CLOSED BLOG NOTIFICATION

Centre Name: NORBURY MANOR BEC
Centre Number: 14343
Candidate Name: PRECIOUS KING
Candidate Number: 8005
Unit: G324

Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction, research and planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Full Audience Feedback Sessions Below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHGVz3EB3k&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNXwGWHsCdY

Evaluation Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 1) In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

THIS IS AN AUDIO PREZZI SO PLEASE ENSURE THAT SOUND IS ENABLED.

Final Poster

Final Magazine Cover

Final Trailer

Twisted Trailer Premiere

Below is the poster I made for our teaser trailer premiere in order to inform people on the location, date and time of the screening. This proved a great form of promotion as a large amount of people both students and teachers from my sixth form attended the event. 

Magazine Cover Editing

Magazine Cover Break Down

Editing The Poster

Poster Break Down

Expert Feed Back On Rough Cut Teaser Trailer

My group and I found it very important and necessary too accumulate feedback during the editing process as  we knew that this would in turn enable us to make valuable changes that would allow our final product to be at a high standard. 

We decided to ask a media expert - our Media studies teacher Mrs Ryder Owen, to give us feedback on our rough cut teaser trailer 'Twisted'. All the comments said as seen in the video, all proved valuable and my group and I decided to incorporate the majority of the suggestions provided as well as amending a variety of aspects within our trailer. 

Cast Feedback On Planning and Organisation

After the planning stages of our teaser trailer Twisted came to an end, my group and I felt it necessary to ask different cast members how effective and organised they felt that our planning methods were. Above is a short clip of our final girl Aisha (Jamie) discussing how she feels the process went. 

Teaser Trailer Rough Cut

Magazine Cover Compared With Real Media Texts

Below is our final magazine cover. We decide to keep it very simplistic as we feel that the cover image is extremely powerful on its own and we did not want to draw any attention away from it by using too much text. 

Because of this, we decided to make our issue of EMPIRE Magazine a special edition version as through research we found that most of the special edition Empire magazines had limited text however, paired with a very powerful image. Below are some examples:

Choosing The Picture For Our Magazine Cover

After looking through all the photographs taken for our magazine cover, my group and I decided go with the picture above. Once we started editing on photoshop, we realised that having five girls on a magazine cover was not practical as this left us with no room to put text (which is obviously necessary for a magazine cover) as everything looked extremely squashed and cramped together. Because of this, we decided to only use the three girls in the middle and crop out the others. 

Even though there are five main character's in our trailer, through research, we found that it is not always necessary for all of the main cast to be featured on the cover of a magazine as we found many examples where this wasn't the case. Below is an example of More magazine where the girl group The Saturdays who consist of five girls only have three on the front cover.