Film Poster First Draft

Magazine Cover First Draft

In order to create the best possible pieces for my media, I have decided to run up a first draft of both the film a magazine cover, and the poster. I then approached peers and my teacher to seek advice and criticism, which I could then use to improve both the pieces.

Media Magazine Front Cover:

For my magazine front cover I decided to use a picture of my films drug dealer, as I felt this would lead to a more interesting interview, and as he does not feature predominantly in the trailer, it adds another perspective of advertisement for the film, as interest about his character can be generated. In the photo I had him “in role”, as a means of again advertising the film, more so than the actor himself. The picture was well received by my peers, but comments were made upon the standard of the image, as it appears stretched, but I will change the dimensions in the final edit to ensure this does not affect the overall piece. The mast head was given positive feedback, although it was said to be too small, but this can easily be altered if required. The plug received criticism, so it will be essential that I alter this so its more parallel to the illustrious sounding name I have given the magazine, as it as the feel of a high class magazine. The choice of colour was also questioned in the same manner, as a darker richer colour could be employed to give substance to the idea of a high class magazine. The cover was also be though to be too “word heavy”, but again this can easily be  edited, making each part more snappy.

Wonderland Presentation Peer Review

In order to gain some feedback about the potential success of our project, we gave a presentation about our idea, with a basic plot synopsis aswell as details on our inluences, and who we intend our target audience to be. Once the presentation was delivered, we asked out peers to give us an idea of how they felt about our idea, and to provide us with positive and negative criticisms, so we can alter and improve our ideas where possible.
Here is a video interview with our teacher, Mr Morris, delivering us his insight on the project.

Wonderland First Draft Trailer Feedback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS9a06uIrVc&feature=channel_video_title

In order to gain essential constructive criticism of our initial trailer draft we presented it to the class, and collected their feedback in order to locate possible improvements. After a careful analysis of the feedback we received we allocated these points as required changes;

·         Don’t cut the opening shot, use the length of it the perhaps provide a voiceover which in conjunction to this highlights detail and background to the plot, which according to our feedback, was vague.

·         We also need to establish that Alice (elle) does in fact die, and this is what sends our character into his downward spiral of depression and drug addiction

·         Will needs to appear in extra footage displaying his depression

·         Establish that the woods are a drug fuelled fantasy, and the use of drug are what sent him there

·         Point of view shot in the mugging scene

·         Add new or alter the current music, less continuous

·         We need to successfully introduce the drug dealers character

Early Footage for Audience Feedback

Practice Video Analysis

Innocent Intentions

Idea: the idea my group and I had for my practice video was that of victim being stalked through an alley and then attacked. We chose this idea as it was not only simple but also gave us the opportunity to experiment with different camera angles in order to break the clip up.
Location: The location we chose was a large alley by our school, which was spacious enough for us to be able to film the clip from different angles without the use of any high tech equipment, but was still identifiable as an alley. The connotation of the alley being that it is a potentially dangerous and hard to escape from, and thus this added to the mood to the scene, as our audience could predict something drastic would occur, but they were not certain of what.
Sound : within the clip we do not have an diagetic sound, this is because we believed it took tension away from what was happening on scene, we did however employ a strong us of non-diagetic sound, in the way of the theme that was playing throughout the clip, which was the soundtrack from the film “jaws”. We used this music as the tune is universally known for the way that it builds up tension within the film of its origin. This ensured that when our clip was played the audience they understood that we were building up the tension in order for a dramatic climax. The music was also in sync with the cuts within the clip.
By creating this clip we were given the oppurtunity to identify a variation of shots and camera angles, and the gain experience practising and using this, with the potential of utilising these at a later date, when it comes to creating our actual media piece.

Feedback: we presented our clip to the class in order to receive a constructive feedback of what we done well, and what we could have improved upon. In order to do this we constructed a questionnaire which we delivered to the class when they watched our clip, and then they answered the questions after the screening.
Questionnaire:
1. What was your overall opinion of the clip?
2. Could you see the themes we were trying to portray in our clip?
3. Do you think the music we used went with the flow of the video?
4. Do you think our use of camera angles was effective?
5. What do you think we could have improved?

1) Overall we had a good reception from the clip, as our class understood the difficulties with creating your first clip, and it was opinionated to be an entertaining watch. Despite this, criticisms were made about the actual walking substance of the clip, which was largely considered boring and an unnecessary length of time.
2) Our class responded to this question in a positive manner, as they could clearly denote from the sound, as well as the content of the film, that we were aiming to portray tension and suspense which then led to the final climax.
3) There were mixed opinions within our class when it came to the sound of our clip, as we didn’t have any diagetic sound, which many of the class thought was a poor point, as it took some of the realism away from the clip but at the same time others in the class believed that this lack of “real sound” helped to build up the mystery and tension of our clip. The non-diagetic music we used for our clip was the unmistakable theme from the blockbuster film “jaws”. From this our audience immediately knew we were building up tension and suspense, leading to the final climax. They agreed that this was successful, but some fellow students would have liked to see a more original soundtrack from us.
4) The main area of our video that was applauded was the use of camera angles, notably the side shots that we used to split up the long shots we had of the alley way. The final point of view shot where we see the assailant attacking the unsuspecting victim, was also credited, as it portrays our clips climax as well. We were however criticised on the length of our long shots, as they dragged on and dimmed the suspense that we were building up.
5) Overall we received a good response from our clip, but we asked for constructive criticism so we had a substantial idea of what we needed to improve for our final piece. The main elements of the feedback we received were to make use of diagetic sound in the clip, with the possibility of finding a less used soundtrack to the same effect as our current theme. More content was also recommended, as they found the large segment of our trailer, dedicated to the alley, was boring.