Week 13

WEEK 13 (pre-production of ancillary 1; presentations of draft main task)

How are you using media technologies in the planning/construction stage of your ancillary product?

 

Most of the technologies I used involved online networking and ICT in general. Using websites such as Google Images helped me to look at the different types of magazines that are real, existing and on the market, e.g. Empire. YouTube helped me to view some tutorials to help strengthen my skills on Photoshop which was my part of the job during the production of the magazine whilst my team mate helped produce the actual layout of the magazine on InDesign. I felt that because I had to be creative in my role, I had to use a vast majority of creative software and online sites such as:

Pixlr, Paint and Photoshop:

http://www.pixlr.com/ is a quicker alternative to changing colours and designs of photos. We needed this quite frequently as we wanted the different photos on our magazine to appear like polaroid pictures scattered along the page. This website allowed us to change our photos and edit them to make them appear more realistic.

The first part of our production was created from Photoshop where the images and effects were placed. Photoshop made it easier to layout our pictures and designs the way we wanted them to come up with our complex and well planned front cover.

If there were certain designs we wanted, we would take them from Google Images and paste it onto paint modifying the shape. Paint software was good for detecting any pixelation in the photo, and if there was, we would disregard the photo and replace it with a better quality effect.

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

In order to get a better understanding of the film magazines that are really out in the market, I researched the many different film magazines like: Total Film, Empire, American film and Premiere.


TOTAL FILM:

What have you learned from your audience feedback?


From my audience feedback after asking them what they expected from a magazine representing a comedy trailer for teenagers, a lot of my target audience expected colourful font and grafitti styles with bright and comical pictures.

After my target audience watched my trailer they expected some comical props to be used during the photoshoot e.g. handcuffs and also expected the characters to be in their role.