Evaluative presentation of Media portfolio

1. Evaluation

2.  There are different types of codes and conventions in the horror genre
 Producers will tend to establish to the audience early on that their
product is a horror
 The first thing we did as a group was to conduct research on real life
products too see what the codes and conventions are for a horror.
 We looked at trailers such as ‘The Wilderness’ , ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and
‘The Omen’
 We looked at posters Like Paranormal Activity , Saw and The Omen
 We looked at Magazines like Empire and other horror magazines from
the internet

3.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpxI-VKN-DI
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wfEziDWLj0
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O76m3kpgPT

7. Claude-Levi-Strauss
theory applies to this
with the fact that we
have good vs evil.

9.  Older teenagers predominately male
 Females may have an oppositional reading to
this because there are no females in the
trailer and they might find it a bit sexist

10.  As you can see all three products work well
together because the main protagonist in the
movie (Warren) is on all three products.
 We follow the same codes and conventions in
each one as the target audience will identify
that it is a horror movie straight away.
 We use the same colours and they all look
very authentic

14.  The main task for me was to create a script
for the trailer and to get the music sorted
 I had to also get the people that we needed in
our trailer and made sure that what were
wearing made it look authentic.
 We were acting as business men and in order
to make it look authentic we wore suits and
used the car as a prop.

19.  The main change that was conducted in the
trailer was the scene in which we used a torch
in broad daylight. This was due to our
audience feedback
 We added more images to our poster
because at first we didn’t feel like it had
enough to get to the audience that it is a
horror movie.
 In our magazine we removed a lot of the text
because it took up to much space and looked
dull.

20.  we used a variety of software's to come up with or products.
 For our poster and magazine we used InDesign and Photoshop and for our trailer
we used Sony Vegas pro
 At first we thought we would play around in Photoshop to see what works well
together and to get a feel of the software.
 When we were confident that we new how to do everything we started making
the products and we had a lot of drafts for our products.
 We took on board the audience feedback and make the necessary changes to
come up with our final products.
 we used brilliant camera software to take our images and record our trailer which
was vey helpful as it made our trailer look very authentic and professional
 We conducted a preliminary task which helped us grasp an idea and basically add
and improve our idea. We took still photos and created a story board to help us
generate and go along with the same idea.

23.  This was a very important factor as we had to
continuously update our Blogs. This enabled
us to get feedback on our products and to
know what we need to do.

24.  Looking back on my products I can see that
their were a few things we could have
improved on.
 Filming (time)
 Females
 Props

25.  Thank you for listening
 I can now answer any questions