CLOSED BLOG NOTIFICATION

Candidate Name: Aliza Naqvi
Candidate Number: 1141
Centre Name: Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls
Centre Number: 14343
Unit: G324

Final Trailer

Final Poster

Final Magazine

Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from audience feedback?

Here is a 'mysimpleshow' YouTube video analysing how audience feedback was useful for us and what we learnt by the end our of our project.

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product(s) use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Tickets, Advertisement and Presentation for Premiere

Front Cover Target Audience Feedback

magazine front cover by Aliza Naqvi

Front Cover Linked to Trailer and Poster

Magazine Front Cover Features

A presentation outlining the features we decided to include on our magazine front cover and how we changed some features compared to our initial design (flatplan).

Magazine front cover features from Aliza99

Masthead and Font Decisions for Magazine

This is a Prezi outlining the fonts we used on our magazine and the reasons behind our decisions.

Photograph Manipulation for Magazine

A Prezi showing an example of an image manipulation for our magazine front cover.

Magazine Cover Layout, Flatplan & Photoshop

A short presentation showing our initial design and flatplan along with some image manipulations from PhotoShop.

Magazine layout, flatplan and photoshop from Aliza99

Shots Taken/Mise-en-Scene for Magazine

Aliza Naqvi's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Research into Film/Empire House Style for Magazine

Here is a short presentation outlining our research into common conventions of real media texts from TotalFilm and the overall layout and house style that we could use for inspiration for our own product.

Research into film and house styles from Aliza99

Ancillary Tasks (Poster and Magazine) Target Audience Feedback

poster target audience feedback by Aliza Naqvi

Poster Linked to Research

Poster linked to reserach by Aliza Naqvi

Font Decisions on Poster

Poster Linked to Magazine and Trailer

A Soundcloud outlining how our products link together. 

Image Manipulation for Poster

Poster Layout/Photoshop

Poster layout and photoshop from Aliza Naqvi

Shots Taken/Mise-en-Scene for Poster

This is a shot slideshow showing the images and and test shots we took for our poster.

Construction Linked to Theories and Storyboard

Evidence of Use of Shot Transitions

Evidenced use of shot transitions from Aliza Naqvi

Trailer Target Audience Feedback

Here are some target audience reactions and responses from after the premiere of our final trailer.

Research into and Use of Music

Use of Sound Effects

Here is a short Powerpoint outlining what sounds effects we used in our trailer and what effect they had on our audience.

Titles and Font Decisions

This is a presentation outlining our font decisions, why we chose the name for our movie and what significance it holds.There are also short clips of some people from our target audience giving us suggestions for what background colour we should use for the titles and what title we should use for our movie. The images show some sowrds we came up with for our movie as well as the two different background colours that we asked our target audience to choose from.

Evidenced Controlled Use of the Camera

Exploring Shot Types and Sizes

elements architecture by Aliza Naqvi

Careful Use of Mise-en-Scene

Here is a presentation outlining our decisions on clothing choice, why we used horror makeup and gore and the location of our filming and how this impacted our trailer.

Individual Contribution

Rough Cut

Here is the rough cut for our trailer. You can see the variety of shots we have included however, some scenes have come out very dark and so we have decided to re-film some of the shots to make them clearer for the audience as we felt we weren't getting the horror feel from the scenes. Some shots were also blurry and out of focus meaning that we will have to shoot them again so that we can effectively play with the audience's expectations. We also lack a lot of natural sound and versatility in our shots so after getting some feedback from peers and teachers, they suggested we should include more screams and natural sound such as dialogue. We have included some 'iconic' images that are usually used in the sub-genre of exorcism/paranormal. We have deliberately chosen to locate our whole trailer inside a house that has been made to look very old to follow our narrative and make it more believable. We have also decided to make it 'based on a true story' because by looking back at our audience research, we saw that people liked films that were based on true events as they find it is easy to relate to.

Evidence of Filming

Here is a Prezi outlining our filming process and what we learnt by the end of it. The short video also shows some test shots and videos we took for the beginning of our trailer.

Special Effects Makeup

Test Shots

Aliza Naqvi's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Model Consent Forms

Here are the models (with their consent forms) that participated in the filming for our horror trailer. Due to the unavailability of our main character (the monstrous feminine), I had to occupy the role as a last resort.

Character Profiles