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Friday, 20 May 2011

Podcast Evaluation:In What ways dos your Media produe use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real meda proucts ?

Monday, 16 May 2011

Focus Grou Questionnaire And Feedback

Questionnaire

First graph: 1. What Gender Are You?

Basically shows the result of the number of people that took part of the questionnaire in our focus group. The Graph shows that 12 males took part and 8 females. I believe that it was important that more males then females took part as horror films are primarily targeted towards a male audience therefore i believe it is important that we get feedback from our potential audience.

Second Graph: 2. Your Age?

The graph shows the results to the second question which is what is the age range of those in the focus group? Majority of people who took part in the focus group where 20 years old towards 29 years old. The age groups 17, 18 and 19 years came next. These results are important to our group because our film trailer will be targeted to theses age ranges, therefore it is important that we have feedback from people within this age range.

Third Graph: 3. What is Your Occupation

The Graph shows the current occupation of those who in our focus group. The graph shows that 13 people of the focus group are in education while 6 are employed and one in other. The results are pretty much an ideal set of feedback for our trailer as these are the people we would be targeting the film too.

Fourth Graph: 4. What Is Your Favourite Genre of Film?

The forth question allows us to see the preference of genre in terms of films for those who took part in the focus group questionnaire. The graph shows that Horror and Romance where the most popular Genres in our focus group while action and comedy where the least voted in the graph, thriller genre was pretty much in between the two most popular and the two least popular.

Fifth Graph: 5. How Often Do You Watch Film Trailers?

The 5^th question shows how often participants of our focus group watch. The graph shows that that majority of the focus group participants will at least watch a film trailer once a week or even ever fortnight

Sixth Graph: 6. what is Your Favourite Film?

Favourite Films From Our Focus Group (Not in Order)

1. Lord of the rings trilogy

2. Inception

3. Iron man series

4. Old boy

5. Ninja assassin

6. The other guys

7. Donnie Darko

8. Jackass series

9. Due Date

10. Get Him To The Greek

11. The Mist

12. Zombie Land

13. 28 days later and the sequel

14. Hancock

15. G.I Joe

16. Afro Samurai

17. Bad Boys

18. Scream

19. Halloween series

20. Shogun Assassins

Seventh Graph: 7. Would You Go and See the Film in the Cinema and/or But It on DVD?

Graph 7.1

Graph 7.2

5 Stars Rating Of Our Trailer

The Graph Basically shows the results of the ratings of our trailer from the focus groups perspective. As you can see in the graph its mixed views on the quality rating of our trailer. The graph shows that 6 people believe it was a full 5 star quality, 11 people choose that it was a star rating of 4 stars, and 3 people thought the film of a 2 star quality.

Our Final After Hours Magazine Cover

Our Final After Hours Poster

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Camera Shots, Angles and Movements Part 1: Camera Shots

Examples Of Potential Camera Shots, Angles and Movements We May Use:

OSS (Over-The-Shoulder Shot)

Looking from behind a person at the subject

CU (Close Up)

A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame

Cut In

Shows some (other) part of the subject in detail.

ECU (Extreme Close Up)

The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

EWS (Extreme Wide Shot)

The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot.

MCU (Medium Close Up)

Half way between a MS and a CU.

MS (Mid Shot)

Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

Point-of-View Shot (POV)

Shows a view from the subject's perspective.

VWS (Very Wide Shot)

The subject is visible (barely), but the emphasis is still on placing him in his environment.

Weather Shot

The subject is the weather. Can be used for other purposes, e.g. background for graphics.

WS (Wide Shot)

The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.

Storyboard

A film story board is basically a comic of the film and parts of it which is constructed before filming of the movie. Storyboard helps directors and cinematographers in seeing future factors that could be a potential problem

Below is a image of the Storyboard for The After Hour Trailer:

Camera shot list:

Row 1 Column 1: CGI
Row 1 Column 2: Mid Shot (MS), Medium Close Up (MCU)
Row 2 Column 1: Very Wide Shot (VWS), Group Shot (GS)
Row 2 Column 2:CGI
Row 3 Column 1: Point-of-View Shot (POV), Two Shot, Close Up (CU)
Row 3 Column 2:CGI

Types of Camera Movements we will consider:

· ARC

· Crab

· Follow

· Pedestal

· Pan

· Tilt

· Tracking

· Trucking

· Zooming

Below is theOrginal Story Board for Our first Fil Trailer Idea

Music:

Music is a very important part to film trailers as it sets the overall atmosphere, the genre of music can also help establish the genre of the film. Below you will find the songs we considered to put in our trailer:

Below you will find te music we have thought about putting in our Film Trailer:

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life