Monday 25 March 2013
Thursday 21 March 2013
Question 6
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
What technologies have you used?
This picture below shows all the different technologies i have used altogether. As you can see i have used a mixture of different technologies and have presented them in different and unique ways.
What technologies are brand new to you?
What technologies have allowed you to display your work in a creative way?
3 particular technologies have allowed me to display my work in a creative way, they are:
Prezi
Prezi has helped me present my different posts and ideas effectively and creatively by showing all my ideas more visually on the prezi. It reminds me of a presentation but in a really unique way and you have enough room to write a lot of ideas as you can alter the size and font of the writing. In my opinion, i like using Prezi as it really helps me remember all the different information and facts from the bold pictures or colours Prezi has allowed me to use. At the same time you can add as many pictures as you want to make it more supervisual, and show the audience visually what you are talking about. Prezi creates a really effective way of showing the different ideas for example earlier in my blog i did a Prezi about horror films in general and there was a halloween version. This was really clear on what i was talking about, and made even more sense to people reading it as they could visualise it.
Sliderocket
The website Sliderocket is really helpful of making my blog supervisual as its basically a powerpoint being put on my blog. I find this easy as you can add so much information including pictures and changing the font. However, when using Sliderocket i find it difficult when writing it up, as when you want to put a lot of information you can only have a limit otherwise the writing will be to small and squished and you wont be able to read it. Otherwise apart from that, i believe Sliderocket really allows you to show a lot of information through pictures and a lot of writing. It gets the audience who are reading it more intrigued by what i am talking about.
Were there any times you had to do something again because you hadnt used the technology correctly?
What technologies have you used?
This picture below shows all the different technologies i have used altogether. As you can see i have used a mixture of different technologies and have presented them in different and unique ways.
What technologies are brand new to you?
What technologies have allowed you to display your work in a creative way?
3 particular technologies have allowed me to display my work in a creative way, they are:
Prezi
Prezi has helped me present my different posts and ideas effectively and creatively by showing all my ideas more visually on the prezi. It reminds me of a presentation but in a really unique way and you have enough room to write a lot of ideas as you can alter the size and font of the writing. In my opinion, i like using Prezi as it really helps me remember all the different information and facts from the bold pictures or colours Prezi has allowed me to use. At the same time you can add as many pictures as you want to make it more supervisual, and show the audience visually what you are talking about. Prezi creates a really effective way of showing the different ideas for example earlier in my blog i did a Prezi about horror films in general and there was a halloween version. This was really clear on what i was talking about, and made even more sense to people reading it as they could visualise it.
Sliderocket
The website Sliderocket is really helpful of making my blog supervisual as its basically a powerpoint being put on my blog. I find this easy as you can add so much information including pictures and changing the font. However, when using Sliderocket i find it difficult when writing it up, as when you want to put a lot of information you can only have a limit otherwise the writing will be to small and squished and you wont be able to read it. Otherwise apart from that, i believe Sliderocket really allows you to show a lot of information through pictures and a lot of writing. It gets the audience who are reading it more intrigued by what i am talking about.
Were there any times you had to do something again because you hadnt used the technology correctly?
Thursday 14 March 2013
Monday 11 March 2013
Question 4
4) Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our media product would be for young adults aged 17-21 as we think it is the appropriate aged people who would understand the movie with all the clues and wouldn't be too young to be scared of it and not too old to keep thinking how predictable it is. We made as a group several pie charts from our questionnaire to see what the percentage is of people for example who like horror films. We think that both genders would appeal to the movie but mainly girls as its about their life at the beginning and why they both get killed. Meaning it focuses on their lifestyle and what they do to get them killed, which is why our opening sequence is called 'Lethal Media' as its very focused on the different matters to do around world for example Facebook or Twitter. Another reason it draws females to watching it more than men because we have used two stereotypical and vulnerable females to represent our opening characters to create that sense of fear. Therefore we have used a stereotypical villain that is dark and mysterious and is shown mainly to be an unknown killer. We believe it relates to all genders though as it links to internet sites that many teenagers use nowadays and we believe adding that in has helped the audience to relate as they know all about what do to on Facebook or Twitter etc. We believe the main demographics that would appeal to our horror opening sequence from the 'JICNAR Scale' would be skilled working class as its right in the middle meaning nearly everyone can come and watch it. We found this particular information out from our pie charts we used from our questionnaires and our Voxpops we created.
