2014 Post 47- Evaluation Question 4- How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I answered Evaluation Question 4 on Linoit. The link can be found here, http://linoit.com/users/sabwilkin/canvases/Evaluation%204, to navigate click and drag the mouse to see the different post-it notes.

A screenshot of my work

2014 Post 46- Evaluation Question 3- What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I have answered this question on Slides, as I like how my work is presented on there. It can also be viewed via this link, here you can see the full version with the Soundcloud feedback and larger images.

2014 Post 45 Evaluation Question 2- How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I have answered this question via Kizoa, it can also be viewed via the link here.
It plays as a sideshow and there should be a pause button, as well as arrows for navigating.

Evaluation 2 - slideshow

2014 Post 44- Evaluation question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I have answered this question using Prezi as I believe this presents all of my work more clearly, and is more engaging and interactive for the reader.

http://prezi.com/uabi4jqbcskq/evaluation-1/

2014 Post 43- Final Products

Below are our final products, our main task being our short film 'Catalyst' and the ancillary tasks, which are the posters and magazine double-page spread review.

Our magazine review

Our final film:

 Our roles for our final film included:

Director, editor and producer- Laura O'Brien

Camerawork- The majority was filmed by me, although some shots wherein I was acting were created by Laura O'Brien

 Acting- My entire group and I included

Scriptwriter- Myself

Storyboard artist- Laura O'Brien

Model- Charlie Holden

And our magazine included input from all of us.

2014 Post 42- Feedback for film magazine review

We have gathered feedback on our magazine double page spread review from teenagers aged 16-20 who are film fans, we believe these are the core of our short film's target audience.

Below I have summarised their responses:

Likes:

• layout was neat with image
• tone of voice fit that of a review; criticising
• mentions of director's techniques
• directly addressing audience
• it gives provides what is good and bad
• rating system and the comments were professional
• does not give away plot; entices you to watch film

Dislikes:

• font style too small
• slightly contradictory
• some points not clear
• tends to drag on in the middle

Improve:

• small mistakes of punctuation errors and film title in inverted commas

2013 Post 41A- Summary of film magazine review

My group and I read through several of Little White Lies reviews in order to get a feel for the overall tone and conventional techniques we would use for our article.
We realised that key components of the magazine reviews included:

• An introduction and basic summary of the film
• Director and cast member mentions and opinions of them
• Brief look into camerawork of film
• The film's message
• Notable scenes with good and bad aspects
• An end with the reviewer's overall opinion

Below are examples of the different review formats that Little White Lies uses;

The two photo format did not entice us, it seemed too cluttered

The colour scheme matches the photo well, but it takes up too much space of the review

The pink makes the text hard to read, so the photo captures all the attention
 

Witty comments and sophisticated language are used throughout all of the reviews, so they were significant parts of the spread, that my group and I needed to keep in mind as well as we wrote it.

 

 

 

Photo on the left fits within colour scheme, not distracting, and review appears professional and manageable to read; it is not overwhelming with text and is structured appropriately

 

 

In the end, my group and I felt that the Looper review design was the best choice for our short film review, it was smart, concise yet dramatic which we believe perfectly describes our film and is the message that we would like to show to the audience.