Trailer
The main strengths in our trailer are the effective use of fades and dissolves. i believe they help create the eery and confusing mood we are trying to create. I believe the music also best benefited our storyline aswell, it helped the storyline progress keeping the audience interested.
The main weaknesses for our trailer would be the length, it is slightly too long for an ordinary trailer but with it being our first and only trailer for our soap we made it long. Also, we created quite a difficult storyline to follow so we explained everything atleast once breifly in our trailer.
Overall i believe that we have learnt many things along the way during the experience we have had in making the trailer.
From day one filming where we where extremely unorganised, even though we had created plans they was no where near as detailed as they should have been, looking back to the filming day one all of the footage we shot hasnt been used, that really shows the unprofessional approach we began with. However, we learnt from our mistakes and began planning properly, we word processed everything leaving it to be easily edited and corrected.
Despite our trailer not being an exact follow from the plan, it still created a basic structure for us to follow giving us room to expand on ideas and our knowledge of the camera work/skills. If i could re-do the coursework my main priority from the beggining would be the planning.
From day one filming where we where extremely unorganised, even though we had created plans they was no where near as detailed as they should have been, looking back to the filming day one all of the footage we shot hasnt been used, that really shows the unprofessional approach we began with. However, we learnt from our mistakes and began planning properly, we word processed everything leaving it to be easily edited and corrected.
Despite our trailer not being an exact follow from the plan, it still created a basic structure for us to follow giving us room to expand on ideas and our knowledge of the camera work/skills. If i could re-do the coursework my main priority from the beggining would be the planning.
Website
The main strengths regarding our website would be the planning, i believe without the planning as a group we would of run out of time and forgotten some of the good ideas we came up with. I also think we was creative with design and colours attracting the right audience types. We also have character pages and due to the type of software we used we were unable to create drop down menus meaning each character profile would come up as a page at the top, so we put full stops instead and hyperlinked the pages.
The main weaknesses about our webpage is that we could of had things that appealed to other target groups, we mainly focused on youth that surf the web, and this could work against us.
Overall, from just learning how to use iWeb this year im very proud of my success within helping to create a website for our soap, with all of our combined creativity we was able to create a unique web page which best represents our soap and targets its specified audience. With the bright colours and big shapes and writing we have targetted it at an age range of 16-25.
We showed the trailer to a number of teenagers and recorded their feedback, this is also uplaoded onto the website for other teenagers to see what others think about it. If i had the opportunity to re-do the trailer i would make sure we have even more different shots, despite us having different camera work for the same shot i believe it would also benefit if we had more creative shots.
Front Cover
I learnt how to use photoshop recently, i used youtube to get onto step by step guides on how to use photoshop. i also bought a Photoshop starters manual aswell, and so i began structuring and designing my Television magazine front cover. i researched other magazinge guides and i decided to stick to the more sophisticated and modern front cover, despite our audinece being youths i still felt that with students they like to handle things they would never usually buy.
The main strengths of my front cover is the creative use of a black and white backround with the characters in colour and the colour red highlighted, drawing in attention. I also like the panel at the bottom which says IV on it, it makes it look proffesional which appeal to different audiences.
On a negative point the weaknesses in my front cover could be the idea that i dont advertise any other dramas or soaps and only IV, this could leave people to buy other guides which give out more.
If i had the chance to do this again i think i would change the layout and add other things like maybe a competition, for example "WIN a holiday!" drawing in more readers that would read the IV summary and watch it every week.
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