1970

this is our final media production which is a short film called '1970' based on the themes of time and technology.

nineteen seventy from abigail bell on Vimeo.

Evaluation - QUESTION 1

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

Untitled on Vimeo.

evaluation on Vimeo.

Evaluation - QUESTION 2

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

ANCILLARY TASKS EVALUATION

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Evaluation - QUESTION 3

what have you learned from your audience feedback?

for our audience feedback we have shown our film and retreived feedback in many different ways.

firstly we showed our film to the rest of our peers and asked them 5 questions to which they all answered via post it notes in an annoymous way these question included what they liked what we could improve and was a message strongly portrayed a video from our audience feedback is shown below.

we have also been sharing the film to others via social networking sites such as facebook and vimeo where the viewers were free to leave any comments if they wished.

screen shots from the video shared on vimeo as well as statistics of how many hits it has recieved.

from looking at the feedback which we got from our audiences i feel that our film was a success as there was a lot of positive feeback. also the question asking if there was any improvements helped us to think whhat we would include or change the second time round if we could make improvements on the film.

Evaluation - QUESTION 4

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

MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES EVALUATION

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Research and planning - DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.

for my double page spread i wanted to create something which was simplistic yet had enough information to promote the film without giving the whole thing away. from looking at examples like empire magazine i used similar conventions to appeal to my target audience.

• i firstly began by creating a black border as well as inserting an image which is similar to that on my poster which is from a scene on the film linking to both products. as well as the technology influenced font used for the title and the bold slogan used used throughout to help keep the product recognisable.


• to this i added my film review, plot, stats and star ratings. i used page splitters and titles to make it easier for the readers to navagate round the page i also importantly included the date in which the film is showcased.


• i then felt my last review draft was to crammed and not using the sace on the page as much as i could, therefore i changed the font size and rearanged the layout of the page changing where each element was placed.


• when researching more magazine film reviews it was clear they used columns much more therefore i split my plot section into seperate columns. also when printing the review the writing still seemed to big therefore i down sized it to 12pt font. again i altered the layouts of the page using the space provided much more. i lastly most importantly added where the film is showcased and dates which its on.

Research and planning - REVIEW LAYOUT RESEARCH

EMPIRE MAGAZINE from looking at various magazine reviews and layouts i found that i prefered those of empire magazine, and felt that my film would be suitable for a less mainstream version of emipre magazine. conventions used within empire layout include

• a large still from the film which covers sometimes more than half the page.


• a large bold title of the film being reviewed.


• simple colour schemes empires being black white and red.


• movie stats which are in a seperate box from the main text.


• columned review in a small simple font.


• a verdict and star rating.

i feel that i can use some of these conventions as well as challenging them as i feel that the audience of empire magazine is similar to those of our films target audience.