Saturday, 9 April 2011

Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

It is important to conduct audience research whilst making a new media product because you need to know what audience you’re aiming for so you can develop the ideas of what genres are more popular with that chosen audience. If you decided not to do audience research you had ended up with a completely different genre for your target audience and the media product overall would have been a failure.

Our target audience is mainly teenage girls, we conducted research on this target group and created an audience profile, their interests involved partying, social networking and shopping. Their character types were generally young fun and outgoing.

We initially conducted audience research through a questionnaire and we also looked at comparative texts and similar genres to our own. We looked at different characters for inspiration on our own, we also looked at other posters for colour schemes and layout ideas.








Friday, 8 April 2011

Question 3 - Focus Group/Audience Feedback

Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question 1 - Using conventions: poster and article analysis

Question 1 - Using conventions: Following a guide to making a short film

Following the guide to make a short film. 1. Get an idea for a movie or short film that you want to make. Write down your ideas or think about them. We got the idea for our short film initially from our childhood and from modern day chick flicks. 2. Write a script for your short film with all of your ideas in it. Also go over your script multiple times. We knew we didn't want a script so we just focussed on our narrative options and wrote down our ideas. 3. Get together a crew and a cast that is willing to do everything it takes to make your project a success. We thought about getting a cast and crew together but then we decided on reliability issues and decided that casting ourselves within the film would be better and more cost effective. 4. Get together items in order for shooting, such as lighting etc. We gathered all of the props, such as the laptop and sweeping brush beforehand. 5. Shoot your film, making sure you use a tripod and the settings are correct. We shot our film using a tripod and shot all of our footage in the one day. 6. After you shoot your footage, get ready for a long editing session. We edited our film over a few weeks, using Final Cut Pro mostly. 7. Rewind your camera to the start of your footage, then capture the footage on an editing system. We edited our film again using different computers and different editing programs. 8. Import the digital sound on your computer from a USB, then match up the sound to the film. We chose the sounds/music according to the scenes of the film and matched them up correctly. 9. Edit your movie further in order everythings correct. We edited our film further to make sure everything was in place, creating more scenes where possible, e.g. the clock scenes and party scene. 10. Save your film and upload it to the internet. We saved our final film and uploaded it to Youtube. http://www.ehow.com/how_2324754_best-short-film.html#ixzz1Gf8lt3tl

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?