CLOSED BLOG NOTIFICATION

Centre Name: Norbury Manor
Centre Number: 14343
Candidate Name: Maleeha Khan
Candidate Number: 1114
Unit: G324

Final Magazine

Final Poster

Final Trailer

EVALUATION Q4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

EVALUATION Q4 from Maleeha17

EVALUATION Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

EVALUATION Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

EVALUATION Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Questionnaire for Premiere

This is the questionnaire we created for our in-school premiere. We chose to include a minimal amount of questions, as we didn't want the audience to think it was time-consuming. Therefore, we kept the questions concise and to the point. We included both open and closed questions, as we wanted to gain both qualitative and quantitative data, so that the results could easily be compared. We gave out 30 questionnaires, but only received 22 back, which in my opinion, is still quite a good amount of feedback. The results we mainly positive, along with constructive criticism in regards to how we could have made our final products better. 

Invitations for Premiere

This is a deconstruction of our invitations for our premiere:

Front Cover Target Audience Feedback

This was the feedback we obtained in regards to the magazine front cover we created for our film:

Presentation – Untitled Design by Maleeha Khan

Front Cover Features

Front cover features from Maleeha17

Magazine Photograph Manipulation

Magazine Cover Layout/Flatplan

Shots Taken/Mise-en-scene

These are the pictures we took in regards to the main image of our magazine front cover. We took lots of shots from different angles, to see which looked the best as we wanted the image to have a scary look. We chose to use the monstrous feminine from our trailer, as we wanted all the of our products to link and also because we saw this in real media texts:

Shots Taken/Mise-en-scene by Slidely Slideshow

Research into Film/Empire House Styles

Research into Film/Empire House Styles from Maleeha17

Poster Target Audience Feedback

This was the feedback we received from our target audience, about their opinion on the poster we produced:

Presentation – Untitled Design by Maleeha Khan

Poster Linked to Research

Poster Features

Image Manipulation

Font and Image Decisions

This is a SoundCloud about the font and image decisions for our poster, along with a Slidely containing screenshots of the process and a brief explanation:

Font and Image Decisions by Slidely Slideshow

Poster Layout/Flatplan

Shots Taken/Mise-en-scene

The above video shows the shots we took for our poster. We thought that including a crucifix covered in blood would look intriguing as the enigma would make the viewers curious. I took pictures of the crucifix from different angles to see which shot would look the best. There were various types of shots used for example, close-ups, wide shot, high angle shot and an aeriel shot. These shots gave us a range of images to choose from to see which would look the most appealing. 

We also decided to take more pictures but this time, with someone loosely holding the crucifix in their hand. We came up with this pose as we wanted to convey the enigma of the murder that had taken place in our narrative, as that was what the image was associated with. I took various shots from different angles to make the crucifix look like the anti-Christ, as we wanted to show the enigma of evil. 

Trailer Target Audience Feedback

The first video shows some of our target audience's reactions, while viewing the final                                           trailer and giving their opinion about it:





    The videos below show our target audience's feedback on how they thought our                                                               trailer was, overall:

Construction Linked to Theories and Storyboard

Construction linked to theories and storyboard from Maleeha17

Evidence of Use of Shot Transition

Research Into and Use of Music

Use of Sound Effects

We used the above sound effect to include in our trailer to create fear and suspense. The sound effect was used in the background while the title of the film was shown. We chose to use this sound effect for that specific scene because when we researched real media texts, we saw that the possessed character would often be whispering. Therefore, taking inspiration from this, we chose to include the whispering effect while showing the title of the movie, to give the impression of the monstrous feminine from our narrative, whispering. We also used another sound effect of laughing, in the background of quite a few scenes, as this was another aspect we noticed in real media texts. Also, to make the scene more fearful, we chose to increase the volume of the scream to gain a reaction from the audience. In order to make the audience fear the antagonist, we chose to include this effect as we found at that that was another feature which scared our target audience. Furthermore, we also added the effect of a scream just before the title 'she's listening to you' appears on screen. We purposefully chose to do this as we wanted to emphasise that the monstrous feminine is aware of the fear and pain the characters go through, however, these actions will help her achieve her motive. 

Titles and Fonts Used

Horror Movie Name and Choices for Background for Titles

Evidence Controlled Use of the Camera

Exploring Shot Types and Sizes

Careful Use of Mise-en-scene

Careful use of mise en-scene from Maleeha17

Rough Cut

Individual Contribution

Here is a video showing how I have contributed in creating the trailer for our final production work, as well as highlighting the roles I played throughout filming.