Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combinations of your main product and ancillary tasks?


 As a group we know that our main task could of been improved, but with issues in a group and attendance and illness we did as best with could within the situation. As much as the trailer is limited with some aspects of a high standard, That put together with all the other work we have done such as the magazine and the poster we think it is very effective. the poster and magazine front cover are eye catching and give the audience some idea of what the film is going to be about. the colours we used are simple and bright to give the impression of an easy to watch and funny film. You can tell by the way each of them are designed what the genre of the film will be. Promotions of fils are very important and depending on how a film is promoted will depend largely on the ratings it gets on the cinema, we took this into consideration when designing our magazine and poster. An eye catching, colourful poster will make it more likely that someone will see it and then go and watch the film. Our poster therefore has potential to be distributed in different locations such as bus stops, train stations and TV.

However by giving a little away to the audience  by a poster or a magazine is meant to slightly tease them. The information posters and magazine normally portray is, date of release, actors, title, and a picture. The picture and title will slightly give away the genre of the film which is good as the audience knows roughly what it will be about if they went to see it. Another important attribute is font and text, the way the title is displayed is very important to the reader, you can get many different fonts online which can represent how you want the audience to feel when they read it.

For example this font remind you of a cake frosting and this would suggest to you that the film may be to do with cakes or desserts. 

This font reminds you more of blood and horror as the writing is like dripping down as blood would do if someone has been killed.

This font is fun, quirky and child like and may remind you of reading comics as a child and it quite light hearted.



All these aspects we took into consideration when we were making our posters and magazine, every detail counts and has an effect on the audience.

Evaluation : Question 4

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


As a group we tried to use as many different programmes as possible to create new layouts, we used them to preset our work and portray it to look as professional as possible we did this by using numerous new media technologies.

Slide rocket was a programme we used to make ,mini slides to present our information and upload it to the blog, we used to in our certificate rating post, it was also used it to present our logo research. 









Youtube is a website that was used a lot on our blog as any clips we needed for our trailer research we got off youtube and any small snippets of video we needed it was so easy to find on her. 

Xtranormal was a good site as it allowed us to use animation to present and illustrate a feel and creating a ruff idea of a character for our one sentence pitch, creating a feel for a film instead of just text. 

This programme allowed us to create an image of lots of words jumbled together that had some sort of connection to the film. Such as, sprinkles, icing etc, words to do with cakes. This is like a mood board of words in different fonts.colours and sizing making it stand out as much as possible. 

We used this programme to show the location of our film and image on the sets in a clean set out and makes its a lot easier for the audience to see the sets for our trailer. 

We created a mini animation to show the ideas of the logos we had created to see what one would capture our more to the audience and the movie industry.

Prezi was a media we could use to show how other trailers had worked in the past in capturing an audience making them want to see the film. This made it easer to talk about scene as we could write notes under images of the scene we were talking about focussing on the point we were making and making it easier to follow

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Photopeach allowed us to show are images of filming and equipment in a different way then just posting images, This also allowed us to use smart phones making it more convent as we all had one and could capture images at any moment instead of using a camera. 

Final Piece

Bake Off Poster

Magazine

Script for final piece

(Hannah and Annie sitting in the coffee shop)

Hannah: what’s going on with you and jack?

Annie: he just ended it with me

Hannah: Why?

Annie: I don’t know he hasn’t said

Hannah: Are you upset?

Annie; A little bit like I thought it was going well but obviously not

Hannah: right ready to go?

Annie: yeah

(Hannah and Annie begin to leave)

Hannah: okay, you never know someone else might come along

(Kieran and Annie bump into each other)

Kieran: ohh sorry

Annie: it’s alright

(Kieran meets up with juber at the coffee shop)

Juber: you alright mate how’s it going?

(Kieran looks at annie walking away)

Kieran; yeah, yeah are you alright?

Juber: what’s wrong?

Kieran: nothing, umm did you see that girl?

Juber: yeah, she was alright

Kieran: she looked nice didn’t she?

Juber yeah, go for it

Kieran: yeah

(Cooking class scene)

(Annie entering class)

Annie: That’s it I’m done with him now, um ive got to go because of my cooking class thanks for the coffee bye

(Kieran entering class)

Kieran: yeah I really think I liked her but I guess ill never get to see her again, look I’m at cooking class at the moment I’ll call you back.

(Kieran walks up to Annie)

Kieran: Excuse me do you have any… (pauses)

(Annie interrupts)

Annie: cupcake cases?

