Evaluation Activity 4.

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

 

The Technologies/software that we used were Youtube/ Photoshop/IMovie and Blogger.

Youtube was very helpful, we used it to analyse film trailers so that we could get an insightful look on how the structure of trailers work and what components make up a good trailer. Youtube also helped me on how i could create the perfect zombie look, after detailed research into tutorials i made my own Youtube tutorial on my self done Zombie make-up, This was very effective because by doing this it gave a real theatrical horror look. Looking back at year 12, the special effects make up has been improved, from just simple blood splatters we improved to full on prosthetic zombie make-up.
Photoshop was a very important piece of software that we used for the developing of the poster and magazine cover, for the poster we were able to manipulate certain photographers to create the poster, we created the poster by cropping a photograph and visually made it horror-like and added the Title font and company ratings on a layer over the top. The magazine that we produced was very effective because we worked into detail by manipulating and photoshopping in different photos together, i.e a normal photograph of a hand into different photographs. using photoshop was very easy for me since i take Photography and i have been using photoshop for a long time so i knew how to work it straight away.

IMovie has been used over the course of our 2 year course,we used it in year 12 to put our opening 2 minutes together and because it worked so well last year we decided to use it for our trailer, We used Imovie because we found it easier than using Adobe Premier because we were not used to the tools and procedure in using that specific software.
Blogger was a main part of my presentation skills, i was able to record my research and planning so that i have something to base my trailer on. by re-designing my blogger page to a relation to my trailer i was able to make the design very Zombie Apocalypse themed.
As a group we decided to use an Apple Mac computer, we did this because two members of the group owned macs, and we felt this would be the best decision.
 

evaluation activity 2

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

The three texts complement each other in advertising well, Firstly the trailer shows the audience what they can expect from this particular film, by showing small clips of semi important parts, showing characters that link to Propp's theory of the 7 characterisations, we show the hero (Emma), the villain (The Zombies), the helper/doner (Shanie) and the princess (Survival and living).

The poster that we created advertised the whole trailer very well, we used  photograph where we had someone with the zombie make-up already produced on their face, this created a good link with the trailer because of the use of the whole zombie franchise look. The way the bold text of "VIRUS" stands out works very well because the viewers eyes direct to the title straight away. The use of having company names and their rating on the side of the poster shows that we took real conventions of horror posters and produced our own, this poster and the trailer are very effective combined to each other due to the fact we kept with the same sort of colour scheme. The enigmas that the poster poses for the audience is that they could ask themselves "who is that zombie?" "where has the virus come from" and "why do these companys like this film so much, and should i go and see it?"

The magazine poster that we created worked very well, the use of a zombie hand links to the trailer and poster very well, seeing as the whole subject of this project is a zombie invasion. i think that the magazine compliments the trailer and poster because this cover is brighter and vivid, i think this works because of how dark and gloomy the trailer and poster seem to be, and with this bright magazine cover it balances the whole project out. My magazine compliments my poster due to the relation between the use of zombie body parts, i.e a zombie hand and the side of a zombie face.
The poster, trailer and magazine cover are all a very effective combination, they all go together, there are some parts that could be improved however i think all 3 ancillary texts compliment each other well.