FINAL TRAILER LINK

Evaluation Question 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planing and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2

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

Evaluation Question 1

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

Final Website

LINK TO THE WEBSITE

Final Trailer

Final Poster

Research: Titles in Trailers

To make our trailer as professional as possible we decided to research into how titles within trailers are used. We looked at films within our genre, such as 'Paper Towns':

 In the trailer for Paper Towns the titles have: 

A plain block colour background

The same plain background, font type and colour throughout the whole trailer

Description of the film near the end half of the trailer

Noteworthy comments about the film, the film was made from a best selling book

We also looked at films outside of our genre to gain a wider perspective, such as 'Adventureland':

The trailer for Adventureland had titles that had:

A coloured background

The same font throughout the trailer 

An indication of time: 'coming soon'

Title of the film near the very end of the trailer

From this we decided that our trailer should have:

The same background and use of font across all the titles

Have colours that suit the colour palette of the film

An indication of when the film is coming out

A description of the film that hints at the plot, leaving a restricted narrative

Website Analysis

Research into what we liked about different websites in our film genre:

First Draft of Our Film Poster & Feedback

We received feedback on our first draft of our film poster for 'When the Tide Comes In' from a Year 10 class and the majority of them felt that the genre of Romance successfully came across:

They also commented on what they liked about the poster and what they would change:

Film Poster Research

We decided to research into romance genre film posters to try and replicate a true romance film poster for our film trailer:

Alternative Endings and Feedback

Through feedback we realised that the end of our piece wasn't impactful enough so we created an alternate ending where the audience sees that the main protagonist is seeing another boy, shown through a kiss at the end of the trailer:

However we realised that even this moment isn't quite right and felt like we would have a solitary shot of the character Alex looking distressed instead, as we felt that throughout the trailer we depict her as broken and vulnerable, it wouldn't be right to show her as in secretive and in control. 

We also received some more feedback for the rest of the trailer:

- turn down the music during the voiceover

- cut down the party scene, what does it add?

- car scene needs to be cut down, we don't need it explained 

- when the character tom says "you know i love you" maybe isolate that vocal and put it with the lasting image to have more effect?

Year 10 Feedback: Trailer

We asked a year 10 class to give us final feedback on our film trailer as we felt that there age group would be old enough to give mature and critical feedback:

More Feedback!

We are continually looking for improvements on our film trailer so we asked for more feedback on our updated film trailer:

Behind the Scenes: Second Shoot

From the feedback we received we decided to reshoot part of our trailer, focusing on the roof scene and car scene, and filming a new scene at the lake:

Second Call Sheet

Second Shooting Schedule

Our First Draft and Feedback