Mizani Mowatt A LEVEL/A2 MEDIA BLOG

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? During the construction stage of my project, I used a variety of media technologies. For example: I used the software Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop to design and construct my film poster and magazine front cover. The advantages of using this was that I learned how to put layers on top of pictures and text and I also learned how to use the spotting tool to take away any mistakes on the pictures that I uploaded onto the software. However, the drawbacks were that sometimes I forgot how I did stuff to my pictures, sometimes the tools that I used loaded very slowly, and I had to wait a long time. In addition, I used premiere pro to put my trailer together. I uploaded footage of scenes that I had filmed for the trailer and selected what clips that I wanted to use in the trailer. Furthermore, I used some of the features of the software to edit my trailer to make it look ...

After reviewing this footage, learnt that my trailer did not get the reaction that I was looking for. This is because the person that was looking at my trailer was mainly laughing instead of being scared and I think that this has shown me that I will need to make it a bit more authentic, like having a dark room with  creepy like cupboards, so as to make it look more creepy. I also learnt that that in the future, I need to get someone, who doesn't know some of the actors in our trailer to review it instead. This is because  I will me able to get back more practical feedback, in terms of, getting a more outside perspective on the trailer.

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According to the PearlandDean website, it says that the target audience for horror movies  is the focus group 15-24 year olds and this matched the target audience of my horror trailer because the target audience for my trailer was 15-19.  I rated my trailer a 15. On the BBFC  website, the age rating, according to them, for 15 matched my trailer and I think that it was the same as the 15 rating in the real world because there was no sexual activity shown in  the trailer and there was violence, but not that much i.e. a ghost holding a scythe covered in blood. Also, in my trailer there was no discrimination of any kind and no drugs were shown  (this was because the horror trailers that I looked at for my inspiration did not feature any kind of drug use), there were no references to nudity and there were strong threats shown i.e. violent ...