Feedback on Magazine Draft

Hello!

Following the previous post, below is a summary of the audience feedback I have acquired in order to guide me on what to improve or add on.

1. Add intriguing coverlines to capture a wider range of audience's attention (eg: behind-the-scenes of the film or exclusive interview with one of the main character's)
2. Change the font for the word 'kill' to a more daring and sinister font or add a blood splatter/ gun shot to entice the audience
3. Increase the exposure of the image and decrease the saturation to make the image fit the convention of the low key lighting of a thriller genre. 

I will be taking into consideration all 3 feedback but mainly focus on the first two comments as I think these will truly capture the eye of my target audience and successfully fit the conventions of a thriller/crime genre.

Nina 

01.03.18

3rd Film Trailer Draft Feedback

Hello!

To further improve the film trailer, I have asked an audience to feedback on it. This time I have asked our media teacher for his own professional opinion on improvements. Below are bullet points of suggestions for his feedback.

1. Add a certification or age rating at the beginning of the trailer
2. Enhance/ increase the protagonist's voice to be heard
3. Put an endorsement in any blank spaces in the trailer to avoid dullness
4. Longer text duration (eg: for '5 cases' increase the duration by 2-4 more seconds for the audience to be able to read it) 
5. Add running sound effects/ foley to emphasise the sound of the footstep

I will be implementing all of these suggestions to the trailer and post the final film trailer afterwards. 

Nina 

12. 02.18

Poster Draft Feedback

Hello!

This is the feedback on the poster draft I have created. Overall the feedback was fairly positive and "does what it is supposed to do" as mentioned by Mr Matthews. The font of the masthead/title is one of the audience's favourite as I have successfully followed the convention of a thriller through the use of red which serves as the title's shadow. Another is the main image. Neto has mentioned that the use of low key and hard lighting made the model mysterious as "you don't know if it's a good person or bad person" therefore I have captured another convention of a thriller genre. Mr Matthews pointed out a design principle that has stood out which is the model's tie being at the centre of the poster. The main advice the audience was to enlarge the credits font size to make it clearer to read. And one last minor improvement was to perhaps change the white font colour on the masthead as "it's a bit too harsh". In this case, I may consider changing the colour to grey or something that still connotes the convention of a thriller.

Nina 
31. 01.18

2nd Film Trailer Feedback

Hello!

In conjunction with the previous post, I have asked a few people to give in their feedback on the 2nd trailer. Overall, the main focus is the audio of the trailer. One suggested adding a diegetic sound or foley on top of scenes (eg: intercom voice scene) making it more intriguing and fast-paced. The next is miscellaneous shots that are not needed/ does not comply with the trailer, as suggested by one. In terms of successfully following the conventions of a thriller genre, the trailer has shown it.


Nina
22. 01.18

Film Trailer Draft Feedback

Hello!

After creating a draft of the film trailer, we decided to ask 4 co-students to give in their feedback and opinions on our film trailer. The reason for choosing co-students to feedback is because they are part of our target audience. Through this, it will help us know what to improve on or change in order to create our desired product that will fulfil the liking of our target audience.



Nina
30.12.17

Feedback on Storyboard

Hello!

We have gathered 3 volunteers to react or give opinions on the storyboard. We made sure to ask students who took creative subjects for A Levels as we ensure that they could give us the best advice. Also, I took a different approach to the editing style to experiment with one of the software programs, iMovie, we will be using for the editing of our real film trailer.

There are a lot of positive points given in each feedback such as how we used the idea of having a mysterious at the end of the trailer to evoke curiosity and suspense as well as using fast cutting to introduce a climatic act into the trailer. The reason behind asking what they would think the rating will be is because we would like to see if the interviewee has guessed the right rating which is 15+, through the elements of mystery and confusion. One said 18 because the chilling content which we
understand why.

Overall, the feedback is positive and we will take this into account.

Nina
01.12.17

Feedback on Script

Hello!

Similar to the post on the feedback of our storyboard, we asked 3 people to give opinions on our script. These people are taking creative subjects for their A Levels such as Film Studies, ICT and Media/ Theatre Studies.

Overall, the feedback was positive, giving us a good amount of stick with and to work on. When it came to the last question, Emily and James suggested to include a scene which will shock the viewer and/or include the protagonist in the film trailer.

Nina
29.11.17

Reactions to Film Pitch

Hello!

After presenting the film pitch, we gathered 3 people's reactions to the pitch. All have various reactions to our pitch that will, therefore, help us improve in our trailer and future presentations.

Nina
05.10.17

A2 Media Studies 2017-2018

Hello!

This is my first post for my 2017-2018 A2 Media Studies course. This year we are asked to prepare a promotional package for a new film. It has to include theatrical trailer and a poster for the film. Over the course of the year, I will try my best to be able to follow the criteria needed to complete this as well as maintaining work ethic!


Nina
11.09.17