Explain how you used conventional or experimental narrative approaches in your production
With regards to our main A2 production task, we had to research narrative techniques in pure detail. We started off by looking at theories and narrative models such as Tristan Todorov’s theory towards narration. This intertwines with our main story plot line – as we follow his theory, throughout our trailer. Our main character is Sarah, who is the daughter of a gang leader, following the disturbance of using Todorov’s theory we have a equilibrium disturbance in many of our trailer scenes showing the violence and hurt through a love relationship – with a final outcome of revenge. We also used conventional approaches but mixed into experimental narrative approaches. We did this in many ways but one important example would be our voice over overlapping our film shots to create a third person perspective on the feel of the trailer. However the narration does not explain the storyline, it merely entices the audience into what its all about.
With regards to the plot time, the trailer reacts through the experiences of shot times and screen times, using fast motion – to slow motion shots of running/fighting scenes. This helps to confuse the reading audience of what real time reality actually is, and also contrasts without giving too much information on what happens. Going back to character types, our trailer production used theory ideas from Propp, who has eight different examples of character types. We used the Father figure – who ended up being the dispatcher, the villan – who was his daughter in the end, betraying her family – to set out to destroy her father. We also used character types such as the helper and the donor, however with regards to the donor character type Propp implies that with a donor they would need to give some sort of prop or skill to another character, this relates to our father figure giving the assassin the job of killing the two lovers – however this shows our trailer does not exactly intertwine or correspond with Propp’s theory of character types.
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What have you learned from your audience feedback?
We have learned alot from our audience feedback. It gives you new ideas as a group, but most importantly you get a completly different view on your own work. I find personally when working on a really long peice of coursework you get so drawn into your own way of thinking, it is very useful to just stand back and get another person's view on what changes you can make - in order to produce a better outcome. For our main audience feedback we used a web 2.0 site called FaceBook. Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook. Since January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Using FaceBook as our main provider - it seemed to be our best option for an overall audience feedback, this is due to our age. Being 18 years of age Facebook for young adults and teenagers is their main use of communication. These are screen shots from my Facebook account, to do with our posted audience feedback:
The screen shot above, is the audience feedback from the our A2 film poster. Created by me i was very interested to see what people thought was good/bad about it and what i could have improved. Abbie Fegent - suggest that the names at the top of the poster should be kept bold instead of slightly faded/blurred. taking this into consideration - i re designed the poster, taking out the blur editting out of each letter. However - with my new and old editted posters, we as a group decided that the letters looked more proffessional blurred at the bottom, this was because we had many discussions about whether 'LUCY KNIGHT' should be the main focus or whether 'PETER JONES and JAMES DEAN' should stay bold aswell. Taking Abbie's advice feedback was very useful in relation to what Amy Millan says bellow. She taks about the layout, and how in every professional poster for a film or even advertisment posters - there are always points where it meets the readers eye and stands out. As a group we agree what Amy was saying and belived we have reached the eye catching perspectives that she talks about. These audience feedback comments where uploaded within minutes of adding our film poster to my facebook account. This shows that to gain quick and helpful feeback comments - using http://www.facebook.com/ as our main potential audience feedback site, it ended up being incredibly helpful.
The two screen shots above was when we decided it was time for us as a group to gain some helpful advice and audience feedback on our main A2 task (the final edit of the trailer). This was also posted onto http://www.facebook.com/ seeing as we gained alot of intresting comments on our poster and magazine cover. I managed to export our trailer from our media class room D-Drive, onto a memory stick. Taking it home i was able to take the poster and magazine cover on the memory stick aswell - then i simply ripped the file of the trailer down, on windows movie maker, as it was 879mb which was too much for facebook to alow us to upload the trailer. Ripping the size of the trailer down - with much difficulty, i finally managed to get it down to 89mb - allowing facebook to accept the file and upload it. I posted the trailer up onto my account 'tagging' all 4 group members in it. Much like the poster and magazine cover we gained audience feedback streight away. People started to comment on how good the editting was, and how the fade in/outs between each shot looked professional. However some people commented on how we should take the title of the trailer/film 'BETRAYAL' and have that as the first scene. one comment was 'this would make it easier to work out streight away what the film was called and also what it may include'. We met up as a group with Piers as main editer - and went through the trailer feedback, deciding on whether having the title at the start looked better - or whether some of the shots/scenes should be moved around - to make it more exiting or professional. However with our research at the start of our A2 set task, we looked at many film trailers and most of them have the trailer title at the end as almost an last anti-climax.
We as a group learnt alot form our audience feeback. It showed us new ideas on people who dont take media studies - but still thought our production outcomes were looking professional and well put together. Also using www.facebook.com was a great way of getting quick advice during our productions, on what looked good, or what could be made to produce a sharper, more eye catching finish. Personally i would say the main objective we have learnt from our audience feedback - is that taking someone elses perspective on your own work, is always incredibly useful - and taking the time to step back and look at productions in a new light, also creates a better outcome.
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
- using a variety of media technologies, in the construction and research parts of our production we were able to gain a good set of ideas of what we wanted to produce. www.google.com was our most influential internet source for our research. On google we were able to get pictures for research on other gangster posters, and magazine covers - this helped us as a group get together some planning ideas for layout in the film poster, and sub-lines for the magazine etc. Google was also useful for researching some media theories such as Tristan Toderof, this helped us to produce a better product.
- www.youtube.com was so helpful with our planning stages. we were able to watch some of the most famous gangster film trailers and gain ideas through what they had producted. It was also incredibly important for our evaluation stages. Using youtube along stide Facebook we were able to upload our poster and magazine cover, with the trailer - out in the public eye to gain some important feedback. This helped us with our evaulations as a group as we all got different feedback - meaning we had a brand new set of other ideas from friends or random viewers on youtube, who helped add some interesting comments.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
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