Week 8

WEEK 8 (POST-PRODUCTION: INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO-EDITING OR RE-DRAFTING LAYOUTS)

How are you using media technologies in the post-production stage of your product?

I figured that the only time I could fix up on my trailer was when I was at school because I didn't have the software at home or knew any other place that had the same Adobe Premier software that we were currently using. So, I thought that during the time I was away from the editing suite I could prepare for other things that would be using in the trailer, for example, the caption background that would appear every 10 seconds of our trailer.

This was the first design I came up with:

I created this on Photoshop software. I used this youtube tutorial that taught me how to make it:

After creating this I didn't think this was the ideal caption for our trailer. For one it was multicoloured which wasn't so representative of our characters, and secondly it was fading to black which gave it a dark effect which I didn't like. So looking back at my inspirations from other trailers, I took some ideas from each of them and created a new background for my caption:

This time I used my previous skills and knowledge on Photoshop and created my own design and colours that I thought would best suite the trailer. This was the final result I wanted to stick to:

The use of colours were chosen as I thought it was what best represented the teenage girls with feminine colours. I also thought it was what represented class. You have the red dominating the soft yellow which is significant for the lowerclasses domination on the working class. This doesn't however mean that most of the trailer will be based on the lowerclass class but shows how strong and what powerful status they have not neccessarily being economically which is how we think we have challenged the prejudice stereotypes.



We took some of our ideas from Anuvahood as we liked the idea and wanted to use some of their conventions.

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

I used the use of sound effects to make my comedy trailer more professional and give it a funny effect. Using funny sounds such as a record scratch, woosh & swoosh sound effects was what I discovered in the previous trailers that I had studied.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Part of my audience feedback was already looking at secondary data for a change, to view other students approaches at getting feedback. I found a powerpoint presentation done by a previous media student who looked at comedy targetted at teenagers and to point out it's history and how it evolved and the previous / current characteristics:

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