Candidate Details

Candidate Name:

Oluwadara Kolajo

Candidate Number:

5137

Centre Name:

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls

Centre Number:

61119

Final Products

 Ancillary Task 1 - Theatrical Poster

 

Ancillary Task 2 - Magazine Cover

       

Main Task- Trailer

Evaluation Question 4 (Ancillary Tasks and Main Task)

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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Evidence of using some media technologies:

Below Print screens from website where I converted my word document to a mp3

Print Screen from VOKI (a site that allowed me to make a speaking avatar)

Pritscreen from Glogster where I created my own poster:

Printscreen of using Mix Pad where we created our sound track:

Evaluation Question 3 (Ancillary Tasks and Main Task)

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback was extremely important in the process of my A2 coursework. In order to appeal to the set target audience, during the construction stage regularly we peer assessed coursework as a class, not only for the main task and ancillary tasks themselves but also our blogs which had a part to play for our overall marks. Through this exercise my group actually under covered some issues with lighting which we could easily address, but at the same time we knew we were heading in the right direction in terms of the genre and mise en scene which was very encouraging. Alongside showing the finished ancillary task products to the class, I put our finished products as my display picture on Blackberry Messenger allowing my contacts to comment so I could get a wider set of opinions. The plus side of this is that feedback was that it was coming from my  target audience. I learnt from AS the questionnaires are not so popular, with the increase in young people using social networking sites I used this to my advantage to get feed back efficiently. 

The feedback was positive, meaning there was no need to make anymore changes to my product. However if there was some constructive criticism, we would of have the time to apply this to my our work. Many of the people that I talked to about the products said that they looked like real life forms of media, Immediately they knew what we were trying to portray. We had similar feedback from our final cut of our trailer, my partner I decided to post it on  Facebook, Twitter and You Tube, within the first day of posting received more than 50 views suggesting that our trailer was something that interested the public. From the starting point of making our trailer we always knew that the name was important.

Not only did constructive criticism help with the making of the products but the positive feed helped me and my partner through the process as we then knew we were going in the right direction.

Evaluation Question 2 (Ancillary Tasks and Main Task)

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary task?


IN TERMS OF THE TWO ANCILLARY TASKS:

Compared to other genre magazines, film magazines are less compact and focus solely one movie star. To make our product tangible we decided to take this route as our cast is fairly big. This one star 'Pat Adioo' was   the link between the two tasks. Both the tasks have contrasting concepts, to ensure the deliberate reasons are known to the audience, the text '' totally stripped from glamour in new film'' explains this. As well as people wanting to know about the actress, they get to know about the new film also. Boldly the name of the film is feature in the top third of the magazine; drawing more attention to this section of the magazine is a snapshot of the featured poster of the main cast of Affliction, strengthening the connection and link between the two productions.

ALL THREE PRODUCTS:

VOKI PRODUCTION BELOW, CLICK PLAY

For full veiwing of glog below click the right hand corner   

Overall I feel that the combination of the products is at a good level due to the reasons stated above. However the link would of been stronger if the magazine cover had similar mise en scene qualities as the other two products - trailer and poster. Yet my reasons for doing this is justified because of the actress, film name and poster.As well as repetition, recognition leads to expectation -Burton.   

Evaluation Question 1 ( Main Task- Trailer)

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

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As well as using various concepts which are shown in the video; in the way in which the product was edited together was again devoloped on exsiting ideas. For example Edgar Wright's quick-cut (Shaun of the Dead)  and Strobe Lighting (found in Sket) and colours that were used.

Evaluation Question 1 (Ancillary Task- Magazine Cover)

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


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