EVAL Q6 ESSAY

Evaluation answering (question 6)

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constucting this product?

Discuss in detail all the different forms of media you have used throughout your coursework and how this has affected and influenced your understanding to different forms of media technologies.

This can include:

• The filming equipment ( cameras, Tripod, etc.)
• The editing software - Final Cut Pro
• Other software: In design, PowerPoint, Word, Motion, Garage band, etc.
• Your blog and everything that entailed to create and maintain it.
• YouTube, other videos (The Art of Titles), copyright free music, etc. 

For this question we have done a presentation on prezi.com. We will record the presentation and will furthermore answer the question by audio on top of the video presentation. 

EVAL Q5

This is a short overview what I have done for the fifth evaluation question: How did you attract/adress you audience? 

I used Xtranormal to create a Avatar, which answers my question in a quick way. 

2) This is the process of desgining the avatar on the website.

EVAL Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

This was the question I tried to ask with a mix of interview, podcast and voice recording.

- I interviewed four people of different age
- edited it with iMovie
- it is a 4 min sequence 

These are the following people I interviewed

1) - MAX

2) - JOSH

3) - KEWVE

4) - ETHAN

EVAL Q3

This is my post about the third question. 


EVAL Q3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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EVAL Q2

EVAL Q2: HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUP?

EVAL Q1

 IN WHAT WAY DOES YOU MEDIA PRODUCT USE; CHALLENGE OR DEVELOP FORMS AND CONVENTIONs OF A REAL MEDIA PRODUCT?

I needed to change my first Eval question, because i answered it with an essay and that was not good enough. So I used photo booth again to film myself and I used camtasia to record my thriller film and show some scne of it in my evaluation. So the are helpful to show the audience what I am actually talking about. To make it a bit more attractive i changed the colour of the scrren everytime I appear. 

as you can see here.

 

 

EVAL Q1 ESSAY

I finished yesterday Evalulation question 1.
I did it with an Essay in Word, took screenshots from it and put it into a video on iMovie.

Thisis the draft of the Essay:

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

If you compare my thriller “Dark Vengeance” to a real thriller for example “The Crimson Rivers”, this film is supposed to be a thriller out of the crime/ action sub-genre, but it also includes a bit of psycho genre in it. So both opening sequences include killing, but our titles definitively diver from that one in Crimson River.

The main point is that the titles are on the actual shot and they are not on a black screen between each shot. The use of the black screen was a really important effect for our thriller, because we used it to build up tension and we used the style of suspense, which was invented by Alfred Hitchcook. This is the point where the cases study about thriller at the beginning of the term was really important, to get to know such kind of stylistic device.

The main point of our film challenging the characteristics is that we were actually looking for an adult as the Criminal, but we compensated this really well with the fact that we didn’t show the face of the criminal. We also tried to challenge a real thriller film with the use of a soundtrack, which fits perfect to each appearance of our titles, so this enhances the effect of it. We also imitated the kind of opening sequences of Se7en, because the completely don’t use a voices or speaking/acting in their opening scenes.

They just completely trust their carefully picked soundtrack, which expresses the creepy mood of a thriller perfectly and leaves the audience in expectations. This is the perfect way to draws the audience into the whole film after a short and simple opening sequence. As I knew after my interviews for EVAL Q4 the audience wanted to know what happens next. So this is another point where we imitated a real thriller, because we both had the same purpose with our opening sequences of Dark Vengeance.

We tried to imitate the opening scene of one of the American Crime Series for example: Hawaii Five-O or CSI Miami, NCIS, The Mentalist and NCIS L.A. So we tried to use these kinds of opening scene and changed it into a kind of thriller genre. We both liked these series and set us the challenge to make it suitable for a thriller.

Our Blog worked as a media product, as well. We used a media product to distribute our main product throw the whole world. So our two different media products came together and worked together, this is called convergence. I think it is completely different to a professional blog, because Film Studios that are producing a thriller film are not using a blog to present their whole process to the audience. They are using a whole film-team to create another film beside the thriller to show it from behind the scene.