Evaluation planning: Question 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

We used different sources of media to get feedback from people and here are some examples of tyhe feedback that we got:

The image above is the feedback that we got from Youtube.

 The image above is the feeback that we got from Mark, another Media student.

 This feedback above and below is from my Facebook friends that have left feedback on the magazine front cover.

This is when I had posted the trailer link on my Facebook wall for my friends to see. Although,this may seem to lead to a bias judgement, I told my friends to be truthful and say what they really feel about it as just positive feedback can prove good for the ego, but will not help us know how to ammend things.

Evaluation planning: Question 2

How effectively is the commbination of your main product and ancillary texts?

For our products, we used the internet as our main source of promotion and audience feedback. We used popualr social netowrking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. We also sent our tariler in a mass-email allowing it to be easier for people from our college to watch it and to send us feeback via e-mail.
We made a Facebook Fanpage which allowed people to find out more about our film.

Facebook page for PsychomaniaPictures.

Using my persoanl Twitter account to promote the trailer.

The group's Youtube account.

Evaluation planning: Question 1

1. In what ways does your media production use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We created (from stratch) an original tearser trailer, magazine front cover and poster.
The poster consists of our main character, an innocent looking asian girl with her back turnt to the audience, showing isolation and segregation. The fact that she is facing a different directiona nd is not facing front is a key aspect to the fact that we have not used the typical convention of the actress facing frontwards, because we didn't want the audience to know what she looks like. The only way to know is to watch the film, or read the magazine which is usually realeased some time after the poster and the trailer. We made her face another direction mainly because we didn't want the audience to get an idea or anything that the piece may be about making them suspicious and giving them more of a reason to want to watch the movie.
We used my mothers old dress that she gave birth to me in for the costume. We tea-stained it and then made it dry. After it dried, we put artificial blood on it to give it a scarier look.
This is what it looked like before the tea and blood:
And evidently, the poster and the magazine is what is looked liked after the tea and blood had stained it. (Picture of Lucy)
In terms of the make-up and clothing, there's not much make-up that can be seen from the back, but the clothing connotes an idea of innocence with the pretty flowers embroided and printed on it. The floral print shows nature, but also, the colour of the dress and the blood stains on it connotes something more sinister and scary than just a girl in a oversized gown.
Magazine:
We used the convention of a horror magazine and made the writing different fonts and used the colour read to connote blood.
We included different films on the front, again using the convention of a typical magazine. The dark colours are also a convention.



Fenetta




Teaser trailer:
Follwoing normal conventions of teaser trailers, therefore the lenght of time and the quick cut of shots is normal fore teaser trailer conventions. Also using good timing to scare the audience and keep them on the edge of there seats, the idea of this is to create a buzz. in terms of costume, make up and props, the group used a old gown covered in tea stains to make it look old and blood stains to add a horror type feeling to the image of the character. The makeup used was simplisitc, using dark foundation, black, brown and purple eyeshadow to produce bruises on the characters face, and finally lots of eyeliner to make the characters eyes look evil and scary. Using this look for the character meant that the group wanted to get across a small dose of the film and what they have to look foward to.

using normal horror conventions made the teaser interesting because it is against many teasers of it's kind, but we had to produce something that makes it stand out from the rest.

Lauren Lawlor.

Evaluation Notes and planning

Evaluation planning:

Question 1:
In what ways does your media productions use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• Determine and understand conventions of horror films

Usually Caucasian actors and protagonist or “damsel in distress” is a helpless female. She usually survives. Usually isolated in a large space and very darkly lit with tinge of green or blue to express more isolation.

• Identify what sub-genre our media pieces will be

J-horror and looking back at older films that are popular within the J-horror sub-genre and identifying trends within them.

• Research that sub-genre’s conventions for all 3 forms of media.

The popular use of the yurei, which is a young girl with dark hair. The innocence linked with the yurei and the typical distorted body and face.

• Find out whether our pieces go against any conventions are explain how and why and also identify the typical conventions of the horror genre and say whether we have gone against those or have decided to use them.

 Dark tints of green, dark, yurei but with modern features and more modern characteristics

 Question 2:
How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

• Explain use of different pictures for different products
• Explain how they worked together and all linked in particular places.

Question 3: 
What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

• Show collected feedback using survey monkey and face to face feedback, street marketing.
• Record feedback from Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, forums, whatever else.
• Asked a variety of people not family or close friends because they'll say anything not to hurt feelings, so bias judgements can't be passed.

Question 4:

Research:

• Internet usage: Youtube, Twitter, Facebook. Various media netowrking sites used to distribute our surveys and to research what the audiences are interested in.
• Google for examplar posters, teasers and magazines.
• Excel for extra graphs and pie charts to add up research
• Survey monkey was used to gather information and feeback.

Fenetta

Merchandising: 'Lullabye'

During our production, I decided to go beyond just making the trailers and the posters and the magazine, and considered merchandising.

In the past, films such as the Harry Potter franchise and the Dark Knight have had some of their films characters made into merchanise such as key rings and character figurines.

In order for us to make merchandise, it would be essential for our film to be popular and to get a niche amount of followers like those of the followers of 'The Big Lebowski".

Lebowski Fest is a celebration of all things related to the 1998 Coen brothers cult comedy, "The Big Lebowski." Fans of the film (aka "Achievers") come from far and wide to drink white Russians, throw some rocks and party with an array of Dudes, Walters and Maudes (not to mention a nihilist or two). It's a two-day party that typically opens with live performances and screening of the film the first night and concludes with a raucous bowling party the following night. The First Annual Lebowski Fest was in 2002 in Louisville, but subsequent fests have been held in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Austin, Seattle, London and Edinburgh. While the Coen brothers continue to maintain a safe distance from the madness they created, the fest has earned the blessing of the Dude himself, Jeff Bridges, who attended the fest in L.A. and even stuck around to sing a few songs. Check out photos from past fests, and click here find out when Lebowski Fest might be coming to a city near you." - LebowskiFest Online

The Big Lebowski was known for holding 'Lebowski-fests' and also have national 'Dude' days.
I realised that we would need a small group of devoted followers that have enjoyed the film to buy any sort of merchandise from us. First we would need a fan club and then afterwards we would be able to develop merchandise such as mugs, t-shirts and key rings:

Adaptations of forms of merchandising done by Lucy.
Information about merchandising done by Fenetta

How often do you watch horror films?

From this survey, I gathered that 5 people watch horror movies not very often, but still watch it.
2 people watch them all the time, so this would be ou target audience.

How old are you?

The first question that I asked, just to get a general jist of how old the people taking my survey are, and I found out that they are mostly ages above 19, which is not what I expected because I asked a lot of my friends which age between 16-18

Are you male or female?

I asked people their gender, just so that I have an idea of who is more likey to answer the questions. I did this because getting to know more about the person taking your survey gives you an idea of who has answered which question.