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First Blog
How Has My Creativity Developed Through Using Digital Technology
Additional Developments To My Creativity
Further Developments To My Creativity
How Is Your Contextual Understanding Developing Of The Media?
Audience Analysis For Viral Campaign Products

Group Coursework Paperwork- Trailer and Radio
Devising Teaser Trailer
Progress Report- Preproduction Trailer
Location Photographs
Analysis Of Filming 1
Revision Of Trailer Idea
Analysis Of Filming 2
Progress Report-Editing
Finished Trailer

Progress Report-Radio
Progress Report-Sound Studio
Finished Radio Advertisement For The Film ‘Locked Away’

Magazine Research
Sight and Sound
Magazine Draft
SWOT Magazine
Magazine Background Suggestions
Practice Magazine Cover
Magazine Planning Brief
Magazine Pre-production Progress Report
Magazine Production- Progress Report
Finished Magazine

Website Research
Web 2.0 And Its Development Of Collective Identity
Website Picture
SWOT website
Draft Website
Progress Report: Pre-production Website
Progress Report: Creating Website
Finished Website

Main Evaluation

Draft Magazine Cover

Here is a draft for the design of my magazine cover. Although I am aware that things may have to change, I would like things to remain pretty much the same.

Draft Website

Here is a draft of the design for my website. Although I am aware that things may have to change, I would like the design to remain pretty much the same.

Finished 'Locked Away' Trailer

Link to Trailer on YouTube

Here is the trailer that myself and the group made to promote the film ‘Locked Away’. Much detailed research and effort has gone into producing the final product. I am pleased with what we have achieved and I feel that the product fulfils its objective to promote the film ‘Locked Away’. The way that we have accomplished this is by incorporating many of the codes and conventions for the genre horror such as the use of close ups and emotive music. Without the use of the codes and conventions in my trailer I would not have been able to build a synergistic relationship between all of my viral campaign products.

OCR Copy Right Laws

Any use of music in this film complies with 'Fair Dealing' under the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act (UK), Sections 6(i) and 6(ii); Fair dealing is a term used to describe some limited activities that are allowed without infringing copyright. Briefly these are as follows:Section 6i. Research and private studyCopying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or of a typographical arrangement of a published edition for the purpose of research or private study is allowed under the following conditions:· The copy is made for the purposes of research or private study.· The copy is made for non-commercial purposes.· The source of the material is acknowledged.· The person making the copy does not make copies of the material available for a number of people.ii Instruction or examinationCopying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a sound recording, film or broadcast for the purpose of instruction or examination is allowed under the following conditions:· The copying is done by the student or the person giving instruction.· The copying is not done via a reprographic process.· The source of the material is acknowledged.· The instruction is for a non-commercial purpose.

Finished Website

Here is the website that I have produced as part of my viral campaign for the film ‘Locked Away’. I am very pleased with the way in which it has turned out and I feel that it is a valuable product within my viral campaign. When creating it in Photoshop it took less time than I had anticipated. The reason I feel this was because I had become more efficient when using the software. The research that I carried out into websites of films with the same genre informed me greatly with regards to the development of my website. I further feel that I have incorporated the use of the genres codes and conventions appropriately in order to produce a synergistic relationship between all my products.

Finished Magazine Cover

Here is the magazine front cover that I have produced as part of my viral campaign for the film ‘Locked Away’. The research that I carried out in order to complete this product took more time than I had expected but I am pleased that I completed it as I found it very useful to refer back to in with reference to codes and conventions. These codes and conventions informed much of the design and development of the magazine cover. The actual making of the magazine front cover in Photoshop took less time than I had anticipated. I feel the reason for this being that many of the effects that I included could all be found in a similar way to the ones I had already established how to do. As a result of this the producing of my magazine cover maintained on schedule as each process counteracted the other. Overall I am very pleased with my magazine cover as an individual product as well as a product which is part of my viral campaign. I further feel that I have incorporated the use of the genres codes and conventions appropriately in order to produce a synergistic relationship between all my products.

Progress Report –Editing Trailer

After capturing all of the footage which we needed over a number of filming days it was time to begin the editing of the trailer. It was at this stage that we noticed a problem with some of our footage. Half of it was filmed in wide screen and half was not. This had created a letterbox effect on the footage which was not filmed in widescreen when we joined the footage together. This problem could have been avoided if we had checked that the settings had not been adjusted before we started. This was an unintentional error on our behalf which could have been avoided. At first we thought that our only option was to re film. This was a huge disappointment to the group as much of the footage we had obtained was of high quality and would have been a shame to have had to disregard it. Another problem with relfilming was time because the deadline was vastly approaching. To refilm would have been a hugely time costly process.
With much relief to the group we didn’t need to refilm as using the software Photoshop allowed us to create a similar letterbox affect on all of the widescreen footage. There was the danger of cutting the tops of people’s heads off however luckily this did not end up to be a problem because we had followed the rule of thirds guide well throughout our footage. Although evidently a problem I feel the group handled this well as everyone was willing to reschedule a filming day and cooperation was never a problem.
It was also during the editing process that we decided that our trailer did not follow the horror convention of pace. As a result of this we referred back to our story boards in an attempt to fix this. However on paper as a group we were finding it hard to re order because essentially we liked our old order but it just didn’t work. As a group the way we found most effective in the process of re ordering shots was to use sticky labels with shot descriptions on them and to order them manually using a wall. Once this process was complete we had achieved our objective to quicken the end pace of our trailer in an appropriate way.
During the editing process we did have some successes. For instance the music and voiceovers were incorporated onto the trailer with no problems and through the use of fades and other effects we have been able to produce a trailer which is representative of the group’s hard work. The genre horror has many codes and conventions with regards to its style of editing and essentially we have been able to recreate many of these which all add to the tension building and enigma.