Audience Feedback

This is a video version of my powerpoint evaluation of what I have learnt from audience feedback. However the software I used could only record five minutes at a time so I have had to put my video evaluation into parts.

Part One

http://screencast.com/t/j1WtNhaKNFc

Part Two

http://screencast.com/t/jr6lMxRq

Part Three

http://screencast.com/t/hALyv8Of

Part Four

http://screencast.com/t/DnFIqZLSo

Real Media Models

This is my completed powerpoint presentation evaluation of how my own short film compared to real media models I'd deconstructed in my research and plannign stages.

http://screencast.com/t/6LN9j7KetoKI

*There is a small jump cut, which I'm afraid is a technical hitch.

Ancilary Products

This is my finish digital evalauation of how well my ancilary products related to my main product.

http://screencast.com/t/UaODZ6et

Using DIgital Technology

This is my evaluation of the digital technology I'd used throughout the production of my film making process.

http://screencast.com/t/u7uDhoxOiQ5g

Final Film

After many cuts and re-edits I finally came up with a final draft that I was able to sucesfully load onto YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAg1B6OBO44

My Review Page

Planning the review page

After doing a detailed deconstruction of an Empire, review page I decided to use some of the typical conventions they used to construct a simpler version, suited for a school magazine. In my plan I used the block squares to frame my review and separate some the text, to give it a clearer structure. I also used the same layout Empire used for their film information section, except that I situated my information next to my main image, as opposed to underneath, as I wanted to separate it from the main body of my text.

After which, I created a style sheet in photoshop with 'x's to represent my text and used a production shot I hads in mind to see how the design would work. I liked the overall effect the layout and felt that it was quite clear and consice, except that I found that the spacing was very limited in places, whilst other places were left with huge ammounts of white spacing. Therefore I had to re-work the layout and spacing, as I realised I had a lot less text than shown in this plan.

Composing my review page

Firstly I added text and a main image to my review page then I was suggested to make the title fit the whole width of the page, as my teacher felt that it was lost in the composition; where I'd put it originally.

However I didn't like this as I felt it didn't look proffessional and it swamped my tag line. Furthermore I was still facing problems with a lot of white space in the right hand corner and my main image and film information felt cramped.

Therefore in order to eliminate these problems I made the main image bigger so that it dominated the left hand side of the double page. Then used the empty space in the right hand side to spread out my film information and make my title and tag line clearer. Moreover in order to get rid the problems I was having with the white spacing, without adding a highly detiled and expensive print background, I filled it with a light blue.

Empire Review Page

I liked Empire's review page as the simple house style of 3 contrasting colours was stylish and something I could easily incorporate into my own school magazine review of my own short film. The bold blue, capitalised heading was centered at the top left-hand corner of each of the reviews, whilst the main photo took up the rest of the space beside it; on the right had side. This provides a simple connection and allowed a nice space for other anchorage I would need to incorporate into my own review. However i didn't like the way that the white edging around the title intruded the main photograph on this page. Never the less i did like the italicised text overlay caption on the image, as this time it was centered in a darker space of the image and didn't feel as intrusive. Moreover the same font was also used for the header also provided a simple and effective cohesion within the article. The simple and effective style also borrowed into the plain dot border to separate the breaks in text to allow the readers eye to follow the structure of the layout. Moreover block sections of colour were also use to separate and border the text to give a simple and bold layout that seemed easy enough to be used on a school magazine. Furthermore i liked how the different colour boxes worked within the contrasting colour scheme to work together and highlight different sections of the text. For instance the mustard yellow block worked well to sign post important film information:

• the release date
• certificate
• director
  
• cast
  
• running time

Furthermore this then also helped indent the 'Plot' heading to add a subtle separation whilst also keeping the text very tight. I also though that including a brief plot was a very successful way of drawing an audience in and create interest.

However as this was only a half - page review I'd have to consider the implications of using a similar layout on a larger scale for my own review, as when I looked at the larger empire reviews most of them contained large images which would not show a great deal of digital excellence.