My Own Evaluation.

This is my own evaluation of my film trailer.

What have you learnt from you audience feedback ?

In this video you will see I have had some mixed feedback from two media students, the first student has praised my use of music telling me that it is affective and works with the genre that I am trying to go for which is thriller. She has also told me that she thinks it is conventional of this genre which is an excellent comment to be made as I have worked very hard to make my product conventional. Due to these comments I did not just sit back and think 'my product must be fine' I went and got another opinion from another media student.

However these opinions were slightly different to the first ones. This audience feedback told me that she thought that I needed more music to create more atmosphere in the trailer. Also she thought the i needed to carry on my voiceovers and have more of them in the trailer to improve it. This was something I did not want to so as I have purposely used the police voiceover over the drug cutting scene as this leads into the two policemen knocking on the door.

having done these audience feedback i believe that you get so caught up sometimes in your work you can find it hard to criticise ideas that haven't worked. Using other media students who know what they are talking about and know what your trying to do allows them to helpfully criticise you and things they say almost trigger other little ideas and editing ideas in your head. Without doing any feedback I don't think me work would be to this standard.

Whilst working through my product I constantly ask what people think of this idea or that idea, this is also audience feedback although it is not recorded on my blog a simple conversation with my teacher of my class mates about my work gives me some ideas or ways to develop my trailer. An example of this was when i sat down with my teacher to watch my trailer and they said something about slow motion being used in 'Transporter 3' which then made me think about where it would be affective to use slow motion in my trailer. I then decided to use it when the main policeman was knocking on the door, and now I love that scene. It just shows how you can be doing audience feedback without noticing.

Overall I see this process as a vital element of evaluating and improving my media product.

How effective is the combination of your main product and your subsidiary tasks.

All three of my media products should complement each other. My trailer is the most important part of advertising 'Dirty Money' as this is the one that the audience will spend the most time watching. This also allows the audience to get a taster of what the film is going to be like. Whereas the movie poster and Magazine front cover should complement the film, they should be similar to the theme of the film. I Believe that I have done this well as i have taken the main actor from the film 'Mark Drakeford' and used him as my front cover for my magazine. He is also the main feature of my movie poster. I believe that using the same actor for all of my products will allow the audience to start recognising his face which will lead to him being highly associated with 'Dirty Money'.

The movie poster was made around the same design as the 'BadBoys 2' poster, This is a simple poster and tells the audience nothing but the name of the movie, the release date, the two main actors names and finally the production company name. the image I have used has been taken from the trailer, doing this has allowed me to keep the atmosphere of the movie the same and also eliminated any problems with the actors costume, as he is wearing the exact same costume as in the trailer.

Also using the same types of font in the trailer and the movie poster is important as you need to keep a house style. Doing this allows the audience to recognise that the font and the colour used on both the poster and the trailer is the same film. If you did not keep to a house style audiences may be confused and think there are two films with the same name. So i believe having both of these in Orange and in the same font makes it easier for my audience to recognise the film and therefore makes my products more affective.

Overall I believe that my consistency throughout my design process has allowed my products to look professional and also allowed them to look realistic in the film industry. Creating these products has been a challenge as you have to think about every aspect of the media. Advertising, Designing and Production.