Evaluation question 4 -

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

I used multiple different Software & Hardware devices to complete all of my research, planning and evaluation, for my research i used Chrome to research all of the differentiating movie trailers, genres, sub-genres and ancillary promotional devices such as posters and magazine covers. 

for my planning stages, i used Blogger, which is an online blog, which allows me to publish my creativity and innovation that i will or could use for my products to advertise my movie trailer, it also allowed me to control when i publicise the ideas and creations.

The construction stage took the most time to complete due to the different software i had to use, and the different hardware i had to use, such as cameras  and editing softwares such as indesign, Photoshop and Adobe premier pro, which allowed me to create, edit and manipulate different images that i had taken from different hardware devices such as an iphone 8 and different camcorders.

 InDesign was used once the images were taken just so i could layer the images, text, and place differentiating graphics, it also allowed me to distort images as well as blur out the background seen on both my magazine cover and poster.

Photoshop was used to manipulate the images and texts as well as change the opacity, colour, this made it easier to create the different themes that i was trying to portray to my target audience. 

Adobe premier pro was the final software product i had used which allowed me to put together still images, and videos, as well as add on differentiating sound clips such as the non-diagetic sound of the piano playing throughout the film trailer we as a group had created. 

We used one of our group members Iphone 8 to capture the videos and images, because it was easier to create a better understanding of the themes when we could speed up, and slow down the videos, as well as the ease of using the phone camera when in small spaces such as the scene inside the car.

Evaluation Question 2 - Ancillary products

evaluation question 1 - film trailer

The opening scene starts with the main character washing their face, as the narrative becomes a lot clearer for the audience throughout the trailer may atually be subliminal symbol for washing away his sins after being forced into the violent actions by the masked figure which is actually just a figment of his imagaination or possibly a second personality, which is then shown in the second shot. We used non-diagetic sounds of a piano playing throughout to suggwst the presence of this masked figure is in fact not friendly, but is a friend to him which is then later enhanced and seen when the main character is bullied by his peers, this is greatly inspired by "Donnie Darko".

 Within the media group we decided that using sudden jump cuts would make the audience feel the tension and unease that the main protagonist feels on a dialy basis, the masked figure appears and disappears within the blink of an eye which increases the code of enigma and adds to the narrative, the target audience will ask questions such as "who is the masked figure, is there more than one, what does he want and why is there" by displaying this period of the main characters life we show the audience that mental health plays a big part in everyones life and what may happen when disregarded or left to face their problem alone, and we decided to break the convention and stereotype of only women dealing with mental health by using a male protagonist throughout and the females being the ones in power.

 following the narrative and condition of our main character makes the audience more interested due to the fact they build a small emotional connection for the main character and possibly even relate to the character and may even understand that their actions can hurt other people.

We decided to introduce a weapon into the narrative as we end up building the characters narrative into revenge, which breaks the equilibrium as the females that bullied him end up dead, and the male thats also bullying him is kept alive but appears in certain shots after the female and after the therapist scenes which builds tension and interest within the audience as they will want to know if the main character was helped or if the other male is his next victim.

 we educated the audience on the fact that people have differentiating psychological problems that need to be dealt with and that we should be looking out for this in not only females but males too, and if this is ignored or we lead the problem to divulge deeper into the psychological trauma they are experiencing then this may leave the victim of the emotional abuse to do something similar to our trailer, and if not killing his victims, then possibly himself.

 Our trailer begins to speed up which creates a fast paced, alarming change of equilibrium, but the music and revenge narrative still encourages our audience to believe all actions the main character edns up performing are done with good intent. The non-diagetic piano increases in tempo but stays calm which compliments the title of the trailer "Deluded" which shows that it confuses the viewer as much as the main character is confused as to what's happening.

Evaluation question 1 - Magazine Cover

In what ways does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products from Morgan Emberson

Evaluation Question 1 - Poster

Deluded Official Trailer (2018)

Focus Group