Evaluation 1

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

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Think Twice trailer draft 2

Trailer Feedback

For my trailer feedback, I received thourough comments and improvements from my teacher. He said that I have used a range of scenes and shots and composition. An improvement suggested was to level out the audio recording volume, so it was balanced. Another improvement to make was to change the release date and and not to make it look so cheesy, and get rid of the thunder clap sound effect near the end of the trailer because it did not fit in, and was not very professional. I also came to a conclusion that the shots near the end of the trailer were out of balance compared to the music, so to improve this I will change the scenes around and extend the music so it flows. 

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Trailer- Draft 1

This my first draft trailer, which I have created using IMovie. Now that all of my scenes are in place, I am able to make minor improvements, and detail improvement to my work, making it look more professional. After receiving feedback from my target audience, I realised that the end credits and text does not flow very well, and that the music towards the end drags a little.
In order to improve this I am going to:

• Change the pace of music
• edits scenes and shorten the trailer so that the music fits in well
• Add a 'coming...' scene, with promotional features/ advertisement of the production

The audience feedback is in the comments of this blog post below. 

Title and Release Date

When creating the scene for the title of "think twice", and release date, I struggled in finding the best way to present the text. At first I used a scene from my footage filming, and cropped out the scenery to make it look mysterious: Shown in the following image.

However, I change my mind about this title and background because it did not look very professional and I noticed that the quality of the text was not very good.
I then experience with other types of backgrounds, such as plain black, as seen in the image below.
I also experimented with using one of the images I had taken for my print products, and decided to crop out the background, for the title scenes. This is the photo which I cropped the background from. I did this so that I could have a unique but intense background, which also flows well in the trailer.

My Final Title Shot: 

Inspiration for release date scene:

I did research into the release dates, and how they are presented in the trailer. I found that most trailers have the release date on a different shot, usually centred on the page, and in big letters.
The following trailer's that I looked do not have a specific date on which the film is to be released, however, I noticed advertisement purposed such as links to social media, by using the trending features such as hash-tags, and the website is also placed on most of the shots with the release date on.
I learnt from this research but altered my final making of the release date scene. Instead of having 'Coming soon', I decided to add a official release date to make the trailer seem more realistic and accurate. I also added icons of popular of social media, in which the audience could then follow to find more about the movie.
I used Sketch to create my release date scene, as shown in the screenshot below.