We noticed that many teens like horror movies but they have a specific way of watching them to know that it is a horror movie meaning most people prefer the film to start peaceful than frightening as they want to know about the story line at first before all the frightening images happen. Additionally we got more information from different people by using Voxpops. This was helpful as we could get specific and individual ideas from different people and see what they like and why they like it that specific way. Evidently, we believe the type of people who would watch these films would be trendy and fashionable people as they know about Facebook and different websites and relate to it in real life. But also you hear many stories on the news about missing teenagers from talking to unknown people online, so we as a group are trying to send that message across to young adults to not speak to people you don't know otherwise you never know what's going to happen and you could be expecting the worse.
The audience for our media product would be for young adults aged 17-21 as we think it is the appropriate aged people who would understand the movie with all the clues and wouldn't be too young to be scared of it and not too old to keep thinking how predictable it is. We made as a group several pie charts from our questionnaire to see what the percentage is of people for example who like horror films. We think that both genders would appeal to the movie but mainly girls as its about their life at the beginning and why they both get killed. Meaning it focuses on their lifestyle and what they do to get them killed, which is why our opening sequence is called 'Lethal Media' as its very focused on the different matters to do around world for example Facebook or Twitter. Another reason it draws females to watching it more than men because we have used two stereotypical and vulnerable females to represent our opening characters to create that sense of fear. Therefore we have used a stereotypical villain that is dark and mysterious and is shown mainly to be an unknown killer. We believe it relates to all genders though as it links to internet sites that many teenagers use nowadays and we believe adding that in has helped the audience to relate as they know all about what do to on Facebook or Twitter etc. We believe the main demographics that would appeal to our horror opening sequence from the 'JICNAR Scale' would be skilled working class as its right in the middle meaning nearly everyone can come and watch it. We found this particular information out from our pie charts we used from our questionnaires and our Voxpops we created.
We noticed that many teens like horror movies but they have a specific way of watching them to know that it is a horror movie meaning most people prefer the film to start peaceful than frightening as they want to know about the story line at first before all the frightening images happen. Additionally we got more information from different people by using Voxpops. This was helpful as we could get specific and individual ideas from different people and see what they like and why they like it that specific way. Evidently, we believe the type of people who would watch these films would be trendy and fashionable people as they know about Facebook and different websites and relate to it in real life. But also you hear many stories on the news about missing teenagers from talking to unknown people online, so we as a group are trying to send that message across to young adults to not speak to people you don't know otherwise you never know what's going to happen and you could be expecting the worse.
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Question 3
My group decided to choose via the media institution an independent company. We did this because we thought that our film is more different to the typical famous companies such as warner brothers, so we went with the distributor Artificial Eye. This company has created films that are more indie than others but also every film they have presented all have hidden meanings. This meaning that unexpected things happen in our film, things that you dont expect to happen and understanding the inner meaning of the particular characters and for example why did those two girls specifically killed by John Slasher. Using Artificial Eye is good as it shows it to be a very independant company but also shows that we dont have a very big budget in comparison to other very famous movies. When using Artificial Eye, the beginning sequence showing what company fits in very well and it clearly shows the audience the type of film its going to be and what specific elements it will have in it to make it an Artificial Eye production. This distributor mainly accompanies horror films and eerie stories with a meaning. This links to our opening sequence as ours is a horror sequence and it also shows the inner meanings within the opening sequence, to make the audience think about the extra detail and the characters feelings and what they have been through, instead of the main story being shown in the opening sequence.
These are examples of the films Artificial Eye has represented:
As you can see from the films above they represent a very indie type of theme as these films are known but not known very well. They do use very famous actors and actresses but because the company is quite independant, it does not spend as much money on the films in comparison to film companies such as Warner Bros.
Friday 1 March 2013
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