1. Reece Bahia

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

3.  As it is shown here that I have followed one of the conventions that has been used by the real
media product producer. I took this idea on board when I researched into similar products and I
took ideas of what I would try to use in my media product. I believe that it is useful to show
somewhere in the trailer what the movie is going to be called so that the audience know what
they are watching. Also, it is also useful for he audience to know if the producers have made
other movies and if the other movie was interesting to watch then the audience may like to watch
this movie trailer/movie. I have tweaked my text as I want the ‘Just Leave’ in bright red colours so
that it would stand out from the black background and that the font that has been used on the
text is clear so that it is clear enough for the audience to read what is available on the page. I
have made ‘Outraged’ bigger than the other text so the audience can clearly identify what the
trailer is called. I have also met another convention of a real media product as the background
behind the text is black and this is done effectively as the background outlines evilness and it
works with the colour of the text. I did this as my storyline outlines evilness and my text colour is
white and red as it stands out better than any other colour.

4.  As it is shown here that I have followed a convention that has been used by a real media
institution. I took this idea on board when I looked at this when I was researching into similar
products. I tried this idea with my characters and happily enough it worked. I did this by a still
shot as this actually worked with the ‘Bend it like Beckham’ scene that was used in the trailer.
The only thing I changed was, in ‘Bend it like Beckham’ the character falls on the floor whereas
my character stays on his feet.

5.  I did not follow the conventions of a real media product as I did not feel that it was
effective enough for it to work on my trailer. The convention that I did not follow was
the short snapshots within the trailer as I tried this effect on my trailer but I feel that
the idea that I had in mind worked better with my storyline and sound. I also took into
consideration of my research and planning into similar media products as when I was
researching, I looked at many different trailers and most of the trailers were not short
and snappy scenes. Also I produced a questionnaire for my fellow students to fill out
whether or not the short and snappy scenes within the trailer were better than the
longer scenes were better for my trailer. I concluded the results and it resulted that
my fellow students preferred the longer scenes were better for my trailer and this is
the idea I had in mind. Furthermore, I looked at the trailers that was the same genre
that I was going to be producing a trailer on and it was shown that they had longer
scene shots that was shown to the audience and this is what I wanted to happen in
my trailer.

6.  As you can see from above it is shown that I have followed the convention
of real media product. I did this as a real media product is made by
professionals so I would take inspiration from this so that my trailer can be
half as good as a professional trailer. I followed the convention of the effect
of the use of dip to black between each scene of the trailer. I used this
effect as it is very effective between the use of scenes as there is no
straight cut between the scenes. It also leads it nicely into the next scene.
With the use of dip to black it slows the trailer down a little which is
effective in the use of a longer shot time of the scene. It worked really well
when I researched into the similar products and so I tried it on my trailer and
it works really well with my scenes.

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

8.  Adobe Premier Pro Software
 Adobe Photo Shop Software
 Memory Sticks and Memory Cards
 Prezi
 Slideshare
 Camera – Fujifilm
 Computer and Laptop

9.  Without Adobe Premier Pro Software I would not have been able to
produce my trailer effectively. Premiere Pro has also allowed me to
edit my trailer to a good standard. When I used Adobe Premier Pro it
allowed me to use editing techniques such as Dip to Black in which it
has allowed my trailer to flow better as this is what I had found out
when I researched into similar products. This was not all good as
throughout the use of Adobe Premier Pro, we had many technical
difficulties towards the start of the project and the editing of my trailer
as my computer continually crashed and some of my projects did not
open.
 Personally, I feel that Adobe Premier Pro was an effective program
and that it was easy to use and Adobe Premier Pro allowed me to
use the tools to create an effective trailer.

10.  Adobe Photoshop has been effective in allowing me to create my
poster and magazine as a part of the ancillary task. My ancillary
task was to create a poster and magazine in relation to my trailer.
Adobe Photoshop was easy for me to use as I have been using this
software for many years now, this allowed me to use the tools that I
am aware of. The tools that I used were blurring, erasing, lasso
tools, cropping and air brush tools to gain the desired poster or
magazine effect I wanted.
 I faced no technical difficulties with this program in which it allowed
me to finish my magazine and poster in quick and easy time. If I
was going to do my magazine and poster again then I would use a
different variety of colours and designs.