(Annie creates mixture)

(Kieran puts the cake in the oven)

(Annie and Kieran take the cake out of the oven together)

Animations for logo design

Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.

Film Title Options

These are different ideas for the title of our film, they were all created via dafont.com

As you can see there is a large variety to choose from, now as a group we will decide which one best suits our film.

IDeas for Magazines

Magazine research

I started magazine research to see how to promote are film best and how to attract to people to see it so I began to look at "Empire" but straight away noticed that it wasn't the right audience or gender off films. 

Realizing our film didn't fit with the same gender of films like blockbusters, and feel that it is more of an independent film and fits in more with the magazine 

"Sight and sound"

There is some similarities between the magazines that they both have there names printed so it is see easy to see and eye catching. And there front cover both focus on a film on the main actor /actors. The difference with these magazines is one is more focus on "hollywood and blockbusters" and sight and sound is more for independent films. Also we take into account about the colour scheme used as they're not bright and colourful. However, it proposes a dull and mystic grey and white colour that links to history and old fashion film probably. With not that many colour used in this magazine. 

creating poster ideas

I created this poster idea via Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, I found it fairly easy and quick to design.

 

I firstly needed to find a background that ties in with the theme of our trailer. I found this by searching for silhouette backgrounds on Google Images. the reason I chose to search for silhouette backgrounds is simply because the people in the image do not have to look like our main characters. I chose the image above because it is romantic and it fits in with the theme of our trailer.

After finding my image I then imported it into Photoshop and added the title Piece of Cake and also added the words Coming Soon to make it obvious that it is a poster.

This is the final image of the poster idea, it is simple but I believe this is not necessarily a bad thing because most films make their posters in the same way.

Additons to our trailer

The following things all all features of film and specifically film trailers that we felt were important to include

List of production team names and roles

This is a feature that is seen in almost every Hollywood film and we felt adding it will give our trailer a more professional feel to it. I modelled our one on the trailer of Somebody Up There Likes Me

We also got this Tribeca Film animation from the trailer of Somebody Up there Likes Me

This is the animated background we used to present casting information and magazine quotes, we used an animated background to engage the audience so that they are not just reading text on a blank background. we felt adding this to our trailer added to the image of our trailer making it more aesthetically pleasing.

Having said this, we did have trouble adding this background to our film, as we needed software to convert this video from You Tube. But the school did not have the resources to do so we needed to upload the video from home bring it into school via USB.

Final Soundtrack

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Amanda Kaletsky - Say you Believe

“Amanda Kaletsky has the voice of a pop star, but the soul of a singer/songwriter. Her infectious [music] finds a middle ground between New York’s homey downtown clubs and the polish of Top 40 radio.” – Relix Magazine

Amanda recently released her third full-length album, “Without You,” and continues to perform at a variety of venues in the Northeast. She also sings the National Anthem regularly for the New York Islanders and at other professional sporting events.

When deciding what song to use we considered how close the song is to the attributes we desired for our soundtrack. these were:

• A female singer
• to be in the pop genre
• to have some relation to love and relationship
• for the artist to be unsigned
• to have a 'chick flick' feel to it
• to tell a story
• to make the audience emotionally connected to the characters

This song ticked all of these boxes and as a group we agreed it was perfect for our trailer.

Soundtrack

When looking for a soundtrack for our trailer we wanted it to have the following qualities:

• A female singer
• To be in the pop genre
• To have some relation to love and relationships
• For the artist to be unsigned
• To have a 'chick flick' feel to it
• To tell a story
• To make the audience emotionally connected to the characters 

These are some of the songs we considered using for the soundtrack for our trailer:

Jessica Teves - Hiding My Heart

Lucyliz - Dear John

Amanda Kaletsky - Say you Believe

Amanda Kaletsky - Wait

The websites we used to find these unsigned artists were Soundcloud and Unsigned.com

    

Filming our Trailer

What went well: We had previously booked the cooking room to film our trailer so it looked as authentic as possible, this room was full equipped with ovens, sinks, fridges and everything you needed to include in a baking film. We also bought in cup cake holders, spoons, bowels, sprinkles so we could use the extra props to add into our trailer. From filming thunderstruck we knew how it took

 Even better if: We had slight problems when finding actors to act in our trailer as filming time also was around the time of exams and many people we were going to use had exams or were revising. So we had to slightly change the profile of our characters as we had to use what we could. Some of the members in our groups acted including myself, this may of been avoided it we started filming earlier to miss clashing with exams so we had to actors we wanted.