think can be improved if the project was to be done again?

Questionnaire 1: Some of the focus in the scenes and the last text made no text so I would

advise you to change that.Questionnaire 2:

Make the writing stand out more.Questionnaire 3:

Improve the quote at the beginning of the trailer.Questionnaire 4:

Consider to change the sound at the start of the trailer.Questionnaire 5:

Make the sound last until the end of the trailer.

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How effective is the combination of your main product and ancil lary texts?

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The combination of film trailers, posters and magazines all are used as advertising techniques. Therefore it was important for me to create my media products so that they were successful in advertising my film trailer ‘Outraged’. My main task was to create a trailer and the ancillary task in which it included the creation of a poster and magazine that in relation to my trailer ‘Outraged’. To ensure that the trailer, poster and magazine were related, I did this by making a storyline behind my magazine and poster in which it related this to my trailer.