Analysis of my trailer

Final Analysis of my trailer and ancillary tasks

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

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

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? from WillRussell6

What have you learnt from audience feedback?

What have you learnt from audience feedback? from WillRussell6

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

Evaluation

Evaluation

Evaluation: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

When deciding upon what genre I wanted to base our media product on, I researched many different genre trailers. This allowed me to gain a brief understanding of the codes and conventions of different types of trailers. From the research, I decided to make my media product a psychological horror. I felt horror was the easiest genre to portray in our media product as the props which I wanted Ire easily assessable and the codes and conventions that I researched I found easiest to understand and felt that I would able to fulfil these codes and conventions.

From both of my main product and the ancillary tasks I explored high standard movie trailers, posters and magazines. This gave me an idea for each and helped me explore the conventions of for my main product and ancillary tasks. I used the same image for my poster and magazine and image was very dark and I used a large image which was the vocal point of my ancillary tasks. After analysing some posters and magazines I identified that they all used the horror character on the front of the magazine and poster.   

Firstly, with the use of props. When making the trailer, magazine and the poster I included the use of the main prop which was the mask of the character “unknown”, this is because the mask shows the horror genre of the film and having this link with the trailer and poster is vital as I feel I would not look as effective if the trailer and poster Ire both suggesting different genres for my film.  Colour was a big part of the trailer, poster and magazine cover as I used two colours in all three. Black, white and red Ire the colours I used, I did this because I wanted the colour to be iconic, this would then mean that whenever someone’s sees the colour of red, black or white, they could associate it with our characters. Fonts Ire also a big part of the trailer as this helped me also keep continuity of the poster and magazine, I used a similar font in each ancillary text and in the trailer to make sure this continuity progressed, this then helped me make sure that each part linked with each other.  This would then mean our audience could associate this font with my film as they would have seen it in three different areas and this font could easily be put into their heads. Font was also important as I had to make sure the font I chose was relevant and suited the psychological horror.

What have you learned from audience feedback?

Audience feedback has been very valuable when completing my ancillary tasks. The feedback I received from my peers helped me improve my first drafts and without the feedback which I received, I would of have been able to produce successful ancillary tasks that suits my target audience. It was a hard process when producing my ancillary tasks, one reason for this was due to the fact that I struggle to keep up with my timeline and struggled to meet deadlines. However, I was still able to create three drafts which on each time I improved my ancillary tasks whether it was my editing needing to improve. What did help me was as I created a magazine in AS so I already had experience using InDesign and Photoshop so I was able to see where I can improve from my previous year.  I have asked my peers to give me feedback on my blog on their opinion of my ancillary tasks. I also asked them to say 

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

I used a variety of media technologies to help conduct my research. These different technologies range from using social networks such as Facebook and YouTube to different editing websites such as InDesign and Photoshop. 

Before I produced my trailer, I created a survey to get opinions from a random sample to help me of what my trailer should look like, for example the setting of my trailer. For this I used the website survey monkey to put together 10 questions that Ire inspired by 25 random individuals. The questions that Ire asked Ire their age, gender and the characteristics they would like to see in a horror movie trailer. The reason why I used this website was because it was really quick and easy to create multiple choice questions and did not take a lot of time in my timeline so I was able to focus on more important tasks such as producing my trailer and my ancillary tasks. The website gave me charts of each question which told me what option was picked the most by the individuals who filled out my questionnaire.

Run Trailer

Film trailer draft 2

This is my second draft of my horror movie trailer. I still have a lot to work to do on it with shooting more shots and making my trailer more realistic which meet the codes and conventions of a movie trailer. From my first draft I have added music which I believe makes the trailer more tense and dramatic.  

Film trailer draft 1

This is my first draft for my horror movie trailer. I have tried to meet the codes and conventions of a high profiled movie trailer. However, what is vitally important is to add music to my trailer as without music it is very bored and timid. Having music in your trailer creates suspense and tension to the trailer which I will need to add before the deadline. 

Horror Magazine for horror trailer

This is my second ancillary task where I have completed a magazine. I have used the same edited image as I used for my poster as I feel it is a very effective photo and completes the codes and conventions of a horror magazine.

Horror Poster for my trailer

                                   

For my ancillary tasks I had to make my own horror poster. I have studied the conventions of successful horror poster and tried to use this for my own.



                                                  

Horror Magazine Analysis

Character profiling

These are the actors that will be performing in my trailer. The two cast members are brothers, the reason why I have also included a brother in my trailer is so the brothers finds out what is happening to him and why he his having these dreams.



The actor below will be playing as the protagonist who will be involved in most of my trailer. This is the character that will get haunted in his dreams and will try and figure out on what to do.



























This actor is the protagonists brother. He is the first person to suspect that something is up with the protagonist and sees writing on the back of the neck. But as a normal older brother he does not think much of the consequences that may occur

This is the villain of my trailer. I have added a mask to add fear to the audience. This character only appears in the protagonists dreams and does to speak throughout the trailer.