Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

• iMac (as a base for research, to edit and produce my magazine, poster and trailer) 

• Canon Mini DV (to film our trailer, behind the scenes, and location recces)

• SLR (to take images for my poster and magazine)

• Blogger (to present all of my work in research and planning, filming, and evaluation)

• Final Cut (to edit and produce my teaser trailer)

• Internet (to research poster, magazine and other teaser trailers. E.g. Google, You Tube)

• Facebook (the main focus of our film, it has a high involvement so i used to site to reflect off for my magazine)

• GarageBand (to record my voice for podcasts and make my blog more interactive, sound tests)

• iShowU (to show the examiner what i had done so far, at each stage)

• Prezi (to show my publication plan for my magazine)

• PowerPoint (when completed, i took a screen grab of the prop list i produced)

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary tasks?

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• Teaser trailer

Use
- Title, shown towards the end, which is 'Offline'
- 'Coming Soon' shown straight after the title
- Conventional voice-over throughout
- Production/distribution company shown at the beginning
- Typical horror genre aspects: action, fast pace editing, dark scenes, low-key lighting, Carol Clover's Final Girl theory, implied male as villain and female as victim.

Develop
- The trailer is based around the social networking site, Facebook.

Challenge
- You get a good sense of our story in our trailer as you see quite a lot more of the narrative, there are images of Georgia that look a bit haunting, and it looks unlikely that she survies; however, she is supposed to be the final girl.

• Magazine

Use
- The biggest font is for the masthead, 'Close Up'
- There are sub stories down the right hand side
- Barcode
- Price.

Develop
- I have used more text and less images as you might not normally expect on a magazine front cover.

Challenge
- The page is set out like what you would see on a computer screen, a lot to do with the social networking element
- The title of film is not as big as you would normally expect; however, the size i have used works well with the layout and the inspiration i got from the Facebook page.

• Poster

Use
- Huge font for the title of the film, 'Offline', cast and crew information at the bottom, image 

Develop
- The picture of Georgia being tortured is inside the text, which is quite usual.

Challenge
- The fact that i have just included a few colours (blue and black) which i have done as it is related to the Facebook colour scheme, of blue.

FINAL TRAILER

Research and Planning: Rough Cut 2

Research and Planning: Poster Final

• This is my final draft of my poster.
• What i have done to improve it is: add an image of a girl on her computer, as if she is on the social networking site, Facebook, which our film is based around. I then faded the image into the black background so that the image is highlighted. I also edited the image to have a tint of blue, relating to the Facebook aspect.
• I have also moved the title, 'Offline' to the top of the page so that there is enough room to see the right amount of the image. 
• The tagline, 'You have been tagged' has been moved up aswell, so that it is placed underneath the title, and made a little smaller, again so there is enough room for the image.
• I have put an inner glow onto the title so that it stands out more and you know it is the most important part of the poster.

Research and Planning: Poster Progess

• Here is my poster up to now. I struggled with getting started with producing it as i had so many ideas and wanted to make it perfect for my film. I think i have made a good start and i am going to stick with this idea

Research and Planning: Poster Idea

• Here is a poster i found from research that i really liked and decided i wanted my poster to follow the same conventions. 
• I like the picture inside the title as i think it tells a lot of the story through this.
• The image of the woods leaves you guessing what else there is to the narrative.

Research and Planning: Rough Cut

 

This is the rough cut of our trailer. The improvements we have to make are the editing effects and transitions, and to cut it down to make it a lot shorter.