reflection on learning

Teaser Trailer:
In my reflection of learning for our teaser trailer process and final trailer. I realised that any good trailer needs that soundtrack to build suspense for the audience, without it the audience dont feel the apreciation of the tension your trying to create. When making a 'thriller' like ours its a good idea to have your images darkerned to create that gloomy mysterious look. Teaser trailer's need to just grab the audiences attention, so for a thriller like ours the atmosphere and darkened gloomy shoots we used used the conventions of the usual typical thriller trailer.

Poster and Magazine cover:

Whilst making the poster I found that less was more, in my orgional drafts I had filled my posters with unnecessary extras which did not add, but instead took away from the poster and the strong image I already had. I needed to entice and intrigue the audience through my poster, I learned (through research and audience feedback) that I could do this through using minimal text and a striking, high quality ambiguous image. Evidently it was vital that I used the correct image, all of the original images which I had taken I found not to be strong enough to stand alone as a poster. I then realized that our strongest images where within our trailer, this lead me to take still shots from our trailer and use those instead. However I came across a problem when editing the photos, when they're size was increased, they're quality was dramatically decreased. Nevertheless I used Google and Youtube to solve this problem. When editing the images for my magazine cover I encountered the same problem, but instead of carrying out the whole process of converting the images, I instead took new images. However I encountered another problem, my audience feedback showed that my magazine cover was not effective enough and did not meet audience expectations. I found this due to the layout which was not typical of a film magazine, after researching popular examples I amended the layout accordingly and organised a focus group that in turn, confirmed the effectiveness of my magazine cover. 

Overall I have learnt many things, I have gained skills which I did not have before, such as improving the quality of images. I have also gained valuable experience, for instance in the future I will take high quality stills whilst filming which I can later use in other productions. Due to the wide variety of media and editing technologies we used I am now also more capable and experienced on many programs such as Adobe In Design and Photoshop. There were set backs in the creation of my products but through continuous audience feedback and initiative I believe We have successfully created 3 excellent media products that satisfy our audience and entice them perfectly.