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Evaluation - what have I learnt from my audience feedback?

Within my research and planning, I constantly had my target audience in mind. I therefore conducted several questionnaires and focus groups,  in order to gather information on what my audience expected in regards to different media texts, along with making decisions based on their feedback.  My main aim for my marketing campaign was for it to hold authenticity and realism for the audience. I questionnaires which I have included below helped me achieve this: Questionnaire for poster Questionnaire for magazine cover Questionnaire for teaser trailer Additionally, I have also conducted a series of questionnaires post production of my marketing campaign. I wanted to gather feed back from my audience to see if they felt that my poster, magazine cover and teaser trailer were sustainable, accurate and convincing.  My posters questionnaire goes as follows:  1) Was the font I used effective in portraying the nature of a horror film? If so how? 2) Did you fee...
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Evaluation - technologies

How did I use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Throughout my course work, I have used a range of new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages, which has eventually led me to creating a poster, magazine cover and teaser trailers. For starters, my overall campaign has been presented on Blogger. Following this, I also had to create my own Sound Cloud account, as well as feeling comfortable with Youtube. I used these sites for embedding and uploading audio/visual files onto my blog posts.  At the start, I found it quite confusing to understand how to use the technology accordingly, however, as my skills progressed I gathered a much better perception on the tasks I had to perform. Blogger enabled me to organise my tasks accordingly, making it a lot more efficient and sustainable. This is mainly in regards to my audience, as they are clearly able to view my research, with ac...

Evaluation - Conventions of real media products

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - magazines  Another part of my marketing campaign was to create a magazine cover. My cover had to advertise my film, therefore it needed to be stimulating and thrilling for my audience. I also wanted my magazine to hold authenticity. This lead me to conducting research into existing magazine covers.  Below I have included my research and planning for this: Magazine cover analysis - intro Magazine cover analysis - Empire Magazine cover analysis - Total Film Along with this, I have also analysed magazine covers for different publications.  Different Film Publication Front Cover Analysis Introduction SFX Magazine front cover analysis Sight and Sound front cover analysis American Cinematographer front cover analysis Total Film front cover analysis Empire front cover analysis Completing this research enabled me to gather a better understanding on wh...

Evaluation - conventions of real media products

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products - Poster In addition to creating a magazine cover and teaser trailer, I also had to create a film poster. In order to complete this, I carried out research of poster conventions from a range of different genres from films.  Poster analysis 1 Poster analysis 2 Poster analysis 3 Poster analysis 4 Poster analysis 5 After completing this research, I realised that all posters have similar/the same conventions, despite the genre. For instance, they all included taglines, billing/credits, production company logo's, release date and a dominant central image, typically of stars, indicating genre.  As my chosen genre was Horror, I also conducted research into 10 different film posters, specifically for this genre. I analysed these posters in terms of font, layout, text and colour schemes ect.  Horror poster conventions - introduction Horror p...