May 2010
5 posts
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The three media pieces we made were constructing a Teaser trailer, an additional advertisement poster and a Music Magazine cover to also advertise. The narrative that we chose to construct was one that kept relatively loyal to the conventions that were already set in place. The...
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
The audience feedback was varied. The positive focused on the use of the long take and the line of dialogue ‘Get the fuck on the floor!’ as a source of amusement almost. Besides the line of dialogue, the trailer was fairly easy to follow and understand a basic story line. With the difficulty to agree on a storyline firstly, and then get a basic...
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
The three media texts I feel worked well together because they all follow the similar image. The trailer finishes with a shot of Tom shooting into the lens. This image was adapted into the poster and magazine cover to have the same image. They follow the same style through the textured background and edit style of the...
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
For me personally, I found that my use of Photoshop helped me to learn how to compose a poster. I had practised previously to learn how to construct on a layer by layer, on piece by piece to come up with a masterpiece of some form. When researching posters I took the basic idea of have main...