11.  I used a standard Memory Stick to carry my work over to another
machine as when I witnessed technical difficulties with my machine,
I transferred my work on my memory stick so that I could carry on
with my work. My memory stick was essential as it allowed me to
not lose my shots and my trailer. When we first began to create my
trailer, we specifically used standard computers in our school class
room. Despite this, we were fortunate to be able to use Apple Mac
computers and this meant I had to back files up so we were then
able to complete my trailer on the Apple Mac computers.
 I did not face any overall problems with the use of a memory stick.

12.  Slideshare is an internet based programme in which it has allowed
me to publish my work that has been produced on PowerPoint onto
my blog. I have had only one issue and that is when I have
uploaded my Slideshare onto Wordpress, it cannot be shown to me
as the school network does not allow me to read what has been
produced on PowerPoint.
 The program is quick and easy to access and upload onto
Wordpress, I am also know how to use this program effectively as I
used this program in AS media.

13.  I used the Fujifilm camera which was provided by the school. I used
this camera as I was recording my footage within my school time in
which I used this camera to record my footage with and to take my
magazine and poster images for this project. In general, the Fujifilm
camera was very easy to use and the footage that was taken by this
camera was effective and in a good condition.
 I had no major problems in the use of the camera and I had already
used this camera for my AS media project.

15. What have you learned
from your audience
feedback?

16.  Once I completed my trailer, I wanted to receive
some feedback on my trailer from my peers. To
find out the information that I wanted, I created a
questionnaire in which it allowed me to find out the
positive and negative aspects of my trailer and the
improvements that I would make if I were to do
this project again.

17.  The feedback has allowed me to find out the positive aspects of my
trailer. Some of my positive aspects of my trailer is that from my 5
questionnaires that they would be interested into watching the full
movie as they wanted to know what happens in the end and that the
storyline drags you in to watch the movie. Also the feedback that I
had was that the storyline was clear and that the first two characters
are in love and that the other characters get involved an ruin the life
of one particular character. A question that was asked in the
questionnaire was whether the sound worked well with my scenes
and that my feedback responded well as they said that the two
sound clips that have been used in my trailer have worked well
together because one is up beat and the other is sad and that the
sad music shows depression within my scenes and the choice of
artist was chosen very well.

18.  It also shown from my feedback that the language that was used in
my trailer was appropriate for the audience to listen to and that one
questionnaire came back and that it shown that it also suited the
characters as they were very fluent. Also another positive aspect is
that the feedback from the questionnaire is that they all knew what
genre the trailer was and it is Romance. Another positive about my
trailer is that the location of my trailer suited my genre as many
questionnaire believed it was the right location for the genre as the
storyline was about a school so it was just right for the location to be
in a school. From my feedback it is shown that the ages of my
characters suited the storyline of my trailer.

19.  What do you like about the trailer?
Questionnaire 1:
 The way that the emotions switch throughout the trailer.
Questionnaire 2:
 The storyline works well with the characters and the characters did well with the
acting and a good trailer overall
Questionnaire 3:
 The storyline is very clever and the way that it has been constructed is very effective.
Questionnaire 4:
 The sound that was used in the trailer and some of the camera shots that was used.
Questionnaire 5:
 The way that the director used his surroundings for the storyline of the trailer.

20.  It also shown from my feedback that the language that was used in
my trailer was appropriate for the audience to listen to and that one
questionnaire came back and that it shown that it also suited the
characters as they were very fluent. Also another positive aspect is
that the feedback from the questionnaire is that they all knew what
genre the trailer was and it is Romance. Another positive about my
trailer is that the location of my trailer suited my genre as many
questionnaire believed it was the right location for the genre as the
storyline was about a school so it was just right for the location to be
in a school. From my feedback it is shown that the ages of my
characters suited the storyline of my trailer.