revenge evaluation

in media studies i was asked to create a teaser trailer for a film of our own choice and genre.

my film was a drama/crime genre based on the film 'fatal attraction'.

my media product uses forms and conventions of real media products by using the influence of other trailers like fish tank and fatal attraction, my film narrative comes from these real dramas.

i wanted my media product to consist of genuine influences of the outside media world in this sense my media product that i created was the magazine cover, i researched two contrasting magazines these were sight & sound and the empire magazine. i had to make a choice to set my media product on one of these magazines, so i came up with a final decision and chose the sight & sound magazine as it suited my ideas and target audience also my theme of my trailer. for my media poster and my magazine cover the main image used is the same. this was taken with a digital camera of me with particularly my eyes and mascara dripping of them looks like this character is crying. this sets the audience a image to question about as the face isn't revealed so the facial expressions aren't shown and nobody is able to tell the real story behind this image but they can only wonder, therefore the viewers want to find out more.

the combination of my main ancillary texts are very effective as they do not contrast deeply and do not irritate the audience and confuse them. my film poster and magazine cover are very similar but assembled in different ways, i decided to do this for the reason that the audience would recognize this film and would be seen more around for example when advertised either the magazine or poster it would be widely recognized even though its an independent product. they fit in the main product as they use same fonts and colour themes. if viewers were to see any of these products they will identify the film quickly.

media technology plays a big role in the construction and research in my planning stages. what i found really useful is the Internet as i had to research many trailers to see whats rally successful and give me ideas in what to include in mine. YouTube was one of the main sites to go on as i had to get the videos to upload on my blog. i also had to be processing to blog whilst planning everything and posting it up on the blog so this was very essential. also for the planning and research i had to create the poster and magazine cover which were scanned onto my blog. with my poster and magazine cover the programme needed was Photoshop and this was really important for editing all my features. on the mac Imovie was vital for editing my trailer and get all the components right.

overall i think my trailer was successful even though i had many more ideas to include but i did not manage to complete them. i wanted to have a black and white effect in the begining to seem like the characters were in the past them it switches to colour, but i didnt include this as i changed some if the original plot. i thought it would be better to change to how it is now because it suits my audience better because i carried out a questionnaire and my feedback made me change the trailer to suit the viewers more and suit what they wanted to see.