Questionnarie Results

After showing the video to a number of people we gave them a questionnaire. And have number of really nice comments about it!! Here are some of the summarized results.

FEMALES (6 in number)
Age: 16-20
Average Rating 8.5/10
About all of them were able to recognise the genre of the movie. They really liked Misc-en-scene and Sound effects. And the two of them said that they really liked the way the trailer is edited.
One of the good response is as follows;
''It's nice to see how you have manipulated the basement of school to create the eeriest effect. I loved the way you have created the logo of the company 'the opening eye'. And yes i  really appreciate the way you have created the sound effects''

MALES (9 in number)
Age: 16-21
Average Rating 9/10
They all identified the genre correct and liked Misc-en-scene , sound effects and editing. They all wanted to see the rest of the movie.

One of the nice response is;
'' Really nice piece of work, i want to see the rest of the movie. Really nice way to manipulate the location and  good sound effects. This is appreciable that you haven't used any sounds from outside the footage''

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Questionnarie

Age:
Gender:
Please list your 3 favourite films:
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 2.
 3.

What is your favourite genre of film? Did the sequence make sense? YES / NO If ‘No’ what didn’t make sense? Why?

What was the title of this film?


Which genre would you classify this film as?

Comedy                     Horror                           Thriller                 Rom-com                              Action                        Adventure                     Sci-Fi
What did you like about the film?

Music               Character                Title          Plot                 Location
Other (Please specify) __________________________

Does it remind you of any other films you have watched?


What do you think we can improve on?


Would you be interested in watching the rest of this film? YES / NO Please specify your

Reason:


On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the sequence? (Please circle):
1        2         3         4         5        6         7          8           9             10

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Evaluation Video

This is our Evaluation Video. It was shot at Hassan's place and Yes! It was fun. And it was edited by Zayan.
* Sorry for the dialect and the 'A...aah....a' breaking in the middle =p
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Evaluation Questions

Q.4 What have you learned from the audience feedback?

'If a product doesn't have any audience, there is no need to produce it', by keeping this line in our minds we began our Advance Portfolio. There is no audience but people with varying tastes. So we were keen on producing text siutable for varying tastes. In our research we were able to find out that the most active audience i.e. teens and above like horor genre alot. And movies like 'Blair Witch Project' and 'Paranormal Activity 1 and 2' had low budget but were able to pull off a great deal of business. When we selected that we will be doing horror movie, we told about this to our fellows in class and took their responses that they really like to see a horror movie with sub genre as paranormal.

When we were done with our first cuts, we showed them to our fellow students and got their responses which lead us to change the name of the movie as VENGEANCE and adding more sound effects Laterwhen we showed our final product to our audience they really appreciated the following:

• The use of logo in the Trailer.
• Sound Effects and misc en scene
• The use of location image as main image instead of a character image- they really saw it as a 'trend changer'

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Evaluation Questions

Q.3How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

As Zayan took video portfolio in his Foundation task G321 therefore he had a grip on editing software like Adobe Premiere 7.0. In start of G321 Zayan saw Adobe tutorials on Youtube. And also our media tutor helped him in learning some of the features of Adobe.

Starting with the editing process of G324 Zayan was certain that this time he had to show better skills of the software. So he put the effects on the video to give it a darker shade. This time he also
1. Manipulated the logo as he wanted it to appear.
2. Changed and added effects on SOUND for the first time to get a better sound.
3. Worked with more cuts and cross dissolve at different places to make text understandable.

I knew how to use Adobe Photoshop for image manipulation. I and Saud were more interested in doing the ancillary tasks so we were responsible for their production. But when ever we held group meetings we would discuss how can we use different effects of Adobe Photoshop to create the image we wanted to create. There I chose to create a Poster and Saud Magazine. I had good practice on Adobe Photoshop as I had taken Print portfolio in my Foundation.

We spend a lot time in research process by using web 2.0. We searched Google and of this genre and found any references. Then by working on those references we were able to work out what we wanted to do. We used websites like ‘facebook’ to see how many likes a certain movie got so we were able to note down the popular movies between the audiences.

In our planning, we used Microsoft word to note down main events we will go through till the end of the journey. We made a list of things we needed to do before completion. We used Microsoft paint to make a shoot log and finally we used BLOGGER to upload all our work we did so far to make us more organized.

In evaluation stages, we used projector to show our products to audience in our class and then distributed questionnaire. Then we analyzed what we got from them in a form of a paragraph, to be shown on the BLOGGER.

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Evaluation Questions

Q.2 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

My media product is a teaser trailer of a horror movie. In horror genre a great deal of suspense is kept and enigma plays a vital role. For my teaser trailer I analyzed two trailers, one of the Blair Witch Project and other of The Silence of the Lambs. Also Hassan analyzed trailers of Paranormal Activity 1 and 2. And after analyzing we noticed some very similarities in then, some of then are listed below:

• A great deal of suspense in kept and the ‘trouble maker’ is not shown.
• Texts are added to the sequence to convey some what of information.
• They all followed some what of Tendorov’s narrative theory of equilibrium; on at the end equilibrium is not re-established.
• A fast pace editing.
• Creepy sound effects.
• Deaths of characters.
• Misc- en scene is kept dark i.e. location are scary and contain dark elements e.g. Forests and Basements. Daylight is not shown.
• Hand held and surveillance camera recordings (instead of The Silence of the Lambs)

So while we were deciding the location and props we kept in our minds these all factors to establish verisimilitude. Even when I was editing the trailer In kept in my mind how would I use the sound effects to elaborate the conditions of the characters as did in the real media products. And I use fast pace editing to create tension in my audience.

So, basically in my media product I used and developed the form and conventions of Horror genre to make my product understandable to our audience.

In the ancillary texts, in our case poster and magazine, we decided to challenge the forms by not taking a solo picture for editing. Instead we used shots of locations and used blood effects to make them scary. In magazine cover, we showed an eye to disturb the audience. The magazine follows a typical way in which a horror movie is shown but in our case we challenged them by creating an image of location instead of a character.

Poster was indeed the most rebellious of all. The use of a location image as main shot and using more creative and gory effects Hassan was able to pull off a great poster. It had all elements of a poster i.e. told about Characters and even had a tag line but we were greatly appreciated by our fellows on how we broke the ‘boring; routine of character image manipulation.

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Final Poster.

This is the final design for the poster. After deciding it ina group we all agreed the name of the characters and some improvisations were needed to give it a more poster like look. We were all very proud of it.

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